Vintage Ambient Jazz - ECM and Illbient Mix - Dean De Benedictis

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Winterational: I made this originally for Soundcloud but I'm posting it here now on Youtube.
These early ECM artists were some of the very first electro-acoustic ambient musicians ever, and they also happened to possess some of the greatest musical prowess in the world at the time. It is my belief that they have not been honored enough, primarily due to politics and cultural conventions in-and-around the jazz world.

This is a thoroughly crafted mix of vintage ECM jazz combined with 90s illbient artists. The main purpose is to start drawing attention to certain vintage ECM composers in a new and artistic light, but also serve as an illbient-artists memento. It's a long eclectic piece, showing many mentalities and textures. Leave it on in the background if nothing else; you will likely find it redeeming on some level.

Playlist of ECM main tracks and artists:

Terje Rypdal - from Descendre
Rainer Bruninghaus - from Freigeweht
David Torn - from Cloud About Mercury
John Surman - from Such Winters Of Memory
Eberhard Weber - from Yellow Fields
John Abercrombie - from Timeless
Terje Rypdal - from Odyssey
John Surman - from Upon Reflection
Pat Matheny - from Offramp
John Abercrombie - from Getting There
Mark Isham & Art Lande - from We Begin
Bass Desires - from (self titled)
Ralph Towner - from Solstice
Lyle Mays & Pat Matheny - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

(Photo taken by me at Fitz Roy, Patagonia 2008, and yes, the original is a lot more vivid. This picture lost several generations somehow.)

-Dean De Benedictis, aka Surface 10