Do you know what the musical term AMBIENT really means? To me it's a genre description similarly blurry as WORLD MUSIC. Whereas other styles in music such as ROCK, REGGAE or HOUSE are relatively concrete and easy to define, AMBIENT poses me a riddle. I always find it comprises too many different elements of other genres to be delimitable. The same applies to the term WORLD MUSIC. Doesn't that simply mean music from everywhere in the world? No, it doesn't! That's at least what the music industry determined in a 1987 meeting where WORLD MUSIC was defined as "any kind of non-Western music." (Wikipedia)
AMBIENT music has its roots in the early years of the 20th century. Prominent representatives of this genre are Erik Satie, John Cage and Brian Eno who used the word "ambient" to describe music that creates an atmosphere that puts the listener into a different state of mind. And that is obviously a rather open definition. Which I like. On that basis I compiled a little assortment of outstanding tracks that - in my opinion - can all be classified as AMBIENT. As always, these songs are considered to be appetisers for you listeners and readers. If you like what you hear, be good and BUY the artist's music. Enjoy!
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