fourth world music

This is indeed excellent. If I'd seen it being filed under 'tribal ambient' I probably would've avoided it lol, so cheers Pom.

The top "tribal ambient" picks on RYM for 2020 are all worth checking out:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020/g:exact,tribal-ambient/

Stupid genre name, agreed, but the categorization is fairly consistent. My recommended titles are the aforementioned Koyil, Karuna Trio, Contours, MinaeMinae, XYR, Molero, and the Alternate African Reality comp. Tag it as Fourth World or Balearic if it makes it more palatable.

According to Spotify, Fourth World is one of my top genres. I have no idea what it is and have never in my life used it as a descriptor for what I like or seen it as a genre section in a record store. So is it ambient?

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 10:38 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Funny, yesterday evening my wife said this exact post out loud to me about her Spotify results nearly word for word.

I listened to a bunch of Japanese ambient too which I think is now Fourth World according to the machines at Spotify.

The Contours album ‘Balafon Sketches’ is great

Also yes the Koyil album is lovely, though it reminds me more of U. F. Orb than Jon Hassell.

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yep Balafon Sketches is some very nice ear candy, not seen many reviews and I think the only person I've seen repping for it was Ted Gioia.