Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

This is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-R1mplBnO8

new alex zhang hungtai (dirty beaches) is good, constructed from manipulated sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rx5BV-oSQ

Nice stuff. Really like his LOVE THEME project, too.

I've listened to this twice today, it's very nice.

Sax as vast church organ

Hilde Marie Holsen's Lazuli lp is another one made from similar parts (acoustic trumpet, electronic manipulation). It's definitely more on the chillout end of the EA/Improv spectrum.

loving uon & alex zhang hungtai, thanks y'all

it's a couple years old but I've been listening to Legiac's Voynich Manuscript a lot lately. riyl documentaries about ancient aliens and/or the ambient bits on FSOL's ISDN and Dead Cities albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fJ1z9UUCs

this compilation track from earlier this year is also excellent

ooh I like the sound of this

Legiac also did this 4.5-hr mix of stuff which is really lovely: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/

i have nothing against funcken or this mix or anything, but we really need some standards regarding the term 'voynich manuscript'

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/fading-away

Listening to Paul Jebanasam's Rites for the first time in ages (Friday night is party night, round here). Rites IV is a dirty great wall of BIG DREAD.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuxhzmTnx4&feature=youtu.be

thanks for that, Chinaski. it's 12:56 am and evil devil-worshiping dark ambient is just what I need right now

http://virtualdreamplazashop.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-where-i-am-right-now
Pure bliss from vwave HoFers golden living room and telepath

https://soundcloud.com/beyondbelow/12-kyle-landstra

Liking this a lot this week.

dense high-mid-range drones from Japan with gentle percussive accents

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/tsuka-no-ma

the new Pulse Emitter album of microtonal ambient music is fantastic!!

https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/xenharmonic-passages

https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-night

i keep returning to this collection of tracks.. made with old school, west coast modular synthesizers and Ciat Lonbarde instruments. it's relaxing

strong recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNjY8Harv8&list=OLAK5uy_lS1EU5vWtoZRs-J9Ip2w5VIrm_CrplicE

Fifty Eleven Project is Kasper Bjørke documenting his emotional ride through a cancer diagnosis. Really beautiful stuff and not as bleak as you might expect from that premise. Strings by Davide Rossi.

Biosphere has remastered Polar Sequences and is now selling the 500 copies pressed on double vinyl at band camp. This album is incredible if you give it time.

https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/polar-sequences-remastered

It's reissued on CD too

https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision - lovely, Fall time meditation

http://nightlighttapes.bandcamp.com/album/memories-you-never-had

Check out the untitled compilation on bbliss if you can. I think this label's run by Huerco S. It was released on cassette only a while ago which now sells for like £75 but got reissued on vinyl and MP3, so it's good

https://www.discogs.com/Various-bblisss/master/1300074

Fifty Eleven Project is Kasper Bjørke documenting his emotional ride through a cancer diagnosis. Really beautiful stuff and not as bleak as you might expect from that premise. Strings by Davide Ross.

This album is unbelievably beautiful.

Listening to this, too ^^. Beautiful.

Thirded, such bliss.

lazy sunday funerals ... remastered

https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered

in my top ... five? three? favorite ambient albums.

i'm so excited that it has cover art now. i got it legit free from autoplate.org fifteen years ago and have been listening to the same mp3s ever since.

thanks for the heads up on this! here's something I found in my periodic "sure, I'll buy your label discography at sixty percent off" binges and it's REALLY good - use of samples/found-sound in a very subtle & good way throughout

https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/album/mangas-coloradas

Bought it, thanks.

If anyone checks out / knows Lazy Sunday Funerals, I'd be interested if you can recommend more ambient albums with a similar lightness to them. That sense of spaciousness and ease; the opposite of melodrama.

Really enjoying the German Army album, thanks

so glad you're digging it! yeah that "light ambient" is its own lookout, I'll dig around

https://eraldobernocchi.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-fire-that-consumes-all-before-it

this is rather nice, Eraldo Bernocchi's soundtrack to a Cy Twombly doc.

new Thore Pfeiffer sounds good so far

https://thorepfeiffer.bandcamp.com/album/umland

It's funny because Marsten Jules isn't light and neutral enough for me but here are some recommended "light ambient" full lengths. a few are pretty recent, it's been a pretty dope time for my kind of ambient

DJ Olive - Sleep
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Jonny Nash - Eden
Robert Turman - Flux
Strategy - Noise Tape Self
Terekke - Improvisational Loops
Various - Pop Ambient 2002
Brian Eno - Reflection

amazing set by Vanessa Rossetto aka C. Lavender

https://soundcloud.com/issueprojectroom/c-lavender-transmutation-helix-live-at-issue-may-12th-2018

not Vanessa Rossetto, just C. Lavender - sorry for my midnight eyes

that's very nice, thanks

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0624056580_10.jpg

https://lcrp.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-slow-places -- possibly one of the longest (running time) ambient music compilations on Bandcamp. Track two is a beauty.

https://ablaut.bandcamp.com/album/winter-solstice-drone -- Compilation of drones in B, made using VCV Rack. Quite nice

(all revenue will be donated to VCV Rack and its third party module developers)

ty brimstead, starting with the DJ Olive which is excellent

👍 He has another one called Buoy which is similar

three hours of kyle bobby dunn is just the right amount

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-here-to-eternity

Thanks for that!

yes!

https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/seven-horses-for-seven-kings

doesn't really meet the Chill remit of thread title but still a fine album nevertheless.

Good stuff indeed. I'm always happy to have more modern classical dissonance in my ambient.