Ethnoambient

Ethnoambient (Ethno ambient) is a type of music from the 1980s that draws heavily from acoustic ethnic music - both in musical structure and instrumentation, electric world music, and combines those influences with ambient music related to texture, technological manipulations, and field recordings. Ethno ambient is related in spirit to techno tribal, ethno techno, and especially to "Fourth World" music and "ambient" music, launched in the late 1970s by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, respectively. Practitioners of ethno ambient music include Bill Laswell, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Rapoon, Muslimgauze, Jorge Reyes,Ujjaya Gayan Uttejak, Vidna Obmana, Ian Naismith, Jah Wobble, Max Corbacho, Bruno Sanfilippo, Frore and Paul Haslinger.