Ambient / New Age / Esoteric

 
Style:  Elegant Synthesizers

Format: LP
Label: Musiza

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+  incl. original printed Innersleeve

Synthesizer music THAT sensual is VERY hard to find. 

One for moments of melting away and a personal holy grail here. 

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Style: Organic Harps

Format: LP
Label: Wundertüte

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Just listen to this exceptional beauty. Probably Oppermann's best album!

Only topped by his first recordings exclusively available on 45!

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Style: Esoteric POWER

Format: LP
Label: Liphone

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Mighty Kundalini power by this enlightened couple from Sweden.

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Style: Esoteric Knowledge

Format: LP
Label: Sky

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Blenner's best! Dry aged ambient from the woods.

Mystic sounds of unidentified animals approaching from behind.

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Style: New Age of Munich

Format: LP
Label: Major Music (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Some ether? Awesome oriental flavoured new agey synth-pop featuring Luna Set's Mario Strack on synths and percussion.

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Style: Ambient / Modern Classical

Format: LP
Label: Apollo Sound

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

A heartbreaking beauty from start to finish!

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Style: Autumn Moods

Format: LP
Label: pläne

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Mellow Acoustic Guitar for the days with occasional sunlight. Reimer's tunes help a lot to cope with reality after leaving the fairytale. My fave is Let Me Reach Your Island that closes the album and shows the horizon. Wonderful cover picture by Ed van der Elsken that always reminds me of the most touching compliment I ever got for DJing. When playing at the wedding of one of my art history teachers in the late 90s the widow of Ed van der Elsken came up to me and thanked me for the music. It made her dance for the first time since her husband died.

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Style: OM!

Format: LP
Label: Silent Sun

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Overtones, flutes and percussion.

Obscue Sound. Take and deep breath and

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Style: Esoteric Blast

Format: LP
Label: Mood

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG+

The last album before Jan Reimer went into Astrology.

Reimer composed and played all the instruments.

Esoteric jazz at it's best!

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Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Philo

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

Music like a gently burbkling brook in the mountains!

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Style: Minimal / Avantgarde

Format: LP
Label: Krem

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Piano and percussion in the shade of a cypress.

Hungarian avantgarde at the dawn of new europe.

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Style: Ambient / Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG+

Various percussion and flute is enough to light the fire. This impossible to find private pressing from 1992 has enough fire to burn entire woods. Light yer insense and burn the socks. It's time to dance!

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Style: New Age

Format: LP
Label: DBR

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Ambient synths and inexpensive drum machines...

Springtime in synthland!

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Style: Mellow Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Master fusion drummer Billy Cobham swings his brushes on the unbelievably soothing jam Heather. George Duke setting the mood on keys and synth. 93 til infinity, yes. Heaven!

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Style: Fusion / Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Jeton (Ger)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Excellent relaxed fusion. Seems to be CD only with only a tiny bunch of LPs pressed. Perfect for the summer days!

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Style: Blissssssss

Format: LP
Label: Innovative Communication

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM 

Limited edition multicoloured picture disc edition including the extensive booklet. Seriously one of the TOP- Highlights in in the IC catalogue. The subtitle says it all: Magic Sounds From Percussion Island. One of the most blissful LPs out there imo.

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Style:  Fusion 

Format: LP
Label: Panton

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Great czech Fusion! Incl. the mindbending SIESTA. 

Perfect for a nap in the hammock!!

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Style: Organic / Tropical Jazz

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Tropical ambient jazz meets percussion madness.

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!

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Style:  Esoteric Electronic / New Age Without A Shame

Format: LP
Label: Erdenklang

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM

I dare to call Jens Fischer, Asim Saha & Klaus Netzle (Gyan Nishabda) the DREAM TEAM of german new age. With Sehnsucht und Einklang they achieved perfect balance between asian influenced world jazz and western electronic music. A masterpiece of New Age Electronics!

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Style: Ambient Jazz

Format: LP
Label: UBM

Year: 198x

Condition: NM/VG+  (slightly bumped corner)

Jo Schmidt was part of Passport, the almighty Vollmond Jazz Projekt and the Naima New Jazz Quartet. Here's kind of a solo LP and it features some of those wonderful ambient 80s jazz pieces......

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Style: Electronic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Ashra's last record before a 9 year hiatus. Göttsching, Großkopf and Lüül exploring new territories. Sausalito sounds like a lost tune from Richard Schneider's first!

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Style:  Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM sealed

wonderful, wonderful, wonderful ambient jazz by Björn Jason Lindh.

IMO there's only a few tunes out there as beautiful as Transea....

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: LP
Label: Wergo

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Keyboards + Percussion = Ambient Heaven.

Impossible to find music for dance ...

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Style: Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Fortuna

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

A true masterpiece in ambient!

Perfect to calm down your heart rate.

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Style: Meditative Elektronik

Format: LP
Label: Racket

Year: 1984

Condition: M/M

A dreamy Berlin School trip to the inner eye's deckchair. Sit back and grab your headphones!

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Style:  Ambient Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Musikkiste (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Imagine sitting by a medium sized pond, surrounded by meadows. It's late afternoon and the sun colors the scene with a gentle red .....

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Style: ESO WONDERLAND

Format: CD
Label: Biber

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

The kings of ESO JAZZ strike again. Such a wonderful collection of songs by Friedemann, Büdi, Ralf Illenberger's Circle and some CD only tunes by the amazing Silent Jazz Ensemble. Check out Volume 2 as well. Highest recommendation!

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Style: ESO WONDERLAND

Format: CD
Label: Biber

Year: 1993

Condition: NM/VG+  

The kings of ESO JAZZ strike again. Such a wonderful collection of songs by Friedemann, Büdi, Ralf Illenberger's Circle and some CD only tunes by the amazing Silent Jazz Ensemble. Check out Volume 1 as well. Highest recommendation!

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Style: Ambient Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Vertigo

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Yatha Sidra members Klaus and Rolf Fichter recorded this lovely record at Bruno Spoerri's studio in Zurich back in 1979.

Wonderful tunes from beginning to end...

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Style:  Ambient Fusion / Esoteric Jazz 

Format: LP
Label: Edition Collage

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

The second LP by the relaxed duo comes on the wonderful micro label Edition Collage that brought us Florian Poser's Winds. Musically very close to their first outing. Ambient tunes made with synthesized guitars and saxophone. 

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Style: Fusion Not Fusion / Experimental

Format: LP
Label: SBF (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Private experimental Fusion from Austria.

Dynamic and diverse. And extremely unique.

Highly recommended.

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Style: Contemporary Melancholics

Format: LP
Label: Editions EG

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Contemporary Melancholics by the exceptionally gifted Roedelius.

Kick your feet up and take a book!

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Halpern Sounds

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Two loooong (sidefilling) and soothing pieces of New Age Music released on Halpern's own label in 1980. Featuring the amazing Shawkie Roth on bamboo flute!

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Style: Ambient / Minimal Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Yaki

Year: 1985

Condition: M/VG+  sealed, has some yellowing

Sealed copy of this minimal contemporary gem.

If you dig Musci and Masin you will sob!

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/NM  

This is by far my favourite Clannad album.

Quiet & calm, just perfect for little rest!

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Style:  Ambient 

Format: CD
Label: Wergo

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Keyboards + Percussion = Ambient Heaven. Impossible to find music for dance. This is the CD version. Perfect if you don't want even a single crackle and 100€ for the vinyl is too much for the purse

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Style: Esoteric Fusion / New Age of Jazz

Format: LP
Label: IC

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Meditatrive vibes on this laid back esoteric fusion delight.

One for the sock-free zone!!

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Style: Ambient / Balearic

Format: LP
Label: IC

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

The cover says it all!! Welcome to Club Med ...

Amazing copy.

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Style: Organix

Format: 7"
Label: Wundertüte

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+

Oppermann's most amazing and unfortunately also hardest to find tunes. Big fave of the Thing From The Woods ...

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Style:  Aussie Rules Ambient

Format: LP
Label: growing bin records

Year: 2016

Condition: M/M 

"Setting up camp where the Swan River meets the Indian Ocean, Wilson and Tanner tuned into nature, translating the warm sun, sea air and blue sky into a postcard from paradise. Lithe clarinet dances around tranquil piano, relaxed guitar decorates velvet synth textures and unhurried percussion makes an occasional appearance, as if to remind us that time’s still passing. Employing an innovative alfresco recording technique, Andy and John invited members of the local animal community to join their jam sessions, saving a Blue Swimmer Crab from the flames of the barbecue and encouraging him to claw the ivories. Drop the needle and drift away on the distant ocean of “Pilot”, freefall into the soothing ambience of ‘Further Than Your Headlights’, and let “Sun Room” guide you gently back to terra firma. The dream team of Australian musicians (not to mention a very talented crustacean), come together on one vinyl – and it’s better than you could possibly imagine." Patrick Ryder

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Style:  Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Edel (Ger)

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM 

Unexpected underwater Ambient by Clannad from the late 80s.

Welcome to the blissful abyss!

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Style: New Age / Ambient Folk

Format: LP
Label: WYE (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG+  

Peaceful and quiet. Like a walk in the countryside.

One of my favourite songs from the Autumn Air mix from 2009.

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Style: Ambient Jazz 

Format: LP
Label: Biber

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Wonderful ambient (ähem esoteric) Jazz by the master of Sentimental Elegance....

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Style: Magic Fusion / Synth-Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Fink & Star

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Santino of Diethelm / Famulari fame on the solo path. Not piano solo as the cover might want to tell you but rich and magic fusion with a whole lot of fantastic moves and some overflowing synth boogie as the cherry on top. Private release on Diethelm's own label ...

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Style: Ambient / Electronic

Format: LP
Label: Melodya

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

The Estonian Master of ambient at his BEST.

Deep and meditative ambient for a trip to the woods.

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Style:  Synth Pop Ströer Style

Format: LP
Label: Mood

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM 

The Ströer Duo's mighty 2nd LP. Filled with fantastic cuts. Nomad Song is the outstanding one to my ears ...

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Style: Organic / Ambient

Format: CD
Label: Verabra

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG woc

Deepest organic ambient by Härte 10 and Earforce Band synthesist Mike Herting. #rare cds

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Style: Ambient Heaven

Format: 7"
Label: IC

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

the promo only 7"...

have you ever seen this?

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Style: Contemporary Jazz / Ambient / Musique Concrète

Format: LP
Label: Mood

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM 

Perfect soundscapes for nighttime pleasures. Highly recommended for friends of ambient or laid back experiments. Here's a perfect copy!

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Style: Ambient / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Son Gaia

Year: 1985

Condition: M/M

Sealed copy of this new age gem! Including the sound of children giggling, seagulls and waves. Super relaxing all the way through... Highest recommendation!

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Style: Minimal

Format: LP
Label: JFM (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

These two guys already brought us the mesmerizing Submarine Backgrounds album on the same tiny label. Now here are some neutral backgrounds just as deep as the underwater tunes. And unfortunately just as hard to find...

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Style: Balearic New Age

Format: CD
Label: IC

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM

Pure bliss by the former Release Music Orchestra member and one of the fathers of baleric new age jazz ...

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Style: Symphonic Ambient

Format: LP
Label: Virgin

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/NM 

I always thought this would be some nerdy ahem doodly symphonic prog thing until lately I overcame my fears and just listened to it. That was a good idea: Not too symphonic and very very beautiful ... I dare to call this ambient! Mark Nauseef helping out on percussion, bells, cymbals, etc. Including the opener for my Dezember mix for Testpressing

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Style: Cosmic Meditations

Format: LP
Label: Z Sounds (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG

Highly organic cosmic meditations played live on selfbuilt instruments in summer 1986 in Hamburg. Power recommended!

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Style: Blue Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Silver Wave

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Wonderful new age guitar poetry. Flowing like....

water! NM with some minor pops in A4.

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Style: New Age Guitar

Format: LP
Label: DDD

Year: 1989

Condition: M/M

Contemplative new age sounds on guitar. Bhakta Priya is a collection of songs recorded between 1984 and 1989 by the milanese guitar player Walter Lupi. One of those wonderfully warm records that you put on and listen to all the way through... If you dig the Andreas von Wangenheim LPs you should definitely check this out!!

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Style: Acoustic Magic

Format: LP
Label: Stockfisch

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Melancholic Magic created by Peter Finger on his self-built guitars. Florian Poser adds a bit of vibraphone in Ballade In C. Music to watch the leaves swirl through the air ...

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Style: Meditations

Format: LP
Label: Mood

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Music for a film about the life of Rabindranath Tagore.

Wolfgang Dauner on keyboards, Charlie Mariano on bamboo flute & sax plus Ernst Ströer on percussion. The mood is mostly mellow and very spiritual. Bliss!

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Style: Ambient Jazz / Free Improvisation

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG

Like new copy of this ambient Jazz record. Very quiet and calming for a "Free Jazzer".  Ungoogleable Private Pressing. Perfect music for the night (don't forget to get some strong red wine - I recommend a Primitivo from Puglia)

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Style:  Kraut-Folk / Ambient Guitar

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM incl. Insert and Booklet  

What you see is what you get - dreaming by the campfire!! A man with a guitar and a wonderful bunch of atmospheric guitar tales. Voelkel plays 6 & 10 String Guitars, Saz, Bass, Zither, Keyboards, Transverse Flute, Whistles and Percussion. He also sings (english) on a couple of the tunes. This is a private release ...

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