Ambient 1: Music for Airports

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Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by the English musician Brian Eno. It was released in February 1979 through E.G. Records and Polydor Records. It was the first Eno album released under the label of ambient music, a genre intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as it is interesting". While not Eno's earliest entry in the style, it is credited with popularising the term. The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of keyboard instruments and voices at differing lengths, and was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal as an alternative to "canned" Muzak and easy listening styles. In 2004, Rolling Stone credited Music for Airports with defining the ambient genre. In 2016, Pitchfork ranked it the greatest ambient album of all time. Eno followed it with Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980), Ambient 3: Day of Radiance...

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