Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

I return to this thread a lot - ambient music is really important to me, though I approach it different from the way I've always approached music - like - I'm not a total fiend for details, but I always want to know where a band is from, what are they all about, am I listening to something early or late, is there biographical detail that informs the music, etc. same with classical and opera. I'm not totally uncurious about ambient composers/performers, but I allow myself to just sort of luxuriate in the sounds apart from any concerns about when or where it's from, whether it's well-regarded or corny, or whatever...Im kind of more decadent with this stuff, I just let it work on me. which is the long way of saying I may not post a lot here but this thread is my favorite bookmark on ilm.

late pass on this guy though - really amazing stuff from a retired machine worker, some people seem to think the story's too good to be true but man these are lovely sounds anyway

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/circular-forms

Listening to some of Mogard's remixes, too: beautiful. Must get Works!

The new Huerco S. belongs on here

Man, I am really looking forward to hearing that.

Big fan of all his stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-kJphyQQNQ

I can't remember if I first heard about this here or somewhere else (and am too lazy to search) but the Western Skies Motel album is gorgeous. The dude is Danish but this sounds like backporch Americana.

https://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com/album/settlers

Yup, new Huerco S is great

The Heathered Pearls (Loyal) album has become a regular around these parts (my apt.)

the aphex Cheetah ep also applies to this relaxed/chill out mode, though it livens up a bit midway thru. it's still chill as ever

fun when you wonder "whatever happened to _____" and then look them up in Spotify and they've released three albums since you last listened to them. enjoying phonophani's s/t. spooky ambient but probably not in the way you're thinking.

https://soundcloud.com/shlohmo/11_9_10a
'Bad Vibes' is still a modern classic, and was a huge influence on a certain generation of producers imo.

I've been falling asleep to Moby's Long Ambients free 4 hour album the last few weeks after a friend recommended it.

http://moby.com/la1/

http://listen.hatnote.com

super nice stuff here, very much its own thing - hints of glitch n fuzz over a bed of synth-string drone and airy chiming sounds...worth a long look

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-voynich-manuscript

Album title alone is a winner.

Oooh, oooh, ooh, he did a 4.5-hr mix of the sort of music people here might like: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/

Wonderful album, and thanks for that mix link. That will serve me well working today.

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

care to elaborate?

you ever seen Temple of Doom?

seen? i lived it honey

oh, no elaboration necessary then

kali maa

it's the Vatican Shadow dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gbT3zzG8n0

Was excited when he recently released all his catalogue as a theoretically beautiful boxed set, although it turned out to be all casssettes in one of those horrible crunchy plasticky cases that have the aesthetic appeal of a margarine container. Cannot see the point of cassettes at all, let alone in a deluxe format like this.

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/418916/large/6.jpg

Green Graves is an amazing record, felt like it was a level above his earlier stuff (a lot of which I like a lot).

Today's RA podcast is great and probably fits well on this thread:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=571

Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel:
https://dftals.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-avondale-towne-cinema

heads up

https://www.theghostlystore.com/products/horizon?

it's, like, really good

oh wow <3

That theremin/lap steel stuff is nice

https://newdawn1.bandcamp.com/album/the-dying-light

From New Zealand, New Dawn, a duo with Indira Force (indi) and Anita Clark (Motte).

Youtube just recommended this to me after a video of a stunt rider flipping a motorcycle from one barge to another on the Thames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuQmgdvkHc

https://orindalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portals

fender rhodes improvisations, very chill and hypnotic

the new album by Leila Abdul-Rauf who plays in Hammers of Misfortune and various other (mostly) metal bands isn't out for a couple of months so apologies but I don't want to forget to post about it or lose the impulse to do so

it's a really beautiful and spacious organic ambient record with ECM-y jazz bits and big desert-y droning sections* and maybe a Dif Juz kinda lightness of touch. really impressive

*iirc there was a thread not too long back on this sort of music?

yeah this one "wide open desert music" S/D

catch a Labradford (s/t album) vibe at times as well

Insomnia album was really good, so up for more of that.

in fact "really good" is selling it way short, it's quite majestic.

Title? Not listed as upcoming on bandcamp, but sounds like my thing.

it's called 'Diminution'

there was a soundcloud track online but it's been removed

Cheers.

it's a really beautiful and spacious organic ambient record with ECM-y jazz bits and big desert-y droning sections* and maybe a Dif Juz kinda lightness of touch. really impressive

jesus christ this sounds like it's absolutely up my alley

Aye, me too - couple that with Labradford and it sounds close to perfect.

Listening to Insomnia now. Wonderful stuff so far, more varied than the usual fare, and it's got a lovely album cover to boot, drawing us away from the classic desert imagery.

It's lovely. Based on that album, Spotify is recommending me Paula Abdul, which is like, I can see your working there, but it's not very sensible.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22140

nope

Leila is awesome! Her metal bands used to play in our basement. Will totalyl check that out, thanks.

FSOL seem like totally my shit but I just can't get into them.