The ambient music is a misty music often deprived of rhythm section , which descends from the spatial music. Its aim is to slow the time of the listener and ultimately dissolve his ego.
The French ambient knows roughly speaking three different branches: the first is a direct descendant of the Space / Progressive Rock movement (Heldon, Space Megalith, Ujjaya Deep Forest ...).
The second relates to a retro futurism (Air) where the influences of Jean-Michel Jarre are migling with music from the 60's.
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The ambient music is a misty music often deprived of rhythm section , which descends from the spatial music. Its aim is to slow the time of the listener and ultimately dissolve his ego.
The French ambient knows roughly speaking three different branches: the first is a direct descendant of the Space / Progressive Rock movement (Heldon, Space Megalith, Ujjaya Deep Forest ...).
The second relates to a retro futurism (Air) where the influences of Jean-Michel Jarre are migling with music from the 60's.This branche strongly influences the french electro scene (M83, Turzi,Etienne Jaumet).
A third branch, closer to contemporary music, more experimental is the heir of the IRCAM and GRM (Anne-Claude Iger, Bérangère Maximin , or all the artists of the parisian ambient label Taalem).In a way Eliane Radiguet although she is living in New york can be seen as french ambient
