Speaking of last minute, how about this Anthony Rother?
I have that album (62 Minutes on Mars), and while it's not among my favourite FAX releases, it's indubitably ambient. So feel free to nominate it, if you wanna.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
many xposts to Viborg, I really think that Richard Skelton's work (Landings in particular, as well as his work as A Broken Consort) is probably my highest-rated of the past decade after SotL. it's definitely more influence by Arvo Part and a sort of academic minimalism, but it has an emotional depth in its slight variations that make it really worth for me.
Here's one from Landings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NTvcfkPq4Y
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
and here is how his latest is described:
Music for the retreating ice-sheets of Iceland, produced whilst on a 'Frontiers in Retreat' residency in Seyðisfjörður in 2016. www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism. This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting. Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal. Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
www.frontiersinretreat.org/artists/richard_skelton
Front Variations is composed from sine waves subjected to increasing amounts of feedback in order to simulate the so-called 'ice-albedo' feedback mechanism.
This is the process whereby the action of melting glaciers reduces the global surface area of ice, thereby reducing the amount of solar radiation that glaciers reflect, which in turn increases global temperatures and causes further glacial melting.
Ring modulation and distortion were also used to further deteriorate the sound signal.
Front Variations is also available as part of Quoin 4 - the annual publication for friends and patrons of Corbel Stone Press. Quoin 4 features data collected by the World Glacier Monitoring Service and aerial photography of arctic glaciers from the US Naval Oceanographic Office.
https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/front-variations-one-two
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Kyle Bobby Dunn - From Here To Eternity
just came out, and it's really good
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
The Buddha Machine is not a record, so it's not eligible, sorry.― Tuomas, Saturday, June 1, 2019 2:59 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tuomas, Saturday, June 1, 2019 2:59 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is an absolute horseshit decision, you can listen to it on spotify*
https://open.spotify.com/album/7COTnWvHjhkq10ph3q4xH4?si=koVhRwTiQLmeodVPb4NbMg
*also thanks for spending an insane amount of your free time on this internet poll for my enjoyment
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Can I sneak in: M. Geddes Gengras - IshiOmicron - AcrocosmV/A - Plug In + Turn On Vol. 2Skyramps - Days of Thunder (is this ambient?)
― beard papa, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
lol whiney
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
It has an entry on Discogs too, idk what else you need
https://www.discogs.com/FM3-Buddha-Machine/master/517873
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
According to that Discogs tracklist it’s too short!
― Siegbran, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Bonus time! I'll submit my final three:
Löwenritter - Prelude: Ten Seconds Before SunriseVangelis - Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La NuitCernunnos Woods - Awaken the Empire of Dark Wood
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Cernunnos Woods, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in over twenty years.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Great call on Kasumasa Hashimoto, I must revisit his stuff, I love that little boutique label he was on, Noble Records, they have some lovely music, much better than Childisc.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
dark forest ambient! it has some spoken word bits, but then so does the Harold Budd/Clive Wright stuff
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
Dang it *Kazumasa
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
was considering Midori Takada's "Through the Looking Glass" but it seemed a bit too dynamic.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Kazumasa Hashimoto can be a bit twee but I find it delicate and poignant at its best. I don't want to discriminate but it seems like the urge to sweeten the mood is a common strain in much of the Japanese electronic music I've heard. There's a Japanese artist called Pass Into Silence who's made releases on Kompakt, the songs are some of the most exquisite ambient creations ever (I'm not so familiar with LPs). But it definitely has a lullaby quality about it.
MaresNest, what else do you especially like on Noble Records?
― viborg, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
Saw1
― kraudive, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
I find that Japanese musicians have a hard time making garden variety flat-line ambient or drone, they like to add more movement in there than is common sometimes adding more unusual chords and so on...
For noble records, I would recommend maybe Cinq, Midori Hirano, World's End Girlfriend, oh and Yasushi Yoshida especially.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
I have an urge to embitter the mood, but still keep it sweet, like a foodie dark chocolate bar.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 2 June 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
Spotify playlist not *quite* three weeks long. Its growth really slooowwwwed in the last few days, with all the retractions and generous helpings of not-on-Spotify stuff.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 2 June 2019 07:27 (four years ago) link
After consideration, I'm gonna allow the Buddha Machine in the poll. It's true that the individual loops only amount to 3 minutes of playing time, but on obviously the way it works means the music goes on as long as you want. And it certainly meets both the functional and aesthetic definition of ambient music perfectly.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
The nominations are now closed, thanks to everyone for nomming such cool stuff! I'll finish the album sheet and probably will start the voting thread later today.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
Thats too bad I forgot to nominate my refrigerator, it makes a very pleasant hum.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
Eh I find your fridge to be a bit cold and empty with just a few stale old reheated ideas. Never enough to chew on and yet I keep coming back to it thinking there’ll be something new.
― Evan, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
Fair enough, I retract the fridge.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
Lots of found fridge sounds among the current noms tbf.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL: the voting thread. Voting ends on Sunday, June 23rd.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Woooooo!
― Bitch, I Might Be Giants (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I haven't got a chuffing CLUE about how to rank my choices. Might have to go unweighted for the first time ever.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Weighting feels very counter to the ambient spirit ;-)
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 June 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
XP - Rothko at the top plz :)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Can I at least hear the fridge to judge for myself before it's denommed to the abyss?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
of course, it's playing right now, you just have to listen for it ... very carefully
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link