If you’re a follower of Devin Townsend’s career, you know that ambient electric guitar noodling is a thing that he does, fooling around with pedals and loopers and such to make hypnotic, relaxing ...

The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

I’m trying to focus on this record, Carter Thomas’ Sonoma—a mid-’80s UK pressing with a trilogy of early ’70s pieces, all done solely on Buchla and Serge equipment, all gorgeous. Deep, resonant ...

What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer. While the genre of ‘ambient’ is fairly well established, the exact rules of what makes something ambient aren’t rigidly ...

When John Fahey recorded The New Possibility in 1968 to make a few bucks off Christmas sales every year, his album title turned out to be emblematic of the solo guitar's potential. The music grows ...

Scoring Hulu’s Into the Void presented a unique challenge for composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson: how to capture the raw intensity and cultural significance of metal legends like Randy Rhoads, Dimebag ...