Ambient Recommendations

love that one too table!

i'm listening to Meitei's Komachi for the millionth time. i must have mentioned it somewhere, in fact, i'm pretty sure i heard about it on ilm, probably from table. anyway, what an all-timer ambient recommendation. i moved recently and decided to (say that i will) sell all my records rather than getting a real job. i still mostly believe that, but i only took half of one ikea record shelf space with me on the move, and Komachi was a no-brainer

thanks for that rec

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oh yeah, of course! a good friend prefers Meitei's Kwaidan, so make sure you check that out too if you like Komachi. Meitei's newer stuff (last year or two) is a bit different and i'm still kind of figuring it out, but i think i like it quite a bit as well. but Komachi, though -- that is my kind of ambient :)

wow so exciting this is making my life rn

Thanks for the recommendation.

Meitei considers himself an old soul, often preoccupied with the customs and rituals of the past. Recently Meitei lost his beloved 99-year-old grandmother ... he chose to dedicate Komachi to his late Grandmother.

This is, er, kinda crazy since my 99-year-old grandmother passed away a few weeks ago. I guess if he can dedicate his record to his grandmother I can dedicate my listening to mine!

Sorry for your loss, Lukas — 99 is so impressive, amazing

Really loving Andrew Tuttle. Local to my QLD. Ambient with a banjo, his 2021 "A Cassowary Apart" has really done the trick.

Analogue Attic has become a great resource for me too. Bought Campfire Stories by Alex Albrecht last year on a whim. Aussie's know how to channel the barrenness

Good stuff from Daryl Groetsch:

https://darylgroetsch.bandcamp.com/album/home-again

This record is ridiculously good, straddles the line between more vaporwave and melodic ambient, but it's really making my day. Do not click if you can't deal with Celine Dion samples.

https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/once-upon-a-time

you just used so many clickbaits for me in that post haha
excited to check this out tomorrow

I hope it's okay if I can shill for myself for one moment.

Early last year I made this hour-long piece to listen to at night, I got a bit obsessed with Tetsuo Inoue's 'World Reciever' record and I wanted to make something in response, but just for me really.

I sent it to my friend Adam and he liked it enough to want to put it out on his little digital/Bandcamp label, and so it is that today is the day.

https://playneutral.bandcamp.com/album/vol-01-parts-i-xii

congrabbitulations! will give it a listen later

ty!

listening now, woosh magical and just what i needed today 🙏 good for you
(also tabes that was dope)

That Romance - Once Upon a Time (the Celine Dion one) is absolutely amazing. Great recommendation!

Glad you liked, the article don

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/places-for-peace

self-promo: i put together an album recently; it's ambient leaning, but some parts a bit noisy. was quite influenced by dntel, microstoria, mego

http://elin.bandcamp.com/album/secret-work

one of my favorite albums from the last few years is h hunt's Playing Piano for Dad. anyone else a fan. i ran across it on ryuichi sakamoto's Kajitsu playlist, which got a write-up in the NYT (i think) and features a bunch of quiet songs he chose for a friend's restaurant. in listening to that, i ran across h hunt and have been listening to the album ever since.

it's on a label called tasty morsels, and i was reading about them last night. this is everything i think a label should be:

https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/tasty-morsels/

I always want to hear music that isn't necessarily ambient but is so spare as to verge on "ambient". "Still" music with lots of space between notes. So I made some of my own...

https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1497749153639714819

https://archive.org/details/stgigaarchive/St.GIGA+001/

Someone has uploaded a huge treasure trove of recordings of the 90's Japanese satellite radio station St.Giga, which specialized in ambient music, field recordings, smooth jazz, and chillout deep house. The station based their broadcasting schedule on the day's tide charts, with the music's intensity rising and falling with the tide. They often layered original field recordings under the music they were playing, and they frequently interspersed original poetry readings from minor Japanese celebrities. These recordings are extremely varied in tone and genre. They're such a joy to listen to, this stuff has been soundtracking my work days for the past two months.

amazing find

wow

holy moly

Oh wowzer THANK YOU. I have literally been on a mission to find as many St Giga recordings as I can. This is incredible.

wow that's impressive

very much enjoying Playing Piano for Dad

i'm listening to Green Pupil - A right now. i am feeling good

i'm just taking a quick skim through the wikipedia for St. GIGA, but i have already learned

- it was created as a subsidiary of a tv provider called WOWOW.
- The core management team made the executive decision to create a subsidiary named St.GIGA. The name was selected by a popular poll of "persons on the streets" because the executives agreed that they knew nothing about music
- in 2003, St. GIGA became Club COSMO

St GIGA also released a series of field recordings CDs called Sounds of the Earth. I've been trying to snag them whenever I see them on Soulseek etc - I've got FLACs of volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 12 - plus the "Sound Calendar 1999" album. If anyone has any other volumes or St GIGA recordings that they want to trade then do please message me! They're beautifully recorded.

There's also a few rips of music shows on Nicovideo - I've tried to arrange the ones I could find onto a playlist here: https://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/70333292

OK so I downloaded the whole thing. For me these mp3s are actually .mov files that think they're mp3s, so lots of programs had trouble opening them. On mac I was able to open in quicktime and then export them as "audio only" and it converts them to m4a. Just wanted to make sure I mentioned in case any of you have the same problem.

can anyone upload a zip of audio files for us dummies?

I added them without issue to iTunes. Win10.

Odd

Oh, I downloaded what was labeled as the M4A files, maybe you did not?

Archive org process:
download options : mpeg4 audio
click on the download button
audio opens in browser
right click: save audio as :
(win didn't give me any choice but mpeg4 audio)
just dragged and dropped into itunes.

maybe its the bit when the audio opens in my browser?

The Sounds of the Earth field recordings bamboohouses mentioned look really interesting - from their discogs entries anyway.

It’s the save audio as part, without that step nothing but QuickTime could make sense of the files for me.

Yeah my introduction to St. GIGA was through some of those field recordings I stumbled on years ago. I’m a sucker for raw audio of forests and beaches in general.

Lastly on the file thing, to clarify I followed that exact download process but on Mac downloading the file after it opens in browser gave a file that still needed to be re-saved as audio only. Macs I guess!

End of Spacey Night - A is great.

Agreed, and all of Spacey Night - B is great too. An all-out deep house/world fusion assault. These DJs had great taste in house music imo. They love unconvincing synthesized horns as much as I do.

Yeah love the house music parts. I think I heard Susumu Yokota at one point.

self-promo: i put together an album recently; it's ambient leaning, but some parts a bit noisy. was quite influenced by dntel, microstoria, mego

http://elin.bandcamp.com/album/secret-work

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St Giga files: if I downloaded them individually on a mac, I had to rename from .m4a.mp3 to .m4a. But the torrent option just downloaded them all as m4a files.

This St. Giga archive is amazing. I think this has just claimed my whole year of music listening.

yeah it is incredible. i also loved the artwork for each one when imported to itunes

...your files came with artwork? Well shit. How do I get that?

i dl'd via torrent--maybe that's it?

Yeah seems like the torrent was the way to go. I had all sorts of trouble with the other method, clearly.

The other files also had the artwork (and are properly tagged) if just renamed from mp3. But yep the torrent is the easiest way.