Dreamy prog songs

 

Finally and thx!

 

Fripp and Eno in general are all worth tripping with. I would not consider King Crimson trippy at all, but it is quite satisfying in many places and terribly empty in others.

 

Alan Stivell, specially his first and best known album still listed as a Red Label. "Renaissance of the Celtic Harp". And all of you cynic new agers should note that this came out a good 10 to 15 years before but you would rather listen to others that weren't even Celtic in their hearts of history! Or maybe what turned them off is that Alan is not a moron, and is politically and socially motivated to help his culture survive and show its true strength of art and music!

 

Peter Michael Hamel did some interesting things.

 

Frank Perry had 2 massively fabulous albums with nothing but bells. They are some outstanding meditations.

 

Georg Deuter. Even though he says that his music is inspired by his guru, there is a lot of really fine music here that is quiet enjoyable in a quiet space.

 

Tangerine Dream in the earlier stages with Zeit, Atem, Phaedra and Rubycon. And Edgar's Solo Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. I miss this ear of Tangerine Dream. That's not to say I don't care for their other stuff, but the inner quietness and spacyness of these early works were quiet peaceful and truly beautiful in their own way, something that many of us do not have the patience to sit through, or as a friend of mine noted once - "where's the lyrics?" - which is almost what happens here half the time!

 

Popol Vuh. Enough said. This was nothing but meditation music, done with the synthesizers in the earlier days and then later with accoustic and electric instruments. Sadly, a lot less experimental and meditative music that had a silly label got the credit, and these folks didn't. Aguirre and several other pieces of music were used as soundtrack stuff for Werner Herzog, who made sure that the "vast expanse" of the feeling of the music usually was visible in some way and nowhere is this more visible than in Aguirre, which is for the most part all handheld with the exception of the series of amazing longshots through the Amazon forest. Florian used to say it was just music that he had sitting around (interview listed here in PA, too!) and Werner found something visual that he could add to it, and he DID! In some cases it may not be as good in the film itself, but the music, if you have not heard it, stands up just fine without the film work, and in some cases, stands up a lot better than the film with it. I think the music is found in 5 films, possibly 6 - I have not checked, sorry!

 

Klaus Schulze. I fing this stuff very quiet inside. However there is a problem here, and it is that unlike many others in the  music business, I often like to state that Klaus' music is a raga, pure and simple. And you either close your eyes and live and die with it, or you are better off leaving the room and turning off the CD player! It is all a massive trip, and there is some unbelievable stuff. There is also one other element in this man's music that is missed in the annals of music. That is, that unlike almost anyone else, this stuff is still live and not composed and is free form all the way through. No one has put the "idea" of krautrock or cosmic music to any better effect than this artist. And he is not afraid to expriment and do some things live and if you have not heard "In Blue" with Manuel Gottsching and then "Rheingold" with Lisa Garrard, the full benefit of what an experiment and expression and freedom of flow in music and love, just is not in your vocabulary!

 

Eberhard Shoenner. In the early days had some far out things and somewhat experimental with electronics. But it only takes one listen to "Tranceformation" to immediately blow out your concepts of music. In a way, he is way too religious for some of our tastes, but at least in his earlier days less of that was visible and there is a nice appreciation for the learning of what music was all about. Btw, in case you didn't know, this appears to be where Sting and Andy Summers met ... and you really should play the first cut in Tranceformation full blast! And then take that other cheap copy 20 years later and trash it!

 

I'll add more from home ...