Music by Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois
Performed by Icebreaker and BJ Cole

A live arrangement of Brian Eno's seminal album 'Apollo', performed with a screening of NASA film footage.

David Lang Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Michael Gordon Trance (Parts I & IV)
Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois Apollo

Eno, pioneer of ambient music, conceived his album for Al Reinert's 1989 documentary on the Apollo space missions, For All Mankind. He jokingly referred to it as an attempt to write 'zero gravity country and western', since that was the astronauts' preferred on-board listening and the long reverberations of the pedal steel guitar evoke the vast emptiness of space. Music from the album was also used in the movies 28 Days Later, Traffic, and Trainspotting.

The innovative Icebreaker ensemble and renowned pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole return the music to its original conception, matching the mesmerizing beauty and tranquil mystery of images of the moon and Earth and capturing the humour of the astronauts as they skitter about on the moon's surface. This unique multimedia experience is the final frontier for Eno's ambient music milestone.

British new music innovators Icebreaker have performed the works of some of the best-known and most influential names in contemporary music including Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass and Michael Gordon. Pedal steel guitar innovator BJ Cole has collaborated with everyone from Björk and Beck to Groove Armada and John Cale.

'Devised and composed; acoustic and electronic; modern and postmodern ... Apollo is ambient music of atmosphere. With blown-up, grainy NASA footage and Icebreaker's diligent musicianship, this 'weightless' [music] is moving and sublime.' The Guardian

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