1. Music for Airports 2. Music for Airports 3. Music for Airports 4. Music for Airports 5. Music for Airports
With respect to katstep and Brian Eno... 1. Nicholas Szczepanik 2. Nicholas Szczepanik 3. Nicholas Szczepanik 4. Nicholas Szczepanik 5. Moneyball OST
Since I've last posted in this thread I've acquired three more albums of ambient, all excellent: The Magnificent Void - Steve Roach Strata - Steve Roach & Robert Rich The Bestiary - Robert Rich
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld KLF - Chill Out An MLO Production - Io Loop Guru - The Third Chamber Planet Dog - Feed Your Head compilation
So many classics already listed so I'll offer up some contemporary releases that need attention: emeralds -does it look like I'm here? (2010) Steve Hauschildt (ex Emeralds) -Tragedy and geometry (2011) -where all is fled (2015) Jon Porras (Barn Owl member) -light divide (2014) Evan Caminiti (Barn Owl member) -When California falls into the sea (2011) -Dreamless sleep (2012) Barn Owl -Any album though they straddle the line between ambient and drone.
Iannis Xenakis - Pleiades Keiko Abe - Michi for Marimba Floyd - Saucerful/Careful-Axe/More/Obscured instrumentals GOGD - Grayfolded Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
As much as people will hate me for this.... the Pink Floyd Limited Edition Trance Remix CD's (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured, Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, Momentary Lapse and Division - plus a 'Great Dance Songs' clone) are my go-to 'chill out' CD's.
As cd box and double vinyl. The latter is one of the most bizarre reissues EVER since it includes ONE track from each album. What were they thinking? Kicking myself for not getting "Zauberberg" at least when the vinyl still was in the shops
David Sylvian/Holger Czukay Flux + Mutability David Sylvian/Holger Czukay Plight & Premonition David Sylvian Gone to Earth tracks on disc 2 (with Robert Fripp, Bill Nelson and B.J. Cole) Jon Hassell Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street Harold Budd By The Dawn's Early Light
Coincidence, I'm listening to Recollections from Miles Davis Complete Bitches Brew Sessions as I read your post, which has a lot of Silent Way sensibility in it, and I thought the same thing... Definitely, a lot of '70s M.D. belongs in the ambient-crossover-electronica-east-Indian genre... beautiful, easy to get lost in!
Just got into a Jon Hassell binge, bought Moon, Fourth World, and Power Spot. Immersive. A little spooky. Will have to listen to more David Sylvian. Only know Darshan...
Brian Eno - Discreet Music Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports Biosphere & Deathprod - Nordheim Transformed Biosphere - Substrata The Fireman - Rushes Tindersticks - Les Salauds Tindersticks - Ypres Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)
I tried to limit this to pieces that fall under Brian Eno's dictum of music that's as ignorable as it is interesting, which at least for me ends up ruling out a lot of pieces that have already been mentioned, as I can't bring myself to ignore The Orb, Tindersticks, the Sylvian/Czukay pieces and many others mentioned in this thread. I also found it pretty hard to limit to this to just 5! GAS - Pop Voices From The Lake - S/T Brian Eno - Music For Airports Max Richter - Sleep / From Sleep Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Well tvstrategies, I would recommend you look up the large Stapleton Nurse With Wound list - only that you stipulated "a LITTLE scary." Try TransMillenia Consort lps, Plot Zero and Spectre. Flamende Forsok "I Dreamt A Dream" (or something like that) is all Lovecraft.