Ambient Recommendations

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.

It's funny, I feel the same about Aix em Klemm's self-titled record— "Sparkwood and Twentyone" seems to be sort of plodding around in my mind most of the time.

This is very beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNVumy5JUA

That is lovely, dog latin.

Table mentioning Anne Bourne on the albums of the year thread led me to this - a thing she's recorded with Tim Clement. I can't find any mention of it on Bandcamp and can't even find a website for a/the Summerlands record label. It's gorgeous (if you like yr drones of the 'submerged in a big tank' variety).

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

I love that. I wrote him an email.

Chinaski, he wrote me back within a few hours. He says he's going to put them up on a bandcamp soon, and that the session are very precious to him. Nice guy!

That's amazing Table - great news! I've been listening to the tracks a good deal (two from the session from what I can make out). Beautiful.

Today's the day for my first real music release (real as in there are some physical copies) since...like 2002!?

https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-horses

honestly this has been a notably horrific year, all year long, and i'm proud to make and release this music concurrently

purchased. don't spend it all at once

Great ambienting, km

thank you both for listening!

Also purchased a digital copy. Can't wait to listen more intently!

want to mention here that i acquired Eno Music For Airports on cassette recently - so happy with this find

Cool, surm! I didn't even know they released that on cassette!

A thanks and minor quibble:

the Santilli record is indeed beautiful, but is really not an ambient record— it sounds like the son of Tibbetts Northern Song, or even a more expansive William Ackerman. Has more in common with the Schlarb/Taylor record from this past year and other ECM stylings.

the Softer Drive record is beautiful, KM!

this seems good:

https://alisterfawnwoda.bandcamp.com/album/milan
Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz

i like it a lot so far - i guess that's Leisz doing the pedal steel?

xp thank you table, glad you like it!!

Chinaski and all, Tim wrote me to let me know the undercurrents sessions are now on Bandcamp.

https://timclement1.bandcamp.com/album/undercurrents-1-2

The notes on the page there are pretty interesting.

Thanks for the Bandcamp heads up Table. I've listened to it and every night this week. It's beautiful.