can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

law engrish

https://vimeo.com/118670404

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3REhHukPng

track 2 (starting at 7 minutes in)

especially when the piano enters over the singer (about 10 minutes in) it reminds me of parts of harold budd's pavilion of dreams

vangelis katsoulis - the sleeping beauties

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:50 PM (1 year ago)

late response but this is really fantastic

it's difficult to find new age/ambient stuff that plies a line between being too major-key and "pretty" and the robert rich-type diffuse "dark" droney stuff. reminds me of pyrolator's wunderland which is one of my favorite albums ever.

celer / nicholas szczerpanik collaboration 'here, for now'

https://jefrecantu-ledesma.bandcamp.com/album/a-year-with-13-moons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUao7W1OjA

whole album is dope

That is nice. Kind of reminds me of Robert Turman's Flux but with a bubblier palette.

same label as dream carpets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zce6sKmbek

This Rorqual tape is pretty cool if you like hazy, minimal textures that have a kind of Basinski vibe. But more concise.

http://woodbetweenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/sei-ci

https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/track/melek-taus

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

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0031237283_10.jpg

Luv bvdub

i've been listening obsessively to the bonus track to harold budd's avalon sutra, "as long as i can hold my breath - by night", which takes up the entirety of disc 2 at 1:09:28 and is adapted from the last song on the first disc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa3qZdjZrNo

the whole 154 album is sublime.. needs to be repressed

i agree that "as long as i can hold my breath - by night" is totally gorgeous. i really like the rest of that album too, it sustains quite a mood.. nocturnal pastoral stateliness, would befit some david sylvian vocals but it's quite wonderful just on its own.

it's unfortunate that darla's reissue subbed a really stock-y orchid photo (plus typically naff darla typeface) for the super pretty roccoco-ish rose ensemble of the original issue.

"as long as i can hold my breath - by night" is amazing.. so sad, though

hi cutty

Hey, the new Kara-Lis Coverdale record is really good. It's called 'Grafts'

loren chasse "the air in sand" had a buncha this guy's stuff before & was always spirited away by it, but this one really is the cat's whiskers !
― massaman gai, Sonntag, 8. März 2015 18:15 (two years ago)

oh "the air in the sand"
― massaman gai, Sonntag, 8. März 2015 20:31 (two years ago)

I heard a track from another Loren Chasse record on the Sleepbot radio today: http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/rbowsing.html
but the album isn't on Discogs or anywhere else on the internet, so I'm listening to all of Chasse's other stuff on Bandcamp (&loving it)

via ned and whiney, red alert, red alert:

http://www.numerogroup.com/products/environments
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/environments/id1294132065?mt=8

Environments is a historic catalog of long form field recordings created for the way you live. Whether you need to work, meditate, sleep, or any other use, Environments is the only ambient sound app based on extended recordings created in the 1960s and '70s on analog tape. Environments began as an unprecedented series of vinyl records, garnering widespread acclaim and selling millions of units. Now Environments steps into the mobile age as an invaluable and unique sonic tool for the way YOU live.

• No internet connection required—all recordings are part of the app.

• 22 fully remastered long form analog recordings, most 30 minutes or more. Not short loops, not white noise— Environments live and breathe like nature itself.

• Simple, intuitive navigation. Unobtrusive, ad-free look and feel evokes a simpler, better time.

• Put your favorite environment on infinite loop, or build your own playlist of favorites.

• Blocks distractions, increases focus and mindfulness, reduces stress, helpful with tinnitus and fussy babies.

• Sounds include ocean waves, birdsongs and dawn chorus, chimes, "be-in," thunderstorms, gentle rain, heartbeat, wind in trees, wordless choir, summer cornfield, creaky sailboat, country stream, country meadow, blizzard, and many more.

• Features informative biography of Environments creator Irv Teibel, along with concise informational screens on individual recordings.

• A co-creation of Syntonic Research, Inc.

$2.99!!!!!!
and around 500 MB

i've listened to quite a few of these in record shop listening stations, but i only own the second in the series (the first side on it, 'tintinnabulation', is one of my go-to recordings for just about any situation around the house).

loving the brief "liner notes" for each recording, which include little review snippets

on environments 1:

"It soaks the mind... cheaper than booze, safer than pot", Albert Goldman, LIFE, 5/5/1970

been wanting these since i read this piece

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-man-who-recorded-tamed-and-then-sold-nature-sounds-to-america

but iOS onlu is no good to me

Just emailed them and they said they're working on a version for android.

I wonder who the fourth vote was from?

_I wonder who the fourth vote was from?_


t’was I. I think..

This is cool. I wonder if it would be worth using an old iPad just for this app.

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--32

15 hours of bliss

the whole 154 album is sublime.. needs to be repressed

― a but (brimstead)

https://www.discogs.com/154-Strike/release/10513742

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJ7SRsSZf4

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--32

15 hours of bliss

― calstars

i jumped in halfway through and i have to say, it is veerrrry nice and i am going to be ambienenanaaanaway in it for a while

Enjoy bro

/the whole 154 album is sublime.. needs to be repressed

― a but (brimstead) /

https://www.discogs.com/154-Strike/release/10513742🕸

>http://www.numerogroup.com/products/environments

god this is so perfect. I hope it doesn't preclude a higher quality reissue program at some point; Teibel had so many unreleased Environments projects in the can I've been hoping could see the light as bonus material, but this app is just the perfectly functional way to present this material. Tintinnabulation & Intonation forever.

a lot of my sleep listening is increasingly handled by the phone via a digital dock with optical out, in the past either extended playlists or 10 hour youtubes, but looking forward to more people experimenting with generative apps like Eno's Reflection or this - https://longplayer.org/listen/longplayer-ios-app/

lovin these:

http://houseoftheleg.bandcamp.com/album/saved-data
http://houseoftheleg.bandcamp.com/album/saved-data-pt-ii

good stuff

i highly recommend peter davison's "Glide V", from his 191 album Glide. i first heard it last week, by way of ryuichi sakamoto's dinner BGM playlist (search "The Kajitsu Playlist" on spotify), which is also really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAYIlPZ0u0

just a head's up that the new Light in the Attic comp is out:

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4088-kankyo-ongaku-japanese-ambient-environmental-new-age-music-1980-1990
Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

it's kind of misleading because it's up on spotify and bandcamp, but only 10 songs. the physical release has 25 songs. i feel like the bandcamp page should mention this - it's a really good incentive to purchase the physical version!

i'm happy to see that it leads off with a track by Satoshi Ashikawa, whose Still Way I have been obsessively listening to for the last month or two (or longer? how long has it been?). Still Way was his only released album, but he has tracks on other comps of the era that i have never heard, including the song included on Kankyo Ongaku, "Still Space". similar to the first Light in the Attic ambient comp (I am the Center), it's a mix of well known names and obscure. in this case, you can find familiar names like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Toyoda, YMO, Haruomi Hosono and Sakamoto solo tracks, as well as a bunch of people i've never heard of.

light in the attic's shipping center is down until March 1, but i'm excited to get it in the mail soon! i also picked up the second ambient comp (The Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986) while i was at it

whoa I hadnt heard about microcosm, thanks

i feel like it wasn't quite as positively reviewed as the other two? but i dunno, looks right up my alley so i'm excited to hear it too.

https://open.spotify.com/user/lightintheatticrecords?si=EH_hjnpAQdOOGQNdyb1hHg

Ex, by kj. released september 2018

uh, this is AMAZING

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/ex

Like that kj

Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

my 2CD version should arrive today, I'm excited. The 3LP has two more tracks but I'm pretty much over any new vinyl pressing that doesn't have multiple positive comments re: pressing quality on Discogs or Hoffman.

Karl have you spent much time with yours? So far this is the only ILX mention I see.

Link: https://open.spotify.com/album/63x6MwkzIVtoH6lbHIYEtr?si=cuwU2WvQTuKoZ9OTGTH_XQ

is that the same truncated 10-track version that Bandcamp has? can't open the link right now