What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

ROGER ENO ~ Dust of Stars


 
Brian’s little brother is a natural multi-instrumentalist but is noted for his piano work. Aside from contributing to several projects with Brian, and with others, he is also a solo artist and a well-regarded composer of things ambient (and sometimes not so ambient), in his own right. It’s not new – was released in June – there were just no clips or links available, so I couldn’t listen at the time. Finally got around to doing so!
 
This album definitely showcases the piano along with the mandatory synths and one or two other instruments along the way – the sax being one of them. I would define it as ambient/neo classical/post rock. Discogs says jazz which I think is a bit of a stretch.
 
Cinematic pieces alongside more minimal works – great big swooshes of that crystalline, almost airy sound which to me typifies ambient music, but there is melody too. What draws me to his work (that with which I’m familiar, which is far from all of it) is that he somehow touches the heartstrings, well mine at any rate! However, rather less romantically, it’s probably a question of physics - resonance – as though the sounds are tuned to the frequency of the body – a match to whatever vibration is holding gazillions of atoms together - which it obviously must be! The same wavelength - simple as that. I don’t think that this is about hearing or listening, per se – it’s almost about absorbing sound. Not gonna be everyone’s cup of tea but I’ll have to add it to my albums of the year list. 

A link to the full album - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OL...8OGbFeT_vM
 
It will sound strange, I know, but this piece makes me feel as though I’ve been in the cool, clear, sparkly, salty ocean … odd  since it's the track after this that's titled "Salty Tears"! There's no accounting for flights of fancy ...