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

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.

i guess i really like the early ravey stuff.

Indo Tribe, Papua New Guinea etc

Indo Tribe, Papua New Guinea etc

https://patientsounds.bandcamp.com/album/ps099-daniel-klag-anticipation

highly recommend this if you're into warmer, more organic drone a la stars of the lid

new Sarah Davachi album comin'

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/vancouver-droneexperimental-composer-sarah-davachi-release-new-lp-let-night-come-bells-end-day-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMW7SPbcBM

the new Forrest Fang album Scenes From a Ghost Train is rather nice, in particular the more percussive tracks.

Cheers for the Leila Abdul-Ralf recommendation- her new album is great. It's like she has zoomed into, and sonically expanded, the quieter spaces of a Movietone record.

Terekke's album on Music From Memory is pure ambient bliss.. fields of soft warm synth pads. Check it!

(Improvisational loops it's called)

Brian Eno has a new six-disc album available on Spotify, holy shit! I've been listening to it all morning, and it has been excellent so far.

Terekke's album on Music From Memory is pure ambient bliss.. fields of soft warm synth pads. Check it!

― brimstead, Saturday, 21 April 2018 16:03 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is excellent

This is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-R1mplBnO8