Good mellow music?

 

harold budd - the pavilion of dreams (ambient with a slight jazzy touch) brian eno & harold budd - the pearl (ambient piano/keyboards) colin walcott - grazing dreams (world with sitar, percussions and trumpet)

 

Eno was the first to put together the whole Ambient thing ... with his own label that also had Budd, Laraaji and many others ... and all of the albums are really nice ... in my book this is the beginning of "New Age" alongside AshRa Tempel ...

 

I always thought that Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis are soft ... and quite enjoyable ... and a lot more exciting and "vivid" than a lot of meandering mindless music that passes for "new age".

 

Mike Oldfield is a different .... world ... quite soft in many spots and really well designed and composed stuff, and it really fits more into the "symphony" area by a rock musician than it does anything else ... and I think the "softness" is relative to the trip ... but I certainly enjoy Incantations, or Ommadawn ... a lot more than most people do!

 

ECM is known for its jazz ... but more than half of its label is "ambient" and quite experimental and I think that it transcends the word "jazz" into another level that should only be called "music" ... and nothing else ... but even so, I'm not sure that a lot of folks enjoys checking it out and listening to it ... where the music will never compare to "prog's" bizarre definitions ... specially when considering how progressive this stuff is within the musical spheres ... it's way out many times ... but try to get someone here to sit through Terje Rypdal and David Darling's EOS album ... it simply won't happen ... but they will talk of Rush and Emerson as prog in 3 seconds flat!