Ambient Recommendations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbkPL9fcww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EmdTe0A9es

you know you're in for some serious ambient when you see multiple monome devices

New Anne Bourne is great https://annebourne.bandcamp.com/album/morning-i-drift

Got the notification for this today. I've been listening to Wave pretty much daily since you mentioned it on here.

^ in fact I'm listening to Wave right now as I'm reading this. Great record to start the day with.

minimal dark ambient via sonification of weather data. for fans of Lull, Thomas Köner, Kevin Drumm, et al

https://tenselessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-of-unknowing

Kind of haunting record from Matt Evans here, composed in the aftermath of the death of his partner (and an acquaintance of mine), Devra Freelander.
https://thisismattevans.bandcamp.com/album/touchless

more on the new age than ambient side but i've been enjoying 'cymbalom solos' by michael masley. originally released as a cassette in 1985 and reissued this year by telephone explosion. i also really love the album art

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/752953/large/MichaelMasleyCymbalomSolos_1_1280x1280.jpeg

current favourite (although not fully representative) song: 'childbirth in cave art'

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

yeah totally, I picked that up over the weekend and am diggin it a ton <3

this is gorgeous except it gets treacly towards the end, it’s supposed to be a “companion” to Satoshi Ashikawa’s Still Way:

https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laistigh-den-ghleo

wonderful piece from Olivia Block, inhabiting the boundaries between ambient, field recording and electro-acoustic sound

https://oliviablock.bandcamp.com/track/october-1984

Listening to a few bits through my covid nimbus:

Black Swan, Repetition Hymns: https://blackswan.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns-2xlp-digital-2020
Federico Durand, Herbario (Laurel is particularly lovely): https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/track/laurel

I'm looking for music that would fit nicely in a playlist with these two things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjG0ivBT4lQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0Ex6bKnQ0

This might work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xIUYZVKxQ

I'm liking the new Pendant album. It's a bit darker than the last one but not enough to be full on dark ambient

i like it too! agree that it's a little too lush to go full dark

Loving this: https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/nine-movements-featuring-miguel-atwood-ferguson

ooh he did one of my favorite International Artists releases! thanks, will investigate

(Atwood-Ferguson, I mean)

Loving this: https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/nine-movements-featuring-miguel-atwood-ferguson

This is great.

Just realised who Atwood & Ferguson are, too (thanks for the reminder, Sleeve)! If you meant this International Anthem rekkid, (with Carlos Niño) I wholeheartedly concur: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves

#onethread

^^ yep that's the one

https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/

8 Soisong broadcasts have been released already this year - by Ivan Pavlov (COH), not clear how many of this was made when Peter Christopherson was still alive but they're interesting and quite magical at times. Some fleeting beats, 60s chansons or Asian pop songs may also drift in and out, but I'd classify this as ambient, overall.

thanks for that

I friggin love the tune Dry by Donnacha Costello. Minimal ambient perfection. More good ambient, less bad ambient please. Soz I will check out the recent posts here now.

dog latin I'd also love it if you could make any other recommendations similar to Oh Why. No need to bring up Clams Casino, they're canon already obv.

“dry retch?” hell yeah. that whole Costello lp is beautiful if a bit hard on the ears at times

viborg, Clams Casino...I dunno, nothing I've ever heard has made me thing "this is great ambient music."

viborg, I think Balam Acab was lumped in with the whole witch house scene in the early '10s. It's by far the best track on the album. I dunno, maybe stuff like Haxan Cloak?

I posted this on the Spotify playlists thread, but you all might like this selection of ambient, neo-classical, game and movie soundtrack music I put together based on the three tunes I posted upthread. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NEfOjtgKLoD7LyXPXVEkw?si=6dafc7d7a5424c4b

(caveat: it does get quite "dramatic" at times, but it's meant to be listened to in song order)

That's quite a diverse playlist! As for Clams Casino, that was an unintentional thread derail. I don't really think of them as ambient at all, I just got excited at the mention of Oh Why because that is the one witch house song I consider transcendent and I was hoping for more along the same lines. So thanks for sharing your playlist.

And you're right, the Costello song was Dry Retch -- the version I had from some obscure old comp was mislabeled. I'll have to give a listen to the Together Is The New Alone album, I'm not completely averse to difficult ambient. Didn't initially note that it's 20 years old now. Clearly I don't quite have my finger on the throbbing pulse of contemporary ambient.

new Christina Vantzou (tape/digital) - https://slow-moves.bandcamp.com/album/releasing-spores

Multi Natural was a favorite last year, excited to give this one some dedicated headspace

immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.

this is gorgeous except it gets treacly towards the end, it’s supposed to be a “companion” to Satoshi Ashikawa’s Still Way:

https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laistigh-den-ghleo

― brimstead, Thursday, October 7, 2021 1:20 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is quite listenable. (Although maybe my version 'listenable' is dangerously close to treacly in general.) It does sound pretty heavily indebted to Music For Airports, I'm not familiar with Still Way tho.

Sorry earlier I meant to say "and you're right, brimstead" (about Dry Retch).

immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.

― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, October 25, 2021 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Glad to hear this— it's great.

Going to x-post on the Rolling Classical thread, too, but I just purchased and am listening to this for the first time and it is immense, expansive, and sort of frightening in Deep Listening way. two double bassists, one electric and one acoustic. Really intense and beautiful!

https://sonoluminuslabel.bandcamp.com/album/caeli

The Steve Roach + Michael Stearns collab is out today:
https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-earth-sky

Black Swan's record from earlier this year is pretty majestic. https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns

gorgeous new ambient mix by the black dog to go alongside their new album.

https://www.theblackdogma.com/2021/11/brutal-five-to-one-mix/

Has anyone called out the MLO compilation on Music from Memory? I'm really enjoying it. The bits that aren't beatless / ambient are similar to early As One / Black Dog. Good stuff all through the compilation.

Has anyone called out the MLO compilation on Music from Memory? I'm really enjoying it. The bits that aren't beatless / ambient are similar to early As One / Black Dog. Good stuff all through the compilation.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, November 11, 2021 11:33 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I love it. Was curious about how it was going to hang together, since the press release seemed to want to recontextualize MLO as something it wasn't (ie pure ambient), but it's a really well curated comp, flows really well, and the previously unreleased material is excellent

picked up the 3 MLO cd set a few years back.
yeah, that was a good day.

https://www.discogs.com/release/61673-MLO-Plastic-Apple

also, MLO/Wimborne vs Daniel Pemberton - all 25 mins of it :

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

absolute classic.

daniel is now one of the main blokes re tv soundtracks, and to think his first release was recorded in his bedroom when he was 16 and released on FAX.

phew.
just relistened to my digital rip of this mix and its clean.
the cd edition is well over the red book standard, and i have had problems with it in the past.

new max santilli record ('tidal') is lovely if you want drifty organic guitar stuff:

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

https://santilli.bandcamp.com/

oops, meant to post this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc34aVoFm1E

Cheers for the heads up. Loved Surface - didn't realise there was a new one.

no problem! the hugh small/brian allen simon record on melody as truth is also an absolute melter, but more of an impressionistic jazz thing:

https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/the-side-i-never-see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdnjbWYkNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h55oIw28cok

Wait, this is lovely. Keep them coming!

love that santilli

do you know gabe schray? similar ballpark to santilli, album from a few months back was great. i guess this is the hit off it, bit more of a tortoisey-vibe than a lot of his other stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B-VKoutRI

bandcamp:
https://gsschray.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-account