Loscil

He has these "concepts" for most/all of his records but from what I've heard I don't really see a point to it. Aside from a unified list of song titles and a lot of wasted words in the opening paragraph of every review, the concepts have no bearing on the music. I guess you could imagine an underwater-ness to Submers, but (forgive the pun) isn't that a shallow connection?

I was listening to Triple Point yesterday, which I think is great, but you got me if I'm supposed to understand what any of it has to do with its supposed theme, thermodynamics.

OMG I don't have the newest three! This will be rectified.

Stream Erebus - a new collaboration between BVDub and Loscil

re. "Coast/Arc/Range" - out of print, isn't it?

oh man i love submers. "triton" is perfect

He played here last night but by the time I decided to go, it was sold out (even though a friend told me today that the place was only half full). Kinda bummed.

I said upthread I wasn't sure what his 2013 releases were since I'd only seen titles. Well, Intervalo just showed up on Spotify—apparently it's a bunch of old/obscure Loscil tracks reworked as collaborations with Kelly Wyse, a pianist. "Endless Falls," "Hastings Sunrise," a couple others. It's nice.

Endless Falls and Plume are both great. Endless Falls in particular gets a Cascadian vibe unlike a lot of other electronic records made in that region.

The new album Sea Island is pretty damn sweet

Yeah it's great. Something about it feels different from past releases though I haven't put my finger on it yet.

Listened to it yesterday, liked it quite a bit.

Listening more to Sea Island. It's really tense once it gets past the first couple of tracks! Feels like Loscil's "noir" album.

Got tickets to see him and A Winged Victory for the Sullen in March!

Touring together?

Ooooh, yes. Answeredy own question. April 5 in LA.

"Answered my"

New split EP with Fieldhead: http://open.spotify.com/album/5GQ7OgdeijWv1hKFRcHhTj

submers is perfect. "triton"!

New album in August

my new full length EQUIVALENTS will come out August 16 on @krankyltd - listen to EQUIVALENT 7 with fellow Vancouverite Secret Pyramid. we will be celebrating the release with a Vancouver show July 20 at SFU. https://t.co/CmSekZUY8I + https://t.co/YLYm5Hq1xs pic.twitter.com/kOQaD5L566

— loscil (@_loscil_) June 11, 2019

Looking forward to that.

Plume was my entry point and always my favorite. Listened to some Loscil this morning and read a few old Pitchfork reviews. I guess Plume isn't generally thought of as a high point, but whatever. I enjoyed Endless Falls much more than I did when it came out. Never got into Monument Builders, but I may give it another try. Been thinking about his music a lot because of the ambient poll. Really one of my favorite ambient artists.

Plume is my favourite too. I know he's ambient drone but Plume seems to have a bit more melody about it. Rorschach is gorgeous.

Triple Point was my entry point— we had it in the freeform section at my uni radio station— and then I promptly forgot about him until 2011, when I became obsessed with Plume and Endless Falls. Very excited for this new one!!

Thoughts on the new one? Based on first listen it feels like his most “ambient” full-length. Some of the trademark Loscil sounds aren’t as present and it feels more spacious and atmospheric.

Alfred Stieglitz' series of cloud photographs 'Equivalents' (1925-1934), which inspired Loscil's exceptional new ambient album https://t.co/tqzBHAjxYr pic.twitter.com/Qh6Lrvw9ag

— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) August 26, 2019

Equivalents 4 (the last track) is the standout for me. It would fit on Plume or Endless Falls. I’m enjoying this as a whole more than I have any of his post-EF releases.

I was a bit merely whelmed at first, but for me it gets better with subsequent listen.

Yes, it's very lovely for sure.

sends me into the clouds does this album

Double release year. "Lifelike" soundtrack up for preorder on his Bandcamp page, out 12/2. The game is only on Apple Arcade, fwiw. Looks pretty. Like plankton and fish fighting with light fibers.

fighting = swirling. Too many FPS games on my brain.

Not sure the Archive links will work for download, but now listening to Stases, a "collection of drones based upon the backgrounds of his work for Kranky Records, from 2001 to now.", and thought I'd mention it here for others to find. Disagree with the commenter in the link who finds it subpar. I'd have been happy paying retail for this freebie.

Picked up a copy of his dual release with Fieldhead, _Fury and Hecla_, a 2014 tour EP, so have been revisiting other albums of his.

because we’re all perhaps feeling a little lost these days, I’ve rendered a 1 hr version of Baychimo from Adrift. free to download/stream on bandcamp. cello by @cellobridges, piano by @kellyjameswyse1 art by @GregoryEuclide https://t.co/ehVSoTXHqY pic.twitter.com/fFqmygY5Ig

— loscil at home (@_loscil_) March 26, 2020

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wonderful https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/faults-coasts-lines

New album, _Clara_ announced, out May 28, 2021.

Loving the new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skk08zlT1B0

it took me a couple of listens to click and I wasn't playing it LOUD enough the first time, but yeah its got a nice restrained power to it if you submerge yourself in it.

New _Clara_ companion piece on Bandcamp. 4 tracks for $6 CAD or $30 CAD for limited cd/photo book combo. Listening to "Refraction 3" now. Consistently quality efforts from the man.

https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/the-sails-p-1

Even by Loscil standards this is ridiculously good ^

“Fiction” is utterly outstanding

Enjoying the new one. Feels like there's bit more propulsion to it, a la Plume-era stuff. His more recent output has been more drifty (sorry can't think of a better word than drifty). I do like Loscil more when there's a hint of beats/rhythms pulsing underneath.

Am enjoying it a lot too. E-mailed him via Bandcamp to ask about a physical release. He responded that a double cd is more likely than a vinyl release, but he's still deciding.

The Sails p.2 is now available to stream or purchase - also a double-CD of The Sails in it’s entirety will start shipping next week. https://t.co/a6Rj66aqP1 https://t.co/FYlwrqRmWC pic.twitter.com/sYIlqX6QS7

— loscil (@_loscil_) May 11, 2022

getting strong Thomas Fehlmann vibes from that opening track.

After finding about Pjusk due to "Turn Back" (sounds like "Svefn-g-englar" Sigur Ros), got RIYLd his collab with Loscil on Spotify. Nice stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aujZnN5EYhM

Street teaming - new collaboration with Lawrence English pre-order on Bandcamp. Out Feb 3, 2023. Preview track "Violet" is unsurprisingly a perfect companion for a late night foggy walk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxbCIS9yGAc

The union of composers Lawrence English and loscil aka Scott Morgan is seamless, sublime, and long overdue. Born of a conversation centered on the notion of “rich sources” as a forge for electronic music, Colours Of Air is a collection of recordings of a century old pipe organ housed at the historic Old Museum in Brisbane, Australia, which were then processed, transformed, and elevated into eight majestic electro-acoustic threshold devotionals. The timbre of the instrument and spatial fluctuations of room tone infuse the music with a subdued, sacred feel, like vaulted light in a nave of stained glass. They describe the album as “an iterative project, a reduction and eventual expansion,” sifting the swells and drones of the organ for every shivering shade of radiance.

The tracks are named for the hue each piece suggests – from the gauzy levitational miasma of “Yellow” to the pulsing melancholic mirage of “Violet” to the seething twilit sandstorm of “Magenta.” Morgan and English are both adept at conjuring moods of muted grandeur, like landscapes veiled in dusk, still looming and luminous. Here their combined powers open pathways to heightened realms of deep listening and bewitching restraint, finding flickering infinities in ancient configurations of wind, brass, stone, and dust.

Stumbled across a loscil / Seabuckthorn collab while wandering around Bandcamp this morning, too. Not linked from the main loscil page, nice combo of guitar and atmosphere.