Music for Films III

various artists

Credits

Opal Records
30 August 1988

Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Michael Brook, Roger Eno, Laraaji, Harold Budd, John Paul Jones, Misha Mahlin, and Lydia Theremin
Executive Producer: Anthea Norman-Taylor

Front cover drawing by Brian Eno. Images and Design by Russell Mills. Photography by Jeff Veitch. All artwork copyright the respective creators. Used here without permission.

Tracks

Err 4'02

Written, played by Michael Brook
Treatments by Brian Eno
Recorded in concert in Berlin, 1988
Produced by Michael Brook / Brian Eno, 1988

Zaragoza 3'05

Written and performed by Laraaji
Produced by Michael Brook / Brian Eno
Recorded in concert in Zaragoza and at Brian Eno's studio, Suffolk, 1987

Kalimba 2'47

Written and Played by Laraaji
Produced by Michael Brook
Recorded in concert in Berlin, 1988

Notes

"Err" is an alternate version of "Ultramarine," dramatically slowed down. But, in 1988, this would have seemed to be the original. I suspect it was performed in Berlin as usual, but slowed down in the mixing process. Brian Eno is notorious for this trick, one example being his inclusion of a slowed-down tape of "Discreet Music" as "Wind on Wind" on the Fripp/Eno album Evening Star.

"Ultramarine" was performed live in a more recognizable form at the Lanzarote Music Festival in December 1989, bootlegged on Shona. A final studio version wasn't released until Cobalt Blue in 1992.

This album also includes two tracks by Laraaji, produced by Brook and Eno. Eno had worked with Laraaji as early as 1980, producing the album Day of Radiance (tracks from which appear on A Brief History of Ambient Volumes one, two and three). Brook later produced an entire Laraaji album, Flow Goes the Universe, in 1993.

I found this gem new in a Rainbow Records in Pennsylvania, but I believe it's out of print (just a warning for the overzealous fans among you).

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