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Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is a studio album by the British musician and producer Brian Eno, the Canadian producer Daniel Lanois, and Brian Eno's brother, composer Roger Eno. It was released on 29 July 1983 through EG Records. The music was originally written for For All Mankind, a documentary film by Al Reinert about the Apollo program, though the film was not released until 1989. The score was written and performed by the trio.

The album contains a variety of styles. "Under Stars", "The Secret Place", "Matta", "Signals", "Under Stars II", and "Stars" are all dark, complicated textures similar to those on Eno's previous album Ambient 4: On Land. "An Ending (Ascent)", "Drift", and "Always Returning" are smoother electronic pieces. "Silver Morning", "Deep Blue Day", and "Weightless" are country-inspired ambient pieces featuring Daniel Lanois on pedal steel guitar.

Country music, which Eno listened to as a child in Woodbridge on American armed forces radio, was used to "give the impression of weightless space."

"Under Stars" is a recurring theme in the album, first appearing as an ambient electronic bed behind a treated guitar. "Under Stars II" is the same composition, but with different effects and treatments. "Stars" is the pure background texture without the guitar.

The track "An Ending (Ascent)" was sampled in the song "Hear Me Out" by the group Frou Frou, in "Forgive" by British producer Burial, in "Ascent" by Michael Dow, a London electronic music producer, and in "The Ending" by British DJ Graham Gold. It has also been used in several films, such as Traffic and 28 Days Later, and in the memorial wall section of the London Olympiad opening.

Many of the tracks on the album were recorded with soft "attacks" of each note, then played backwards, with multiple heavy echoes and reverb added in both directions to merge the notes into one long flowing sound with each note greatly overlapping each adjacent note, producing the "floating" effects that Eno desired.

Daniel Lanois stated in an interview with Noisey about the album that the "foundation" of the song "Deep Blue Day" was a Suzuki Omnichord that was heavily slowed down from the original tempo that it was recorded at. In an interview with Gearspace, Lanois has also mentioned that a Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, a Strat guitar, and a Sho-Bud steel guitar were used in the song. Eno once stated regarding the soundtrack: "...so many processings and reprocessings – it's a bit like making soup from the leftovers of the day before, which in turn was made from leftovers..."[23] Eno said, ".... Well, I love that music anyway .... what I find impressive about that music is that it's very concerned with space in a funny way. Its sound is the sound of a mythical space, the mythical American frontier space that doesn’t really exist anymore. That's why on Apollo I thought it very appropriate, because it's very much like 'space music' — it has all the connotations of pioneering, of the American myth of the brave individual...."




Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks

No. Title    Writer(s)    Length
1. "Under Stars"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  4:25
2. "The Secret Place"  Daniel Lanois, arranged Brian Eno 3:27
3. "Matta"    Brian Eno    4:14
4. "Signals"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  2:44
5. "An Ending (Ascent)"  Brian Eno    4:18
6. "Under Stars II"  Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  3:15
7. "Drift"    Roger Eno, Brian Eno   3:03
8. "Silver Morning"  Daniel Lanois    2:35
9. "Deep Blue Day"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno 3:53
10. "Weightless"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno 4:28
11. "Always Returning"  Brian Eno, Roger Eno   3:49
12. "Stars"    Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  7:57


For All Mankind (2019 remaster second disc)

No. Title    Writer(s)    Length
1. "The End of a Thin Cord" Brian Eno    4:09
2. "Capsule"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  3:14
3. "At the Foot of a Ladder" Brian Eno, Roger Eno   3:36
4. "Waking Up"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  2:29
5. "Clear Desert Night"  Brian Eno    3:11
6. "Over the Canaries"  Brian Eno    4:42
7. "Last Step from the Surface" Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  3:58
8. "Fine-Grained"   Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois  3:37
9. "Under the Moon"  Brian Eno, Roger Eno   3:10
10. "Strange Quiet"   Brian Eno, Roger Eno   4:09
11. "Like I Was a Spectator" Brian Eno    4:23


Personnel

Musicians: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno
Cover art by Russell Mills
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
2019 remaster by Miles Showell at Abbey Road