Ambient (album)

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Ambient is an album by the artist Moby. It was released on August 17, 1993 and received mediocre reviews; Moby did not gain any real acclaim for his 1990s electronic Music albums until he released Everything Is Wrong in 1995.

Compositions

The album is composed of electronic ambient peices, similar to Aphex Twin's monumental Selected Ambient Works releases. Like the Aphex Twin releases, the work is mainly instrumental (although there are samples of the sound of a chior vocalizing on "Tongues", and a woman saying 'bad days' in the background of "Bad Days"). Many of the tracks a beat-driven, except of "J Breas" and "Piano and String", which both uses pianos and synthisizers. "Bad Days" uses a 'sweeping' synth effect, and "Sound" is a high pitched loop playing and fading out and in. "80" uses synths mimicing an acoustic guitar.

Track listing

1. "My Beautiful Blue Sky" – 5:19
2. "Heaven" – 8:16
3. "Tongues" – 5:37
4. "J Breas" – 2:47
5. "Myopia" – 4:46
6. "House of Blue Leaves" – 6:20
7. "Bad Days" – 2:27
8. "Piano & String" – 1:35
9. "Sound" – 1:11
10. "Dog" – 7:35
11. "80" – 2:05
12. "Lean on Me" – 3:51

Personnel

• Moby - Main Performer, Producer
• Wendi Horowitz - Design
• Bob Ward - Digital Editing
• Jill Greenberg - Photography