When people tell the story of ambient music pioneer Laraaji, they usually start here: one day in 1978, as Laraaji was playing the zither in Washington Square Park, a man across the way heard him, ...

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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 ...