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

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!

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this is excellent

This is good

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

new alex zhang hungtai (dirty beaches) is good, constructed from manipulated sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rx5BV-oSQ

Nice stuff. Really like his LOVE THEME project, too.

I've listened to this twice today, it's very nice.

Sax as vast church organ

Hilde Marie Holsen's Lazuli lp is another one made from similar parts (acoustic trumpet, electronic manipulation). It's definitely more on the chillout end of the EA/Improv spectrum.

loving uon & alex zhang hungtai, thanks y'all

it's a couple years old but I've been listening to Legiac's Voynich Manuscript a lot lately. riyl documentaries about ancient aliens and/or the ambient bits on FSOL's ISDN and Dead Cities albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fJ1z9UUCs

this compilation track from earlier this year is also excellent

ooh I like the sound of this

Legiac also did this 4.5-hr mix of stuff which is really lovely: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/

i have nothing against funcken or this mix or anything, but we really need some standards regarding the term 'voynich manuscript'

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/fading-away

Listening to Paul Jebanasam's Rites for the first time in ages (Friday night is party night, round here). Rites IV is a dirty great wall of BIG DREAD.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuxhzmTnx4&feature=youtu.be

thanks for that, Chinaski. it's 12:56 am and evil devil-worshiping dark ambient is just what I need right now

http://virtualdreamplazashop.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-where-i-am-right-now
Pure bliss from vwave HoFers golden living room and telepath

https://soundcloud.com/beyondbelow/12-kyle-landstra

Liking this a lot this week.

dense high-mid-range drones from Japan with gentle percussive accents

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/tsuka-no-ma

the new Pulse Emitter album of microtonal ambient music is fantastic!!

https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/xenharmonic-passages

https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-night

i keep returning to this collection of tracks.. made with old school, west coast modular synthesizers and Ciat Lonbarde instruments. it's relaxing

strong recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNjY8Harv8&list=OLAK5uy_lS1EU5vWtoZRs-J9Ip2w5VIrm_CrplicE

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 Rossi.

Biosphere has remastered Polar Sequences and is now selling the 500 copies pressed on double vinyl at band camp. This album is incredible if you give it time.

https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/polar-sequences-remastered

It's reissued on CD too

https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision - lovely, Fall time meditation

http://nightlighttapes.bandcamp.com/album/memories-you-never-had

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

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.

Listening to this, too ^^. Beautiful.

Thirded, such bliss.

lazy sunday funerals ... remastered

https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered

in my top ... five? three? favorite ambient albums.