Ambient Recommendations

Kelela's done an ambient mix for the Warp 20th anniversary NTS thing and sung over the top. It's very nice

https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/aquaphoria

小久保隆 - 01 [00:00 - 04:06]
Susumu Yokota - Hagoromo [04:06 - 7:52]
Marc Cary - Rhodes Ahead Intro [07:52 - 10:07]
Autechre - Altibzz [10:07 - 13:41]
Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft- Beluga’s Song [13:41 - 18:04]
Aphex Twin - Untitled [18:04 - 21:12]
Oneohtrix Point Never - Physical Memory [21:12 - 23:22]
Kareem Lotfy - FR3SH [23:22 - 26:55]
Biosphere - Chukhung [26:55 - 28:34]
Leila - Underwaters [28:34 - 31:28]
OCA - Heaven Cent [31:28 - 34:49]
Visible Cloaks - Screen [34:49 - 38:03]
Jaco Pastorius solo (live w/ Joni Mitchell, 1977) [38:03 - 41:10]
Iury Lech - Barreras [41:10 - 46:45]
Cliffdiver - Digital Dreams [46:45 - 51:30]

really feeling right now:

Polypores, the Impossibility
Aiden Baker, Deer Park

Polypores has a newer one but I haven't heard it yet.

Nice piece by vapor dreampunk kingpin HKE

https://nirvanaport.bandcamp.com/album/--4

Loscil's latest, Equivalents, and Visions' cinematically spaced-out Temples are both quite good.

Looks like a new Steve Roach is imminent as well.

super into Equivalents

On the more 'tribal' end of things, Alio Die's latest, with a Persian duo from Paris named Indalaska, is worth investigating as well.

The collaboration with Indalaska is a really strong album, although it's difficult to get a sense of what elements Indalaska are bringing to it (which happens to me a lot with Alio Die collabs, honestly)

a warped anthem
https://bedlamtapes.bandcamp.com/track/anthem-2

https://aescapesounds.bandcamp.com/track/night-city-ii-w-finlii

ISO slow, heavy reverb bright/clean guitar over soft drum machine, like first 7 minutes of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm9r0vIZYUw

^The first Durutti Column album comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddox1SYHko

Also on an unrelated note, Tetsu Inoue's Inland is the best ambient album ever, godlike sound design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYmND3Al4gI

that durutti column album is a good call. was just listening to that last night!

Tetsu Inoue's Inland is the best ambient album ever

Agreed!!!

listening now, good stuff, thanks

1st three DC albums so crucial

Thanks J.

/Tetsu Inoue's Inland is the best ambient album ever/

Agreed!!!

IslandMan - Rest In Space


https://open.spotify.com/track/3mb2fkaJUlrRnwxGRGQAGS?si=g3bwAgAcS0CvDHwi8miAew

Alexis Georgopolis - Fragments of a Season.


https://open.spotify.com/album/1ByGvgEkjwolQcJTGxMApn?si=fzP_FRjRT1aNWCM_3m1RZA

Wouldn’t call either of these Ambient but some songs fit the bill.

This is just what an isolated soul needs just now

https://open.spotify.com/album/59NTtP2nGwOTmfQJ0JjPET?si=VJxw_Fa-TpugK98e4aZpUQ

Selected Media 2016-18 by Bartosz Kruczynski

This mix of African & Indonesian traditional music (w/effects and some electronic pieces mixed in) might not be ambient in the classical sense, but it was doing the trick for me yesterday:

https://soundcloud.com/wonj/wgm7

And led me to this Motoko & Myers album, which gets better and less fourth world-y after the first track: https://open.spotify.com/album/7EwZMTQ17UxzQof2rXffL4?si=UL4s_oWcQkaSEFtPm8s7mw

https://open.spotify.com/album/3kJCW2dy9ADRQOIdnAjXQL?si=NYVxSommT1yClU0shQGPyw

Float away on the mist...

Love love love this one, the title is self-explanatory:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/algorithmic-music-for-synthesised-strings

I want more people to hear this music, and support these artists, so posting here...

‘Old Souls Part XII: Phosphenes‘ is mix of enveloping, mind-shifting, heart-filling, time-dissolving ambient, abstract, experimental and electro-acoustic music by brilliant Black artists creating work of incredible beauty and power.

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-xii-phosphenes_2016-2020_cover-a.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-xii-phosphenes_2016-2020_cover-b.jpg?w=1024

Various – ‘Old Souls – Part XII: Phosphenes’
2016-2020

(Phosphenes are the light you see when there is no light)

01 [00:00 – 04:35] Forest Management – “Your Privilege…” (‘Remain’ 2018)
02 [02:00 – 05:00] KMRU – “11” (‘Luft’ EP 2020)
03 [04:50 – 09:30] Imka – “Regret” (‘Who Taught You To Run’ EP 2020)
04 [05:00 – 07:30] Oui Ennui – “Fragile Yet Agile” (‘Wytai’ EP 2020)
05 [07:20 – 12:20] Lamin Fofana – “I Ran From It…” (‘Darkwater’ EP 2020)
06 [11:35 – 15:30] Lotic – “Love and Light” (‘Power’ 2018)
07 [15:30 – 19:10] Nazar – “Mother” (‘Guerrilla’ 2020)
08 [19:00 – 25:20] Laraaji – “Galexea” (‘The Onrush of Eternity’ 2019)
09 [25:20 – 30:00] Dedekind Cut – “Yin-Yang” (‘$uccessor’ 2016)
10 [29:25 – 32:20] Klein – “Silent” (‘Lifetime’ 2019)
11 [31:40 – 34:00] Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – “4 – 3” (‘Mind Kontrol’ 2020)
12 [34:00 – 36:40] Wayne Phoenix – “Burn False Messages” (‘Soaring…’ 2020)
13 [36:30 – 38:05] Chroma Field – “Triple Moon” (‘Void Out’ 2020)
14 [37:30 – 43:20] Space Afrika – “Bly” (‘Somewhere Decent To Live’ 2018)
15 [42:30 – 45:05] W.O.E. – “Enflux Dc 1” (‘Ultrawarm Indices’ 2020)
16 [44:00 – 47:25] Angel-Ho – “Parachute” (‘Death Becomes Her’ 2019)
17 [47:25 – 49:30] Infinity Knives – “Fur Arvo 2025” (‘Dear, Sudan’ 2019)
18 [49:30 – 51:55] Nailah Hunter – “White Flower, Dark Hill” (‘Spells’ EP 2020)
19 [51:30 – 56:25] Specimens – “Unfold In All DIrections” (‘In the Dust…’ 2018)
20 [56:10 – 60:00] Namir Blade – “False Heaven” (‘Worlds and Dreams’ 2018)

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Fantastic mix, the Lotic track is esp. gorgeous.

yes, uhm. . .i'm dense. where can i hear it?

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/old-souls-xii/

mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicohphilia-old-souls-part-xii-phosphenes-2016-2020/

brilliant. thank you.

That's ace!

I've really been enjoying the albums by Ulla and Folder on Experiences Ltd. Ulla is Ulla Strauss, who you may know from her excellent EP with Pontiac Streator on West Mineral

West Mineral have also put out a grindcore record, which sounds like something that might happen in a music nerd's dream

https://boomkat.com/products/virtualdemonlaxative

Ha, shit, forgot to post an actual link! Thanks much, Jersey Al!

The Ulla album is right up there with my faves this year. Seems it just got a limited repress, if you're that way inclined.

has anyone listened to Yu Su's Roll with the Punches (a 12" that's 32 minutes long)? who knows how to classify stuff like this, but it's also sort of balearic, dance, dub, other things. i really like this release a lot

sorry, full title is 泉出通川为谷 / Roll With The Punches
came out on second circle, which is maybe distributed by music from memory?

Second Circle is an MFM sublabel. Dunno what you'd really classify Yu Su's music as, all of the above I guess. Her Preparations For Departure EP is very good.

I love the You’re Me album, it’s a collab between her and somebody else:

https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/plant-cell-division

Forest Management puts out some great records

Ooh nice, I’ll check that out!

KM at home listening to ambient and tending to his herb, is there a better life?

i have to admit, it's been a great weekend

Cheerz

i've put lightning in a twilight hour's cassette-only release from a couple years ago on youtube. it was ripped straight from the cassette, so the fidelity isn't amazing. music's wonderful though.

New Loscil. Loads of stuff like this about but he just seems to do it better/ deeper

https://open.spotify.com/track/0piAVJZfRRqqdC9W6jMKae?si=mk9uWBenQ8qJ13fPesfHRw

Yeah, enjoying this one. It is more "ambient" than a lot of his other records, which often have some underlying beats/oscilations/pulses.

btw there is a loscil thread, which I only point out because I think it's literally the only thread I've ever started in my 10 (?) years on this message board.

thanks for that recommendation, beautiful stuff

2814 - Lost in a Dream

https://soundcloud.com/dreamcatalogue/2814-lost-in-a-dream-1

this worked well last night- https://marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/long-time

good call pickles, this might well achieve what zolpidem can't

New Loscil! Have to get on it. Love his work.

ive been binging on non "distintegration loops" basinski. so much material, so much of it great. he really has a touch for selecting the most elegiac fragments of sound and presenting them beautifully