Ambient / New Age Anyone?

Thanks for your detailed comments Patrick.

I should share the unlikely way in which I got started listening to the genre. Bought a copy of XTC's 'Black Sea' LP, got it home to find the record inside the sleeve was Tangerine Dream's 'Tangram'. Had to check it out before returning to the store. I was amazed. Decided to wait until the next day so I could tape a copy of the album. And so it began....

I also have many of the same feelings as you on the discs you reviewed.

Stuntman is very good. As is Klaus Schulze's 'Dune'.

TD - love Phaedra, Rubycon, White Eagle, Exit, Tangram, Stratosfear...

Fast's Metro Suite and Hedges Aerial Boundaries also excellent.

Haven't been able to get my hands on Sylvian's Flux & Mutability or Plight & Premonition. Both highly regarded.

Several new ones I've 'discovered' include Constance Demby's Novus Magnificat and Michael Brook's Cobalt Blue. PG's Long Walk Home soundtrack is not quite what 'Passion' is, but that's a tall order. Worth a listen.

As for Jarre - Oxygene, Rendezvous, Zoolook...

Keep 'em comin'....

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I really enjoy atomspheric–ambient(both electronic and organic–acoustic) music and have many such titles in my collection. Some of my favorite artists are: Robert Rich, Steve Roach, TUU,Stephen Micus,Spool,O Yuki Conjugate,Koi,some Bill Laswell stuff. Two individual titles that stick with me are: "Afterglow" by Hoppe', Tillman &Weater and "Hidden World"by Serrie & Stroutsos. Many native american flute discs fit in here as well I feel.

I have read some really awesome suggestions. My favorites are anything from Isao Tomita and Eddie Jobson. For ambient music, I would have to go with Spacetime Continuum.

Michael Garrison from bend, oregon had some excellent early albums. He was big on the sequencer's and those early albums have no vocals and he really was pretty good in that 77-80 timeframe and they're actually fairly well produced.