Ambient Recommendations

Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere but the new Chuck Johnson album is very nice.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:37 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mentioned it in a few threads but nobody seemed to really say anything! I still need to listen to the full thing but the portions I’ve heard so far are gorgeous like the last one.

i think i posted another one of her releases upthread, but digging this album-length sofie birch piece for Longform Editions
appreciate this, Hidden Terraces (2020) is all time morning ambient for me

the new Chuck Johnson album is very nice
yes!

It's a really lovely record, bought it last friday!

Just got The Ambient Cookbook after listening to this track (not on the comp), my first Fax comp I think? Stoked to play it loud while my roommates are out.

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

Thinking about making an ambient mix but it's just Morphing Clouds. I don't think anyone would complain.

https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/

This one came up randomly, listened to the whole thing for the first time in many years. Lovely record.

https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/after-hours

Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

"Virtual Dreams will delve into music produced during the 1990’s that redefined the boundaries of ‘Ambient’. This was music that explored the possibilities of Ambient within a new setting, created often by House and Techno producers for a world beyond dance floors but made very much with the pre-clubbing and post-clubbing listener in mind."

https://www.musicfrommemory.com/release.php?release_id=6879

Probably mentioned/discussed on the dedicated MfM thread but always worth bringing it up. The promotional mix cd by Tako Reyenga that was included in the first 150 orders is available on youtube and I endorse anyone that has bookmarked this thread to check it out, it's one of a kind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZb-ljW2NMc

Thanks for sharing - not at all what I was expecting but excellent anyway

Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears In Sunlight.

https://paulineannastrom.bandcamp.com/album/angel-tears-in-sunlight

Found this a little while ago on the quietus's Feb round-up. Saddened to also read there that she died at the end of last year.

Just a quick heads up about the big Soundquest Live festival happening online starting tomorrow:

https://soundquestfest.live/

Schedule can be found down the page, will be running off of Steve Roach's YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4WMKjvNKU

I knew Pauline Anna Strom had been ill but I hadn’t realised she had died. Sad to hear it

my dear friend Ami Dang made this 'meditation mix' for Crack Magazine, it's lovely.

https://soundcloud.com/crackmagazine/meditation-mix-ami-dang

i should say, features some of her own projects, plus ILX faves Cucina Povera, KMRU, and others.

Hot ambient tip:
https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus

It's a good 'un

YES i just finished listening to that, it rules, her tape on no rent is super good too. though they don't sound super similar i was thinking of the rousay record alongside this:

https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/our-hands-against-the-dusk

and

https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/album/futurangelics

thx Jordan, sounding good

no, the voices are a dealbreaker, sorry

don't think this has been mentioned, but it just got repressed & floated to my attention

LOG - LOG ET3RNAL on Experiences Ltd (Ulla + Perila)
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/log-et3rnal

the Ulla upthread is fantastic and i'd say this is up there in a similar albeit more fractured-dub way

Yeah that’s great, I’m waiting for it to come on the mail <3

this album is good, and plus they made a cool little installation/walkthrough/listen website: https://niklaskramer.github.io/Habitat/

enjoying this PWYC ambient album, an appealingly lo-fi/bedroom take on Boards of Canada, DNTEL, Benoit Pioulard type stuff. sounds good real loud.

http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur112.htm

oh and happy 4/20 everyone

Samples of this sounded great & interesting. Haven't listened to it front to back yet.

https://experimentalrooms.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-waves-from-niigata

Experimental Rooms is a label founded to bring together talented people to collaborate on a project celebrating Niigata, a sea-facing city in Japan. Niigata in Kanji can be translated as 新 “new,” 潟 “lagoon,” and 市 “city,” three eternal themes explored widely within Ambient Waves From Niigata.

Textural and organic, Ambient Waves from Niigata is a full-on sensorial experience and glimpse into a vital community of musicians and artists. Not only is the music from residents of Niigata, but the album’s design, sound treatment, cover photo and translations were done by Niigata’s music community as well.

don't think this has been mentioned, but it just got repressed & floated to my attention

LOG - LOG ET3RNAL on Experiences Ltd (Ulla + Perila)
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/log-et3rnal

the Ulla upthread is fantastic and i'd say this is up there in a similar albeit more fractured-dub way

― dronestreet, Friday, April 9, 2021 3:16 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is great, thanks

really been enjoying the first blank gloss album ('January' on Night Young records) that came out last year and totally passed me by. kind of mixture between gigi masin/gaussian curve and labradford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9qImWEP2Ns

new one out soon on Kompakt

some good bass vi action on there if my ears aren't mistook

that's incredible, thx

This is perfect, cheers.

I've made a compilation of this sort of stuff, using a title I think I nicked from someone on here: Yoga, Hungover.

yours is better than mine.

xp Fantastic. I'll be playing this constantly until the new album comes out. Their track from Pop Ambient, which is kinda like "Sweet Flag", will be on it.

Yours is pretty great boxedjoy! And I stole your title. And you have better hair. So.

Nice preview and snippets of the new album here xp

https://kompakt.fm/releases/melt

ah those clips sound great, thank you!

saw this recommended by roman flugel in a dj mag piece, new (gorgeous) thomas fehlman album

https://thomasfehlmann.bandcamp.com/album/b-ser-herbst

Listening to this one now, really lovely

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/unfailing-love

xp Thx map, that new Fehlmann sounds amazing on first flip-through

xp Yeah that label delivers the goods very well. Ended up subscribing to zake in full.

I used to be obsessed with Honigpumpe so I'm glad to hear about some new Fehlmann

Honigpumpe is a fucking class album btw!

If I could be bold and recommend myself.

It began as sort of a salute to Tetsuo Inoue's 'World Receiver', one of my favourite ambient records.

Lot's of radio voices and environmental recordings tied with 12 pieces borne out of little keyboard improvisations in one hour-long track.

There's even a very loose version of a Broadcast tune.

https://nowherians.bandcamp.com/album/rabbits-make-mochi-on-the-moon

If you need something soothing and lord knows I do, I can't recommend this Takashi Kokubo collection enough (very much on the new age end of Kankyo Ongaku):

https://takashikokubo.bandcamp.com/album/healing-collection-quiet-comfort

Latest Blank Gloss is lovely: https://blankgloss.bandcamp.com/album/melt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6p4u7XT_CY

I thought for sure this revive was going to be about this:

My condolences to all the ambient artists linked in Samuel McLemore's @toneglow blurb for the new Space Afrika recordhttps://t.co/uwHe6yesT2 pic.twitter.com/HUSkQGxDEQ

— Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) September 6, 2021

Has that not hit ILM yet? Or is it happening in another thread?

Oof. Is it The Disintegration Loops he's referencing in that last paragraph?

Ah nm, seen there's actual links to those getting dissed on the review on the website

Blank Gloss has been a really nice discovery for me, very into January (2020) and look forward to checking out Melt