Ambient Recommendations

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

new Biosphere in January - first track is nice

https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-memories

xp yes had actually come across that record, v nice

Much to enjoy here:

https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/0

yeah, looking forward to checking that out later this week.
also, i read that mixmaster morris has signed to ninja tune again.

https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/what-came-before

thoroughly miserable dystopian soundtrack music that could have been used for Blade Runner 2049.

highly recommend the oak of the golden dreams by Budd / Maxfield
i only let myself listen to it on rare occasion bf it's too good

*bc

looking forward to checking out the Roach collab crüt

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

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?

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)

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)

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

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.

I'll look out for your record karl!

tape! :) i wish it were a record!

xxp would love to hear any recent Andrew Chalk recommendations, he's been cranking them out and I'm at least 15 years behind

https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/higan
https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/one-long-year
https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/in-faxfleet-clouds-uplifted-autumn-gave-passage-to-kind-nature

three of my favourites...

thanks for the Habitat recommendation, Mr. Malone.

of course! i know zero other music by the two musicians involved, i should dive in a bit

uh whoa, check this out:

https://hubs.mozilla.com/DtvSLjY/habitat-house

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

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!

nice. is that a pink lyra 8?

I've been listening to this almost every night for the past year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zebxXliFtg

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 ts7Tubescreamer
TC electronics hall of fame
Digitech JamMan
Jhs lucky cat delay
Korg poly 61 synthesizer
Roland sh-2 synthesizer

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

thanks I’d forgotten how much I liked Dead Texan

I read a book about Vicki Mackenzie recently, a westerner who became the first ordained female Buddhist monk. When she was training, she became so fixated on the om mani padme hum mantra, that she found a way to make it a permanent part of her inner monologue - constantly ticking over in one corner of her mind, even when she wasn't consciously practising. I sometimes feel like that about Stars of the Lid and related stuff - that those soft drones are a constant and when I put on something like the Dead Texan, I notice that they've always been there, gently wheezing away in some distant chamber of the heart.