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I was drawn into it from listening to free jazz like Ornette Coleman. I also heard some early Pink Floyd. My cousin also had some orchestral music that reminded me of very trippy soundtrack music. I never imagined it could be enjoyed without visuals but I picked up on it right away when I first heard this record, the name of which I can't remember. Then my cousin played a Vangelis album called Bourborg. We all know Vangelis is more of a new age musician famous for the soundtracks to Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner. I'd never heard of him or this kind of music at the time (1978). Oddly, this particular record by him is very avante garde compared to the rest of his work (there is another Vangelis album called Invisible Connections which came out years later that kind of returns to this style). Hearing this album opened my ears to experimental music. I sought anything I could find that was different from the pop music I was listening to before. I discovered college radio and found programs that dealt specifically with electronic and modern orchestral experimental music. It was like being opened up to an entire new dimension. Harry Partch, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Arvo Part, Phillip Glass, Brian Eno (who I'd been listening to years before through Bowie but I never knew that), Klaus Schultze, Tangerine Dream, Can, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Laurie Anderson to name a few.