Commissioned by the Science Museum, London for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing in 2009, Apollo has toured to sold out and highly acclaimed live performances throughout the UK
Engaged in an exploration between recorded electronic and live acoustic sound, the innovative 12-piece ensemble Icebreaker and renowned pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole present their “moving and sublime” performance of Brian Eno’s Apollo in a definitive and invigorating recording.
Eno jokingly referred to it as an attempt to write ‘zero gravity country and western,’ since that was the astronauts’ preferred on-board listening and the long reverberations of the pedal steel guitar evoke the vast emptiness of space.
