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.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 feeding unheard tape into the mix, constant feeding and remixing, subtracting and "composting" 1.
Eno actually found, in the long process of making the album (over 3 years) that the synthesizer came to be of "limited usefulness" and that his "instrumentation shifted gradually through electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards non-instruments like pieces of chain and sticks and stones .... I included not only recordings of rooks, frogs and insects, but also the complete body of my own earlier work" 2.
Despite the music's dark leanings, it is, in a sense, still highly "ambient" in that the tracks tend to blend-in to each other and thus fulfill all of Eno's original expectations of what the term means.
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