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

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.

I also enjoyed this one, by a RYM user:

https://danieltovatt.bandcamp.com/album/deceit

I don't know if deconstructing traditional Chinese music counts as 'ambient' per se but it's definitely got the 'moodz' part down pat.

loving both these records

lovely stuff from will long

https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie

^^ It's perfect. For nearly two decades he's consistently made gorgeous music. I very much admire how he kept it up after his personal tragedy and kept heading down his own unique path.

What's the story? I grabbed some of his stuff off bandcamp when I discovered it but don't know anything more.

Celer started out as a duo, with Will and his wife Danielle. She died age 26, in 2009. He's carried on alone since then.

The earlier albums as a duo had more tension to them, if memory serves. I very much enjoy Xièxie but miss the noisier overtones. How are his other solo releases? I'm afraid I haven't kept up since Danielle tragically passed away.

enjoyed this. "nice, strange, and thoughtful music that reflects a genuine inner vision of self" per the artist.
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/erg-herbe

this celer album is gorgeous! gas vibes
'rains lit by neon' is soo perfect

Buying the Celer album after hearing the samples off that link. Thanks for the tip!

Proto-hippie vibes inspired by poet and hermit Robert Lax:

https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-12-the-mantra-recordings

Good suggestion, pomenitul. Chi Factory are Hanyo van Oosterom and Jacob Derwort. Really nice tribal ambient/Fourth World stuff from the Netherlands. These two recorded a fantastic self-titled cassette under the name Chi in 1986 (with Michel Banabila, among others.) It's since been reissued as "The Original Recordings" for those looking for it. Derwort passed away in Feb this year so it's unclear whether Chi Factory will continue.

Thanks for the backstory, doug. I had no idea – I stumbled across the album via RYM (it's currently ranked #83 for 2019) and it immediately clicked with me. I'll be sure to check out their other stuff. And RIP Jacob Derwort.

New Mondkopf mini album is great

https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-deep-is-our-love

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

https://boomkat.com/products/tales-of-hackney

Arild Andersen / Clive Bell / Mark Wastell
Tales Of Hackney

some exquisite stuff on here.

Sounds cool, I'll check it out. It's more ambient than jazz/free improv?

slightly closer to ambient at times but still as improv as you'd expect with the personnel involved.

the more improvy parts have that zen quality you sometimes get listening to masters of that field.

The new Craig Leon thing, Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, is bloody marvellous. Probably more straight up ambient than the first volume, but just as compelling.

Do people round here like sax drones? If so, you will like these:

https://bendikgiske.bandcamp.com/album/surrender

https://danielthorne.bandcamp.com/album/lines-of-sight

That Craig Leon album is great. Thanks for the recommendation.

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

Peoples, in case you haven't already noticed, we're doing an all-time best ambient albums poll. Nomination period ends this Friday, so there's still time to participate.

Tales of Hackney is amazing. Thanks, calz.

glad you liked it :)

Liking Celer's Xiexie a lot. Looking for "where to next?" guidance on his very large Bandcamp catalog. Chronologically backwards? Any earlier standouts to head for first?

Engaged Touches, recorded when Celer was still a duo (Will's wife Danielle passed away in 2009), is essential imho.

Thanks!

Wow damn she was only 26 :(

https://soundcloud.com/time-released-sound/dalot-leto-beirut-dust-fall/recommended

Dalot – ΛΗΤΩ

"Dalot embarks on an epic journey with the composed field recordings of “ΛΗΤΩ”. Throughout the whole of the album Dalot brings a wide variety of many layers into the mix resulting in something that has such power behind it. By opting for such an approach, it recalls the unique tact of 70s sonic pioneers. While incorporating so much experimentation it makes sure that emotion rests at the very heart of it all. What is of the utmost importance is the concept of texture, with all the many conversations filtering into the fray."

rather enjoying this one today.

https://soundcloud.com/time-released-sound/dalot-leto-beirut-dust-fall

wrong soundcloud link up there.

ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL: the voting thread. Voting ends on Sunday, June 23rd.