I bought this at Renaissance Montréal for a measly three dollar. I
heard Erik Satie was a precursor of ambient music. I purchased it
out of sheer curiosity. Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer and
pianist. To be honest I`m not much into piano. So far, I like the following
piano oriented music:
A – old jazz.
B – Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats) performing `I don`t
like Mondays`.
C – Jools Holland doing an impressive piano solo on `uncertain
smile` (The The – soul mining,1983).
I`m sitting down, listening to this for the
first time, good stuff. I`m hearing simple (basic, stripped down) instrumental
melodies, using sometimes repetition, other times he uses silence (not abusing
it), thus creating light, beautiful minimal, nearly / almost ambient music. His
music possesses a beautiful melancholic some would say gothic style. I think
that perhaps some members of Sisters Of Mercy, The Cure and
Joy Division heard his music before. So before Robert Myles
`children`(1995), Brian Eno`s `ambient 1 – music for
airports `(1978) there was life after all. Which goes to show you that the
world keeps reinventing / recycling itself. When something new / fresh comes
out, look in the past it`s not that new. It`s all been done (Barenaked
Ladies) before. You can get it here free:
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