Ambient Recommendations

the clear vinyl makes it an absolutely gorgeous object. I don't wanna come off pretentious about this but I feel like clear vinyl should be reserved for albums which have a purity of soul to them. I love that Computer World is on clear (at least the version I have) but really don't like when rock bands do it for some reason. anyway it's perfect for this.

The B side of medi-music (sleep relaxation) is pure bliss.

https://www.discogs.com/release/12648761-Inoyama-Land-Medi-Music-Series-Self-Control-Music-%E4%B8%8D%E7%9C%A0-Sleep-Relaxation

I assume everyone is aware of Alanis Morissette's ambient record? In conjunction with the same meditation app company that did the Moby stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPXqTQhfm4

<i>during the the last while within the pandemic i felt very inspired to
write and remain connected (didn’t always work. and when it didn’t, it felt like a unique torture).

all i knew was that i wanted to write a record that would offer something. and throughout the process of creating it with dave harrington, —beautifully and mercifully—it became its own multi-layered life raft during a time where i felt like i might disappear and float away.

this album is filled with what i hope might be a safe invitation to and compatriot in your/our dropping in ….

i offer this first song and the entire record to match and be available for any junctures on your personal journey ❤️

whether it be relaxation or resting or releasing or emboldening or sweaty wildness or embodying or empowering or clarifying. may it serve as a catalyst, a soothing, a glimpse of awakening. an honoring. an objectivity. a wordless partner in healing. a place to land. inquire. breathe. notice. one in which you are held. in your lying down and jumping up.
your movement, your numbness or your feelings… any of them… anger or clearing… sadness, grief, joy … fear, all. are. welcome.

may this music serve as a friend in the thawing.
a permission to feel and
explore while feeling connected. and
supported.</i>

And thus ends the golden decade of ambient music.

interesting, Dave Harrington is great

that specific track seems a bit busy though

Oh, it's mostly awful ethnic new age like a million things before it. If she'd kept the percussion out of it, it would have passed for milquetoast ambient.

interesting haha

fwiw i like the ambient record that Devendra and another guy did last year— nothing groundbreaking but pleasant enough

Our August show is now up here: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/ddr-show-100822-jagged-little-sleeping-pill/

With links to buy most of the music featured here: https://buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-npld-drr-100822-jagged-little-sleeping-pill

that T.R. Jordan Dwell Time album is excellent

Contender for album of the year.

Shit, this T.R. Jordan album is wonderful.

This is a wonderful bit of '95 ambience. From the excellent Instinct Ambient label which I think Taylor Dupree was involved with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9eoAWuT-w

This is lovely, cheers. I've been listening to Shaikh's Drift a lot recently, an album he did with Tim Floyd in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHD4L4qZng

It's also on Spotify if that's your thing.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZP8ZRPWDYfj6aGWtJua11?si=H4Ec9oDfRYOUbhYEU9UZWg

It's on Bandcamp as name your price, actually. Big recommend.

https://sonicturtle.bandcamp.com/album/drift

Nice, thank you.

We've been delving deeper into 90s US ambient. I have a bunch of stuff on this label but never investigated it fully. There's some heavy releases in there.

https://www.discogs.com/label/1022-Hypnos

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

Journey to the Sun was "the second release from interchill's global ambient spectrum series. originally released by instinct records in 1996"

I'm not super familiar with what happened after about '01 but Interchill in the mid-late 90s was like a playful burbling stream in a forest of magical ambient and downtempo

sorry

We did an all 80s/90s show this month.

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-070922-a-folio-of-sacred-tones/

Bandcamp links here.

https://buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-nlpd-ddr-070922-a-folio-of-sacred-tones

https://linkco.re/pr1Zyx7B?lang=en

lying by a swimming pool on holiday right now and this record is going down very easy indeed. eleven quite short and simple pieces of very light, twinkly ambience, nice splashes of piano

Very nice, quite Buddesque. He's consistently good that guy

This is lovely. Only £3 for the full album as well

<url>https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/figments-of-wonder<;/url>

Gah, sorry, my fingers default to HTML.

https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/album/figments-of-wonder

how is the new sarah davachi

Pretty and baroque.

Never quite sure the best place to drop random ambient recommendations but keep meaning to so...

Peter Wright - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover. Kiwi guitar player, relocated to London. This album is a career highlight for me, especially this track: https://peterwright.bandcamp.com/track/london-is-drowning

don’t mind all the different ambient threads, like visiting different islands that get rained on different times of the year

Nice on on the Peter Wright. I really loved lights out, but never really delved into him.

https://peterwright.bandcamp.com/album/lights-out

Very excited to learn that the Kasper Bjørke Quartet have a new album coming out later this month. The Fifty Eleven Project was one of my favourites of 2018

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/10/10/track-premiere-kasper-bjorke-quartet-abiogenesis-feat-philipschneider/

Sofie Birch has a new project:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sofie-birch-antonina-nowacka-languoria/

The album represents a meeting of the minds. As a solo musician, Birch has spent the past few years developing a unique style of lush, welcoming ambient music steeped in new-age tones. Nowacka’s work has ranged from abstract vocalizations alongside stark electronics—imagine Joan La Barbara fronting Wolf Eyes—to solo improvisations in Oaxacan churches and Javan caves, probing the outer limits of natural reverb. If Birch’s music is a brightly colored expanse of coral, or a sashaying field of kelp, Nowacka’s voice is a lone organism carving a languid path through it—perhaps a translucent jellyfish, lithe yet severe in the exactitude of its movements.

Birch pares back her playing to make way for the slim contours of Nowacka’s instrument. Rather than unleashing her usual billowing plumes of synthesizer, she for the most part restrains herself to just a few sounds and the merest melodic shapes, while faint field recordings—birdsong, the rustle of footsteps—root the music in the lived world.

good looking out, thanks

fantastic record

seeing her live in a few weeks, look forward to it

here is a stellar composition for 100 cm chau gong and friction stick:
https://christianwindfeld.bandcamp.com/album/tilflugt

Kasper Bjorke - Abiogenesis referred to above is really something.

The track Seminom Non Seminon from the Fifty Eleven Project is up there with any ambient record ever. I believe it's essentially his reaction to being diagnosed with testicular cancer (he was eventually given the all clear) set to music which is obvs gloomy territory but it's immense. I'd quite fancy seeing Kasper live with an orchestra and everything.

Also I don't know if it's a bit corporate to recommend Spotify playlists but I'm enjoying Ambient 1990s, which is 7 hours of goodness from Steve Roach, Global Communication, Gas, Coil, Oval, Susumu Yokota and many others, with the odd thing from Slowdive and Bark Psychosis thrown in too.

We have a couple of hours of new ambience here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-051o22-a-duvet-of-ambient-leaves/

And links to most of what we played:

https://www.buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-npld-ddr-oct-051022-a-duvet-of-ambient-leaves

Droid, I listened to your show for the first time tonight and it's wonderful! Exactly what I've been looking for, can't believe I've not listened until now. Really top work.

Yeah really enjoying this.

Ah, that's lovely, thank you both.

We have a couple of top tips for this month - the debut solo album from Ian Lynch of Lankum fame. You cant tell from the preview track, but this is mostly a very experimental album of folk drone and dark ambient. Its out tomorrow and well worth a listen. https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me

And this new release from NRV. Just the right combination of shimmering melancholic melody and reverbed noise https://nrv-nerve.bandcamp.com/album/blue-roofs

The Omni Garden cassette Droid played on his latest show is pure bliss (if wafty new age with a zen monk intoning over the top of it is your thing): https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/new-directions-in-meditation-tonalities

thank u thread posters for the Sophie Birch reccs, really great stuff. I get kinda soothing oliveros/dempster in a cistern vibes from whisper fold
brush

^^

yeah i also want to join in on the thank yous for that. Languoria has quickly become a go-to sleep and nap recording for me. i have listened to it dozens of times in the last couple weeks. the aria-like singing that floats in and out very much reminds me of Pavilion of Dreams, one of my very favorite albums

I discovered Sofie Birch from Max's newsletter when he recommended Holotropica

Really love this 2020 release from Birch w/ field recording presence + synth: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/themes-for-a-better-tomorrow-vol-ii-hidden-terraces

Digging on this new Liai on Quiet Time as well: https://liai.bandcamp.com/album/pome-2

^^yes that is my favorite Birch

this one also great https://sofiebirch.bandcamp.com/track/behind-her-name-chestnuts-fall-forever

There might be a more appropriate thread in which to post this, but this is close enough.

Just found out Norm Chambers aka N Chambers aka Panabrite aka Jürgen Müller has died. The Jürgen Müller hoax record got more attention than his other music, but the Panabrite discography is full of gorgeous cosmic synthscapes with occasional acoustic guitar ornamentation. Personally I owed him a huge debt for his blog Lunar Atrium, which turned me on to a ton of great library and outré synth records circa 2010. Sadly the blog got scrubbed a few years ago like so many others from that era...

Currently zoning out to Panabrite's The Baroque Atrium, which glows extremely bright.

Anyway, huge RIP. Fuck cancer, long live progressive synth music.

Oh shit there's a thread for the Jürgen Müller record, will drop a post there too

Thats really awful. Steve Roden has also been struck down, he's retired due to alzheimers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEAyqAioP4

oh god damn it, I love his work

We have a new show up: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-021122-one-leg-one-eye-special/

We ended up going pretty dark this month, influenced by our special guest, Ian Lynch/One Leg One Eye talking about his ambient preferences and his new album of hardcore folk drone weirdness (mentioned above).

Bandcamp links for most of the tunes are here:

https://www.buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-npld-ddr-nov-021122-one-leg-one-eye-special

mr. chalk just issued his first all-new material solo CD in five years. it is very beautiful.

https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-times