Word: ambiente
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...Venice was generous to all its artists, and one of its gifts was light, that clear, mutable ambient light of the lagoon, a continuous tissue, indulgent to color and eager for sensuous reflection in paint. Light and color in the Venetian cinquecento are all of a piece; they rarely separate into the more schematic divisions of Florentine painting, and the didactic starkness of the idealized body is always softened by its atmospheric envelope. It is the action of light, more than any other first impression, that one remembers from Veronese's Venus and Adonis, for example, with its rosy...
...Discount Records, Assistant Buyer Dennis MacDonald said that record sets are popular gifts. MacDonald added that such musicians as Brain Eno, whose record set sells for $70, is "ambient or Harvard Square type music" and sells well...
...contagious sense of release, almost of giddiness, in Bowie's music, that is because he has laid his ghosts well. Lodger, released in 1979, was a purging and a burial. As he had on two previous albums, Bowie worked with the intense Art Rock Composer Brian Eno (Ambient 1: Music for Airports). Boys Keep Swinging mixed Bowie's band with instruments they did not normally play. Guitarist Carlos Alomar, for example, found himself playing drums. Bowie then took the chord changes from Boys Keep Swinging, played them at nearly half speed and came up with a romantic ballad, Fantastic Voyage...
...what is the closing tune, "The Overload," doing on the album? Even Byrne calls it an anomaly. It is reminiscent of a funeral march but the critics have been comparing it to the latest posthumously popularized group Joy Division. It sounds to me like Eno's obsession, Ambient Music. In concept, Ambient Music attempts to create the ambience of listening to music without the music. In practice, it sounds like a kitchen with all the electric appliances on. The fact that Eno has released about ten albums in the last five years using a concept good for two albums...
What Bowie has learned from his extended association with Eno is how to manipulate the texture of each song. In the first song on Lodger, a saccharine ballad decrying the possibility of nuclear war called "Fantastic Voyage," the sound is gloppy and sweet--Eno is responsible for providing "ambient drone," the record jacket tells us. For the next track, a weird patter-song called "African Night Flight," his contribution is "prepared cricket menace." Elsewhere on the album he offers work on the Eroica horn or the horse trumpet...