Rubi_Hayim
(Rubi Hayim)
August 19, 2024, 10:56am
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The title says it all. Please kindly expand my horizon with your deep and unwavering knowledge. Thank you!!
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Rugby
(aka Daniel or Big Dan)
August 19, 2024, 1:17pm
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Start with the beginning.
Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by Brian Eno, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. It is the first of Eno's albums released under the label of ambient music, a genre of music intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as it is interesting". While not Eno's earliest entry in the style, it is credited with coining the term.
The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths, and was designed to be...
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror is a 1980 studio album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno. A work of ambient music, it is the second installment of Eno's Ambient series, which began in 1978 with Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Ambient 2 consists mainly of minimalist composer Budd playing improvisational piano in soundscapes produced by Eno. The album received positive reviews and led to Budd and Eno collaborating again for the sonically similar The Pearl (1984).
Harold Budd and Brian Eno had previ...
Then move up to the 00s and explore the band
Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is the sixth studio album by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was released in late 2001 on the Kranky label, on two CDs and three LPs. The album features long minimal, droning compositions created from heavily treated guitar, horn, flute, piano, and other classical instruments.
The second track, "Requiem for Dying Mothers, Part 2", features a sample from the final scene of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker, where the character Monkey pushes a glas...
And Their Refinement of the Decline
And Their Refinement of the Decline is the seventh and final studio album by Stars of the Lid, which was released by Kranky in April 2007. The album was Kranky's 100th release, and was issued as a double CD and as a triple vinyl LP set (featuring alternate artwork). And Their Refinement of the Decline features minimal, droning compositions of varied length created from treated guitar, horn, piano, and other classical instruments.
The track "Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage" refers to Craven C...
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Rubi_Hayim
(Rubi Hayim)
August 22, 2024, 12:03pm
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Thank you! And then what?
Rugby
(aka Daniel or Big Dan)
August 24, 2024, 10:03pm
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A winged victory came from stars of the lid.
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Rugby
(aka Daniel or Big Dan)
August 24, 2024, 10:06pm
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Try this trilogy from Hammock…
Mysterium
Universalis
Silencia
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VictorS
(Victor)
August 25, 2024, 3:47am
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On many occasions Ambient / Electronic / New Age genres overlap but here are some of the musicians I can recommend:
Art of Noise
Michael Stearns
Hearts of Space (Which is also a radio programme on NPR USA)
Mark Isham
Robert Rich
Alio Die
Steve Roach
Deep Sleep Music Delta Binaural 432 Hz ( Spa Music!)
Patrick O’Hearn
SomaFM;Deep Space One (Internet Radio)
SomaFM: Space Station Soma (Internet Radio)
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I listen to a LOT of this kind of music. Labels like Synphaera/Exosphere and Cyclical Dreams are well worth checking out, in addition to the excellent work of State Azure like @Progisus pointed out above. Currently enjoying this:
Exosphere is an imprint of independent record label Synphaera. Exosphere expands the core Synphaera sound to include dark ambient, drone, atmospheric soundscapes, minimal electronic and deep cinematic space music.
Label focused on Berlin School, Ambient, Soundscape, Space Music, Drone, electronic music. Musical, artistic and cultural project. Online store and digital music distributor.-
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Thanks to @Rockhound and the fact I couldn’t find “Branches in the Sky”, I threw this on….
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Now that I look back, Branches in the Sky was a subscriber release.
Rugby
(aka Daniel or Big Dan)
August 27, 2024, 3:31pm
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If you liked the Eno Ambient 1 album, then give this one a listen. It is a group of musicians playing that album live which is an amazing achievement in itself.
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