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

Kinda interested in this -

https://www.thesocial.com/monolithic-undertow-harry-sword/

Thanks table - it only struck me last night I should be checking out Richard Skelton for exactly this kind of thing! He's got a lot of stuff out. I'll check out Weaving

Oh wow I'm already loving Sea Oleena

dl, since you mentioned Tanner, I assume you're familiar with Alison Cotton, but if you aren't... godspeed!

https://nickschofield.bandcamp.com/album/glass-gallery

lovely is this

this is gorgeous

Currently playing this lovely bit of slow droning synth ambient from 1984. Probably old hat for this crew but new to me. Any other releases by Roach to recommend? I saw he did an album with Robert Fripp called Trance Spirits and may check that out next.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Structures_from_Silence_1.jpg

Dreamtime Return is pretty classic, less spacey, more fourth world-y.

Padang Food Tigers have quietly become one of my favourite bands. Their new one with Andrew Tuttle is gently hovering bliss: https://andrewtuttle.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart

https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/

Pretty niche but this is catnip to me: great mix of stuff recorded in 'resonant spaces' (cathedrals, water tanks etc): https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/resonant-spaces/

Download here: http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2021/02/resonant-spaces.html

thanking you

Can ilxors recommend me some nice folk ambient/drone?

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

Love that Resonant Spaces mix. Thanks for posting that!

pomenitul, i hadn't heard alison cotton, but that was very excellent and spot on.

I've started a little aural "mood board"/sketchpad for a nature-based drone/ambient album. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14AdnvL9dneFvxUkGLWdTn?si=qGkteuUGQqS7-WhTY6m-zQ

The idea is I might go for a walk and record the sounds around me with a portable recorder, then "DJ" the sounds of the walk over the mix. I've never DJ'd a walk before - it might end up sounding bad, but it's a fun idea.

If anyone liked that Sacred Harp track, it's available for free download here: https://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2010/11/sacred-harp-2010-apparitions-at-kenmore.html

(Daniel Bachman's 1st project before releasing under his own name btw)

This has some chime-y found-sound beats and is extremely vibe-y

https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/fibre-fusion

Jordan is it okay if I give you the password to my Bandcamp account

lol

https://christinachatfield.bandcamp.com/album/sutro

it took me a couple of listens for this beauty to click and I'm glad I persisted.

also Andrew Ryce from RA gave it a rave review and he's got a good record with this music

Dope album. My first reaction was "this sounds like stuff I've heard before" but then it opened up to me.

https://annebourne.bandcamp.com/album/wave

anne was the cellist / keyboardist with jane siberry in the 80's, then in the 90's fell in with pauline oliveros / fred frith / john oswald / weirder B.C. scenes and she's never stopped turning up in cool contexts but never put out anything solo, till a year ago she began quietly uploading single tracks to bandcamp, and then she just put up this 'album'

now that more people know Radigue the last ten years has seen a lot of people doing extreme minimalism (and all I can really hear is that it's easier to automate five minute cross-fades on your rack) but what Anne's doing is that kind of restraint that took decades to learn

Excellent recommendation, thanks!

This is nice (metallic jingly drones made from small objects), although I was hoping for something more rhythmic:
https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/molecular-gamelan

This came out last year but I've been playing it a bit— riyl Laraaji, Seven Fields of Aphelion, Charalambides, etc. Great record: https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting-spring

this is lovely, thanks

Maybe this is familiar to people, but I'm really enjoying this Alessandro Cortini record from 2017 after listening to an interview with him:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6fXNm5RvqVEMi2X7368caX?si=d262565de87b4fe6

Apparently all made on a Roland MC 202 in hotel rooms. Also he dropped approximately 1 million archival records on Bandcamp this year.

Making an album on a single piece of gear is very much my shit

love that Cortini record, glad it's still finding listeners.

yeah, I'm a big fan of Cortini's stuff!

if you haven't heard it already, I recommend checking out this M. Geddes Gengras album which was made on a Korg Volca FM (and in a hotel room like the Cortini):
https://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/hawaiki-tapes

Ooh thanks! I too recently made an EP using the Volca FM primarily, but like sequenced dance music using samples for all of the bass and drums. The Cortini record made me wonder if I could do something more live & dubby with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZuea6aD3vw

Sort of weightless black metal/drone/shoegaze from a moniker of Golden D0nna/Auscultati0n:

https://regionalattraction.bandcamp.com/album/did-you-find-my-letter

Cross-post this to the rolling jazz, chill lo-fi beats to study to, and rolling low-passed L.A. post-Low End Theory people playing instruments threads

https://samgendelsamwilkes.bandcamp.com/

Also very Lounge Lizards-y at times

love the first one. that blake mills/pino palladino record has lots of wilkes on it too, similarly good

nice I really loved Sam Gendel’s album from last year. on the surface it’s like like jon hassell doing jazz standards but the weird production gives it a different vibe

Yeah, I love that, it's like its own radio station

I feel like this belongs here somehow - I'm going back to Jacaszek's 2001 LP "Glimmer" and this is just my sort of thing. Romantic electro-acoustic ambient with lots of dark lush timbres, wide soundscapes, a good mix of ... well everything, really - sampled traditional instruments, harsh electronic noise, harmony and dissonance. Looking forward to his other work, I'm going to check out KWIATY next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dq9Zn-UyQ

near the top of my list of "artists no one is obsessed with but me"

I really like that— he seems to have stopped making music.

glad you like it!

he's still going actually, I dig this from 2018: http://michaeltrommer.blogspot.com/2018/10/executive-shore-unawatuna-sri-lanka.html

https://www.discogs.com/artist/497234-Michael-Trommer

but yeah his newer stuff is very different. wish there was more hydraulic material.

also, if you like that, the rest of the comp it's on (Magnetic Blue, from Interchill) is worth checking out.

just loving the Sofie Birch album

is she part of a ... scene? I see a lot of collaborators on this record.

good question

a lot of the collaborators are from Copenhagen, afaik joined by common taste, interests, friends

but the international stuff I dunno, if there's a scene I'd like to be more familiar with it

https://lilienrosarian.bandcamp.com/album/every-flower-in-my-garden

"RYMbient" album that splits the difference between pastoral/cozy/childlike ambient and tape noise — riyl Nuno Canavarro, Colleen, Tim Hecker. ideally this should be used a soundtrack for a Netflix adaptation of Marianne Dreams/Paperhouse

I've also been loving Foresteppe and you c's Seven Sleepers EP from 2016. more folky and less noisy but sort of in the same vein

(er, 2009, not 2016)

(er, it actually was from 2016, not 2009. first thought best thought)

I like the Rosarian album, tho it has taken a minute to grow.