Popol Vuh's first album Affenstunde, released in 1970, can be regarded as one of the earliest Ambient music, space music or New Age music works, featuring the then new sounds of the Moog synthesizer together with ethnic percussion. This continued for only one more album, In Den Garten Pharaos, before

Atmospheric, Composed, Contemplative, Electronic, Ethereal, Experimental, Improvised, Krautrock, Mythic, Organic, Psychedelic, Religious, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Spare, Spiritual, Sprawling, Tranquil, Trippy

Amon Duul began in 1967 as a radical political art commune of Munich based artists calling themselves, in part, after the Egyptian Sun God Amon; Duul has been cited as a character from Turkish fiction. The commune quickly attained cult status for its free form musical improvisations, usually perfo

Composed, Ecstatic, Epic, Expansive, Experimental, Improvised, Intense, Kaleidoscopic, Krautrock, Lyrical, Organic, Playful, Power, Primal, Psychedelic, Quirky, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Saturated, Spiritual, Sublime, Trippy

Bach achieved a religious, mathematical, and musical ideal: he combined extreme complexity with impeccable stability, at once defining and surpassing Baroque ideals. From painting to music to architecture, the arts of the Baroque era took embellishment to its limit without surrendering harmony or uni

Baroque music, Ebullient, Layered, Mathematical, Organic, Religious, Repetitive, Serial

At age 12, Franz Liszt performed a rendition of Beethoven's "Symphony in C-minor" as the master composer sat in the audience. Legend has it that after the superb performance, the great maestro kissed the juvenile Liszt on the forehead. Liszt's future as the most brilliant of pianists seemed to be sea

Death, Dramatic, Eclectic, Moody, Organic, Religious, Romantic music