Music for Films

Music for Films (1978) is an ambient album by Brian Eno. It is a conceptual work intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films. Originally released as a limited-edition (five hundred copies) LP in 1976 which was sent to a selection of filmmakers for possible inclusion in their work , the commercial Music for Films release was expanded to include a number of pieces for, as Eno put it, "possible use as soundtracks to ‘imaginary’ films". In fact, excerpts from the album did appear in at least four films, Sparrowfall (1) in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, Slow Water in Derek Jarman's Jubilee, Final Sunset in Jarman's Sebastiane and Breathless and M386 and Alternative 3 appear in Rock 'n' Roll High School. The album is a loose compilation of...