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aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:20 pm

I've been getting into Oöphoi's music the last few months and so far although there are many composers in the same general 'category' his music seems totally unique in many respects and I just haven't been able to find anything else quite like it. I particularly love 'Behind the walls of sleep' - it has a kind of static calm but gradually unfolding beauty I really love, there's a minimalism here but unlike some composers like Grassow it manages to retain its interest and ethereal beauty without becoming just some droney texture, or too 'twiddly' and overworked like Robert Rich tends to. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago so I've pretty much reached the limits of what he's produced so if there is anyone like this I'd love to know.

What a brilliant composer!

http://www.oophoi.com/

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 8:24 am

I regard him as one of the giants of the ambient tradition and like you say, mainly because of his strong vision. There's a depth in his music that many others lack... or if they have the depth, the mood or instrumentation is different. An amazing artist, may he rest in peace.

Ph-J · Post by **Ph-J** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:05 am

Very nice,
didn't know him, thanks for posting.

resynthesis · Post by **resynthesis** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:20 am

Not really an area I'm familiar with so I can't help the OP but I like this a lot, ta!!

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:42 pm

I think ambient, in itself, is an unique vision

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:08 pm

Oöphoi seems very different from most ambient I hear though - more listenable and closer to minimalism

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:09 pm

.jon wrote:There's a depth in his music that many others lack... or if they have the depth, the mood or instrumentation is different. An amazing artist, may he rest in peace.

Yes indeed

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:10 pm

Oh and I also love that surrealistic sleeping girl with crow image in the first video

ah found who it's by

http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesia ... chloe.html

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:18 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Oöphoi seems very different from most ambient I hear though - more listenable and closer to minimalism

You should seek out to listen to more ambient then, Gasparetti makes decent ambient, but nothing I would call unique

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:42 pm

I have been, not heard anything I like as much so far, that's why I started the thread

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:45 pm

Well, put on side 2 of Steve Hillage's Rainbow Dome Musick, most stuff by Terry Riley or JM Jarre's Waiting for Costeau (full version).

Just some examples of the most obvious stuff done in the past.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:59 pm

Hillage and Riley are both great but nothing like Oöphoi. Don't like Jarre at all, completely different aesthetic.

Oöphoi - a unique vision?