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Ambient / New Age Anyone?

I got a lot out of the 'Techno Anyone' thread, so I thought I'd start up one for the ambient/new age stuff. Stuff like Brian Eno (father of ambient), Patrick O'Hearn, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Shulze, Richard Burmer...

I'd like to hear everyone and anyone's thoughts on what they think are the best of the genre.

I particularly like Eno/Budd's The Pearl, Eno's 'Apollo', Richard Burmer's 'Mosaic' and 'Invention', Patrick O'hearn's 'Between Two Worlds' and 'Rivers Gonna Rise', Tangerine Dream's hard to find 'White Eagle' and Klaus Shulze's 'Dune'. I'll chime in with more later.

Any other 'must-haves'??

Chris
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ben_campbell
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Chris,
There's quite a few that are ambient or modern classical or light electronica I would recommend...............................
Harold Budd-Luxa
Steve Reich-Music For 18 Musicians
Susumo Yokota-Sakura
Pan Sonic-Aaltopirri
Boards Of Canada-A Beautiful Place In The Country e.p.
Terry Riley-A Rainbow In Curved Air
Eno's-Discreet Music
Also David Sylvian's recent compilation of instrumentals is worth hearing-it's called Camphor.
There's a book called The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast that's a reasonable reference book even if some of it is contentious.......
twl
3,251 posts
 
Edgar Froese, Ypsilon in Malaysian Pale
Synergy, self titled.
cdelplato OP
110 posts
 
Ahhh, yes Ben. I have Harold Budd's 'Lovely Thunder', which is excellent. I also have most of the Eno collection. Saw Boards of Canada and Pan Sonic mentioned in the other thread - will have to check it out. I have heard some of Sylvian's recordings were highly acclaimed, but haven't heard any yet.

And Tw1, I have something solo by Froese somewhere. Most likely on vinyl. Also have some of Larry Fast's Synergy stuff - Metropolitan Suite - which is good. Fast played on Peter Gabriel's 3rd album.

Chris
rwwear
2,692 posts
 
Ashra's New Age of Earth may actually be the first new age album and maybe the best. I would not consider Tangerine Dream or Edgar Froese to be new age. They are really electronic even though they do some ambient and new agey music they sometimes do more rock oriented arrangements. They are some of my faves though. Along with Ashra of course. There are many others.
ben_campbell
1,164 posts
 
Chris my own opinion is that the e.p mentioned is the best of Boards Of Canada,their first album is good but not essential,their second album released this year is a pretty poor repeat of the first one.
You've actually mentioned music I haven't heard of,so I'll need to check that out.
I've spent a lot of the last couple of years checking out the Ambient genre-I eventually decided that Eno probably was still the best................
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