Audio: The Apollo Project
In January of this year, The New York Guitar Festival hosted “The Apollo Project,” a live re-imagining of Brian Eno’s 1983 album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Marking the 30th anniversary of the album, the performance took place at New York’s World Financial Center Winter Garden and featured Brooklyn ambient ensemble Itsnotyouitsme (guitarist Grey McMurray and violinist Caleb Burhans), multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Brooklyn guitarist Noveller, Tortoise’s Jeff Parker and composer David Torn.
The musicians performed the album in its entirety, offering loose interpretations of the ambient music written as a tribute to the NASA moon landings. Also featured behind the musicians were scenes from the Craig Teper documentary Man In The Right Seat, a chronicle of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s epiphany in space. Following the completion of Eno’s Apollo album, the group of musicians improvised for several minutes on free-form ambient structures.
We’ve just acquired the audio from the performance, which is streaming below for the first time. You can listen to the tracks or download each individually below.
The Apollo Project
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1. Stars
2. Sarah
3. Silver
4. Deep Blue
5. Jeff
6. Stars Always
Check out my photos from this event here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/scotthbernstein/NYGuitarFestEnoApolloTributeWLarryCampbellMikeGordonDavidTornEtcWintergarden201201#
June 27, 2012 at 3:23 pm
is this the whole show? or selections?
June 27, 2012 at 4:41 pm
is this the whole show? or just selections?
June 27, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Thanks for posting this Sam. Awesome stuff!
June 27, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Larry Campbell is such an incredible talent. I was lucky enough to see him play and got to know him over a 3 day period at Fur Peace Ranch. He and his wife played the most incredible Samson & Delilah I’ve ever witnessed live. If you’re not familiar with Larry, check him out.
June 27, 2012 at 6:29 pm
thanks for the tracks… any chance lossless files exist?
June 27, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Any chance you have a non-MP3 version of this recording?
June 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Just curios; you say they played the full album but the track names here are quite different from the track names on the album and there are many more tracks on the album, according to allmusic, http://www.allmusic.com/album/apollo-atmospheres-amp-soundtracks-mw0000189935
just curious as to how this should be tagged, thanks!
June 28, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Thanks for let us download the pieces, I’m a big fan to that album…
June 29, 2012 at 1:23 pm
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