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In the final stage of the Brian Eno reissues series, the wonderfully sublime collaboration album with the talented ambient classical composer Harold Budd. In 1980, Eno and Budd collaborated on Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror, a beautifully crafted ambient album (the 2nd in the recently reissued Eno Ambient series) which contained piano textures seen later in his collaborations with Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins and on this hauntingly serene album The Pearl. The Pearl includes 11 ambient soundscape poems using treated keyboard sounds (both electronic and acoustic) and floats in a fluid and dreamy manner throughout with touches of light colour. As with all recent reissues, these albums have been digitally transferred from the Original Masters by Simon Heyworth and mastered using 'Class A' Analogue Electronics combined with the best Analogue to Digital conversion.
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By B. Ritchie
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Format:Audio CD
I bought my first copy of the Pearl (a cassette!) on its first release. I was a little worried, for I wasn't entirely convinced by ambient music at the time. But it proved perfect for walks by the stream in the little glade near my flat, and to me it's now the epitome of babbling brooks in autumn. What sets it far apart from hundreds of tedious New Age piano albums are Eno's treatments and backgrounds; that and Harold Budd's knack for taking simple melodies round unexpected corners.
Having owned it on CD for years, at first listen I was disappointed with the remaster, for it didn't seem to add much; but some way into the album, I realised that I was hearing things I'd never noticed before, an extra depth to the sound; so I guess the remaster is worth it after all. I just wish I could get it our of that insanely tight plastic sleeve!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Lofta
Format:Audio CD
The whole album is mesmerisingly beautiful and deeply engaging. The overall tone is haunting, but it's never so intense that it breaks your heart. It has instead a beguiling gentleness; like recalling a sad memory that makes you shed a couple of tears, before you manage a small smile that comes from forgiveness.
Wish I'd heard it a while ago.
Wish I'd heard it a while ago.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By paleandy
Format:Audio CD
Like many of Eno's ambient albums, The Pearl rewards repeated listenings. I've had the album just over a year and I listened to it a lot over a about a month, but remained undecided about it. Now, after checking out again, I believe it to be a beautifully haunting album, despite it not being as good as Music For Airports, Ambient 4 On Land and Apollo. Once you get over the lack of structure and definite beginnigs and ends, this album really does have appeal. Some moments are extremely beautiful, such as Late October and Stream With Bright Fish. Other moments, such as The Pearl, are quite sinister. The whole work has a wonderful flow and it's a great record to put on, escape and swim in the atmosphere of the music. The album, like the others mentioned in this review, shows a genius at work and shows why Brian Eno's music was so emotional,groundbreaking and massively influencial.
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THE FLOATIN' SOUNDS
I think that "The Plateaux Of Mirror" and "The Pearl" are the "ambient discs" pre-eminently...
I can't separate one from the other, because these amazing products are so... Read more
I can't separate one from the other, because these amazing products are so... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2011 by David Pan
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Beautiful Strange
Evocative of autumn walks in fields and woods - I grew up in a small Cheshire village and The Pearl always takes me back to that place. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2008 by Phil Cresswell
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Wow! One of the best ambient albums ever!
The Pearl is my favourite ambient album. Quite simply stunning! A lot darker and more haunting than Eno and Budd's previous collaboration: `Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror'... Read more
Published on 11 July 2006 by M. Strickland
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