Thread: Electronic/Ambient

I've heard tons of this music. Steve Roach surpasses them all.

My favorite Electronic piece. So atmospheric.

Originally Posted by neoshredder

My favorite Electronic piece. So atmospheric.

You may want to check out an Aussie band called Regurgitator. Mix electronica with rock. Not sure if this is what you're after but give it a listen

Brian Eno's new album - Lux - out next week. Here's a Pitchfork review.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17303-lux/

Originally Posted by Sonata

beautiful, sweeping melodies.

hmmm can't help you there, but if you like the really dark stuff I could help you :
Aderlating, Lustmord, Troum, Musica Cthulhiana, Atrium Carceri, Beyond Sensory Experience etc

Originally Posted by neoshredder

My favorite Electronic piece. So atmospheric.
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea

Mine too.

Hi Sonata,

I was into electronic/ambient a long, long time ago. When a teenager. At that time the 'guru' was Vangelis. He developed a huge amount of good 'stuff' as well as Jean Michell Jarre.

A hard core ensemble is Tangerine but the early one is not so soft. It is quite experimental.

Around electronic/ambient movement and quite influenced by it developed other ways of doing 'ambient' and 'electronic'. Music that eventually developed ant touch the edge of World Music. A melting pot of traditional tunes with ambient tones and the use of synthesizers.

From this development we have Death Can Dance where these elements are very evident:



Following this idea, done with 'electronic' devises and traditional Inca music:



Jorge Reyes and traditional native american tunes influence:

'Espace Evasion' by Romano Serra is a very good CD (couldn't find a YouTube video or the CD's picture).

Okavango: Origins (De l'origine de l'Homme):

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Radiant Awakening with Hindu tunes influence:



Robert Miles' Dreamland:



Others can be Era, Mike Oldfield, and Isao Tomita.

Isao Tomita using classic music bringing it a touch of electronic and ambient:

Also Buddhist Chants or Tibetan Mantra have been used as ambient:

Tibetan Incantations:



Craig Pruess:



An outstanding work by Lama Gyurme and Jean Phillipe Rykiel:



CD Sleeve:

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Keep well Sonata...

I forget the Zen Flute. It is about suspended notes. It can be considered ambient because it's purpose is not the ego of the artist but to create an environment to develop insight reflection and peaceful mind.

some examples randomly chosen:

First, if you are looking for the longest floating / soaring unbroken supported melodic line, I'd check out the slow movements of a few violin concertos - Beethoven, for one.
...From Contemporary Classical, with subtle electronics,
John Adams ~ Violin Concerto, 2nd movment, Chaconne; Body through which the dream flows (the bass line from the Pachabel Canon lies underneath.) Adams has a few pieces, or movements thereof, that are very 'ambient' in feel....
Hope this gorgeous movement 'works' for you as you wish...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1ktwTcPz0

There is this well-known single-line movement, with only a titch of harmonization - acoustic strings....
Khatchaturian ~ Adagio, from the ballet 'Gayane'[COLOR="#008000"]

added: Max Richter ~ Recomposed Vivaldi, Four Seasons, Spring III (his somewhat ambient-treatment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDQz1OJURI

added: Pavel Karmanov ~ 7' before Christmas, for flute, string quintet and tape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33iyxocg5I

Alternate pop genres....
Peter Broderick ~
The Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plr3hM7d09w
added: Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek ~ In Session 05.10.09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kPky...3388CEEC861FDC

Ólafur Arnalds ~ Loftið Verður Skyndilega Kalt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar2lSFBl6lA

Max Richter ~ Harmonium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tss4sTa-B7M

Peter Gregson ~
Orb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp37ne18SP8
Tu Non Mi Perderai Mai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZqPaF_1NIs

Johann Johannsson ~ How We Left Fordlandia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8TnlNpatk

Dustin O'Halloran ~ We Move Lightly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wth05NWtbZU

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Halo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRonFRE7cs8

Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ Hopes and Past Desires
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiTqI9_dG7o

Brian Eno ~ Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel
I: Fullness of Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiw9nageo9w
II: French Catalogues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOaFxEpjbFE
III: Brutal Ardour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1IQW7ZI2E

Goldmund - Havelock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH435iz6YkU

Loscil ~ Endless Falls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyez8QxweSc

Clem Leek ~ The Mystery Moor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oho3dOJ8Mng

Asura ~ Getsemani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YZi4sqiLs

Keith Kenniff ~ Preservation Divine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmuGr6tNKY

added: Nils Frahm ~ Tristana (Ambient, new-age, pop neoclassical - have a go at which bin you would put this in:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUpTeYO80E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W9JtwWDnCw

More contemporary classical:
John Adams:
Hoodoo Zephyr (electronic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtQDHceS0IE
Light over water (Brass and electronic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuNY8CLGyrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1PuR3s5_4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJUf3CaZfOs

Ingram Marshall;Fog Tropes
original version, brass sextet and tape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYXKHsi9lgo
Fog Tropes II (version for string quartet and the original tape)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4qvTFvV18

Stellar choices from your "alternative pop" sectoin, petrB. Many of those I consider to the pinnacle of their style.

Originally Posted by Cnote11

Stellar choices from your "alternative pop" sectoin, petrB. Many of those I consider to the pinnacle of their style.

Thanks. if not near my primary taste(s), I like to try to 'keep up.'

There are two hour long links with a lot of that repertoire on them, floating about Youtube and mislabled "Modern Classical" :-O Other than that, the uploader did a fine job making that compilation!

If you can find'em, post'em, just two links are so much tidier :-)