Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)

Thanks, I've removed the duplicates from the sheet. The last one isn't a duplicate, as the album is self-titled.

Also, does anyone know if you can make Google put the albums that have the same artist on column A in alphabetical order in column B? All those Brian Eno albums etc seem to be in completely random order, I've no idea how the sheet decides the order in column B if you alphabetise based on column A?

XP: Argh, sorry. I'm going to blame the app for displaying it as two identical lines. Explains my lack of a presumed line-break too. *blushes*

I see some epic votesplitting on the horizon.

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

1/40

I've no idea how the sheet decides the order in column B if you alphabetise based on column A?

you can do it by selecting both columns, then Data > Sort Range. From there, you add multiple conditions for sorting (First sort Column A, then sort Column B)

Coil - Time Machines

Steve Brand – Awakensong
36 – Dream Tempest
Ricardo Donoso – Assimilating the Shadow

22/40

Sacred Tapestry - Shader

should probably retract C-Schulz & Hajsch s/t cuz it's not ambient. cool fucking album, though

i'd like to retract my nomination for C-Schulz & Hajsch (sorry)

Aes Dana - Leylines
Asura - 360
Maeror Tri - The Beauty Of Sadness
Solar Fields - Leaving Home
Vasilisk - Acqua
V/A - Chill Out Or Die!
V/A - Fahrenheit Project Part Two
V/A - Oxycanta
V/A - Saturn Gnosis

38/40

Experimental Audio Research – Beyond The Pale
Seefeel – Quique
Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen ‎– Aurobindo: Involution

great list, lovely to see lots of colleen in there.

PowerPCMe - Kmart 1989-1992

5/40

do we have strong feeling about late period Earth being on the list. seems ambient to me so I nom'd Hex. if they get a pass I'd like to nominate some more by them

Many thanks upthread for turning me on to Lucette Bourdin.

Another nom:

Fennesz & Polwechsel- Wrapped Islands

also, had no idea that Seven Fields of Aphelion had more than one record! going to have to find the one besides Periphery.

brimstead, curious: is the SotL dislike because the music is too obvious/cinematic? i guess it is the equivalent of ambient 'comfort food' to me, but remain slightly shocked whenever people write that they don't like them.

That Jonathan Fitoussi is great, as is his new collaboration with JB Dunkel from Air called Mirages. It’s not ambient, but it’s a great album.

Need to nominate some Vidna Obmana... but which one?

brimstead, curious: is the SotL dislike because the music is too obvious/cinematic? i guess it is the equivalent of ambient 'comfort food' to me, but remain slightly shocked whenever people write that they don't like them.

Tim Hecker is very clearly a maker of ambient music as far as I'm concerned, despite the bursts of static and his more compositionally-oriented approach.

i'm coming around to this approach. i don't even really listen to actual noise music. radio amor and mirages are both awesome albums either way.

I really love Tim Hecker's Virgins

Dedekind Cut - Tahoe

the ambient album I've loved most in the last couple of years

this is an amazing list

should probably retract C-Schulz & Hajsch s/t cuz it's not ambient. cool fucking album, though

i'd like to retract my nomination for C-Schulz & Hajsch (sorry)

No prob, I deleted it from the list.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X14B7JHAooNtfPbNilJ1xPshNaKBbL6q-8E1xUdM7xU

The nomination list is up to date again. Remember, you only have tomorrow and Friday left to nominate!

And today of course. :)

what I’ve heard just has this Americana sunsets and wheat fields feel to it that I’m really not into. not the right emotional vibe

― brimstead, Tuesday, May 28, 2019 7:06 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting! i can see that to a certain degree, but i think that i also fell in love with them while in cities— late night subway trips in wintry NYC, early morning bus rides in San Francisco. i also used to unplug the "official" store ipod when i worked in retail to play SotL, and so often associate them with long days staring out a window at rich people passing me by lol.

i think that their pastoral qualities, so to speak, are infinitely more tied to "the west" for me, as opposed to cornfields.

Chuck Johnson - Balsams

9/30

Whoops redacted I made a typo when I tried keyword search. Already there.

I mean retract/withdraw* I'm not doing so well right now with typing and thinking

Cliff Martinez - Solaris OST

If we're happy with E2-E4 can I can some clarification on SAW1

*get

nothing is forbidden

that’s interesting table, love hearing how people can experience these things differently. I did do the “skip around” thing on tired sounds last night and found it to be more somewhat more sonically diverse than I remembered.

Francisco Lopez - La Selva

19/40

There is no case to be made for E2-E4 to be considered Ambient.

I'm considering edge-case albums like Sleeps with the Fishes by Michael Brook/Pieter Nooten or Lanterna's s/t debut, both of which have vocals and a few songs with guitar lines/drums but are def. ambient.

Steve Roden - Crop Circles

20/40

Please remove:

Schiller - Atemlos
(way too many beats and vocals)

and add:

Troum - Eald-ge-stréon

38/40

SPK - Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers
Voice Of Eye - Transmigration

thank you, Tuomas, for deleting my nom.

do people really believe that Endless Summer (Fennesz) is ambient?

I do not, personally, although it's closer than any of his other ones except maybe Live In Japan

surprised nobody's nominated Xerrox Vol. 2 by Alva Noto

Alva Noto - Xerrox vol. 2
Jakob Ullmann ‎– Fremde Zeit - Addendum
Dirk Serries + Rutger Zuydervelt ‎– Buoyant
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti - dach
Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet ‎- Air Supply (fuck it, there are welcome surprises in here)
Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer - Hidden Name (if you like Philip Jeck, you might love this album)
Bruno Duplant / Taku Sugimoto / Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble ‎– Chamber And Field Works (2015-2017)
Ryoko Akama | Bruno Duplant | Dominic Lash ‎– Next To Nothing
Rafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
Michael Pisaro / Taku Sugimoto - 2 seconds​/​b minor​/​wave
Antoine Beuger / Michael Pisaro ‎– This Place / Is Love
Eva-Maria Houben ‎– Air - Works For Flutes And Organ
Cristián Alvear* - Jürg Frey ‎– Guitarist, Alone
Marcus Schmickler, John Tilbury ‎– Timekeepers
Stephan Mathieu - Wurmloch Variationen
Radu Malfatti ‎– Düsseldorf Vielfaches
Radu Malfatti / Klaus Filip - imaoto
Haptic ‎– Ten Years Under The Earth
Michael Pisaro ‎– Fields Have Ears
Taku Sugimoto ‎– Quartet / Octet
Stephen Cornford ‎– Empty Reels
Cem Güney ‎– Five Compositions
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
Joseph Clayton Mills - Sifr
Rafael Toral - Wave Field
Stephan Mathieu ‎- On Tape
Klaus Lang ‎– SAIS.

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I do not, personally, although it's closer than any of his other ones except maybe Live In Japan

― Ambient Police (sleeve)

fuck, i forgot to include Indeed by O'Rourke / Ambarchi ... so serene, even if it starts off a bit rocky. too late

Is this ambient?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG-jqGsWSk