Ambient Recommendations

This sounds great. Lots of good Kankyo Ongaku inflected stuff around at the momentq? Or has it ever been thus and I'm just more aware of it?

it seems to be everywhere. i mean ffs i'm releasing my own next week (details on drunkenly animate thread, i will do my best to not bring it up on the music threads here so that i do not become more of that guy than i already am)

and by "that guy" i mean the way that i would do it, which is inherently annoying. i'm never bugged when anyone else does it (unless it becomes annoying)

personally, ambient living /working space music has been my go-to for a while, even pre-pandemic, but especially during. i think maybe that's true for a lot of others as well. it is a peaceful and contemplative kind of music to listen to, as well as to make

ambient/slow/minimal music seems to be the only thing i can really bear to listen to anymore. it is healing for my myriad of health conditions. andrew chalk's music, in particular.

I'll look out for your record karl!

tape! :) i wish it were a record!

xxp would love to hear any recent Andrew Chalk recommendations, he's been cranking them out and I'm at least 15 years behind

https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higan
https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/one-long-year
https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/in-faxfleet-clouds-uplifted-autumn-gave-passage-to-kind-nature

three of my favourites...

thanks for the Habitat recommendation, Mr. Malone.

of course! i know zero other music by the two musicians involved, i should dive in a bit

uh whoa, check this out:

https://hubs.mozilla.com/DtvSLjY/habitat-house

https://arushijain.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-lilac-sky

"ambient synth ragas intended to be heard during the sunset hours"

not much sunshine rn but this Arushi Jain album is very nice

ok, i am already violating my self-imposed rules, but i have a tape coming out this friday:

https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-horses

i will probably, again, break the rules on friday and post that here one more time. i'm sorry!

nice. is that a pink lyra 8?

I've been listening to this almost every night for the past year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zebxXliFtg

is that a pink lyra 8?

in that photo on my bandcamp? yes it is! my musical partner has one, and it features in a piece she made earlier this year: https://cvadi.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyrehttps://cvadi.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyre

although it was part of the the setup that we used for our recordings, she didn't use it in the one we just made. she used:

Ibanez ts7Tubescreamer
TC electronics hall of fame
Digitech JamMan
Jhs lucky cat delay
Korg poly 61 synthesizer
Roland sh-2 synthesizer

also xp

dead texan is one of my all-time favorites. it's funny, with all this searching for new/old ambient that i do and most of us probably do, and i return to dead texan sooooooooo many times

thanks I’d forgotten how much I liked Dead Texan

I read a book about Vicki Mackenzie recently, a westerner who became the first ordained female Buddhist monk. When she was training, she became so fixated on the om mani padme hum mantra, that she found a way to make it a permanent part of her inner monologue - constantly ticking over in one corner of her mind, even when she wasn't consciously practising. I sometimes feel like that about Stars of the Lid and related stuff - that those soft drones are a constant and when I put on something like the Dead Texan, I notice that they've always been there, gently wheezing away in some distant chamber of the heart.

It's funny, I feel the same about Aix em Klemm's self-titled record— "Sparkwood and Twentyone" seems to be sort of plodding around in my mind most of the time.

This is very beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNVumy5JUA

That is lovely, dog latin.

Table mentioning Anne Bourne on the albums of the year thread led me to this - a thing she's recorded with Tim Clement. I can't find any mention of it on Bandcamp and can't even find a website for a/the Summerlands record label. It's gorgeous (if you like yr drones of the 'submerged in a big tank' variety).

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

I love that. I wrote him an email.

Chinaski, he wrote me back within a few hours. He says he's going to put them up on a bandcamp soon, and that the session are very precious to him. Nice guy!

That's amazing Table - great news! I've been listening to the tracks a good deal (two from the session from what I can make out). Beautiful.

Today's the day for my first real music release (real as in there are some physical copies) since...like 2002!?

https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-horses

honestly this has been a notably horrific year, all year long, and i'm proud to make and release this music concurrently

purchased. don't spend it all at once

Great ambienting, km

thank you both for listening!

Also purchased a digital copy. Can't wait to listen more intently!

want to mention here that i acquired Eno Music For Airports on cassette recently - so happy with this find

Cool, surm! I didn't even know they released that on cassette!

A thanks and minor quibble:

the Santilli record is indeed beautiful, but is really not an ambient record— it sounds like the son of Tibbetts Northern Song, or even a more expansive William Ackerman. Has more in common with the Schlarb/Taylor record from this past year and other ECM stylings.

the Softer Drive record is beautiful, KM!

this seems good:

https://alisterfawnwoda.bandcamp.com/album/milan
Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz

i like it a lot so far - i guess that's Leisz doing the pedal steel?

xp thank you table, glad you like it!!

Chinaski and all, Tim wrote me to let me know the undercurrents sessions are now on Bandcamp.

https://timclement1.bandcamp.com/album/undercurrents-1-2

The notes on the page there are pretty interesting.

Thanks for the Bandcamp heads up Table. I've listened to it and every night this week. It's beautiful.

(I've been listening on Spotify but will definitely buy it)

album cover of the year
https://bvftg.bandcamp.com/album/2003-toyota-corolla

this is very good.

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/ill-look-for-you-in-others

Sounds great, got a notification about it today.

I'm thinking of splurging and just buying the whole PITP discography— 113 back catalog releases for $85 USD, more or less. seems like a good deal.

Hi all, I've been blogging for the art/poetry publisher Futurepoem...this week I made a 2+ hour long ambient mix that includes a lot of stuff from the past few years, as well as some ILM favorites. You can listen here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/deepbreakfast/trache-the-horizon/

Tracklist:

Ichiko Aoba- Kirinaki Shima
Anne Bourne- the commons
Steve Roach/Michael Stearns- Embracing the Infinite
Wind❏ws- Glacial Bay
Keith Fullerton Whitman- ACGTR SVP
A Winged Victory for the Sullen- Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears
Sacred Harp- Brother Green
Matt Lajoie- Showers Over Birch Point
---__--___- Julius Eastman/NY Metro Xylophone Player (feat.metoronori)
Matt Evans- Arcto I
Bellows- 8
xLWBxDRx- untitled, at sinjin
Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson- stretching skies
Rachika Nayar- A Burning Plain
Grand River- Canopies
BISHOP/REZAEI- Bulgar Rose
Emanuel Butera- Beginner's Mind I
Iu Takahashi- Forest and Thought
Richard Skelton- Æsc (First Branch)

i've been enjoying it all morning, thank you!

Thanks Karl! I almost put "Excessive Use of _____" on there, but panicked because while it fit with the track before it, I wasn't sure of the ending because it's so new to me. Next mix, after a few more listens. :-)

enjoying the new soshi takeda ("same place, another time")

yeah it's great

this is very good.

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/ill-look-for-you-in-others

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this label is from my city, but i always miss their stuff. good tip.

forthcoming intl. anthem release sounding v good to my ears: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-from-the-land-islands

...In 2019 they were awarded a grant from the Department of Culture to return and perform a concert at the Kumlinge Kyrka, a 14th century medieval church adorned with incredible frescos. The concert was recorded and became source material – along with improvisations on viola and electronics, pipe organ, pump organ, piano, synthesizers, field recordings and voice memos, all captured across both their trips at various locations on the archipelago – from which they meticulously crafted a post-script in the form of 'Recordings from the Åland Islands'.

agreed

was kinda wary about Technical Itch's experiments in ambient given he usually does dark, choppy drum and bass (yes, still!) but i was pleasantly surprised when i eventually picked up the first one, nice dusky, droney ambient noise. i'm not so sure about the hour-long pieces, just because they don't fit my listning habits (shuffle everything!), but i'll certainly get the earlier releases.

https://technicalitch.techitch.com/album/ambient-001