It has been a long time.
Let’s start out with some old-school Japanese Ambient music. I’ll keep adding to this diary entry as time permits.
Okay, let’s add a little more:
And here’s something a bit fresher from Gallery Six (I’ve shared some of his work with fellow Norwegian ambient artist Augustus Bro):
I’ve had an interest in ambient music for many more years than I want to admit any more. I got turned on to Brian Eno’s work thanks to his production of David Bowie’s Low/Heroes/Lodger trilogy back when I was a teen. Eno had all these cool names for the instruments he’d play (like cricket menace). I had to figure out what he was up to. From there I would discover Another Green World and that would lead me to Music for Airports, and then to any of a number of artists he’d associate with. And ambient seems to withstand the test of time. It may not be a revolutionary form of music, but it continues to evolve. Personally I enjoy the genre because of its ability to evoke any of a number of generally calm mood states, although some of it can be quite edgy (think of some of the work of Aphex Twin).
The work of Japanese artists who pioneered this genre in the 1980s was featured in this article, just in case you want to know more.
