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Rip It Up DECEMBER 1983 - by David Taylor

BRIAN ENO - APOLLO: ATMOSPHERES & SOUNDTRACKS

Brian Eno was left unsatisfied by TV coverage of the moon landings and subsequent space missions. The small screen treatment made the whole enterprise look like an inferior edition of Star Trek. This album, the soundtrack for a film on the Apollo missions, was Eno's opportunity to add depth of meaning to the space experience. Divorced from the celluloid it was made to accompany, the music seems lacking in expression and feeling. Flat mood and tone may encapsulate Eno's impression of space, but that does not an album make. Beam me up Scotty, no life here.