day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep

I can't really say that any piece of music has made me fall asleep, although I have fallen asleep whilst various music has been on, but never out of boredom.

I do love a plethora of chill-out music, or classical tracks or instrumentals.
This part of the 30 days gives me an opportunity to write about something I am very passionate about.
The one album that is almost sleep inducing that I own is Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks by Brian Eno. It was written, produced, and performed by Brian Eno, his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois. Music from the album appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic and Trainspotting, and two of the songs from the album, "Silver Morning" and "Deep Blue Day", were issued as a 7" single. The latter is a track I adore and had at my wedding.
This album is a real favourite in all the world, as are the films they were for, as the "space race" enthralled me as a child and I knew all there was to know about space from 1967 to 1975, especially the Apollo programme, which included all the moon landings. I had scale models that were used on the TV programmes, simulating what was to come, as my dad knew the guy that hand made them, (no Airfix in those days).

This music was originally recorded in 1983 for a feature length documentary movie called "Apollo" later retitled For All Mankind, directed by Al Reinert. The original version of the film had no narration, and simply featured 35mm footage of the Apollo moon missions collected together roughly chronologically, and set to Eno's music as it appears on the CD. Very ethereal and eerie, like the emptiness of space.
Although the film had some limited theatrical runs at so-called "art house" movie theatres in some cities, audience response was lukewarm. The film-makers still felt the film could do better if it reached a wider audience, and so they re-edited the film, added narration, re-structured the music, and re-titled the film in the process. Various edits of the film were shown to test audiences for further refining. As all this was going on, the film’s release was delayed until 1989. By that time several tracks on the album were omitted from the soundtrack and replaced by other pieces by Eno and other artists.
Eno relates that when he watched the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 he felt that the strangeness of that event was compromised by the low quality of the television transmission and an excess of journalistic discussion, and that he wished to avoid the melodramatic and up-tempo way it was presented. That philosophy dominated when For All Mankind ("Apollo") was originally released as a non-narrative collection of NASA stock footage from the Apollo programme. The non-narrative version of the film with the Eno soundtrack was released on VHS video in 1990 by the National Geographic Society.
My favourite and I think most relaxing track perfectly encapsulates the Americans or "Cowboys" in space and mixes synths and country and western in an inspired ambient piece.
Country music, which Eno listened to as a child on American armed forces radio, was used to "give the impression of weightless space"
Many of the tracks on the album were recorded with soft "attacks" of each note, then played backwards, with multiple heavy echoes and reverb added in both directions to merge the notes into one long flowing sound with each note greatly overlapping each adjacent note, producing the "floating" effects.
Well, I love that music anyway what I find impressive about it is that it’s very concerned with space in a funny way. Its sound is the sound of a mythical space, the mythical American frontier space that doesn’t really exist anymore. That’s why on Apollo I thought it very appropriate, because it’s very much like "space music" it has all the connotations of pioneering, of the American myth and of the brave individual.

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