https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EmdTe0A9es
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 03:54 (two years ago) link
you know you're in for some serious ambient when you see multiple monome devices
― adam, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
New Anne Bourne is great https://annebourne.bandcamp.com/album/morning-i-drift
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Got the notification for this today. I've been listening to Wave pretty much daily since you mentioned it on here.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
^ in fact I'm listening to Wave right now as I'm reading this. Great record to start the day with.
― toby, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
minimal dark ambient via sonification of weather data. for fans of Lull, Thomas Köner, Kevin Drumm, et al
https://tenselessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-of-unknowing
― missingNO, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link
Kind of haunting record from Matt Evans here, composed in the aftermath of the death of his partner (and an acquaintance of mine), Devra Freelander.https://thisismattevans.bandcamp.com/album/touchless
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
more on the new age than ambient side but i've been enjoying 'cymbalom solos' by michael masley. originally released as a cassette in 1985 and reissued this year by telephone explosion. i also really love the album art
https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/752953/large/MichaelMasleyCymbalomSolos_1_1280x1280.jpeg
current favourite (although not fully representative) song: 'childbirth in cave art'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqAejSkFlc
― flopson, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
yeah totally, I picked that up over the weekend and am diggin it a ton <3this is gorgeous except it gets treacly towards the end, it’s supposed to be a “companion” to Satoshi Ashikawa’s Still Way:https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laistigh-den-ghleo
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
wonderful piece from Olivia Block, inhabiting the boundaries between ambient, field recording and electro-acoustic sound
https://oliviablock.bandcamp.com/track/october-1984
― missingNO, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
Listening to a few bits through my covid nimbus:
Black Swan, Repetition Hymns: https://blackswan.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns-2xlp-digital-2020Federico Durand, Herbario (Laurel is particularly lovely): https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/track/laurel
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
I'm looking for music that would fit nicely in a playlist with these two things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjG0ivBT4lQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0Ex6bKnQ0
This might work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xIUYZVKxQ
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
I'm liking the new Pendant album. It's a bit darker than the last one but not enough to be full on dark ambient
― paolo, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link
i like it too! agree that it's a little too lush to go full dark
― adam, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
Loving this: https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/nine-movements-featuring-miguel-atwood-ferguson
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
ooh he did one of my favorite International Artists releases! thanks, will investigate
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Thursday, 21 October 2021 00:35 (two years ago) link
(Atwood-Ferguson, I mean)
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Thursday, 21 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
This is great.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 October 2021 08:29 (two years ago) link
Just realised who Atwood & Ferguson are, too (thanks for the reminder, Sleeve)! If you meant this International Anthem rekkid, (with Carlos Niño) I wholeheartedly concur: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves
#onethread
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 October 2021 08:38 (two years ago) link
^^ yep that's the one
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Friday, 22 October 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/8 Soisong broadcasts have been released already this year - by Ivan Pavlov (COH), not clear how many of this was made when Peter Christopherson was still alive but they're interesting and quite magical at times. Some fleeting beats, 60s chansons or Asian pop songs may also drift in and out, but I'd classify this as ambient, overall.
― StanM, Saturday, 23 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
thanks for that
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Sunday, 24 October 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
I friggin love the tune Dry by Donnacha Costello. Minimal ambient perfection. More good ambient, less bad ambient please. Soz I will check out the recent posts here now.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
dog latin I'd also love it if you could make any other recommendations similar to Oh Why. No need to bring up Clams Casino, they're canon already obv.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
“dry retch?” hell yeah. that whole Costello lp is beautiful if a bit hard on the ears at times
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
viborg, Clams Casino...I dunno, nothing I've ever heard has made me thing "this is great ambient music."
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Sunday, 24 October 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
viborg, I think Balam Acab was lumped in with the whole witch house scene in the early '10s. It's by far the best track on the album. I dunno, maybe stuff like Haxan Cloak?
I posted this on the Spotify playlists thread, but you all might like this selection of ambient, neo-classical, game and movie soundtrack music I put together based on the three tunes I posted upthread. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NEfOjtgKLoD7LyXPXVEkw?si=6dafc7d7a5424c4b
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 25 October 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link
(caveat: it does get quite "dramatic" at times, but it's meant to be listened to in song order)
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 25 October 2021 09:44 (two years ago) link
That's quite a diverse playlist! As for Clams Casino, that was an unintentional thread derail. I don't really think of them as ambient at all, I just got excited at the mention of Oh Why because that is the one witch house song I consider transcendent and I was hoping for more along the same lines. So thanks for sharing your playlist.
And you're right, the Costello song was Dry Retch -- the version I had from some obscure old comp was mislabeled. I'll have to give a listen to the Together Is The New Alone album, I'm not completely averse to difficult ambient. Didn't initially note that it's 20 years old now. Clearly I don't quite have my finger on the throbbing pulse of contemporary ambient.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
new Christina Vantzou (tape/digital) - https://slow-moves.bandcamp.com/album/releasing-spores
Multi Natural was a favorite last year, excited to give this one some dedicated headspace
― dronestreet, Monday, 25 October 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
this is gorgeous except it gets treacly towards the end, it’s supposed to be a “companion” to Satoshi Ashikawa’s Still Way:
https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laistigh-den-ghleo
― brimstead, Thursday, October 7, 2021 1:20 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is quite listenable. (Although maybe my version 'listenable' is dangerously close to treacly in general.) It does sound pretty heavily indebted to Music For Airports, I'm not familiar with Still Way tho.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Sorry earlier I meant to say "and you're right, brimstead" (about Dry Retch).
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, October 25, 2021 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, October 25, 2021 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Glad to hear this— it's great.
Going to x-post on the Rolling Classical thread, too, but I just purchased and am listening to this for the first time and it is immense, expansive, and sort of frightening in Deep Listening way. two double bassists, one electric and one acoustic. Really intense and beautiful!
https://sonoluminuslabel.bandcamp.com/album/caeli
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
The Steve Roach + Michael Stearns collab is out today:https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-earth-sky
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 4 November 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
Black Swan's record from earlier this year is pretty majestic. https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
gorgeous new ambient mix by the black dog to go alongside their new album.
https://www.theblackdogma.com/2021/11/brutal-five-to-one-mix/
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Has anyone called out the MLO compilation on Music from Memory? I'm really enjoying it. The bits that aren't beatless / ambient are similar to early As One / Black Dog. Good stuff all through the compilation.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, November 11, 2021 11:33 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, I love it. Was curious about how it was going to hang together, since the press release seemed to want to recontextualize MLO as something it wasn't (ie pure ambient), but it's a really well curated comp, flows really well, and the previously unreleased material is excellent
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
picked up the 3 MLO cd set a few years back.yeah, that was a good day.
https://www.discogs.com/release/61673-MLO-Plastic-Apple
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
also, MLO/Wimborne vs Daniel Pemberton - all 25 mins of it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCHVuKLuEQ
absolute classic.
daniel is now one of the main blokes re tv soundtracks, and to think his first release was recorded in his bedroom when he was 16 and released on FAX.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
phew.just relistened to my digital rip of this mix and its clean.the cd edition is well over the red book standard, and i have had problems with it in the past.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
new max santilli record ('tidal') is lovely if you want drifty organic guitar stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBkZvTvxQNc
https://santilli.bandcamp.com/
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
oops, meant to post this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc34aVoFm1E
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Cheers for the heads up. Loved Surface - didn't realise there was a new one.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
no problem! the hugh small/brian allen simon record on melody as truth is also an absolute melter, but more of an impressionistic jazz thing:
https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/the-side-i-never-see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdnjbWYkNQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h55oIw28cok
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Wait, this is lovely. Keep them coming!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
love that santilli
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
do you know gabe schray? similar ballpark to santilli, album from a few months back was great. i guess this is the hit off it, bit more of a tortoisey-vibe than a lot of his other stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B-VKoutRI
bandcamp:https://gsschray.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-account
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
new Biosphere in January - first track is nice
https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-memories
― StanM, Monday, 22 November 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link