#1112 Brian Eno - Ambient 2 / The Plateaux of Mirror

More barely-there music from Eno, evoking mood with sounds that barely register as notes, so much do they ring and blend and bleed. A piano plink goes on forever, followed by a couple more, swimming in the sea of their ancestors' reverberations, sounding completely peaceful, still waters with thin fishes to follow if your mind wanders. There's nothing here as good as the first track on Ambient 1 / Music for Airports, but I always found all the vocals and strings on that album a bit much, a bit-unambient. This succeeds more fully in staying completely out of the way, nary a hard mark on a subtly textured watercolor wash. Beautiful, sparse stuff 4/5