It's reissued on CD too
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision - lovely, Fall time meditation
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 20 October 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
http://nightlighttapes.bandcamp.com/album/memories-you-never-had
― calstars, Saturday, 20 October 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
Check out the untitled compilation on bbliss if you can. I think this label's run by Huerco S. It was released on cassette only a while ago which now sells for like £75 but got reissued on vinyl and MP3, so it's good
https://www.discogs.com/Various-bblisss/master/1300074
― paolo, Sunday, 21 October 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
Fifty Eleven Project is Kasper Bjørke documenting his emotional ride through a cancer diagnosis. Really beautiful stuff and not as bleak as you might expect from that premise. Strings by Davide Ross.
This album is unbelievably beautiful.
― Tim F, Monday, 22 October 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
Listening to this, too ^^. Beautiful.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
Thirded, such bliss.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
lazy sunday funerals ... remastered
https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered
in my top ... five? three? favorite ambient albums.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 26 November 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
i'm so excited that it has cover art now. i got it legit free from autoplate.org fifteen years ago and have been listening to the same mp3s ever since.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 26 November 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
thanks for the heads up on this! here's something I found in my periodic "sure, I'll buy your label discography at sixty percent off" binges and it's REALLY good - use of samples/found-sound in a very subtle & good way throughout
https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/album/mangas-coloradas
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 26 November 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
Bought it, thanks.
If anyone checks out / knows Lazy Sunday Funerals, I'd be interested if you can recommend more ambient albums with a similar lightness to them. That sense of spaciousness and ease; the opposite of melodrama.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Really enjoying the German Army album, thanks
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 26 November 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
so glad you're digging it! yeah that "light ambient" is its own lookout, I'll dig around
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://eraldobernocchi.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-fire-that-consumes-all-before-it
this is rather nice, Eraldo Bernocchi's soundtrack to a Cy Twombly doc.
― calzino, Monday, 10 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
new Thore Pfeiffer sounds good so far
https://thorepfeiffer.bandcamp.com/album/umland
― ⅋ (crüt), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
It's funny because Marsten Jules isn't light and neutral enough for me but here are some recommended "light ambient" full lengths. a few are pretty recent, it's been a pretty dope time for my kind of ambient DJ Olive - SleepHeathered Pearls - LoyalJonny Nash - EdenRobert Turman - FluxStrategy - Noise Tape SelfTerekke - Improvisational LoopsVarious - Pop Ambient 2002Brian Eno - Reflection
― brimstead, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
amazing set by Vanessa Rossetto aka C. Lavender
https://soundcloud.com/issueprojectroom/c-lavender-transmutation-helix-live-at-issue-may-12th-2018
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 February 2019 06:51 (five years ago) link
not Vanessa Rossetto, just C. Lavender - sorry for my midnight eyes
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 February 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
that's very nice, thanks
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0624056580_10.jpg
https://lcrp.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-slow-places -- possibly one of the longest (running time) ambient music compilations on Bandcamp. Track two is a beauty.
https://ablaut.bandcamp.com/album/winter-solstice-drone -- Compilation of drones in B, made using VCV Rack. Quite nice
(all revenue will be donated to VCV Rack and its third party module developers)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 25 February 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
ty brimstead, starting with the DJ Olive which is excellent
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 4 March 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
👍 He has another one called Buoy which is similar
― brimstead, Monday, 4 March 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
three hours of kyle bobby dunn is just the right amount
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-here-to-eternity
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 4 April 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Thanks for that!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 April 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link
yes!
― calzino, Friday, 5 April 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/seven-horses-for-seven-kings
doesn't really meet the Chill remit of thread title but still a fine album nevertheless.
― calzino, Friday, 5 April 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
Good stuff indeed. I'm always happy to have more modern classical dissonance in my ambient.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
I also enjoyed this one, by a RYM user:
https://danieltovatt.bandcamp.com/album/deceit
I don't know if deconstructing traditional Chinese music counts as 'ambient' per se but it's definitely got the 'moodz' part down pat.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 09:57 (five years ago) link
loving both these records
― nxd, Friday, 5 April 2019 10:30 (five years ago) link
lovely stuff from will long
https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
^^ It's perfect. For nearly two decades he's consistently made gorgeous music. I very much admire how he kept it up after his personal tragedy and kept heading down his own unique path.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
What's the story? I grabbed some of his stuff off bandcamp when I discovered it but don't know anything more.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 April 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
Celer started out as a duo, with Will and his wife Danielle. She died age 26, in 2009. He's carried on alone since then.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 April 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
The earlier albums as a duo had more tension to them, if memory serves. I very much enjoy Xièxie but miss the noisier overtones. How are his other solo releases? I'm afraid I haven't kept up since Danielle tragically passed away.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
enjoyed this. "nice, strange, and thoughtful music that reflects a genuine inner vision of self" per the artist.https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/erg-herbe
― davey, Friday, 19 April 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
this celer album is gorgeous! gas vibes'rains lit by neon' is soo perfect
― nxd, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
Buying the Celer album after hearing the samples off that link. Thanks for the tip!
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
Proto-hippie vibes inspired by poet and hermit Robert Lax:
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-12-the-mantra-recordings
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
Good suggestion, pomenitul. Chi Factory are Hanyo van Oosterom and Jacob Derwort. Really nice tribal ambient/Fourth World stuff from the Netherlands. These two recorded a fantastic self-titled cassette under the name Chi in 1986 (with Michel Banabila, among others.) It's since been reissued as "The Original Recordings" for those looking for it. Derwort passed away in Feb this year so it's unclear whether Chi Factory will continue.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the backstory, doug. I had no idea – I stumbled across the album via RYM (it's currently ranked #83 for 2019) and it immediately clicked with me. I'll be sure to check out their other stuff. And RIP Jacob Derwort.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
New Mondkopf mini album is great
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-deep-is-our-love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXBGQ_AQOY
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 May 2019 08:47 (five years ago) link
https://boomkat.com/products/tales-of-hackney
Arild Andersen / Clive Bell / Mark WastellTales Of Hackney
some exquisite stuff on here.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
Sounds cool, I'll check it out. It's more ambient than jazz/free improv?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 08:33 (five years ago) link
slightly closer to ambient at times but still as improv as you'd expect with the personnel involved.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 08:37 (five years ago) link
the more improvy parts have that zen quality you sometimes get listening to masters of that field.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 08:53 (five years ago) link
The new Craig Leon thing, Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, is bloody marvellous. Probably more straight up ambient than the first volume, but just as compelling.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 20 May 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Do people round here like sax drones? If so, you will like these:
https://bendikgiske.bandcamp.com/album/surrender
https://danielthorne.bandcamp.com/album/lines-of-sight
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
That Craig Leon album is great. Thanks for the recommendation.
― beard papa, Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)
Peoples, in case you haven't already noticed, we're doing an all-time best ambient albums poll. Nomination period ends this Friday, so there's still time to participate.
― Tuomas, Monday, 27 May 2019 11:32 (five years ago) link
Tales of Hackney is amazing. Thanks, calz.
― pomenitul, Monday, 27 May 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link