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1	The Piano (1993) more music like this by Original Soundtrack This crossover hit, the soundtrack to Jane Campion's film, is subtle, pretty, and just a little bit bland. Nyman keeps the theatrics to a minimum, crafting an evocative work that manages to be both personal and universal. He also lets the music run its course, never pushing or cutting off a piece until it says what it needs to. A towering ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95!
2	Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint (1989) more music like this by Steve Reich This late-'80s work finds the minimalist composer mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect. The disc's centerpiece is "Different Trains," a work that frames Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.52!
3	The Piano [2004] (2004) more music like this by Michael Nyman This crossover hit, the soundtrack to Jane Campion's film, is subtle, pretty, and just a little bit bland. Nyman keeps the theatrics to a minimum, crafting an evocative work that manages to be both personal and universal. He also lets the music run its course, never pushing or cutting off a piece until it says what it needs to. A towering ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $15.20!
4	Nixon in China (1995) more music like this by John Adams see all copies from $7.35! new only from $28.09!
5	On the Transmigration of Souls (2004) more music like this by John Adams After John Adams turned 50, one of his biggest developing influences turned out to be a fellow New England native, the iconoclastic Charles Ives. Ives' mystical bent, best-known from his enigmatic mini-masterpiece "The Unanswered Question' turned up in Adams' Naive & Sentimental Music (1999) -- and when he was asked to compose a piece for the New ... see all copies from $11.06! new only from $12.17!
6	Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1993) more music like this by The Kronos Quartet & Aki Takahashi New York native and avant-garde composer Morton Feldman composed this work just two years before his death in 1987, and it haunts the listener into a prism of melancholy. Shifting, unsettling, and yet every bit hypnotic, pianist Aki Takahashi and the world-renowned Kronos Quartet conjure up the ghost of Feldman to wander the streets of New York as ... see all copies from $12.07! new only from $14.52!
7	Songs from Liquid Days (1986) more music like this by Philip Glass Songs From Liquid Days became Philip Glass' most popular and successful recording. The title holds the clue to the music's accessibility: These are songs, providing a more familiar and comfortable format for appreciating the world of minimalism than Glass' operas or instrumental pieces. Working with such lyrical collaborators as David Byrne and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
8	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) more music like this by Michael Nyman For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly orchestrates a mix of strings, horns, and voices to produce another of his fetching and romantic minimalist backdrops. The opening "Memorial" is the highlight of the lot and drives along with stuttering saxophones, an insistent string arrangement, elegiac brass solos, and ... see all copies from $2.07! new only from $4.08!
9	New Age of Earth (1976) more music like this by Ashra The title was more prophetic than most -- though Earth thankfully isn't quite so bathetic as any number of releases on Windham Hill, by this point Gottsching was well into his electronic phase, the jam freakouts of the earliest albums replaced by a clean, crisp electronic bed. Unlike the rigorous pulse of fellow Krautrock pioneers Kraftwerk, ... see all copies from $7.97! new only from $10.79!
10	Rainbow in Curved Air (1967) more music like this by Terry Riley After several graph compositions and early pattern pieces with jazz ensembles in the late '50s and early '60s (see "Concert for Two Pianists and Tape Recorders" and "Ear Piece" in La Monte Young's book An Anthology), Riley invented a whole new music which has since gone under many names (minimal music -- a category often applied to sustained ... see all copies from $8.11! new only from $11.06!
11 view cover	Preludes, Airs & Yodels (1997) more music like this by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was one of those delightfully unclassifiable groups. Not really classical, not really jazz; sort of minimalist, and decidedly not new age (despite their usual classification), the PCO blended the first three of those ingredients into a quirky, beautiful, and timeless music that sounds like no one else. Lots of strings, ... see all copies from $9.62! new only from $11.75!
12 view cover	Initiation (1984) more music like this by Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors Initiation is "a musical map, from inertia to ecstasy," the formal musical presentation of Gabrielle Roth's 5-Rhythm "Wave." Moving and dancing from flowing through "stillness" can catalyze and release the emotions of fear, anger, sadness, joy, and peace, according to "urban shaman" and music director Gabrielle Roth. "Flowing"'s rhythm is carried ... see all copies from $9.21! new only from $13.78!
13 view cover	Songs from the Trilogy (1989) more music like this by Philip Glass see all copies from $4.31! new only from $11.06!
14 view cover	Mishima (1985) more music like this by Philip Glass Philip Glass' soundtrack to Paul Schrader's retelling of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima is one of his strongest early scores, one that retains his essential "Glass-ness," but begins to bring in elements of narrative, creating distinct sounds for each of the sections of Schrader's non-linear storytelling structure. So for Mishima's final ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $16.23!
15 view cover	Powaqqatsi (1988) more music like this by Philip Glass In 2002, Philip Glass toured in support of the four-disc set Glass on Film, culled from his movie scores. It was good to see that the Philip Glass Ensemble performed the long-underrated Powaqqatsi among his other collaborations with filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, because those electric keyboard works have outlasted the symphonic stuff. Back in the '80s ... see all copies from $9.44! new only from $16.23!
16 view cover	Trance (1993) more music like this by Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors Trance is the latest in Gabrielle's cutting-edge musical series exploring primeval dance rhythms and ecstatic trance. Since her earlier drum-based efforts, Gabrielle's music has become more worldbeat in orientation, propelled by a powerful percussion section & various musicians who lend distinctive flavors to the pieces. At times funky and ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $13.78!
17 view cover	Windham Hill: The First Ten Years (1990) more music like this by Various Artists Windham Hill: The First Ten Years is a retrospective celebrating the artists and artistry of the pioneering new age label's first full decade. And while the label's compilation release schedule is brisk to say the least, this two-disc set features at least one track from anyone who's ever recorded for the imprint's main new age division. It's ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $17.11!
18 view cover	Bones (1989) more music like this by Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors The six cuts on Bones offer the dancer an entire album to move through Roth's 5Rhythm Wave . The first piece, "The Calling," serves as a warm-up to trance and movement. Pieces representing Roth's 5Rhythms identify with animals. The flowing rhythm is represented by the sinuous "Dolphin." "Raven" squawks through the funky angular cha cha of the ... see all copies from $3.04! new only from $13.49!
19 view cover	Tehillim (1982) more music like this by Steve Reich Although not as well known as Drumming or Music for 18 Musicians, 1981's Tehillim has earned its place next to those works in Steve Reich's canon. It's arguably his most mature and fully realized work, taking the various strands which had intrigued him before (including African percussion, the human voice, and the power of subtly changing patterns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.52!
20 view cover	Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1993) more music like this by Gavin Bryars Out from the silence, a lone tramp raises his frail voice in song "Jesus blood never failed me yet, this one thing I know, for he loves me so...." Originally recorded as footage for a documentary that was never released, this unidentified man's voice serves as both a backdrop and a centerpiece for Gavin Bryars' touching but challenging epic, ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $15.11!
21 view cover	Drumming [1994] (2003) more music like this by Steve Reich see all copies from $9.99! new only from $15.65!
22 view cover	The Desert Music (1985) more music like this by Steve Reich This hour-long work, commissioned by West German Radio and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, marks a transitional period for Reich. Based in the rhythmic pulse of Music for 18 Musicians, he adds a text by William Carlos Williams (sung by a full chorus), uses the more traditional sounds of a full orchestra (strings and brass are suddenly prominent), ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.52!
23 view cover	Dancepieces (1987) more music like this by Philip Glass see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.29!
24 view cover	Liquid Mind VI: Spirit (2003) more music like this by Liquid Mind Chuck Wild must be one of the most serene individuals of all time. He creates dreamy floating atmospheres under the pseudonym Liquid Mind. Liquid Mind VI: Spirit is another relaxation treasure. Wild recommends this disc for yoga and massage. Experts agree. Every one of his solo efforts is in the ultimate relaxation zone. This disc follows his ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $13.16!
25 view cover	Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1980) more music like this by Jon Hassell/Brian Eno Largely thought of merely as a mostly stillborn offshoot of Brian Eno's larger ambient music series, the Fourth World series of albums, in collaboration with trumpeter Jon Hassell, is actually an entirely separate beast. Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics starts off from the same basic idea as Hassell's previous solo albums, like Earthquake ... see all copies from $7.53! new only from $10.79!

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