What Jason said. :-)
Yeah in my haste I forgot to mention Cluster, Fripp & Eno, Michael Brook
(who's done to great ambient/"world" records with the late Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan), and Roedelius. All great IMHO.
Cheers!
John
> At 11:36 PM -0600 7/18/01, John Dennett wrote:
>> * Brian Eno - "Another Green World" (actually a variety of styles),
>> "Discreet Music", "Ambient 1 - Music For Airports", "Apollo: Atmospheres &
>> Soundtracks"
>> * Harold Budd/Brian Eno - "The Pearl"
>> * Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins - "The Moon And The Melodies"
>
> In this vein, there's a pretty cool Editions EG (Eno's label) sampler
> called _Angels in the Architecture_, which features the above guys
> (well, no Cocteaus), plus Roger Eno, Bill Bruford/Patrick Moraz,
> Roedelius, Jon Hassell, Michael Brook, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Phil
> Manzanara, Fripp, & Laraaji. Not 100% "pure ambient," but if you're
> already on that tip you're bound to enjoy it.
>
> Also, you can't overstress the contribution of the Germans--
> Tangerine Dream's early stuff (_Alpha Centauri_, _Atem_ & _Zeit_
> especially; _Electronic Meditation_, despite it's title, is more of a
> psychedelic freak-out record); Popol Vuh's _Affenstünde_ & _In den
> Gärten Pharaos_; early Cluster (Kluster)/Moebius/Roedelius, Deuter's
> first two albums (_D_ & _Aum_). All of this predates Eno's
> "invention" of ambient music; he was still making some of the
> greatest pop music in history w/Roxy Music & his first couple of solo
> records around then!
>
> Well, actually, Eno really got into the game around '73 w/the epochal
> _No Pussyfooting_, a collaboration w/Robert Fripp which really turned
> heads' heads. That spawned the early work of the French band Heldon,
> whose 1st three records are great frippertronic-inspired ambience.
> Afterwards, they got even better w/heavy polyrhythmic freakouts, but
> that's straying a little far off-topic.
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> Jason Witherspoon
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