Ambient Music: Avant-gardes, New Age, Chill-Out & cinéma krautrock Impressive as their stats

Impressive as their stats

One of Exclaim 's Best Music Books of 2020

blending acoustic and electronic instruments

and drugs to devil horns

And with that

Ambient Music: Avant-gardes, New Age, Chill-Out & cinéma krautrock Impressive as their statsBy Jean Yves Leloup In this historical, aesthetic, and critical work, Jean Yves Le Loup explores the multiple ramifications of ambient music. He evokes its sometimes ancestral origins, dwells on the classical modernism of Erik Satie, the inventions of John Cage and the minimalist movement, traces the birth of new age music and the "cosmic" movement of the seventies, before exploring the approach of Brian Eno. Beyond these pioneering figures, this