Ambient Recommendations

Pretty and baroque.

Never quite sure the best place to drop random ambient recommendations but keep meaning to so...

Peter Wright - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover. Kiwi guitar player, relocated to London. This album is a career highlight for me, especially this track: https://peterwright.bandcamp.com/track/london-is-drowning

don’t mind all the different ambient threads, like visiting different islands that get rained on different times of the year

Nice on on the Peter Wright. I really loved lights out, but never really delved into him.

https://peterwright.bandcamp.com/album/lights-out

Very excited to learn that the Kasper Bjørke Quartet have a new album coming out later this month. The Fifty Eleven Project was one of my favourites of 2018

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/10/10/track-premiere-kasper-bjorke-quartet-abiogenesis-feat-philipschneider/

Sofie Birch has a new project:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sofie-birch-antonina-nowacka-languoria/

The album represents a meeting of the minds. As a solo musician, Birch has spent the past few years developing a unique style of lush, welcoming ambient music steeped in new-age tones. Nowacka’s work has ranged from abstract vocalizations alongside stark electronics—imagine Joan La Barbara fronting Wolf Eyes—to solo improvisations in Oaxacan churches and Javan caves, probing the outer limits of natural reverb. If Birch’s music is a brightly colored expanse of coral, or a sashaying field of kelp, Nowacka’s voice is a lone organism carving a languid path through it—perhaps a translucent jellyfish, lithe yet severe in the exactitude of its movements.

Birch pares back her playing to make way for the slim contours of Nowacka’s instrument. Rather than unleashing her usual billowing plumes of synthesizer, she for the most part restrains herself to just a few sounds and the merest melodic shapes, while faint field recordings—birdsong, the rustle of footsteps—root the music in the lived world.

good looking out, thanks

fantastic record

seeing her live in a few weeks, look forward to it

here is a stellar composition for 100 cm chau gong and friction stick:
https://christianwindfeld.bandcamp.com/album/tilflugt

Kasper Bjorke - Abiogenesis referred to above is really something.

The track Seminom Non Seminon from the Fifty Eleven Project is up there with any ambient record ever. I believe it's essentially his reaction to being diagnosed with testicular cancer (he was eventually given the all clear) set to music which is obvs gloomy territory but it's immense. I'd quite fancy seeing Kasper live with an orchestra and everything.

Also I don't know if it's a bit corporate to recommend Spotify playlists but I'm enjoying Ambient 1990s, which is 7 hours of goodness from Steve Roach, Global Communication, Gas, Coil, Oval, Susumu Yokota and many others, with the odd thing from Slowdive and Bark Psychosis thrown in too.

We have a couple of hours of new ambience here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-051o22-a-duvet-of-ambient-leaves/

And links to most of what we played:

https://www.buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-npld-ddr-oct-051022-a-duvet-of-ambient-leaves

Droid, I listened to your show for the first time tonight and it's wonderful! Exactly what I've been looking for, can't believe I've not listened until now. Really top work.

Yeah really enjoying this.

Ah, that's lovely, thank you both.

We have a couple of top tips for this month - the debut solo album from Ian Lynch of Lankum fame. You cant tell from the preview track, but this is mostly a very experimental album of folk drone and dark ambient. Its out tomorrow and well worth a listen. https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me

And this new release from NRV. Just the right combination of shimmering melancholic melody and reverbed noise https://nrv-nerve.bandcamp.com/album/blue-roofs

The Omni Garden cassette Droid played on his latest show is pure bliss (if wafty new age with a zen monk intoning over the top of it is your thing): https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/new-directions-in-meditation-tonalities

thank u thread posters for the Sophie Birch reccs, really great stuff. I get kinda soothing oliveros/dempster in a cistern vibes from whisper fold
brush

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yeah i also want to join in on the thank yous for that. Languoria has quickly become a go-to sleep and nap recording for me. i have listened to it dozens of times in the last couple weeks. the aria-like singing that floats in and out very much reminds me of Pavilion of Dreams, one of my very favorite albums

I discovered Sofie Birch from Max's newsletter when he recommended Holotropica

Really love this 2020 release from Birch w/ field recording presence + synth: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/themes-for-a-better-tomorrow-vol-ii-hidden-terraces

Digging on this new Liai on Quiet Time as well: https://liai.bandcamp.com/album/pome-2

^^yes that is my favorite Birch

this one also great https://sofiebirch.bandcamp.com/track/behind-her-name-chestnuts-fall-forever

There might be a more appropriate thread in which to post this, but this is close enough.

Just found out Norm Chambers aka N Chambers aka Panabrite aka Jürgen Müller has died. The Jürgen Müller hoax record got more attention than his other music, but the Panabrite discography is full of gorgeous cosmic synthscapes with occasional acoustic guitar ornamentation. Personally I owed him a huge debt for his blog Lunar Atrium, which turned me on to a ton of great library and outré synth records circa 2010. Sadly the blog got scrubbed a few years ago like so many others from that era...

Currently zoning out to Panabrite's The Baroque Atrium, which glows extremely bright.

Anyway, huge RIP. Fuck cancer, long live progressive synth music.

Oh shit there's a thread for the Jürgen Müller record, will drop a post there too

Thats really awful. Steve Roden has also been struck down, he's retired due to alzheimers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEAyqAioP4

oh god damn it, I love his work

We have a new show up: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-021122-one-leg-one-eye-special/

We ended up going pretty dark this month, influenced by our special guest, Ian Lynch/One Leg One Eye talking about his ambient preferences and his new album of hardcore folk drone weirdness (mentioned above).

Bandcamp links for most of the tunes are here:

https://www.buymusic.club/list/noplace_drone-npld-ddr-nov-021122-one-leg-one-eye-special

mr. chalk just issued his first all-new material solo CD in five years. it is very beautiful.

https://andrewchalk.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-times

v excited for new Ulla Straus - her LPs have been among my favorite/most played the last few yrs
https://ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/foam-2

thanks for both of those!

Ulla is also very nice, she played at a poetry reading I headlined (with her lol) in March.

Thanks for these great recs, I will admit that I am feeling a little underwhelmed by the TR Jordan record thst everyone was talking up— felt a little too simple and on the nose for me, but oh well.

I’m a little over it myself, lol, there’s too much treacly emotion seeping through

anybody into the new Romeo Poirier? Some really amazing vibes there.

There's some lovely stuff on this

https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/skal-ghost

Love the TR record also. Sounds like one of those early iPad games that made you push blobs around the screen and came with a “YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS WITH HEADPHONES” disclaimer. Thanks for the tip!

Sounds like one of those early iPad games that made you push blobs around the screen and came with a “YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS WITH HEADPHONES” disclaimer

Osmos!

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

several xps ulla is my favourite of the new breed of ambient artists but her latest one doesn't do it for me. Only listened to the clips tbh

I have been enjoying some new works on the always excellent Stroom label

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/op-zee

Reissue of early 80s work by Muziekkamer. It's a bit Zoviet Francey

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/sent-from-my-telephone

Voice Actor - Sent From My Telephone - aoty contender right here. It's four and a half hours long and has over a hundred tracks and is an excellent soundtrack to having Covid. RIYL Inga Copeland, Dean Blunt, people mumbling about stuff

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/trains-tracks

V/A - Trains & Tracks - not all ambient tbh. It's a soundtrack to a three hour journey across Belgium, featuring artists who live in the areas the train goes through. And it has train announcements on it

New Ulla didn't do much for me on the first listen either but by the 2nd attempt it clicked! ymmv

caught Sofie Birch last night, improvised set with Nana Pi on saxophone

wonderful

aw man

New Malibu, for sure. New Gigi Masin too.

Kind of excited about this https://www.soundohm.com/product/subterraneans-12-1

New Malibu is glorious.

This is outstanding. I thought it was a hoax, but it's legit afaict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ecUteNpQ6o

thanks for the tip, available as a tape here:
https://candlefam.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-hospitals

Yeah, €19.19 shipping for the €8 tape or $999 for digital, the pricks.

agree that it is extremely annoying when people do that, just sell the damn digital files

Especially annoying as this guy's stuff is super hard to find, even by the standards of private issue ambient/new age. 250 tape copies released in 1988 etc...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/11923661-Douglas-Em

non-US ilxors plz feel free to ilxmail me there

This is lovely. Thread delivering in spades!