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The single 57-minute track (alternative entitled Thinking Music Part IV) featured on this album sees Brian Eno execute another profound minimalist and most quiet work of ambient that exists “at the edge of music”. Named after the precious sensual oil derived from the flowers of the Seville orange, it actually makes up the soundtrack for an art installation that Mr Eno was commissioned to do at Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Back then, Eno said about it: “I wanted to make a kind of music that existed on the cusp between melody and texture, and whose musical logic was elusive enough to reward attention, but no so strict as to demand it.” Well, a series of very slow enveloping pure notes resonate in a harmonic ebb and flow throughout the piece in a seemingly random but harmonic pattern that shifts fluidly, quietly into the open. “Neroli” makes a sonic backdrop of generative, extremely soothing ambient musings where time seems to be put on hold. It’s best to be nurtured in all patience while one is reading, studying, reflecting or simply clearing the head. In 2014, an expanded edition of Neroli” saw the light of day, including an entire unreleased hour-long ambient work entitled “New Space Music”. |
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