can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

definitely the first interior album

It's an old one, but that music put me very much in mind of an Australian guy who records as Lakes of Russia. Specifically this:
https://lakesofrussia.bandcamp.com/album/stars-decorate-the-fire

4xCD reissue of robert turman's "chapter eleven" collection (1976-1987)

https://robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-eleven-1976-1987

oh hell yes!! some amazing stuff on there

just a thought here. i'm 20 beers deep!

i'm going through all my records, picking out everything i don't actively like. my partner's starting up an ongoing thrift store kind of thing with all proceeds going to her mutual aid group. so i'm trying to include things that i no longer like (of montreal hissing fauna, for example, or julia holter) that would get higher donations, in addition to the true dollar bin garbage (the knack). i'm trying to be hard on myself and take away some things i really like, in the process, if i think it will help.

and it strikes me that when i get to my ambient section, i can't bear to part with ANYTHING. like, not a single damn thing. which leads me to this conclusion: "ambient", at least for me, is more like a food flavor, almost in a biological way that you could map to certain sections of the tongue. you would never want to get "rid of" your sense of bitterness or sweetness. ambient is like that for me. there are very few famous ambient "songs" ("an ending (ascent)", "requiem for dying mothers pt 2" are the first two that come to mind for me). ambient is a zone. we know this. but because of that, i have a very hard time eliminating any zones from my collection. i like all of these zones.

whereas, the knack, "my sharona", is not a zone. that is a pop song about a guy who always gets it up for the touch of the younger kind, my, my, my, aye-aye, whoa! it is a point. ambient is the zone

will any serious music critic refuse to debate me in a public forum?

I am completely with you on this one, dude, I’m just too baked atm to elucidate much further... but it’s like... ambient is a serious benign environmental alteration thing for me... duh eno definition of ambient... but yeah all these rooms and spaces to live in, I’m never not in the mood to visit Discreet Music side A, yknow? whereas like, “regular music” as Dave Berry puts it... foregrounds emotion in a way that (at my age or whatever) requires a specific emotional state to want to experience and actually enjoy. but yeah idk, over the years i’ve lost all taste for any kind of “extremely major key”/goopy “ambient” (see blech romantic sentimental ambient music), and a strong attraction towards more emotionally ambiguous/nebulous vibes.
so idk, do what you will with this post. <3

i will take your post and otm it

otm!

most excellent!

I am completely with you on this one, dude, I’m just too baked atm to elucidate much further... but it’s like... ambient is a serious benign environmental alteration thing for me... duh eno definition of ambient... but yeah all these rooms and spaces to live in, I’m never not in the mood to visit Discreet Music side A, yknow? whereas like, “regular music” as Dave Berry puts it... foregrounds emotion in a way that (at my age or whatever) requires a specific emotional state to want to experience and actually enjoy. but yeah idk, over the years i’ve lost all taste for any kind of “extremely major key”/goopy “ambient” (see blech romantic sentimental ambient music), and a strong attraction towards more emotionally ambiguous/nebulous vibes.
so idk, do what you will with this post. <3

― brimstead, Sunday, November 15, 2020 2:18 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

such an otm post. i've been meaning to start a thread about this for a while

i basically only f/w emotionless/emotionally ambiguous ambient. i think i've listened to discreet music 8000 times. honestly a lot of eno's stuff is too emotional for me most of the time

i can handle some major key new-age stuff, but i really don't like any of the dark/minor key stuff

#1 from selected ambient works vol 2 is like my ambient music bliss point, whereas i'm just about never in the mood for #5 or #22. i really don't like ambient with a "scary" vibe that sounds like it could soundtrack horror, or the stuff that makes u feel queasy

https://soarer1983.bandcamp.com/album/--13

Beautiful dream ambient album from Peru

now playing: Klaus Schulze "Cyborg" live 2LP, man this really hits the spot

https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2

https://virtualdreamplaza.bandcamp.com/track/--79

You can't spell ambient without ambien

I fail so bad at posting. https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/terrain

Really nice 25 minutes by the microgram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZEbsTS2Bw

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/2814