Ambient music
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Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking composition, beat, and/or structured melody, a
Sounds of natural habitats are common in YouTube uploads of ambient music, with their thumbnails typically having images of landscapes and/or space, to attract listeners.
Minimoog Voyager XL, owned by Brian Eno
Rainforest scenery, illustrating the natural soundscapes, rainfall and flowing water used in ambient music
New-age music
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New age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management to br
Ambient music
…quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and some works use sustained or repeated notes, as in drone music. Bearing elements associated with new-age music, instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical…
New-age music can be therapeutic for stress reduction, mindfulness and meditation.
Kitarō, a prominent new-age music artist from Japan
Enya is credited with bringing new-age to the mainstream in America with her worldwide hit, "Orinoco Flow"
Newspaper clipping, February 8, 1987