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Episode #150 - Ambient Music

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The problem with the genre of ambient music is that most of it is not ambient music. No one really agrees on what exactly ambient music is. We discuss the genre, and the music, and how we feel about this type of music.

Show notes:

  • Brian Eno: Music for Airports, Bang on the Can: Music for Airports](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eno-wyatt-davies-bang-on-a-can-music-for-airports/389889337)
  • Ambient Essentials (Apple Music)
  • Morton Subotnick: SIlver Apples of the Moon
  • Brian Eno: Ambient 1: Music for Airports
  • Brian Eno: Discreet Music
  • Brian Eno: Music for Installations
  • Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories
  • Terry Riley: In C (Wikipedia)
  • Lester Bangs interviews Eno
  • George Winston: December
  • Ludovico Einaudi: Seven Days Walking: Day 3
  • Harold Budd: Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
  • Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
  • List of ambient music artists (Wikipedia)

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