Ambient 4: On Land

Ambient 4: On Land (released April 1982) is an album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno. It was the final edition in Eno’s ambient series, which began in 1978 with Music for Airports. All songs written by Brian Eno unless otherwise noted. On Land is arguably the "darkest" of Eno's 4 as-titled Ambient albums, and could be said to be an archetypal example of dark ambient, though it does possess a wistful, meandering, longing, organic quality as well. It is a mixture of synthesizer-based notes, nature/animal recordings and a complex array of other sounds, most of which were unused, collected recordings from previous albums and the sessions which created them. As Eno explained "... the making of records such as On Land involved...