I told a friend (who is more into classical music than dance music, but
seems to like a lot of ambient stuff i *insist* on playing him) that Namlook
was doing 4 season's greetings CDs, to which he replied that he thought
Namlook was trying to do a modern-day-equivalent of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
While being probably a bit of a pretentious statement, I think this, in a more
general way, might be true. I have always thought there have been connections
between ambient music (be it ambient techno or more enoesque stuff) and
classical music, but have never quite been able to put my finger on what the
connection exactly is.
I mean, I have always credited Erik Satie with starting ambient music back
in about 1905 when he composed his Gymnopedies, and its also recorded that
he would shout at audiences for paying too much attention to him(!). Some of
the ambient I have heard recently, especially Tetsu Inoue, some parts of FSOL
and the ArtI series, while sounding innovative and experimental, has a
distinctly classical feel.....
What are the opinions of others here about this?
darko