The Black Dog: Music for Real Airports

Soma Quality Recordings, 2010

Catalog#: somatbd003Music for Real Airports is out on limited edition 180 g vinyl, I bought a web version, hoping to get the vinyl soon.First off the Cover is beautiful work by Human, Mmm I love it. TBD’s Music For Adverts from 1996 flirted with Brian Eno’s Music for airports, the Dog’s new album is more of a tribute or celebration to Eno both in concept and sound, Dust brothers have reinvented themselves and i like it, beautiful warm drone ambient sounds from then first track to the last.

The band’s been busy recording sounds and voices. There are beautiful airport sounds and flight boarding announcements nicely weaved in to the tracks. I’ve been playing it on loop all day and it grow’s on me, listening to it is like a flight trip, everything is in place.

The opening track “M1″ opens up with traffic sounds and noises as if you were sitting in a cab or car to the airport terminal, the first dot on the map… the tracks slowly build up to descends in “Sleep Deprivation” Part 1 & 2… you are in the air, “Business Car Park 9” is the last track on the album and your last dot on the map you have reached your destination.

The Black Dog’s put heart and soul into making this Masterpiece, and it’s worthy a place on the ambient hall of fame, this is a modern  ambient classic and it shows once again that the best music is grown, feed and delivered in Sheffield UK.

Buy it! Music for Real Airports is a five star album.

Tracklist:

A1 M1

A2 Terminal EMA

B3 DISinformation Desk

B4 Passport Control

B5 Wait Behind This Line

C6 Empty Seat Calculations

C7 Strip Light Hate

D8 Future Delay Thinking

D9 Lounge

D10 Delay 9

E11 Sleep Deprivation 1

E12 Sleep Deprivation 2

F13 He Knows

F14 Business Car Park 9