Absolutely gorgeous vocal-loop ambient rarity:
https://demouniverse.com/2016/09/30/eyelight-trigger-1994/
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
missed this, gorgeous hour-long clarinet/effects from Waclaw Zimpel
https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/ebbing-in-the-tide-3
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
"Provincial electro, vernacular kosmiche, economy of small scale."
https://cosmicecono.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-econo-2-2
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
"Tower Of Meaninglessness" is hitting the spot
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:06 (one year ago) link
A lovely album of tender Basinskiesque orchestral serialism from 2001. Deutsch has worked with Tetsu Inoue and tony Conrad amongst others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNqwyKD5Ac
― droid, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
love Deutsch, thx
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
That Cosmic Econo record is great
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
Just listened right to that Zimpel track right through. Thanks for the recommendation, sleeve - just what the day required, in honesty.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered
Easily one of my favorite ambient records, does something to me that nothing else does. Just a gorgeous drifting stasis.
Curious if anyone can recommend other wind instrument-heavy ambient.
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
I actually can’t remember what that album sounds like… but re:wind instruments les halles is all about mellow echoing pan pipes and stuffhttps://halles.bandcamp.com/
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
damn Eight Fantasies by Les Halles is surprisingly close!
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
whoa les halles is just an instant YES
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
The trombone is one of the great ambient instruments, maybe the greatest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvMp4XDICU
― droid, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:44 (one year ago) link
And there's some great Ambient Tuba in Tom Heasly's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMHDFOw1yU
― droid, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:45 (one year ago) link
oh check this out: https://craigkupka.bandcamp.com/track/trombones-of-lithia
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
On the Sensations of Tone is phenomenal.
Also highly recommended: Vikings of the Sunrise, by Stephen Scott (bowed piano ensemble).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
i have been listening to stephen scott quite a bit recently, too. New Music for Bowed Piano is the one i have, so i listen to it the most
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
I've recommended this in so many threads by now but hell, this Ron Miles album is magnificent. It's just Miles' trumpet recorded in the massive water tank at Rangeley in Colorado.
https://tanksounds.bandcamp.com/album/bardo-tank
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
i can also vouch for Les Halles, they've been on my EOY lists a few times
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
I saw Ron live years ago, when I was still living in Denver. Witness was in my rotation for years. Thanks for the heads up on this one.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
The new recordings of a string quartet playing Beethoven in the tank sound pretty incredible.
https://roundsound.tanksounds.org/album/slow-beethoven
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
There was a cluster of albums in the early 2010s that were all broadly ambient and all seemed to explore a similar aesthetic: rough, metallic drones and squalls, full of dread and buried spite. Some were on the Subtext label but also thinking of things like Ben Frost. Listening to Roly Porter's *Aftertime* just now and damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcqE9QdUHlc
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 11:47 (eleven months ago) link
I'm way behind on listening to newer things on Subtext but I'll co-sign their early/mid 2010s output
Seeing Emptyset live was excellent, and there's an album by Paul Jebanasam -- Continuum -- that I got really into before also seeing him live
The last time I saw Roly Porter was at a festival opening for Sunn O)))!
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:49 (eleven months ago) link
I'm way behind on Subtext too tbf. Love Paul Jebanasam! Rites, the one before Continuum (I think) is magnificent.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 19:32 (eleven months ago) link
there was a band called Cloaks that sounded a lot like emptyset but kinda disappeared after 3 releases. i wonder about them from time to time.
Deathprod gives me the same feels too. and the old Main and Disjecta stuff somewhat. is funny to me that a lot of people from disparate musical backgrounds (dubstep, shoegaze, drone...) end up in this space
― koogs, Thursday, 15 June 2023 06:07 (eleven months ago) link
total departure from this recent discussion, but i am in love with this record.
https://goldenbrown.bandcamp.com/album/luminous
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 17 June 2023 15:49 (eleven months ago) link
音は光る (The Sound Is Shining) by Michiru Aoyama
Aptly titled, this one. From 2013. Gorgeous. https://organic-industries.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-is-shining-oi008
'Slow Moment' could easily be 3 times as long: https://organic-industries.bandcamp.com/track/slow-moment
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:04 (eleven months ago) link
Been following this dude for a bit now, really loved The Infinity Room and Weaponized Serenity and now he's dropped Cold Ecstasy. There's a wonderful anthemic quality to a lot of these tracks, featuring sampled female voices and chords progressions that evoke melancholy and wonder simultaneously (though by the end of the record can get a touch predictable). If I was younger this record would be an ideal "post-rave" soundtrack.
https://3six.bandcamp.com/album/cold-ecstasy
― octobeard, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 23:16 (ten months ago) link
this Golden Hallways album is very soothinghttps://goldenhallwaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/rules-chance-vol-3this Tim Jackiw thing is great, lofi fragmentshttps://timjackiw.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-music-98
― brimstead, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 23:51 (ten months ago) link
intrigued by the golden hallways, caretaker vibe
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 10 July 2023 08:53 (ten months ago) link
The 3six Cold Ecstasy record is indeed fabulous. Not sure if you've heard 3six and Black Swan (Drones for Bleeding Hearts) - In Four Parts from 2019 but it rules
― the article don, Monday, 17 July 2023 16:53 (ten months ago) link
Big fan of this 2009 LP from Nami Hotatsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtn12oxjik
― droid, Thursday, 20 July 2023 09:53 (ten months ago) link
Gutted to share that Steve Roden has passed away after battling Alzheimer’s for the last 6 years. He was not even 60 years old.
News was shared on his Instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw35RGExQ9D/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 7 September 2023 02:36 (eight months ago) link
This was posted on the Balearic thread but thought it needed to be here too: the new Johnny Nash is lovely https://jonnynash.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-entry
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 September 2023 09:59 (eight months ago) link
I'm not a regular itt, but I just listened to the new Andra Ljos album and loved it: https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/megalithic-statues-of-vishapakar
― rob, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:14 (eight months ago) link
I got into this recently. Dickie Landry was in the Phillip Glass Ensemble and some of his solo stuff has been reissued. Kind of on the minimalism side of ambient.
https://dickielandry.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen-saxophones
― bbq, Thursday, 14 September 2023 05:44 (eight months ago) link
New Lemon Quartet is lovely (could almost be on the ECM thread tbh): https://lemonquartet.bandcamp.com/album/artsfest
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:13 (eight months ago) link
been listening to the Hands That Bind (ost) by jim o'rourke since it was released in July. really pleasant mix of electro-acoustic drones with what sounds like prepared piano, vibraphone, strings (possibly some electric guitar--could be the piano though) ...
https://jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/hands-that-bind-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
relaxed instrumental bits alternating with more dissonant & alien-sounding electronics. it's a nice contrast to the more harsh Steamroom material (hard to compare) ... it's nicely varied, more straightforward than much of what i've heard from mr. o'rourke lately. not sure if it's been discussed on ILX yet? apologies if so..
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Saturday, 23 September 2023 08:36 (eight months ago) link
The Lemon Quartet one is lovely, thanks for the rec.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:02 (eight months ago) link
I can never decide which thread to bump but I posted some recent discoveries/faves on Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:13 (seven months ago) link
Cheers for the Lemon Quartet recommendation!
I've been gobsmacked by Laurel Halo's new album 'Atlas'. My favorite kind of "ambient"--dense, detailed, active, both beautiful and unsettling. I've liked her previous records, but this one is on another level:
https://laurelhalo.bandcamp.com/album/atlas
It may be gauche to say so, but I also am really happy with how my own most recent "thick" ambient record came out. Consists of a thirty-minute, six part suite of organ, double bass, guitar, Rhodes, piano, and field recordings, plus a cover of Low's "Laser Beam". All sales benefit the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, in Mimi Parker's memory.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6-3RTRWcAAauI0?format=jpg&name=large
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong
― Soundslike, Thursday, 28 September 2023 16:15 (seven months ago) link
I still need to make some time for the Laurel Halo, I haven't been in a power ambient mood but I do love low-passed piano.
Humbly submitting bc I think some people here would enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXH995qc-k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIuBnqZ3kZI
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link
loving the Lemon Quartet
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 2 October 2023 15:56 (seven months ago) link
Also really feeling the new Airhead album of weightless micro drum & bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YePcha74xFM
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:08 (seven months ago) link
(maybe it's an EP, or albumlet)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
been spinning ellicist's "point defects" alot for marking essays etc - it's in a sweet spot between tetsuo inoue's "world receiver" and some of jim o'rourke's more sprawling efforts https://i.discogs.com/ZYKRywReEmcAq4koH7d6l9uB3s7pGP-Vetfl61FjEH4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTc5/ODExLTE1NTY4ODQz/OTItNTMxMC5qcGVn.jpeg
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 10:30 (seven months ago) link
sorry, "tetsu", wherever he may be, bless that man.
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 10:31 (seven months ago) link
Ok the Laurel Halo record is really something, it actually feels like floating underwater (she also played 'Lumeri' from upthread on her NTS show, what a world!).
I've been making an 'ambient' 'jazz' playlist that's mostly Jakob Bro and Jim Hall, suggestions welcome for that...
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
I've been making a similar nu/post/ambient jazz thing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SKAtGSn6CBN2hNPyT0Kgd?si=fb088929dfa1447c
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
Ooh thank you, will definitely listen
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:20 (seven months ago) link