Somewhere else, The mixture of New Age tonalities and ambient aesthetics was taking up new, powerful shapes. Japan became a stronghold for this music from the 1980s – one that has lately been (re)learned through the west by curatorial figures like Spencer Doran, whose Kanky? Ongaku It i

Eno was a refugee from art-rock – he was an unique member of Roxy Music; although the music he was now generating, sedentary and supine, intellectually demanding, hooked him into a wider background of artwork – with the musique d’ameublement (home furnishings music) of French c