strumming music by Charlemagne Palestine.. ambient? really?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
joda clément - i hope you like the universe+minus - a rainy koran verse [UK live]c schulz & hajsch s/t
3/30
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
Hideous Lump, are you nominating those albums under "not yet mentioned"?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
ach, wanted to nom mohnomishe & eostre but figured they were too industrial
whatevs, i nom15: _zoviet*france_ mohnomishe16: _zoviet*france_ eostre17: levantis: romantic psychology vol.118: philip jeck: stoke19: anthony manning: islets in pink polypropylene20: arve henriksen: chiaroscuro21: christina kubisch: mono fluido22: deep listening band & the long string instrument - suspended music23: organum: submission
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
24: jim o'rourke: long nights
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
is Lanterna's first self-titled album ambient?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 May 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
Karma Moffett - Golden Bowls of CompassionNASA Voyager Space Sounds - Symphonies of the PlanetsDouglas Quin - AntarcticaAndrew Skeoch & Sarah Koschak - Spirit of the OutbackJohn T Bullitt - Night of a Thousand SongsTod Dockstader - Aerial 1Alain Kremski - Music for an Unknown TempleRoland Kayn - TektraThomas Köner - PermafrostSteve Roach - Immersion OneElse Marie Pade - Et Glasperlespil (for Faust Suite, 1962)Stuart Dempster - Underground Overlays from the Cistern ChapelAsmus Tietchens - EisgangJoe Jones - Solar MusicPeter Warren & Matt Samolis - Bowed Metal MusicDavid Tudor - RainforestRoy Montgomery - Temple IVRoger Winfield - Voices of the WindEnvironments 7 - IntonationRostov ChimesRagnar Grippe - SandBrian Eno - Neroli (disc 2 - New Space Music)Francois Bayle - ErosphereVangelis - Tegos TapesThe Iatmul Of Papua Niugini - Music of OceaniaPaul Schutze - Apart (disc 2 - Sleep)Stephen Kent - Family Tree (disc 2 - Deep Space)Don Slepian - Sea of BlissGeoffrey Chandler - StarscapesLuc Ferrari - Éphémère II
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:01 (four years ago) link
michael t. bullock + andrew lafkas - ceremonies to breathe uponjohn tilbury / keith rowe / kjell bjørgeengen - sisseloren ambarchi / john tilbury - the just reproachjürg frey - l’âme est sans retenue Ihaptic - abeyance
8/30
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 17 May 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno - Neroli (disc 2 - New Space Music)Paul Schutze - Apart (disc 2 - Sleep)Stephen Kent - Family Tree (disc 2 - Deep Space)
If these are multi-disc albums, you can't just nominate one disc, you have to nom the entire album.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
1/30
― paolo, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:16 (four years ago) link
I noticed one of my nominations (Novus Magnificat) had already been nommed by Dan Worsley, so I have one more nomination to use:
Meg Bowles - Blue Cosmos
(30/30)
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:23 (four years ago) link
>If these are multi-disc albums
just consider those as shout-outs to how good their second halves are then
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:49 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno - Music For FilmsSteve Reich - Music For 18 MusiciansGlobal Communication- Pentamerous MetamorphosisTangerine Dream - PhaedraMax Richter - SleepIasos - Inter-Dimensional MusicDaniel Lanois - Purple VistaSystem 7 - Point 3: Water
(17/30)
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 May 2019 07:54 (four years ago) link
24: loren chasse - the air in the sand25: takehisa kosugi - catch wave
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 17 May 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
Might as well nominate Scum at this point.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Eluvium - Lambent MaterialJulianna Barwick - NepentheAutechre - NTS Session 4Global Communication - Remotion: The Global Communication Remix Album
4/30
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 17 May 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
Scum is a stretch obv but I’ll hold off nominating Darkspace or Lustre.
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
What about Filosofem? Or dungeon synth in general?
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Hoedh - HymnvsInade - AldebaranLustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
Various - I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in AmericaHenry Wolff & Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells IV: Bells of Sh'ang Sh'ung
7/30
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
Yes I'm nominating those.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 17 May 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
Labradford - Mi Media NaranjaHallock Hill - The UnionLaurie Spiegel - The Expanding UniverseThe Wind-Up Bird - WhipsLoren Mazzacane Connors - As Roses BowXela - The Dead SeaAlan Lamb - Night PassageWindy & Carl - AntarcticaPiano Magic - Son de Mar
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 17 May 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
strumming music by Charlemagne Palestine.. ambient? really?Heh, I’m feeling that way about a truckload of these
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Growing: s/t
PGWP, you nominated this, but neither Discogs nor Wikipedia has any info on Growing having released a self-titled album... Which album did you mean?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Marsen Jules - Lazy Sunday FuneralsMarsen Jules - YaraBiosphere - CirqueMonolake - gobi. the desertSteve Roach - Dreamtime ReturnDonato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
6/30
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 17 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Perhaps the scandal leading up to this poll will allow us to define ambient music once and for all. Musicologists, take note.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I love ambient music, and I love some music included here that is absolutely not ambient music, but I just can't bring myself to argue about it, so i'm just not going to participate in this as long as stuff like this (which I love, btw) is included: https://soundcloud.com/origin-peoples/tommy-awards-side-a-op001
There's nothing about this that is ambient. Also, if Steve Reich is included, then you have to include Bach and Beethoven too. It's either Classical or Modern Classical, but it's not ambient. Anyway, as I said, there is no satisfactory resolution to this argument, and since shit this isn't ambient will be included, I see no point in following or participating. Why not just call it 'Music You Can Chill Out To' or 'Would be decent with a spliff and a comfy sofa'.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 17 May 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Just rename it it "the ambient/new age/drone/space/bio/furniture/vibes" poll and call it a day
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
^^^
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
I'd also like to cull some entries, lest it become the arty electronica poll. Will take a stab this weekend.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
You guys are so embarrassed by nerds arguing about genre boundaries that you don't think it's worthwhile to try singling out the best ambient albums?
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
I was OK with looking at this as a poll of non-beat-oriented drone-like music with an electronic component and accepting all of it but Steve Reich did raise my hackles a little: although there is definitely a connection between minimalism and ambient, Reich was going for something that would inspire "closely detailed listening", arguably the opposite of "non-intrusive background music". Music for 18 is also very rhythmic and entirely acoustic, if that matters. Still, there IS a connection so.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
There's a connection, but I don't feel at all bad about drawing a line that excludes all Reich. Trust me, he wouldn't want to be in this poll anyway.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Giusto Pio-Motore ImmobileAndrew Chalk-Baroque ScreensAndrew Chal-The Cable HouseVikki Jackman-Whispering PagesJan Jelinek/Masayoshi Fujita-Bird Lake ObjectsMichael Brook-HybridArp-InversionsInoyama Land-Danzindan PojidonDean McPhee-Four StonesGas-ZauberbergIan Middleton-Well of SorrowsJonathan Fitoussi-Imaginary LinesRobert Turman-Beyond Painting
13/30, with apologies for genre boundaries/definitions etc.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 17 May 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
The Seven Fields of Aphelion - Keep the Ocean Inside4/30
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
THE POLL THAT STEVE REICH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO VOTE IN.
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
NUMBER FIVE WILL SHOCK YOU!
― Tuomas, Friday, May 17, 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sorry, it's The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light. For some reason Spotify lists it as s/t though I knew that was incorrect!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
Ok, thanks!
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Groovypanda, you nominated this, but there are several different recordings of this composition. Which one do you want to nominate?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X14B7JHAooNtfPbNilJ1xPshNaKBbL6q-8E1xUdM7xU
Here's a link to the nominations so far, lemme know if something's missing. (I've corrected some of the artist and album names, so your nomination might be elsewhere alphabetically.)
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
As for the debate on what's ambient, I have no way of making that judgement, so I'm not gonna disqualify anything... And the nomination process in polls like this is always a bit messy, but I do agree that this is not a poll for just any kind of minimal music, or music to smoke weed to, or experimental/artsy electronic music in general. So hopefully when it comes the time to vote you do stop to consider that ambient is narrower than those definitions, even if it's not easily defined by conventional genre boundaries.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 May 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
SunnO))) - Flight of the Behemoth
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 May 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
I mean, I loathe to use Pitchfork as a measuring stick, but their list, which includes a KFW intro and blurb by a bunch ppl who are over the age of 35 (Beta/Sherburne/Richardson/Masters/Reynolds) has a very open attitude towards what is considered "ambient"
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9948-the-50-best-ambient-albums-of-all-time/
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 May 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
fantastic work tuomas
personally prefer a wide definition myself
― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 May 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
I mean, everyone can vote for THE ARTIST CLEARLY INTENDED THIS MODULAR SYNTH RECORD AS MUSIQUE D'AMEUBLEMENT PER THE DICTATES OF SATIE but that's not as fun imo
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 May 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Also, I'm probably very close to my full noms but here's some big dogs that we've overlooked in case someone else wants to nominate them
Mort Garson - PlantasiaPhilip Corner - Satie SlowlyRaymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Babies Vol. 1Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Babies Vol. 2
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 May 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
15/30
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Friday, 17 May 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
Fripp and Eno - No Pussyfooting Sakamoto and Alva Noto - Vrioon
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 17 May 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Vangelis, "L'Apocalypse des animaux"
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link