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.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 25 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
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
― dronestreet, Monday, 25 October 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
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.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Sorry earlier I meant to say "and you're right, brimstead" (about Dry Retch).
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
immediate connection to 'nine movements' posted above. deep vibrations.― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, October 25, 2021 5:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― 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
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
The Steve Roach + Michael Stearns collab is out today:https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-earth-sky
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 4 November 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
Black Swan's record from earlier this year is pretty majestic. https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-hymns
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
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/
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
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, 11 November 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
― 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
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
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
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
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/
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
oops, meant to post this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc34aVoFm1E
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Cheers for the heads up. Loved Surface - didn't realise there was a new one.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
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=sfdnjbWYkNQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h55oIw28cok
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Wait, this is lovely. Keep them coming!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
love that santilli
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
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
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
new Biosphere in January - first track is nice
https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-memories
― StanM, Monday, 22 November 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
xp yes had actually come across that record, v nice
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
Much to enjoy here:
https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/0
― the article don, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
yeah, looking forward to checking that out later this week.also, i read that mixmaster morris has signed to ninja tune again.
― mark e, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/what-came-before
thoroughly miserable dystopian soundtrack music that could have been used for Blade Runner 2049.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
highly recommend the oak of the golden dreams by Budd / Maxfieldi only let myself listen to it on rare occasion bf it's too good
― surm, Friday, 26 November 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
*bc
looking forward to checking out the Roach collab crüt
― surm, Friday, 26 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
heavily, heavily recommend Habitat by J Foerster / N Kramer. it came out earlier this year and the first side of it, especially, is just otherworldly and perfect. it's hard to stand out like that, in a genre often defined by beauty. harold budd said that his main intent with his music was to constantly strive to be as beautiful as he could, in that moment. but it's just so fucking good. 10/10, will make my ilm end of year ballot even though my ballot will only have like 6 2021 albums on it
https://jfoersternkramer.bandcamp.com/album/habitat
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
and sorry if it was someone here raving about it earlier this year that got me to buy it! my ol/former :( studio pal Tobey would often recommend extremely good new ambient releases to me, so I suspect it was on his recommendation
This sounds great. Lots of good Kankyo Ongaku inflected stuff around at the momentq? Or has it ever been thus and I'm just more aware of it?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
it seems to be everywhere. i mean ffs i'm releasing my own next week (details on drunkenly animate thread, i will do my best to not bring it up on the music threads here so that i do not become more of that guy than i already am)
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
and by "that guy" i mean the way that i would do it, which is inherently annoying. i'm never bugged when anyone else does it (unless it becomes annoying)
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
personally, ambient living /working space music has been my go-to for a while, even pre-pandemic, but especially during. i think maybe that's true for a lot of others as well. it is a peaceful and contemplative kind of music to listen to, as well as to make
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
ambient/slow/minimal music seems to be the only thing i can really bear to listen to anymore. it is healing for my myriad of health conditions. andrew chalk's music, in particular.
― maelin, Saturday, 27 November 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
I'll look out for your record karl!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
tape! :) i wish it were a record!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 November 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
xxp would love to hear any recent Andrew Chalk recommendations, he's been cranking them out and I'm at least 15 years behind
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Sunday, 28 November 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higanhttps://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/one-long-yearhttps://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/in-faxfleet-clouds-uplifted-autumn-gave-passage-to-kind-nature
three of my favourites...
― maelin, Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
thanks for the Habitat recommendation, Mr. Malone.
― lukas, Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
of course! i know zero other music by the two musicians involved, i should dive in a bit
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 November 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
uh whoa, check this out:
https://hubs.mozilla.com/DtvSLjY/habitat-house
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 November 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
https://arushijain.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-lilac-sky
"ambient synth ragas intended to be heard during the sunset hours"
not much sunshine rn but this Arushi Jain album is very nice
― calzino, Sunday, 28 November 2021 10:29 (two years ago) link
ok, i am already violating my self-imposed rules, but i have a tape coming out this friday:
https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-horses
i will probably, again, break the rules on friday and post that here one more time. i'm sorry!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 November 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
nice. is that a pink lyra 8?
― adam, Monday, 29 November 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
I've been listening to this almost every night for the past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zebxXliFtg
― JacobSanders, Monday, 29 November 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
is that a pink lyra 8?
in that photo on my bandcamp? yes it is! my musical partner has one, and it features in a piece she made earlier this year: https://cvadi.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyrehttps://cvadi.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyre
although it was part of the the setup that we used for our recordings, she didn't use it in the one we just made. she used:
Ibanez ts7TubescreamerTC electronics hall of fameDigitech JamManJhs lucky cat delayKorg poly 61 synthesizerRoland sh-2 synthesizer
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
also xp
dead texan is one of my all-time favorites. it's funny, with all this searching for new/old ambient that i do and most of us probably do, and i return to dead texan sooooooooo many times
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 05:17 (two years ago) link
thanks I’d forgotten how much I liked Dead Texan
― pj, Monday, 29 November 2021 06:57 (two years ago) link