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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTb4dlByJfc

yes please

https://laraajinumero.bandcamp.com/album/segue-to-infinity

$10 for the digital version of a 4LP set!

no previews, sadly, releases today though?

This Rival Consoles album from last year (Now Is) is really nice. Mostly beatless rhythmic synth pieces. I've seen the name but never really checked anything out until now.

I've really liked a few of his albums though he walks a fine line for me, the noisier and more experimental he is, the better.

Persona grabbed me the most. It is a good deep-listening headphones album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwS5cpqFCvo

Maria Steed - Green Eyes

sailing out to sea

Made some really great discoveries through the latest Trilogy Tapes NTS show, most notably Ernest Hood (jazz guitarist who lost the ability to play and walk from polio, made some amazingly ahead of their time records on zither and synth in the '70s, maybe all you hipsters already know about them?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFdJqbV8a4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUdSrNAgr2Y

And this lovely EP of tactile piano/cello/guitar pieces (Flaer - Preludes):

https://flaermusic.bandcamp.com/album/preludes

This new Moritz Von Oswald record is something, drone-y but has so much detail and depth with the choir elements, and just enough rhythm lurking under the surface

Really lovely record from Memotone on The Trilogy Tapes:

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/tollard

I’m enjoying this Purelink album on Peal Oil:

https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/signs

very chill moodz

Glad to see that record has somehow had such reach, I've enjoyed Akeem's dance music for years

xp hearing the Purelink for the first time after noticing it on Pitchfork's AOTY list -- brilliant stuff

Not sure where to put this, but I would have nominated it for the EOY poll if I had heard it a few weeks ago (came out in December). Pretty stunning electronics + Rhodes + vocal improvisations.

Joseph Branciforte + Theo Bleckmann - LP2
https://josephbrancifortetheobleckmann.bandcamp.com/album/lp2

no idea who ferdi schuster is but this rules

https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/nun

YES!!

I recently discovered that label exploring Gespensterland connections, love most of it

same label also did this stunning 90-minute tape of Arvo Part on guitar

https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/wherever-i-go

(which I fell asleep to just last night)

damn, i can already tell i'm gonna play the shit out of this

ha I immediately bought like six tapes from that label, the Balruin and Spiritual Emojis ones are good too