I’ve touched on ambient music on solipsistic NATION in the past but I thought it was time to have an entire episode dedicated to this genre.
Ambient music is ambiguous and open-ended in scope, including everything from Erik Satie‘s Trois Gymnopédies suite to Brian Eno‘s atmospheric On Land album. My own definition of ambient music is a bit narrower in that I don’t think of pieces like Satie’s Gymnopédies as ambient music. While Gymnopédies is certainly a work of quiet genius I consider it more of an instrumental piece.
I think of ambient music as music that is near formless, something that is amorphous and nebulous. It’s more about sounds that evoke a mood than a series of rhythmic patterns.
- Mel “Framed Moon”
- Insideamind “Right This Way”
- Poolbath “Auto-Exit2″
- Cinema Volta “2005-09-04″
- Janek Schaefer “All Bombing is Terrorism”
- Chris Herbert “Chlorophyll”
- Dave from Chub Creek “7777777″
- Muslimgauze “Fazisi”
- Dysphor “Self-Aware Pulsations”
- Spainful Films Soundtrack Dept. “Church Outing 20060312″
- Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard “A Long Time Ago”
- Irokez “Dark Blue”
- If Thousands “Radio Is Fine”