Ambient Recommendations

Been following this dude for a bit now, really loved The Infinity Room and Weaponized Serenity and now he's dropped Cold Ecstasy. There's a wonderful anthemic quality to a lot of these tracks, featuring sampled female voices and chords progressions that evoke melancholy and wonder simultaneously (though by the end of the record can get a touch predictable). If I was younger this record would be an ideal "post-rave" soundtrack.

https://3six.bandcamp.com/album/cold-ecstasy

this Golden Hallways album is very soothing

https://goldenhallwaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/rules-chance-vol-3

this Tim Jackiw thing is great, lofi fragments

https://timjackiw.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-music-98

intrigued by the golden hallways, caretaker vibe

The 3six Cold Ecstasy record is indeed fabulous. Not sure if you've heard 3six and Black Swan (Drones for Bleeding Hearts) - In Four Parts from 2019 but it rules

Big fan of this 2009 LP from Nami Hotatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtn12oxjik

Gutted to share that Steve Roden has passed away after battling Alzheimer’s for the last 6 years. He was not even 60 years old.

News was shared on his Instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw35RGExQ9D/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This was posted on the Balearic thread but thought it needed to be here too: the new Johnny Nash is lovely https://jonnynash.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-entry

I'm not a regular itt, but I just listened to the new Andra Ljos album and loved it: https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/megalithic-statues-of-vishapakar

I got into this recently. Dickie Landry was in the Phillip Glass Ensemble and some of his solo stuff has been reissued. Kind of on the minimalism side of ambient.

https://dickielandry.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen-saxophones

New Lemon Quartet is lovely (could almost be on the ECM thread tbh): https://lemonquartet.bandcamp.com/album/artsfest

been listening to the Hands That Bind (ost) by jim o'rourke since it was released in July. really pleasant mix of electro-acoustic drones with what sounds like prepared piano, vibraphone, strings (possibly some electric guitar--could be the piano though) ...

https://jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/hands-that-bind-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

relaxed instrumental bits alternating with more dissonant & alien-sounding electronics. it's a nice contrast to the more harsh Steamroom material (hard to compare) ... it's nicely varied, more straightforward than much of what i've heard from mr. o'rourke lately. not sure if it's been discussed on ILX yet? apologies if so..

The Lemon Quartet one is lovely, thanks for the rec.

I can never decide which thread to bump but I posted some recent discoveries/faves on Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

Cheers for the Lemon Quartet recommendation!

I've been gobsmacked by Laurel Halo's new album 'Atlas'. My favorite kind of "ambient"--dense, detailed, active, both beautiful and unsettling. I've liked her previous records, but this one is on another level:

https://laurelhalo.bandcamp.com/album/atlas

It may be gauche to say so, but I also am really happy with how my own most recent "thick" ambient record came out. Consists of a thirty-minute, six part suite of organ, double bass, guitar, Rhodes, piano, and field recordings, plus a cover of Low's "Laser Beam". All sales benefit the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, in Mimi Parker's memory.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6-3RTRWcAAauI0?format=jpg&name=large

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong

I still need to make some time for the Laurel Halo, I haven't been in a power ambient mood but I do love low-passed piano.

Humbly submitting bc I think some people here would enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXH995qc-k0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIuBnqZ3kZI

loving the Lemon Quartet

Also really feeling the new Airhead album of weightless micro drum & bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YePcha74xFM

(maybe it's an EP, or albumlet)

been spinning ellicist's "point defects" alot for marking essays etc - it's in a sweet spot between tetsuo inoue's "world receiver" and some of jim o'rourke's more sprawling efforts https://i.discogs.com/ZYKRywReEmcAq4koH7d6l9uB3s7pGP-Vetfl61FjEH4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTc5/ODExLTE1NTY4ODQz/OTItNTMxMC5qcGVn.jpeg

sorry, "tetsu", wherever he may be, bless that man.

Ok the Laurel Halo record is really something, it actually feels like floating underwater (she also played 'Lumeri' from upthread on her NTS show, what a world!).

I've been making an 'ambient' 'jazz' playlist that's mostly Jakob Bro and Jim Hall, suggestions welcome for that...

I've been making a similar nu/post/ambient jazz thing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SKAtGSn6CBN2hNPyT0Kgd?si=fb088929dfa1447c

Ooh thank you, will definitely listen

Would welcome any recommendations!

Here's the jazzy one I just started - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AYLYgDPQ0S6nsiBBm1Rjb?si=3c724c2a710c49da

And here's my giant all-purpose 'ambient' playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aZn29MzNXEARJrCfEA4Lx?si=0d3c8db49a1a4437

The motherlode!

(Here's my ambient/drone/new age one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Gq0B1R9cUK2g1pkEX04Fn?si=70c58bd2eb0f4767)

Nice mix. Any track off Matthew Sage and Raymond Zander's Parayellowgram would fit in nicely imo. Also Hat Dog from the new Honestly Same record.

Nice, yours is much deeper since I generally have full albums on mine.

Thanks for the M. Sage album recommendation. Gorgeous stuff.

We're still doing the radio show, but I haven't been posting them here (or anywhere, lol).

Latest episode: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-041023-lowercase-laments/

1. Zvuku - Part 2 Bridge - The Slow Loss - Frontend Synthetics (08/23)
2. Autechre - notwotwo - Quaristice - WARP (2008)
3. Kuma - The Holy Ocean Of Eternity - We Have Dark Friends - Frosti (09/23)
4. Infinite Limb - Electric Reeds - Of Ambience and Americana - Centripetal Force (09/23)
5. Savvas Metaxas - pt.4 - Magnetic Loops III - LINE (04/23)
6. Akhira Sano - Look Back To Differentation - Phase Contrast From Recollection - 12k (06/23)
7. Stephen Vitiello & Steve Roden - The Spaces Contained In Each - The Spaces Contained In Each
8. Elijah Knutsen - Vending Machine Sound - Music For Vending Machines 1 (2023 Remaster) - Memory Color (2020/2023)
9. Hatsü- Meraki - Meraki - Not On Label (08/23)
10. Natalia Beylis - Mermaids - Mermaids - Touch Sensitive (09/23)
11. Stephen Roddy - Leviathan - Leviathan- Fiadh Productions (06/10/22)
12. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Refuges From Black Magic - Black Magic Cannot Cross Water - Hospital Productions (2012)
13. Conducive - Vendedor Ambulante - Modern Prophecy - V33 Records (01/23)
14. Worriedaboutsatan - Keygen Variations 2 - - These Clouds… sound in silence (05/23)
15. Grischa Lichtenberger - 0611_26_lv_1_c - Works for Last Work - raster - artistic platform (04/23) 16. Arian Shafiee - Sillage - Engines In Unity - VDSQ Records (09/23)
17. Maria W Horn - Towards the Diamond Abyss / The Navigators - Celestial Shores (w/ Mats Erlandsson) - B.A.A.D.M. (09/23)
18. Andrea Marutti - The Pulsating Silence - The Subliminal Relation Between Planets (Live In Archiaro) - Nextera (2008)
19. Yann Novak - Traversing the Substrate - The Voice of Theseus - Touch Music (07/23)
20. 400 Lonely Things - Parlor Tricks - Mother Moon - Cold Spring (04/23)
21. Kate Carr - Shy, typically alone or in pairs - A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds - Room40 (17/11/23)

Surprised to be putting this here but this is a nice collection of very moody modular drone

https://vinceclarke.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-silence

Keep coming back to the new Mister Water Wet:

https://sodagong.bandcamp.com/album/cold-clay-from-the-middle-west

Made a mix with some of my favorite ambient/drone/compositional/etc. tracks from 2023:

'The Unease,' a short mix of my favorite ambient, textural, drone and experimental music of 2023:https://t.co/To9Lu6nIvV

with Richard Skelton, Tim Hecker, @karenvogtmusic Natalia Beyils & Eimear Reidy, Chuck Johnson, Mizu, @KumaTKG @Sailclothsounds @LaurelHalo Hilary Woods pic.twitter.com/rvOYVI05jW

— Musicophilia - @musicophilia.bsky.social (@musicophiliamix) December 21, 2023

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/musicophilia_00_various_-_unease_2023_cover-front.jpg?w=3600

Various – ‘The Unease’
2023

01 [00:00-03:20] Richard Skelton – “Hypervelocity” (‘Selenodesy’ 2023)
02 [02:45-07:50] Ian Manire – “Evensong, Part Five” (‘Evensong’ 2023)
03 [07:35-10:05] Tim Hecker – “Total Garbage” (‘No Highs’ 2023)
04 [09:15-13:45] Karen Vogt – “Losing the Sea” (‘Losing the Sea’ 2023)
05 [10:00-21:10] Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – “The Whistling Dust” (excerpt) (‘She Came Through…’ 2023)
06 [15:45-18:45] Daily Rituals – “Wild Dusk Singing” (‘Aftersongs’ 2023)
07 [18:05-24:20] Old Saw – “Spinner’s Weave” (‘Sewn the Name’ 2023)
08 [20:50-25:10] Chuck Johnson – “Interrogation” (‘Burdon of Proof’ 2023)
09 [24:40-28:35] Mizu – “Prelude (An Eternity of Light)” (‘Distant Intervals’ 2023)
10 [28:35-32:40] Samuel Adams – “Shade Studies” (excerpt) (‘Current’ 2023)
11 [31:40-36:05] Kuma – “All We Can Do Is Carry On with Grace” (‘We Have Dark Friends’ 2023)
12 [33:40-37:05] Sailcloth – “Civil Twilight” (‘Resting Fields’ 2023)
13 [36:35-40:50] Laurel Halo – “Earthbound” (‘Atlas’ 2023)
14 [40:30-43:20] Hilary Woods – “Burial Rites” (‘Acts of Light’ 2023)
15 [43:05-46:40] J.P.A. Falzone – “Sublunar Harmonies” (excerpt) (‘Sublunar Harmonies’ 2023)

[Total Time: 46:40]

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/year-end-the-unease-2023/

https://thme-sound.bandcamp.com/album/nocens

quite calming

Great discounts on one of my favorite long-form producers. Gorgeous suites of various spaced sonics and muted beats. https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/ Code is xmas23

Donnacha Costello is shutting down his bandcamp and everything is pay what you like. There's some fantastic stuff in there.

https://donnachacostello.bandcamp.com/

23 for 23.

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-271223-23-for-23/

1. Fortresses - Hear - Dragon’s Eye (07/23)
2. Kate Carr - Unlikely to be heard - A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds - Room40 (11/23)
3. Jeannine Schultz - Picture No. 1 - Pure - Polar Seas (08/23)
4. Sebby Kowal - Goodnight - Wonders - Decaying Spheres (29/12/23)
5. Savvas Metaxas - 01 - Magnetic Loops III - Line (04/23)
6. Tape Loop Orchestra - Part 2 - Onde Sinusoi​̈​dale Et Bande Magne​́​tique - Quiet Details (11/23)
7. Ian Hawgood - Movement VIII - and then there was nothing - Home Normal (06/23)
8. Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - Muen - Solia - Polar Seas (08/23)
9. Marja Ahti - Shrine (Aether) - Tender Membranes - Black Truffle (09/23)
10. Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci - Dust Storm - Chthonic - American Dreams (08/23)
11. Natalia Beylis - Black Sea, 1967 - Mermaids - Touch Sensitive (09/23)
12. Brian Eno - And Let It In (Instrumental) - Foreverandevernomore (Forever Voiceless Edition)
13. Cv313 - suspended in a moment [someplace else] - Suspended In A Moment [Someplace Else] W/Variant Refocus - Not On Label (03/2023)
14. Ola Sandberg - 3/3 - Invisible Room Volume Two - Castles in Space (10/23)
15. Linnley - Foregone Delusion - Filiform - Space Surgeries (12/23)
16. Isolated Community - Into The Mirror - Pit Full of Ghosts - See Blue Audio (01/23)
17. Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen - March - Music for Open Spaces - Hands In The Dark (05/23)
18. Yara Asmar - three clementines on the counter of a blue-tiled sun-soaked kitchen - Synth Waltzes And Accordion Laments - Hive Mind Records (10/23)
19. K-Group - Occasional Garden - New Series 1 - Knotwilg (09/23)
20. Lia Kohl - became daily today - The Ceiling Reposes (03/23)
21. Liz Helman - The Colour of Water - The Colour of Water - Flaming Pines (11/23)
22. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Severed Belonging - Severed Belonging (09/23)
23. Anja Lauvdal - Silk - Farewell to Faraway Friends Vol 1 & 2 - Small-town Supersound (08/23)

will be cool to check out.

realizing i may have misplaced my cassette copy of Ambient 1 and i'm super bummed. hoping to find it when i move soon.

wondering if would be apt to start a thread for "daytime ambient" or "upbeat ambient" - stuff i listen to while i'm at work

would anyone else have a need for this / know of a thread that already exists / is this useless given the availability of other threads?

I'd be interested in that thread!

For awhile I had an 'office techno' (very distinct from business techno obviously) playlist, very minimal/dubby/repetitive stuff. Can't remember what was all on it but like Basic Channel, the new Donato Dozzy would fit, etc.

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

Deepchord?

Sofie Birch

my pal Ceremonial Abyss put out a new one that's pretty lovely, to my ears.

https://ceremonialabyss.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

I'd definitely follow the thread but not entirely sure what 'upbeat ambient' is!

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you know, what got me thinking about it is putting on xtal by aphex twin. and sort of a go hawaii vibe by casino versus japan. that's sort of where my mind goes in this venture. maybe I'll do it, it would be seriously useful for me.

though I think daytime is a better descriptor than upbeat, I just don't want to feel like I'm swimming in dark underwaters when I'm working, although I pretty much would like to feel like that at all other times

The Detroit Variant group (cv313, Intrusion) just put out a bunch of lovely long form pieces. Kind of expensive ($18 each) but each one is 2 hours plus of some great clouds of sound.

https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-oceans-w-digital-exclusive-limited-edition-set-variant-conduction
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-in-a-moment-someplace-else-w-variant-refocus
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-perception-submerging-waves-variant-submersion
https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/subtraktive-reprise-w-variant-etherscapes

inoue’s ambiant otaku is so goddamned good

am I the only one that gets into Iasos? I guess he's pretty (very? lol) new agey but I'm obsessed