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Private Music is a record label founded in 1984 by Peter Baumann who had ended a solo career with a minor dance floor hit "Strangers in the Night" (under Baumann). The concept of the Private Music was to have artists do music that they would not normally do, such as experimental and new age music. Artists signed to the label included Yanni, Patrick O'Hearn, Jerry Goodman, Suzanne Ciani, and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream. Its releases were distributed by RCA and the label was eventually sold to BMG.

In 2001, Private Music became part of the short-lived Arista Associated Labels which also included Windham Hill, but by 2004, after Sony and BMG merged the label's releases switched to Victor and currently, no reissues have been set.

• Bounce The Ocean
  • Bounce The Ocean

• Carlos Alomar
  • Dream Generator

• Azuma
  • Azuma
  • The Wanderer

• Suzanne Ciani
  • History of My Heart
  • Hotel Luna
  • Neverland
  • Pianissimo
  • Seven Waves
  • The Velocity of Love
  • The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani

• Michael Colina
  • Rituals
  • Shadow of Urbano

• Bill Gable
  • There Were Signs

• Eliza Gilkyson
  • Through the Looking Glass

• Jerry Goodman
  • Ariel
  • It's Alive
  • On The Future of Aviation

• Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar
  • Passages

• Mike Gordon, Leo Kottke
  • Clone

• Dan Hartman
  • New Green, Clear Blue

• Nona Hendryx
  • Skin Diver

• James Newton Howard
  • Promised Land (Soundtrack)

• Lucia Hwong
  • House of Sleeping Beauties
  • Secret Luminescence

• Eddie Jobson
  • Theme of Secrets

• Leo Kottke
  • A Shout Towards Noon
  • Great Big Boy
  • Leo Live
  • My Father's Face
  • One Guitar No Vocals
  • Peculiaroso
  • Regards from Chuck Pink
  • Standing in My Shoes
  • That's What

• Diego Modena, Jean-Philippe Audin
  • Ocarina
  • Ocarina II

• Patrick O'Hearn
  • Ancient Dreams
  • Between Two Worlds
  • Eldorado
  • Indigo
  • Mix-Up
  • River's Gonna Rise
  • The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn

• Sanford Ponder
  • Etosha - Private Music in the Land of Dry Water
  • Tigers Are Brave

• Shadowfax
  • The Odd Get Even

• Ravi Shankar
  • Bridges: Best of Private Music Recordings
  • Inside The Kremlin
  • Tana Mana (Rvai Shankar Project)

• Andy Summers
  • Charming Snakes
  • Mysterious Barricades
  • The Golden Wire
  • World Gone Strange

• Tangerine Dream
  • Lily on the Beach
  • Melrose
  • Miracle Mile (Soundtrack)
  • Optical Race
  • Private Music of Tangerine Dream

• John Tesh
  • Tour de France
  • Tour de France...The Early Years

• David Van Tieghem
  • Safety In Numbers
  • Strange Cargo

• Yanni
  • Studio albums:
    • Optimystique
    • Keys to Imagination
    • Out of Silence
    • Chameleon Days
    • Niki Nana
    • Reflections of Passion
    • In Celebration of Life
    • Dare to Dream
    • In My Time
    • Yanni Live at the Acropolis
  • Compilations:
    • Winter Light
    • In the Mirror
    • The Private Years
    • Devotion: The Best of Yanni
    • The Collection
    • Enraptured: A Collection of Yanni Favorites
    • A Collection of Romantic Themes
    • Love Songs
    • Aria
    • Ultimate Yanni
    • Swept Away

• Various (Samplers)
  • The World of Private Music, Vol. 1
  • The World of Private Music, Vol. 2
  • The Private Music Sampler 1988
  • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 4
  • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 5
  • Piano One
  • Piano Two
  • Polar Shift

• List of record labels