An upcoming reissue of Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, the 1983 album by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Roger Eno, features 11 new tracks by the musicians, including "Like a Spectator."
Apollo was first recorded for Al Reinert's documentary For All Mankind, which tells the stories of astronauts who've traveled to the moon. After a lengthy re-editing process, the film was re-released in 1989, and included a different soundtrack by the Enos, Lanois, and others, which can be heard on Music for Films III (Spotify).
At first listen, this new track feels like an extension of the original Apollo (Spotify), exploring similar themes of hope and tenderness.
Here's Reinert in a 2009 essay about For All Mankind:
I began interviewing the Apollo astronauts in 1976. They were mostly retired astronauts by then, changed men. Over the years I taped nearly 80 hours of interviews with those original extraterrestrial humans, and excerpts from the tapes constitute the major part of the soundtrack of For All Mankind. The movie thus speaks with the intimate voice of personal experience.
Each astronaut described the same journey, in essence, but each expressed it quite differently. All had crisp memories of certain key moments that were common to all nine missions: blast-off, for instance, or the first taste of weightlessness, their first astonished glimpse of a whole Earth, their stunned first look at the Moon up close. They described these moments in different words but always with vivid intensity. These were memories shared amongst them no matter which flights they were on, common events in a very uncommon experience.
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