Ambient 4: On Land (reissue)

In 1982, Eno completed what is for the sake of this release schedule the Ambient Library. On Land is Ambient 4, and it’s music that is about something. It’s about Eno being down to earth and ridiculously exotic, extremely charming and rather strange. It’s about the places you’ve been, the places you think you’ve been, the places you’ll never get to go to. It’s about time before time and time after time. Its classical music liberated by the pop idea that sound doesn’t have to be so deliberately cut off from the noises of the world. A music that had been devised as lacking narrative structure now had a kind of narrative structure - or not, depending how the listener felt at the time. You are on your own. That’s something you often feel with Eno’s ambient work. Only you have ever heard this music, it was meant for you, it is up to you what you make of it, and there is no one around to help.