Top 100 Ambient Albums

At the gig that I saw tom heasley at there was a student of Pauline Oliveros playing as well, Christopher Willis, his treated guitar was also very moving.

92. atom heart - silver sound 60
93. atom heart - binary amplified super stereo
92. hat (harry hosono / atom heart / tetsuo inoue) - ny frankfurt tokyo
93. datacide - flowerhead
94. machine paisley - s/t (more atom heart!)
95. atom heart - V.S.V.N.
96. joe henderson and alice coltrane - the elements

Also: Mike Patton Adult Themes for Voice. He recorded this album in hotel rooms while on tour; I wonder what the people in the next rooms were thinking.

Also also: Critters Buggin Amoeba. This album is like electronic bubbles popping in outer space.

who also has some rather nice field recordings online.

964 Natoma is one of SF's best kept secrets and shows there are always amazing. I just missed a tarentel-offshoot last friday because I had to work. There is, provisionally, a Zoe Keating/charles atlas show there on February 20th. It's the best "venue" in town for low-key experimental music. They don't really advertise shows anywhere though since it's a residence, but for anyone in the area interested in this type of music, it's a good idea to keep an eye out for flyers.

(I'd assign a number, but that seems to have been abandoned up string.)

111 - Atom Heart - Dots
112 - Arthur Russel - World Of Echo

I have never heard it but its supposed to be great!

You definitely get insight into who he was as a person through those tracks. He cracked into something, you can feel it in his demos. He was coming from somewhere different, mentally. He co¢Ü“ccommunicate zen through a cello. It is worth hunting down.

X-post, Ned, nice.

It's really something -- one of my best stumbled-across-it-at-KUCI finds. Came out on a label called Win Records out of LA, which also put out things by the way cool Ms. Murgatroyd and other good types.

129. David Tudor - Rainforest (if this list were condensed to a top 10, I'd simply vote for this one)

thanks very much for the Crib tip, Ned, gotta order a copy of that.

love that record.

also I just noticed the garlo record is at cd baby, that really is an amazing record, a cross between the sinewave tapestry of Folke Rabe's 'Was?' and the structral dynamics of bellowing wind on the Alan Lamb stuff. this record just got missed in the states.

William Orbit: Pieces In a Modern Style
The Orb: Orblivion
Biosphere: Microgravity
Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre: Equinoxe
Bowie/Eno: Sides 2 of "Low" and "Heroes"

-154. Vocokesh - Smile! And Point At The Mountain?

keith fullerton whitman-playthroughs
rafael toral-violence/calm
mark lanegan-the winding sheet
philip jeck vinyl coda 4
gavin bryars-incipit vita nova
the sounds of the sounds of science by yo la tengo
gavin bryars-sinking of the titanic
loren mazzacan connors + darin gray-lost mariner
sebadoh-freed weed

'playthroughs' was no. 4 so not counting, but that is a great record. I like his field recording piece 'Dartmouth St Underpass' even more, less relaxing more ominous.

-168. Antimatter - Transfixion
-169. Zbnigniew Karkowski / Antimatter - Function Generator
-170. Anton Batagov - Music for the 35 Buddhas
-171. Kougezan KOUKIJI - The LIVE 11th [Final]

-172. You Fantastic - Homesickness

-146. Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes

-198. Rings of Uranus - Nasa-Voyager Space Sounds - Brain/Mind Research
- 199. Akira Rabelais - ...bènèdiction. draw.
- 200. Karen Stackpole - selt-titled on Dielectric Records
- 201. La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
- 202. Carl Stone / Nagaya Kazuya - Resonator
- 203. Ellen Fullman - Staggered Stasis (definitely the disc to start with for her work)
- 204. David Tudor - Rainforest IV (Edition Block 1980 -- different recording)

though still relatively few in number

-210. Environments 3 - Dawn & Dusk at New Hope, Pa