Does anyone have any recent-ish Woob to recommend? I really liked "Light & Levitation" from 2015.
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
:O had no idea they were still around
― sleeve, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
this new Joseph Allred on Feeding Tube isn't strictly ambient but it is instrumental and very pleasant
https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-strange-flowers-in-the-shade
― sleeve, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
behold! https://woob.bandcamp.com/
― death generator (lukas), Friday, 16 December 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
whoa:
https://www.musicfrommemory.com/release/7587/dream-dolphin/gaia-selected-ambient-downtempo-works-1996-2003
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Nice ambien record from club producer Color Plus:https://colorplus.bandcamp.com/album/true
('ambien' was a typo but it's apt so I'm leaving it)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Finally getting around to this beautiful album:
https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/indifference-will-devour-you
Beau Sorenson - Indifference Will Devour You
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
I became much less interested in ambient this year— I felt like the records that everyone was talking about were mediocre, with notable exceptions. Not sure what that’s about, just posting here as it is something I noticed re my own listening habits. The Wolf record was much more dull than I was expecting, Felicia Atkinson included the annoying “female whispering incomprehensibly” throughout, the TR Jordan struck me as treacly. I do wonder whether some of this newfound negativity toward the genre has to do with a change in my work— I am simply not at a computer all day any longer— or a change happening within the genre. Last year, an ambient record was my favorite of the year, and some other ambient records were pretty high up. This year, Romance is the only ambient record that is in my top 20.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 26 December 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
no, I agree there is a lot of crappy “ambient” and I hate it, I have been too lazy to just make my own.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, 26 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
I know this is all snobby and stuff but this quote from pop matters ‘ ambient list seems very much “not-getting-it”You know a terrible ambient record when you hear one: generic, unengaging, and outstaying its welcome. At times, Brian Eno equated ambient music to wallpaper (in a non-derogatory way), but a lousy ambient album honestly sounds like the aural equivalent of watching paint dry. You know what this sounds like if you’re even a casual fan of the genre.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, 26 December 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
1966!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZThhz94lA
― droid, Monday, 2 January 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
wild and wonderful
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 2 January 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
I have a feeling I read about this somewhere on here but damn this Javier Segura track is HUGE. It's notionally ambient, sort of reminds me of Organum, the spacier end of Blanck Mass, Natural Snow Buildings. That kind of thing. (I almost shouted NO! when the drums come in around the 3.30 mark, but they're backgrounded enough for it not to matter.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHdumg_FBUU
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
oh hey I have that record! the Spanish 80s comp. will relisten, thanks
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
yeah that's overwhelming
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah was on this excellent compilation from a couple of years ago:
https://www.discogs.com/master/2014474-Various-La-Ola-Interior-Spanish-Ambient-Acid-Exoticism-1983-1990
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 09:42 (one year ago) link
Detroit escalator
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
thank u Bandcamp updates:
https://andrewosterhoudt.bandcamp.com/album/out-together
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
I randomly looked up the drummer from The Cranberries to see if he had done anything, and it turns out he's making ambient/drone records: https://flawlermusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-hope-is-never-lost
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
This is nice, from a late 80s/early 90s Canadian New age label with about a dozen releases mainly from this one artist: Genesonics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvFNaGxcydM
― droid, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
Im also ashamed to say that despite a penchant for Australian ambient, I only recently discovered the work of Alan Lamb. This is an amazing work recorded using derelict telegraph wires. Kind of a blend of contact field recordings, long string drones and disintegrating wind harp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlNbb8eric
― droid, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
That Alan Lamb album rules. His album with Sarah Hopkins - Sky Song - is nice too.
An aside, but has anyone read Mark Prendergast's *Ambient Century* book? It's a big old tome and I'm kinda stuck with his style and not sure whether to continue.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:18 (one year ago) link
My friend bought that in high school and we both thought it was pretty bad
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 11 March 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
ambient century I mean. I recall a lot of factual errors and yeah just an annoying style. Plus I think I had just read ocean of sound which is like a masterpiece
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 11 March 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Ocean Of Sound is so great
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 11 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
re: ambient century
i came to it as a greenhorn looking to learn something and most of it was lost on me. i never finished it. (this was well over a decade ago though; perhaps a revisit is in order)
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Saturday, 11 March 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
I got Ambient Century when I was, maybe, 16? And it was quite a useful intro to a range of artists and made a bunch of connections that I didn't previously know about.
Looking back on it now, there's some baffling omissions (the whole west coast scene e.g. Steve Roach) and some absolutely toe-curling turns of phrase (there's one about Reich's Electric Counterpoint being "so good it was later sampled by The Orb" which is burned on my memory). But it's not a bad nuts and bolts list of ambient records if you've got to start somewhere.
Ocean of Sound is of course incredible, but also not necessarily the most accessible entry point.
― bamboohouses, Monday, 13 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's not the worst. Useful as an introduction and for reference but loads of weird absences. It reminds me a bit of Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley.
― droid, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
The Amazon reviews for Ocean of Sound are hilariously mixed. Interesting how he traces ambient music back to Debussy, which makes a lot of sense.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
and the 1889 Paris Expo where Westerners first heard gamelan, yeah it makes total sense to me as well
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
*Ocean of Sound* is a straight up masterpiece (as is *Haunted Weather*). I think I might give *Ambient Century* a miss. Don't mind the primer aspect but I think I'm after something closer to Toop's approach.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link
Speaking of oceans... Some recently discovered oceanic deep space ambience garlanded with tiny glistening sparkles of dub techno. Really lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-CjAZZO4A
― droid, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
lovely, thanks
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
― Evan, Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:41 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
aside from just loving this, i think Dream Dolphin is maybe the best name for an ambient act ever
― Half Japanese Breakfast (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 6 April 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
One might guess vaporwave from a name like that also
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 7 April 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
Absolutely gorgeous vocal-loop ambient rarity:
https://demouniverse.com/2016/09/30/eyelight-trigger-1994/
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
missed this, gorgeous hour-long clarinet/effects from Waclaw Zimpel
https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/ebbing-in-the-tide-3
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
"Provincial electro, vernacular kosmiche, economy of small scale."
https://cosmicecono.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-econo-2-2
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
"Tower Of Meaninglessness" is hitting the spot
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:06 (one year ago) link
A lovely album of tender Basinskiesque orchestral serialism from 2001. Deutsch has worked with Tetsu Inoue and tony Conrad amongst others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNqwyKD5Ac
― droid, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
love Deutsch, thx
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
That Cosmic Econo record is great
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
Just listened right to that Zimpel track right through. Thanks for the recommendation, sleeve - just what the day required, in honesty.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered
Easily one of my favorite ambient records, does something to me that nothing else does. Just a gorgeous drifting stasis.
Curious if anyone can recommend other wind instrument-heavy ambient.
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:56 (eleven months ago) link
I actually can’t remember what that album sounds like… but re:wind instruments les halles is all about mellow echoing pan pipes and stuffhttps://halles.bandcamp.com/
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:41 (eleven months ago) link
damn Eight Fantasies by Les Halles is surprisingly close!
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:14 (eleven months ago) link
whoa les halles is just an instant YES
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 01:14 (eleven months ago) link
The trombone is one of the great ambient instruments, maybe the greatest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvMp4XDICU
― droid, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:44 (eleven months ago) link
And there's some great Ambient Tuba in Tom Heasly's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMHDFOw1yU
― droid, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:45 (eleven months ago) link
oh check this out: https://craigkupka.bandcamp.com/track/trombones-of-lithia
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:56 (eleven months ago) link