Good morning. Today we’re listening to Brian Eno, an English music producer. Eno coined the term ambient music, and we’ve featured him several times on Flow State. Eno realized that music can be a background thing and profound at the same time. Ambient music, he wrote, should “accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” We’re playing our favorite of his ambient works, beginning with the magnificent
Discreet Music carried me through my mid to late 20s. Evening Star is by far a greater track, but the calmness of Discreet Music is unparalleled.
Lovely. Great for writing and reading. Even for daily chores...
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