Ambient music

The ignorable as it is interesting sound allows for all kinds of gorgeous, previously unimagined combinations of tone, texture and timbre.

Ambient has come a long way since its beginnings in the mid-1970s, and has inveigled its way into many different creative endeavours, but the core of it, to create music of environmental tinting and of sensual pleasure.
It is also a surprisingly limber, pliable genre, perhaps partly due to its tendency towards the self-effacing and the anonymous. And if ambient is currently experiencing a moment of heightened awareness, that’s partly due to the way it caresses the sensorium and moves toward pleasure, offering calm and refuge from the 21st century storm, and partly due to its aforementioned malleability.