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7 unusual facts about Ambient music


Black Paris 86

Black Paris 86 is the first full-length album by ambient/trip-hop duo Arms and Sleepers, and their fifth release overall.

Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive

Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive is the first release by ambient/trip-hop duo Arms and Sleepers, and was positively received.

How to Live 100 Years

Spanning ambient, house and techno, this album showcases 16B's diverse musical backgrounds.

Jean Ven Robert Hal

Jean Ven Robert Hal, stage name for Roberto D'Agostino Vendola born 11 May 1970 is an Italian musician, composer of Electronic Music, Kosmische Musik, Space music, Progressive, Ambient, Jazz, Synth pop and Orchestral music.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

The album focuses on lyrical themes such as, personal, social, political and global "unfortunate events" tied around three musical themes, technical, groove-based and ambient.

WVUD

In 1976 the station was issued a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Class D non-commercial educational license for 10 Watts under callsign WXDR and broadcast a block format that included jazz, folk, classical, ambient, college alternative, and experimental music.

Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers

Genre = Contemporary classical
Ambient


April Records

April Records is a Danish record label (based in Copenhagen, Denmark) specialized on Scandinavian electronica music: from ambient to techno and trip hop.

Compact Forest Proposal

Compact Forest Proposal : 5 Studies for "010101", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001 is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in Feb. 2001.

Drawn from Life

Drawn from Life is a 2001 music album by the British ambient musician Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm.

Electrogaze

Distinct from another similar and earlier existing genre, ambient music popularised by artists such as Brian Eno, Electrogaze is characterised by dreamlike, expansive soundscapes, featuring electronic textures created by synthesizers or digital samplers and often extensive use of large digital reverberant spaces and long delay times on sounds.

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997 is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997.

First Encounter Tour 1996

First Encounter Tour 1996 was recorded at various concert venues around the United States in 1996 and was produced by noted keyboardist and ambient musician Tim Story at Zeta in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hunterland

After being part of the Naked Lunch @ 50 symposium in Paris, Harris and Styx were inspired to complete this ambient homage to William S. Burroughs and his seminal work Naked Lunch.

I Poo Poo on Your JuJu

The album compiles Elliott's remixes of work by other artists, including Blonde Redhead, Tarwater and Yann Tiersen, together with a rare collaboration with English satirist Chris Morris involving Elliott's music underpinning dialogue from the "Bad Sex" series of sketches from Morris' Radio 1 "ambient comedy" show Blue Jam.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Isabelle Eberhardt: The Oblivion Seeker

Isabelle Eberhardt: The Oblivion Seeker is a soundtrack album by the ambient composer Paul Schütze, released in 1994 through SDV Tonträger.

Larry Heard

In October 2004, "Can You Feel It" appeared in popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on house-music radio station SF-UR and the song "Cosmology Myth" appeared in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, playing on the ambient/chillout radio station Self-Actualization FM.

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997, and re-released in 2000.

Linda Kohanov

She is married to ambient composer and musician Steve Roach (and provided vocals on some of his recordings, such as the 1996 album The Magnificent Void).

Loop Guru

Loop Guru's main exuberant oeuvre of lively rhythms and effusive sounds is occasionally punctuated by more contemplative albums (e.g., The Third Chamber) that are reminiscent and influenced by ambient music and similar to musical artists such as Brian Eno and Jon Hassell.

Modulations

Featuring: Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno, Chris Sharp on jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of electronic music.

Nextera

Nextera is a pioneering independent Czech record label, founded in Prague in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in dance, ambient and electronic music.

Papercutz

featuring relevant ambient music artists like Taylor Deupree, Keith Kenniff, ex-member of UK ‘shoegaze’ icons Slowdive and Lowgold drummer Simon Scott among many others that Bruno personally invited to work on his music.

Planetary Unfolding

Planetary Unfolding (1981) is an album of electronic ambient music by U.S. musician Michael Stearns.

RTÉ Chill

It broadcasts mostly chillout and ambient music as well as other low-tempo genres and generally includes cutting edge artists such as Leftfield, The Orb, Sigur Rós and Juanita Molina.

Spirit Dome

Spirit Dome (2004) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana.

The Chillout Project

Since its release, the chillout compilations have featured tracks from diverse artists of the electronica, trance, ambient, and lounge music scene such as: Thievery Corporation, Groove Armada, Wamdue Project, Moloko, Bliss, Sade, Roger Sanchez, Chicane, Anggun, and Zero 7.

Ultra-red

Known for their militant brand of political ambient music along with artist Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra-red are also part of a wave of young conceptual artists who combine participatory art with their own commitments to political organizing.

Vir Unis

Vir Unis (real name: John Strate-Hootman, born October 26, 1969, in Morton, Illinois) is an American ambient-music composer and performer.


see also

Approaching Silence

Approaching Silence is a compilation album of ambient music by David Sylvian (along with Frank Perry and Robert Fripp) collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp), staged in August 1994 at the P3 Gallery in Tokyo.

Erik Wøllo

Erik Wøllo has also collaborated and released album works together with some of the most respected artists in the ambient music world: with Steve Roach ("Stream of Thought", CD-2009 & "The Road Eternal", CD-2011), Ian Boddy ("Frontiers", CD-2012), Bernhard Wöstheinrich ("Arcadia Borealis", CD-2009), and several others.

Ethnoambient

Ethno ambient is related in spirit to techno tribal, ethno techno, and especially to "Fourth World" music and "ambient" music, launched in the late 1970s by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, respectively.

Hearts of Space

Echoes, a nightly ambient music show produced by music critic John Diliberto.

Illbient

Psychedelic musician Helios Creed joked that "although Eno invented ambient music while ill in bed - 'illbient' is actually an extreme retro offshoot that demands that the listener produces a doctor's note before being allowed to purchase."

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

His label, Root Strata, is highly regarded by the drone/ambient music community and has an extensive catalog that includes artists such as Tarentel, Grouper, Yellow Swans, Charalambides, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Oneohtrix Point Never, Barn Owl, Starving Weirdos, Gregg Kowalsky, and more.

Klaus Wiese

He traveled the Far East for many years studying Sufism and Mysticism which clearly influenced his spiritual, ambient music.