Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

I think we should have a separate thread for this stuff, because the bobbins and techno albums threads aren't really the best place to discuss it.

I don't think the discussion should be limited to stuff that's just come out, but preferably we should talk about newish records, so this doesn't just turn into old fogeys reminiscing the glory days of FAX and Rising High and em:t.

To get the ball rolling, here's my top 8 ambient albums of 2015 (partially copy+pasted from the techno albums thread):

1. Raw C + Pharmakustik ‎– Anamorph Specimens
* Excellent, droney and acid-tinged ambient techno (think of early Air Liquide and Khan & Walker albums) from Atom Heart's new label, No. If you buy this from their Bandcamp page, you get a 20-minute bonus ambient remix by Material Object, which is dope too.

2. Anna Thorvaldsdottir ‎– In the Light of Air
* An excellent modern classical album from this Icelandic composer, peformed by International Contemporary Ensemble. It's droney and minimal but not discordant, so good listening for ambient lovers. The package also includes a surround mix on Bluray, which I feel is the preferable medium for this kind of music, if you just happen to have a 5.1. speaker set.

3. Thomas P. Heckmann – Ghosts
* I think this is the first "proper" ambient album by this legendary producer and gearhead. Ghosts looks and sounds like a soundtrack to some imaginary science horror film, some cold and harsh dark ambient with occasional beats; simply put, it succeeds in doing what the Monolake album of the same name didn't quite achieve.

4. & 5. Omni Vu Deity - Vuunayatu & Nuiemu Rift
* These two albums are pretty much the opposite of "Ghosts", light and colourful and breezy ambient. They're supposedly inspired by, respectively, Polynesian and African music, but I'm not sure if I hear those influences, except for some gentle percussion samples and occassional disembodied voices, so you don't have to fear cultural appropriation here.

6. Lorenzò Montana - Vari Chromo
* Mr. Montanà has been on fire lately, releasing several quality ambient and IDM albums in the last two years. This one sounds like old-fashioned "home listening techno" with its syncopated beats and moody synth melodies, so nothing groudn-breaking, but boy is this guy great at producing it.

7. Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Light
* These two acts from the opposite ends of ambient music, with Ishq specializing in soothing cosmic sounds, and Material Object in metallic drones. As expected, the result of their collaboration is somewhere in between, but it works. This one is also on No.

8. Lorenzo Montanà ‎– Nihil
* Another quality release from this guy, this album is more ambient and long-form than Vari Chromo. Some lovely, subdued and organic vibes to be found.

not really bought much ambient this year, but here are a few i have and enjoyed

in no particular order

- synkro - changes : old school synths and 90s ambient-techno mellow grooves on r&s. generic at times, but very pleasant

- jens-ewe beyer - emissary : released on the newly launched kompakt ambient label offshoot, kompakt pop ambient, that's for artist albums (as opposed to the pop ambient compilations). very sunday morning vs vangelis, featuring acoustic instruments mixed in amongst the usual ear candy synthetics.

- the orb - moonbuilding : this year i hit the kompakt groove hard. and this 2015 release hit the spot perfectly.

- sherwood and pinch - late night endless : not exactly ambient, but very laid back late night bass heavy dubbed out brilliance.

- lee bannon - pattern of excellence - cant recall too much about this, but i enjoyed upon its release.

- pop ambient 2015 - yes, more of the same, but when in the mood, this stuff is very addictive.

I haven't really paid attention to them recently, but are the Ultimae artists still doing good stuff?

I found the Jens-Uwe Beyer EP that just came out (Amor dark pink tencel satin suit) a lot more engaging than Emissary, which didn't really click with me at all tbh.

Thanks for the recommendations, Mark! Synkro in particular sounds like it's right up my alley, so I'll have to check that one out.

If we can recommend stuff that's a bit older, last year Oliver Lieb released Inside Voices (on Psychonavigation), his first ambient record in 20 years, and it's amazing! Pretty much my favourite "proper" ambient album of this decade. Like his 90s ambient music on Recycle or Die, this is cosmic and completely beatless, but it's not soothing and warm, rather than ominous and cold. If you can imagine Lovecraftian sense of cosmic dread put into music, this would be quite close. One track is called "Spooky Action at a Distance", which I think summarizes neatly what the album is all about.

Kevin Drumm's Tannenbaum is so majestic, i can rarely bypass it for anything else on dark winter nights. ditto Imperial Distortion. samples available on bandcamp.

hmmmmmm, is this where i put my pretty, coffee-table beats listening (like say this years EPs from Shigeto, Made of Oak, monte booker)?

Sure!

glad tuomas said that !
tis his thread, but i am all about coffee table beats ..
anything that is recommended that i can buy in a high street music emporium the better i.e. fopp/hmv/rise

http://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/oxidation-states

just heard this today.. thick, beautiful mass laden with troubling dissonances and delightful timbres. varied tonal zones, heavy vibes throughout

I mentioned it in the Ethereal/Goth thread, where it didn't really belong other than being released by Projekt, but Stratosphere's Aftermath is really, really good in 2015:

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

My favorite ambient record of the year was Jonas Munk's Absorb/Fabric/Cascade--really lovely stuff.

Also Chihei Hatakeyama released I think five albums this year, most of them good, but his collaboration with Federico Durand, magical Imaginary Child, was the tops.

Other runners up: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's A Year with 13 Moons and Sam Prekop's last album, which wasn't really ambient but was all modular synth stuff. Chris Bissonnette put out a nice one on Kranky, too.

basinski: cascade - pulls the same strings he always does, the ones that walk you over to stare at the rain on the window

kaitlyn aurelia smith: tides - you just woke up and you can float above the heap of thoughts on suspended waves of synthesis for a little while, calmly

some of my favs from 2015 (these are all on Spotify in the US):

Sarah Davachi – Qualities of Bodies Permanent: incredible psychedelic analog synth/mellotron/flute drones, everyone should listen to this
https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/qualities-of-bodies-permanent

Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Dupree – Perpetual: delicate and beautiful microsounds
https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual

Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/sonnet

Thore Pfeiffer – Im Blickfeld

Ken Camden – Dream Memory

Steve Hauschildt – Where All Is Fled

Oh yeah I like that Kaitlin Aurelia Smith album too. She has another one, Euclid, that's also very good.

I want to like Euclid more but when i listen to it I hear a lot of sounds I really don't like! especially the chipmunk vocals. there are some parts that sound cool to me but too much of it just grates

I really love that Jonas Munk record though

yeah sarah davachi is great

Benoît Pioulard – Sonnet
https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/sonnet

This one is great. I love to put it loud on speakers and let these beautiful sounds fill the room.

The Perils album is pretty enjoyable too (Perils = Benoit Pioulard + Kyle Bobby Dunn)

Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Dupree

Max Richter Sleep is excellent although I must admit I haven't sat through the entire eight hours of it yet.

Any love here for the Northern Electronics label? Acronym, Föd Dödd, Varg (no not *that* Varg).

On the "Sleep" note, Robert Rich recently released a Bluray which compiles two extra-long "sleep music" pieces by him, the 7 hour "Somnium", which was previously released in 2001 on DVD, and the 8 hour "Perpetual". which is a new piece. They're meant to be used as background music to doze off to; I've done that on my sofa, and the music certainly works well like that. But considering the length, they're also suprisingly rich in tecture... Obviously, on the surface level they are very slow and unmoving, otherwise they wouldn't serve the sleep function properly, but there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Rich-Perpetual-A-Somnium-Continuum/release/6204275

"tecture" = "texture"

After being inactive for almost ten years, Northaunt returned this year and Istid I-II should be a sure thing for anyone who liked Biosphere's 'arctic' period.

e/tape

https://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/images/245x/TO48.jpg

a classic

also, https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-you-like-the-universe

came out this year, very finely detailed and subtle.

gotta second Imperial Distortion (Drumm), it's both airy and massive sounding.. definitely heavier than the Toral stuff, but calming in its massiveness. still put it on to help me sleep

n.b. leave off the last track, "we all get it in the end", for your sleepytime playlist

Haptic is also excellent.. fantastically detailed compositions. Abeyance, for instance, is very slight and airy on the surface but there's remarkable volume and detail to its makeup.

mattress.... i do it every time (take off that track), hah

Jason Lescalleet's The Pilgrim has a similar 'surprise', sonically very similar. another hour-long piece worth getting familiar (it's on Bandcamp)

kaitlyn aurelia smith: tides

Hey, thanks for recommending this, I bought it from Bandcamp. Like Crüt, I was a bit weirded out by some of the elements in "Euclid" (though I still like them if I'm in the right mood), but this is just excellent ambient music, so oceanic and soothing.

Any love here for the Northern Electronics label? Acronym, Föd Dödd, Varg (no not *that* Varg).

i'm a fan, these are really really good:

http://www.discogs.com/Ulwhednar-Withatten-1892/master/635076

http://www.discogs.com/D%C3%85RFDHS-M%C3%B6rkret-Kylan-Tystnaden-Ensamheten/master/890509

i'm prob repeating myself from the noize dude thread but

this is an absolute classic, everyone listen to it right now
http://www.discogs.com/Heathered-Pearls-Loyal/master/554972

Thanks for starting the thread Tuomas!

Seraphim Rytm's Aeterna album is my fave ambient thing lately, it is apparently inspired by Tarkovsky and his obsession with water, like a lot of stuff on the Silent Season label it is very watery/evocative of nature type ambient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XKBTIMGk60

yea I love that too

what are some other standouts on silent season? not too familiar

been playing this jack jutson album a lot lately:
https://youtu.be/_Zce6sKmbek

<3 how each track has some type of wind sound rustling around it

Oh yeah, that's good stuff.

Dream Carpets too

https://youtu.be/a4-HcZAa_Yo?list=PLN3rJSAGi0v3ryuJL7eQ5PGrc3J6ePpj5

http://www.discogs.com/Alva-Noto-Xerrox-Vol2/release/1610507

alva noto - xerrox vol. 2 -- similar to tim hecker's work, though it's more exquisite.. super-fine textures and tonal zones. volume 3 was released this year, but it doesn't feel so well-realized.

xxxp

There is an excellent Silent Season comp. Asc has made 2 excellent albums this year and I quite dig Purl and a couple of years back I absolutely loved the Segue album, their follow up - not on SS - wasn't much cop though. They are not the most prolific of labels but I really admire their commitment to such a good aesthetic.

Wow @ this thread. So much to catch up on.

I'm serious about that Heathered Pearls album, it was one of those "I've been hearing this music in my head all my life" experiences

xerrox vol. 3 is fantastic imo, probably my favourite of 2015 in this vein

Asc has made 2 excellent albums this year

Yeah was about to mention that, I really liked Imagine The Future even though it sounds at times a bit too close to FSOL and Burial. Fervent Dream is the minimalist one, I have only just got that but sounds great on first listen.

If we can recommend stuff that's a bit older, last year Oliver Lieb released Inside Voices (on Psychonavigation), his first ambient record in 20 years, and it's amazing!

Speaking of techno artists releasing surprise ambient albums ...

http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-215

I checked the Silent Season bandcamp page, but it seems all their CDs are sold out, even the one that came last month. :( And I'm not really into paying 12$ + taxes for a digital release alone. Do you have to like pre-order their stuff so you might get a copy?

I'm a big fan of Natalie Beridze/TBA, and enjoyed her ambient album this year, "Between The Naps," which also included her prepared piano pieces (not "prepared" in the John Cage sense, more like programmed via computer)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUSRfoOcUe4b-Ok7VE3lQNYCIiuA4b_Um

She's also on the Gacha album "Send Two Sunsets," which isn't entirely ambient, but is mostly downtempo/lush. One of my faves this year.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu6sgxcUkSyMfFg3kgEmZ5MSmFW_PWbkC

if only that surgeon was on cd.
sounds fantastic.

Anyways, speaking of decent prizes for digital music, I noticed you can buy all the digital releases (excluding the two of her albums which have been released on CD) by French ambient producer Zalys for 4.50 Euros or more:

https://zalys.bandcamp.com/

Her music is very traditional space ambient, just glacial cosmic drones and synths with no beats, so there's few surprises there, but if this kind of "slowly drifting through galaxies" music appeals to you (as it does to me), you get over 5 hours of that stuff for peanuts.

the best new-to-me ambient album i have heard this year is the lisa gerrard album, the silver tree.
gorgeous vocals/production/sonic detail.
dark sounds vs layers vs production.
i mentioned this on the dedicated LG thread a few weeks ago and the fact that i was willing to send out cd copies to anyone interested given that the cds were being sold for bobbins.
i will of course extend that offer to the folks on this thread,
however, i will not be able to go back to the shop for a couple of weeks, due to the festive chaos, and so, there is a high probability that all of the cd copies will have been picked up by then.
but just in case.
and yes, the album is that good.
deep sensual trip hop styled ambience.
basically, the kinda stuff that soundtracks fragence adverts this time of year.

http://www.thesirenssound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Jocelyn-Pook-Untold-Things.jpg

surely i am not the only person that thinks this is special ?

many x-posts but thank you xelab + others for the silent season recs :D

another one I've returned to quite a bit:
https://25000kittens.bandcamp.com/

very new agey & soothing, I often put it on while studying

essential:

http://www.discogs.com/Suzanne-Kraft-Talk-From-Home/release/7110013

one of my fav lps this year

the jonny nash LP on the same label is also excellent

spent so much time w/gas POP, didn't realize that Zauberberg is the real masterpiece.

they're all great but pop is not my fav!

zauberberg maybe best at invoking that sensation of motion without movement he does so well.

while we're violating the thread criteria, and since it doesn't seem to have gotten much attention here, leyland kirby's "sadly the future is no longer what it was" is my most cherished thing in this neighborhood from the past several years. it affects me so much it's kind of embarrassing: https://leylandkirby.bandcamp.com/album/sadly-the-future-is-no-longer-what-it-was

also haven't quite found a way into KAS's "euclid" like i have "tides," as others said.

loving heathered pearls from stuff posted i've listened to so far, thanks.

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

yeaahhh

http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/polytravellers

I've listened to "Euclid" several times this week and I'm beginning to appreciate it more and more... I guess my initial problem was that I expected it to be an ambient album of some sort, but really it's much more in Mouse on Mars vein, finding childlike joy in these hyperenergetic bursts of pretty sounds. I understand why this kinds of ADHD approach to electronic music can get tiring, but on the level of pure sonics I haven't heard a better thing this year.

Another valuable thread from Tuomas...

This wasn't my biggest year for ambient/etc. listening, and most of my favorites have been mentioned, including Jonas Munk's Absorb/Fabric/Cascade and Steve Hauschildt's Where All Is Fled. Does the Munk sample Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, or just closely emulate it?

One 2015 treasure not yet noted here is Asmus Tietchens - Ornamente (Zwischen Null und Eins) (https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ornamente-zwischen-null-und-eins). Wonderfully delicate, transparent music made from inharmonic specks and washes of digital sound. Tietchens is evidently quite prolific, but new to me, I found the album via SFJ's 2015 EOY list (http://yearendlists.com/2015/12/sasha-frere-jones-89-favorite-albums-of-2015/).

http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/126440900914/joseph-clayton-millssifr-suppedaneum

plain and affecting, this is therapeutic listening

huntress is great too

I'm guessing everybody is too chilled out to rave about that Heathered Pearls album. I'm serious, if you like Gas or the melodic stuff on SAW 2... you will not be disappointed. No I'm not street teaming I just really really love this record.

ALSO: Strike by 154 (aka newworldaquarium) is a semi-recent classic of very minimal gauzy warm ambient house (as much as Gas is ambient house, anyway)

Strike is like a real time soundtrack of watching the sun set over a smog filled city

copped the Loyal album upon seeing the first mention of it, but have barely listened to it. it's pleasant, though. the music has a warm, degraded quality.. like it's worn. parts of it reminded me of philip jeck, with the repetition and delay. but it's more sweet, melodic. also, the fun years. strong 'the fun years' vibe

Yeah, that sweet warm degraded sound.. It's like van halen's brown sound compared to top flight sterile robot crap

http://www.discogs.com/Minus-A-Rainy-Koran-Verse-UK-Live/release/629227

breaking the rule again, but i heard this just recently. if you've any love for the final track of I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 by jim o'rourke, it's up your alley.. it's really spare but it has a similar sense of bittersweet/melancholy. not pulse-oriented, however

just gave that heathered pearls album a listen while hugging a napping cat <3 it is v beautiful, thank you for the rec

something about it reminds me of a hazier ver of the yume nikki ost in a way i am finding it hard to articulate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGM8-YN5B64

the loops feel v sweet & emotional on tracks like "left climber". it's like gas, yes...

curious about this label: http://www.discogs.com/label/19403-Spekk

ambient labels should strive for more individuality. i really hate "movie soundtrack" ambient. i even started a dumb thread about it, i think!

http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/news/101007_lou_dobbs_face_ap_328.jpg

https://youtu.be/9bCPU305vpE

Dirk Serries + Rutger Zuydervelt - Buoyant (album preview)

has a sort of Fennesz/Stars of the Lid vibe.. pleasant

Eleh – Homage is incredible: http://open.spotify.com/album/5wiZraNKzkUN6CwbXJnVAF

I love this album art, too. Not sure if it was on the original or just the reissue.

http://importantrecords.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/release_full/imprec/homage_final_0.jpg

slsk'ing it now, thanks :)

You know when you come across an album and it's so directly in your sweet spot you might as well have pulled the thing out of your heart? Why did I only just discover Eyvind Kang's Live Low to the Earth, in the Iron Age? Absolutely glorious.

The Omni Vu Deity album that Tuomas recommended is really hitting the spot

In case you want to discuss more historical vibes, I've continued my poll series of years in ambient albums with a new 1992 poll:

1992, A Wonderful Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion

And here are the earlier polls in the series:

1994: The greatest year for Ambient music? Poll and discussion

1993, A Great Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion (with a corrected album list)

just now hearing the Lee Gamble album, KOCH (2014).. fucking excellent ambient music

this is really lovely, koto + piano with lots of tape and synth processing:
https://psychictroublestapes.bandcamp.com/album/maxwell-august-croy-kaniza

i wish people would use higher quality tape stock when putting albums out on cassette.. assuming the Croy release is a normal bias cassette. you've got labels like Notice Recordings putting their music out on chrome bias (type ii) and cobalt tape stock (at a cheaper price), and it sounds great. these Kaniza sounds are pretty sweet, btw. http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7113, the sample song is a real beaut.

i did a chrome tape last year and they came out really nice, thought it was relatively inexpensive too.

I'm not sure whether to post this here, or the techno thread (it has beats, but the mood is pretty ambient), but I'm vibing hard on Cio D'Or's new album on Semantica: https://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cio-dor-all-in-all-semantica-73cd

It kinda reminds of the album Monolake did a few years ago with all the PVC pipe percussion, except that her approach is more streamline and appealing, you can just zoom in on individual SOUNDS! Everything is so well-defined and meticulously placed, it's almost like anti-drone. Too bad I didn't get this album until this week, otherwise I would've nommed it in the ILM EOY poll.

(maybe wrong thread but) I've listened to the new Roly Porter 'Third Law' 3 times in a row now. It feels like being on a trip through the dark, deep space.

yeah i don't know whether to post things like that on the 'techno doing it wrong thread' or what

Countersign the Roly Porter rec. My robots at work said I would like it, and I didn't immediately believe them because I didn't recognize the name and it sounds goofy. But they were really right.

Whereas my own personal robots living inside my head were telling me, 'well this is most likely a very beats-oriented thing you won't care about', but they were wrong.

if i can be totally honest here, it's not quite beats-oriented enough for me.

chill beats vs phat beats

This Cio d'Or album sounds a lot like a chill-out version of The Delta.

okay going further back in time ... but just picked up Pelican Daughters - Bliss from another thread and it is *outstanding*. Pay what you want on Bandcamp.

this is really good: http://www.npr.org/2016/01/20/463189435/first-listen-daniel-wohl-holographic

Paul Jebanasam's Continuum on Subtext feels like a companion album to Roly Porter's Third Law. You're still in space except this time something's coming after you.

Full stream:
https://soundcloud.com/subtext-recordings/sets/continuum-paul-jebanasam

The link above for Daniel Wohl's album doesn't work anymore but you can hear the whole thing on bandcamp now
https://danielwohl.bandcamp.com/album/holographic
(which I plan to do next)

Jebanasam's Rites was do damn good. Can't wait to hear the new one.

leaving this here to remind myself to buy it later http://helaudio.bandcamp.com/album/last

(Θ – Last)

new IG88 album is gorgeous: https://ig88.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-in-my-hands

Shall i put this over here, underneath the awning

https://soundcloud.com/my-own-jupiter/melina-serser-manu-jelen-moj-mixes-5

ah, this is well good, makes being locked in the cellar not so bad after all

Byron Westbrook's Precipice from last year is really doing it for me. first track is like fifteen minutes of a melody trying and failing to escape from a vast sound wash.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

Jordan, thanks for the ig88 link, have been listening to that album a lot over the last week--really nice stuff

oh cool! his previous one is really good as well.

New mary lattimore album is lovely, just harp and a few subtle electronic touches. Not entirely dissimilar to some of colleen's records or maybe duane pitre, a slowly unwinding contemplative thing

This is very nice, thanks.

The Withdrawing Room is a gorgeous album. Yet to be convinced by the new one, but there's plenty of time.

Liking the new album from Ethernet - starts as twinkly synth ambient and morphs into a more minimal techno sound as it goes. https://open.spotify.com/album/3Dcsu8g9DIyVTsUrIjgg37

'well-known ambient musician' named adam (no last name given) accused of domestic assault. guessing we'll hear more... :(

https://twitter.com/LEAVINGRECORDS/status/710140831450025984

yup

fuck that guy

Huh, sorry to hear this if it is true just cause domestic abuse is bullshit and yeah fuck that shit (meaning not sorry it involved this dude, just sorry it happened AT ALL).

Always found this dude strangely aggro in interviews in re other people's work and his place within any given "genre" considering the music he made.

What a great thread. I have pretty much spotified the whole lot. Really liking Heathered Pearls but pick of the bunch for me is IG88.

In terms of recommendations in a similar vein, I'm enjoying Marconi Union.

this has been my soothing ambient go-to while washing the dishes lately:
https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/choir-and-room

That IS nice

Hmm, that was Jordan again. I might just have to lurk outside your windows note down and steal all your music favourites.

ha i appreciate that, as i usually feel like i'm posting tracks on the wrong thread for no one's benefit but my own.

apparently i never posted this record of processed piano pieces here, but i've listened to it a ton: https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/pianoworks

and also the next release on Apothecary sounds very promising (out in a week): https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/album/-

https://youtu.be/ChUBT6n4o2g

Marc Baron (live in Sydney 2014, extrait)

he put out a really good noise record called "Hidden Tapes" a couple years ago

I return to this thread a lot - ambient music is really important to me, though I approach it different from the way I've always approached music - like - I'm not a total fiend for details, but I always want to know where a band is from, what are they all about, am I listening to something early or late, is there biographical detail that informs the music, etc. same with classical and opera. I'm not totally uncurious about ambient composers/performers, but I allow myself to just sort of luxuriate in the sounds apart from any concerns about when or where it's from, whether it's well-regarded or corny, or whatever...Im kind of more decadent with this stuff, I just let it work on me. which is the long way of saying I may not post a lot here but this thread is my favorite bookmark on ilm.

late pass on this guy though - really amazing stuff from a retired machine worker, some people seem to think the story's too good to be true but man these are lovely sounds anyway

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/circular-forms

Listening to some of Mogard's remixes, too: beautiful. Must get Works!

The new Huerco S. belongs on here

Man, I am really looking forward to hearing that.

Big fan of all his stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-kJphyQQNQ

I can't remember if I first heard about this here or somewhere else (and am too lazy to search) but the Western Skies Motel album is gorgeous. The dude is Danish but this sounds like backporch Americana.

https://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com/album/settlers

Yup, new Huerco S is great

The Heathered Pearls (Loyal) album has become a regular around these parts (my apt.)

the aphex Cheetah ep also applies to this relaxed/chill out mode, though it livens up a bit midway thru. it's still chill as ever

fun when you wonder "whatever happened to _____" and then look them up in Spotify and they've released three albums since you last listened to them. enjoying phonophani's s/t. spooky ambient but probably not in the way you're thinking.

https://soundcloud.com/shlohmo/11_9_10a
'Bad Vibes' is still a modern classic, and was a huge influence on a certain generation of producers imo.

I've been falling asleep to Moby's Long Ambients free 4 hour album the last few weeks after a friend recommended it.

http://moby.com/la1/

http://listen.hatnote.com

super nice stuff here, very much its own thing - hints of glitch n fuzz over a bed of synth-string drone and airy chiming sounds...worth a long look

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-voynich-manuscript

Album title alone is a winner.

Oooh, oooh, ooh, he did a 4.5-hr mix of the sort of music people here might like: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/

Wonderful album, and thanks for that mix link. That will serve me well working today.

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

care to elaborate?

you ever seen Temple of Doom?

seen? i lived it honey

oh, no elaboration necessary then

kali maa

it's the Vatican Shadow dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gbT3zzG8n0

Was excited when he recently released all his catalogue as a theoretically beautiful boxed set, although it turned out to be all casssettes in one of those horrible crunchy plasticky cases that have the aesthetic appeal of a margarine container. Cannot see the point of cassettes at all, let alone in a deluxe format like this.

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/418916/large/6.jpg

Green Graves is an amazing record, felt like it was a level above his earlier stuff (a lot of which I like a lot).

Today's RA podcast is great and probably fits well on this thread:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=571

Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel:
https://dftals.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-avondale-towne-cinema

heads up

https://www.theghostlystore.com/products/horizon?

it's, like, really good

oh wow <3

That theremin/lap steel stuff is nice

https://newdawn1.bandcamp.com/album/the-dying-light

From New Zealand, New Dawn, a duo with Indira Force (indi) and Anita Clark (Motte).

Youtube just recommended this to me after a video of a stunt rider flipping a motorcycle from one barge to another on the Thames

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

https://orindalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portals

fender rhodes improvisations, very chill and hypnotic

the new album by Leila Abdul-Rauf who plays in Hammers of Misfortune and various other (mostly) metal bands isn't out for a couple of months so apologies but I don't want to forget to post about it or lose the impulse to do so

it's a really beautiful and spacious organic ambient record with ECM-y jazz bits and big desert-y droning sections* and maybe a Dif Juz kinda lightness of touch. really impressive

*iirc there was a thread not too long back on this sort of music?

yeah this one "wide open desert music" S/D

catch a Labradford (s/t album) vibe at times as well

Insomnia album was really good, so up for more of that.

in fact "really good" is selling it way short, it's quite majestic.

Title? Not listed as upcoming on bandcamp, but sounds like my thing.

it's called 'Diminution'

there was a soundcloud track online but it's been removed

Cheers.

it's a really beautiful and spacious organic ambient record with ECM-y jazz bits and big desert-y droning sections* and maybe a Dif Juz kinda lightness of touch. really impressive

jesus christ this sounds like it's absolutely up my alley

Aye, me too - couple that with Labradford and it sounds close to perfect.

Listening to Insomnia now. Wonderful stuff so far, more varied than the usual fare, and it's got a lovely album cover to boot, drawing us away from the classic desert imagery.

It's lovely. Based on that album, Spotify is recommending me Paula Abdul, which is like, I can see your working there, but it's not very sensible.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22140

nope

Leila is awesome! Her metal bands used to play in our basement. Will totalyl check that out, thanks.

FSOL seem like totally my shit but I just can't get into them.

i guess i really like the early ravey stuff.

Indo Tribe, Papua New Guinea etc

Indo Tribe, Papua New Guinea etc

https://patientsounds.bandcamp.com/album/ps099-daniel-klag-anticipation

highly recommend this if you're into warmer, more organic drone a la stars of the lid

new Sarah Davachi album comin'

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/vancouver-droneexperimental-composer-sarah-davachi-release-new-lp-let-night-come-bells-end-day-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMW7SPbcBM

the new Forrest Fang album Scenes From a Ghost Train is rather nice, in particular the more percussive tracks.

Cheers for the Leila Abdul-Ralf recommendation- her new album is great. It's like she has zoomed into, and sonically expanded, the quieter spaces of a Movietone record.

Terekke's album on Music From Memory is pure ambient bliss.. fields of soft warm synth pads. Check it!

(Improvisational loops it's called)

Brian Eno has a new six-disc album available on Spotify, holy shit! I've been listening to it all morning, and it has been excellent so far.

Terekke's album on Music From Memory is pure ambient bliss.. fields of soft warm synth pads. Check it!

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this is excellent

This is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-R1mplBnO8

new alex zhang hungtai (dirty beaches) is good, constructed from manipulated sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rx5BV-oSQ

Nice stuff. Really like his LOVE THEME project, too.

I've listened to this twice today, it's very nice.

Sax as vast church organ

Hilde Marie Holsen's Lazuli lp is another one made from similar parts (acoustic trumpet, electronic manipulation). It's definitely more on the chillout end of the EA/Improv spectrum.

loving uon & alex zhang hungtai, thanks y'all

it's a couple years old but I've been listening to Legiac's Voynich Manuscript a lot lately. riyl documentaries about ancient aliens and/or the ambient bits on FSOL's ISDN and Dead Cities albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fJ1z9UUCs

this compilation track from earlier this year is also excellent

ooh I like the sound of this

Legiac also did this 4.5-hr mix of stuff which is really lovely: https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/02/09/roel-funcken-the-voynich-manuscript-mix/

i have nothing against funcken or this mix or anything, but we really need some standards regarding the term 'voynich manuscript'

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/fading-away

Listening to Paul Jebanasam's Rites for the first time in ages (Friday night is party night, round here). Rites IV is a dirty great wall of BIG DREAD.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuxhzmTnx4&feature=youtu.be

thanks for that, Chinaski. it's 12:56 am and evil devil-worshiping dark ambient is just what I need right now

http://virtualdreamplazashop.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-where-i-am-right-now
Pure bliss from vwave HoFers golden living room and telepath

https://soundcloud.com/beyondbelow/12-kyle-landstra

Liking this a lot this week.

dense high-mid-range drones from Japan with gentle percussive accents

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/tsuka-no-ma

the new Pulse Emitter album of microtonal ambient music is fantastic!!

https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/xenharmonic-passages

https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-night

i keep returning to this collection of tracks.. made with old school, west coast modular synthesizers and Ciat Lonbarde instruments. it's relaxing

strong recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNjY8Harv8&list=OLAK5uy_lS1EU5vWtoZRs-J9Ip2w5VIrm_CrplicE

Fifty Eleven Project is Kasper Bjørke documenting his emotional ride through a cancer diagnosis. Really beautiful stuff and not as bleak as you might expect from that premise. Strings by Davide Rossi.

Biosphere has remastered Polar Sequences and is now selling the 500 copies pressed on double vinyl at band camp. This album is incredible if you give it time.

https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/polar-sequences-remastered

It's reissued on CD too

https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision - lovely, Fall time meditation

http://nightlighttapes.bandcamp.com/album/memories-you-never-had

Check out the untitled compilation on bbliss if you can. I think this label's run by Huerco S. It was released on cassette only a while ago which now sells for like £75 but got reissued on vinyl and MP3, so it's good

https://www.discogs.com/Various-bblisss/master/1300074

Fifty Eleven Project is Kasper Bjørke documenting his emotional ride through a cancer diagnosis. Really beautiful stuff and not as bleak as you might expect from that premise. Strings by Davide Ross.

This album is unbelievably beautiful.

Listening to this, too ^^. Beautiful.

Thirded, such bliss.

lazy sunday funerals ... remastered

https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-sunday-funerals-remastered

in my top ... five? three? favorite ambient albums.

i'm so excited that it has cover art now. i got it legit free from autoplate.org fifteen years ago and have been listening to the same mp3s ever since.

thanks for the heads up on this! here's something I found in my periodic "sure, I'll buy your label discography at sixty percent off" binges and it's REALLY good - use of samples/found-sound in a very subtle & good way throughout

https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/album/mangas-coloradas

Bought it, thanks.

If anyone checks out / knows Lazy Sunday Funerals, I'd be interested if you can recommend more ambient albums with a similar lightness to them. That sense of spaciousness and ease; the opposite of melodrama.

Really enjoying the German Army album, thanks

so glad you're digging it! yeah that "light ambient" is its own lookout, I'll dig around

https://eraldobernocchi.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-fire-that-consumes-all-before-it

this is rather nice, Eraldo Bernocchi's soundtrack to a Cy Twombly doc.

new Thore Pfeiffer sounds good so far

https://thorepfeiffer.bandcamp.com/album/umland

It's funny because Marsten Jules isn't light and neutral enough for me but here are some recommended "light ambient" full lengths. a few are pretty recent, it's been a pretty dope time for my kind of ambient

DJ Olive - Sleep
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Jonny Nash - Eden
Robert Turman - Flux
Strategy - Noise Tape Self
Terekke - Improvisational Loops
Various - Pop Ambient 2002
Brian Eno - Reflection

amazing set by Vanessa Rossetto aka C. Lavender

https://soundcloud.com/issueprojectroom/c-lavender-transmutation-helix-live-at-issue-may-12th-2018

not Vanessa Rossetto, just C. Lavender - sorry for my midnight eyes

that's very nice, thanks

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0624056580_10.jpg

https://lcrp.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-from-slow-places -- possibly one of the longest (running time) ambient music compilations on Bandcamp. Track two is a beauty.

https://ablaut.bandcamp.com/album/winter-solstice-drone -- Compilation of drones in B, made using VCV Rack. Quite nice

(all revenue will be donated to VCV Rack and its third party module developers)

ty brimstead, starting with the DJ Olive which is excellent

👍 He has another one called Buoy which is similar

three hours of kyle bobby dunn is just the right amount

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/from-here-to-eternity

Thanks for that!

yes!

https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/seven-horses-for-seven-kings

doesn't really meet the Chill remit of thread title but still a fine album nevertheless.

Good stuff indeed. I'm always happy to have more modern classical dissonance in my ambient.

I also enjoyed this one, by a RYM user:

https://danieltovatt.bandcamp.com/album/deceit

I don't know if deconstructing traditional Chinese music counts as 'ambient' per se but it's definitely got the 'moodz' part down pat.

loving both these records

lovely stuff from will long

https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie

^^ It's perfect. For nearly two decades he's consistently made gorgeous music. I very much admire how he kept it up after his personal tragedy and kept heading down his own unique path.

What's the story? I grabbed some of his stuff off bandcamp when I discovered it but don't know anything more.

Celer started out as a duo, with Will and his wife Danielle. She died age 26, in 2009. He's carried on alone since then.

The earlier albums as a duo had more tension to them, if memory serves. I very much enjoy Xièxie but miss the noisier overtones. How are his other solo releases? I'm afraid I haven't kept up since Danielle tragically passed away.

enjoyed this. "nice, strange, and thoughtful music that reflects a genuine inner vision of self" per the artist.
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/erg-herbe

this celer album is gorgeous! gas vibes
'rains lit by neon' is soo perfect

Buying the Celer album after hearing the samples off that link. Thanks for the tip!

Proto-hippie vibes inspired by poet and hermit Robert Lax:

https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-12-the-mantra-recordings

Good suggestion, pomenitul. Chi Factory are Hanyo van Oosterom and Jacob Derwort. Really nice tribal ambient/Fourth World stuff from the Netherlands. These two recorded a fantastic self-titled cassette under the name Chi in 1986 (with Michel Banabila, among others.) It's since been reissued as "The Original Recordings" for those looking for it. Derwort passed away in Feb this year so it's unclear whether Chi Factory will continue.

Thanks for the backstory, doug. I had no idea – I stumbled across the album via RYM (it's currently ranked #83 for 2019) and it immediately clicked with me. I'll be sure to check out their other stuff. And RIP Jacob Derwort.

New Mondkopf mini album is great

https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-deep-is-our-love

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

https://boomkat.com/products/tales-of-hackney

Arild Andersen / Clive Bell / Mark Wastell
Tales Of Hackney

some exquisite stuff on here.

Sounds cool, I'll check it out. It's more ambient than jazz/free improv?

slightly closer to ambient at times but still as improv as you'd expect with the personnel involved.

the more improvy parts have that zen quality you sometimes get listening to masters of that field.

The new Craig Leon thing, Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, is bloody marvellous. Probably more straight up ambient than the first volume, but just as compelling.

Do people round here like sax drones? If so, you will like these:

https://bendikgiske.bandcamp.com/album/surrender

https://danielthorne.bandcamp.com/album/lines-of-sight

That Craig Leon album is great. Thanks for the recommendation.

Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)

Peoples, in case you haven't already noticed, we're doing an all-time best ambient albums poll. Nomination period ends this Friday, so there's still time to participate.

Tales of Hackney is amazing. Thanks, calz.

glad you liked it :)

Liking Celer's Xiexie a lot. Looking for "where to next?" guidance on his very large Bandcamp catalog. Chronologically backwards? Any earlier standouts to head for first?

Engaged Touches, recorded when Celer was still a duo (Will's wife Danielle passed away in 2009), is essential imho.

Thanks!

Wow damn she was only 26 :(

https://soundcloud.com/time-released-sound/dalot-leto-beirut-dust-fall/recommended

Dalot – ΛΗΤΩ

"Dalot embarks on an epic journey with the composed field recordings of “ΛΗΤΩ”. Throughout the whole of the album Dalot brings a wide variety of many layers into the mix resulting in something that has such power behind it. By opting for such an approach, it recalls the unique tact of 70s sonic pioneers. While incorporating so much experimentation it makes sure that emotion rests at the very heart of it all. What is of the utmost importance is the concept of texture, with all the many conversations filtering into the fray."

rather enjoying this one today.

https://soundcloud.com/time-released-sound/dalot-leto-beirut-dust-fall

wrong soundcloud link up there.

ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL: the voting thread. Voting ends on Sunday, June 23rd.

I really like this Rosenau & Sanborn EP (LP?):
https://rosenausanborn.bandcamp.com/album/bluebird

The pastoral guitar and creaky ambient room sounds + modular synths make it like an album-length incarnation of those modular instagram videos with lots of plants and tasteful interior decorating. But, like, in a good way.

Founded by A Strangely Isolated Place, 9128 has been created as a newly curated destination to showcase friends, artists and labels within the ambient and electronic music community - a collective of likeminded music.

Our goal is to have a 100% label and artist curated schedule and our regular programming will revolve around music from everyone involved, alongside scheduled shows from our Partners.

https://9128.live

There's pretty oldschool livechat too

they're now playing some unreleased Comit stuff (ASC alias) which sounds fantastic

Celer's having a closeout sale on his Bandcamp site, FYI. Looks 3/4ths sold out, at least the physical side. Picked up Nacreous Clouds.

I've been really enjoying ASIP's "Europe" compilation on Spotify these last couple of weeks!

There's a new Jonas Munk album that's pretty nice.

this hits the spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMMdoSdemc

album of the year http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2019/10/24/portals-the-klfs-chill-out-a-new-dimension

well okay but it's super hitting the spot

Really nice piece of work.

This is nice:

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/custodi

This is nice:

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/custodi

Love his stuff, but this one (also from this year) pips it for me:
https://weareacr.bandcamp.com/album/le-voci-dal-balcone

how the fuck did I miss this!?!?

Sarah Davachi + Ariel Kalma - Intemporel
https://blacksweat.bandcamp.com/album/intemporel

This album is strikingly beautiful, really a remarkable journey. Year-end material for sure

https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code

yeah that’s been one of my faves from this year for sure!

I couldn't get into it at all, unfortunately. Unless the random noodling's the point?

Maybe it's the point? It's one of my favourites from this year too, it's a great (very) early morning record.

i like the kali malone but not as much as a lot of other people seem to

the new catriel nievas is prob gonna be in my year-end top w/e: https://islavision.bandcamp.com/album/el-lago-de-los-seis-lugares

oh shi, controversy on moodz

I am going to bring this thread into further disrepute by recommending Víkingur Ólafsson's fabbo Bach Reworks album on here.

Have been listening to the Kali Malone album a lot this week, it's also fun to compare it to Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017 and to these recordings: https://soundcloud.com/leguesswho/sets/kali-malone-live-at-le-guess-who-2019

Also gave the new Ben Vida a listen: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/reducing-the-tempo-to-zero I found it surprisingly engrossing, but obviously it's a bit of a commitment.

this pulse emitter track is actively repairing my sanity right now

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/track/winds

Posted this in the 2019 album poll thread, posting it here as well:

There were some good recommendations upthread for fans of the Kali Malone album. Allow me to add a few:

Satie - Messe des Pauvres (organ-only version) Spotify

Feldman - Principal Sound Spotify

Blake Hargreaves - Improvisations on the pipe organs of Europe bandcamp

Heck, maybe even Keith Jarrett's Hymns/Spheres... you never know. Spotify

https://boomkat.com/products/samosi?taxon_id=107755

new Saphileaum album is nice.

Nice is otm. It's comforting and 'safe' but does the job properly.

it allegedly is a concept album about a journey into the Caucasian mountains to find some mystic monks or something, but bollox aside sometimes you just need something a bit chill for a period, especially when your nightmares are becoming daymares!

I can recommend 'Live At The Edge' by DK on the excellent 12th Isle label. It's a recording of a live ambient set in South Korea I think. You can hear one side of it here - https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle/dk-live-at-the-edge-isle0085

Saphileaum album so relaxing!

i recommend this: https://cercamusic.bandcamp.com/album/mod-pink-relic

THANK YOU!!!! Here’s the sound from Land’s End pic.twitter.com/JjEWy6zrlX

— chilibrianno (@chilibrianno) June 6, 2020

bah sorry i meant to link to this

Anthony J.:
“Engineers designed new sides for the sidewalk to help with wind resistance but didn’t take into account the EXTREME sound it creates when wind passes through it. The bridge sings crazy songs now it’s so trippy. It hurts the ears and unbearable it’s that loud.” pic.twitter.com/GWdVia1GNS

— Mark Krueger (@markkrueg) June 6, 2020

This is nice - https://kirkbarley.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-2

that is nice! the first track reminds me of Les Halles

Also this has been a go-to lately:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/algorithmic-music-for-synthesised-strings

Cmd094 - oscillation

https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/oscillation

love 2 oscillate

More cmd094

https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/track/hologram-rose

some telepath just 'cause

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/track/--168

Loving the cmd094

there is something refreshingly out of sync with current trends about the pulse emitter record. that dude has been publishing earnest blog posts and churning out his synth stuff for like decades seemingly in portland and that energy comes through in a great way. i was listening to the malibu record which isn't really ambient i realized; it takes up a ton of psychological space and its cool but not, like, ego-destroying

pulse emitter is the best! speaking of, he released this noise tape earlier this month which is really more of a dark ambient record: https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/crack-of-stone

https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2020/6/10/isolatedmix-100-tom-middleton

ya'll

"this is global communication" 😭

https://contoursmusic.bandcamp.com/album/balafon-sketches

this is nice

Really into this, based on low-bandwidth video chat recordings (both found & made), combined with lush synths & strings
https://olivieralary.bandcamp.com/album/u-i

I re-stumble across this every so often and each time think it's the best thing in the world: http://youarelistening.to/

What is that?

It's auto-selected ambient music (from Soundcloud) with live shortwave radio broadcasts. You can select the broadcasts from a whole range of different cities.

I should have said - rather than dumping a weird looking link on the thread!

Following on from that, enjoying this (dark ambient washes, shortwave ruminations just below the surface, from Brazil): https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-ruins

I’m also a fan of mount shrine!
I recommend his earlier classic-era vaporwave project, lindsheaven virtual plaza
https://lindsheavenvirtualplaza.bandcamp.com/album/daily-night-euphoria-ep

^^^ love that ep!

*thumbs up*

both of these are excellent

https://vagueimaginaires.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-dor

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-sous-leau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm88L3nmdtU

I've been revisiting Kali Malone's The Sacrificial Code this month - it's fantastic on these dark cold mornings.

Less harsh and menacing but in a similar vein to Turman and Dilloway's "Blizzard," this record has been one of my go-tos for icy ambient chill this year. https://galttamedia.bandcamp.com/track/between-life

Hello this thread. Can ilxors recommend me some nice folk ambient/drone?

Thinking stuff along the lines of Michael Tanner's "Suite for Psaltery and Dulcimer", Dead Rat Orchestra's "Guga Hunters of Ness", Halocline's "Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel".

Thankoo

Natural Snow Buildings?

this is really good, reminds me of those Earth albums when they went all doomy and country for a bit. but it's a bit on the gothic/horror soundtrack side sor what I had in mind, which is just droney music made mostly on real instruments that i can sleep or work to.

There's a new Chuck Johnson album that just came out that your request reminded me I need to hear right away.

Jim Ghedi's previous release has been scratching that same itch, https://jimghedi.bandcamp.com/album/a-hymn-for-ancient-land-2

also been enjoying William Tylers take on cosmic Americana https://williamtyler.bandcamp.com/album/new-vanitas

maybe also some of the Drcarlsonalbion instrumentals.

You could try Padang Food Tigers: https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/bumblin-creed

dog latin, the Tanner is bringing the lighter side of Richard Skelton to mind—.

i've mentioned here elsewhere, and i think it was on user ufo's album list of 2020, but this record is really beautiful— processed, yes, but quite "acoustic" ambience with lovely ethereal vocals. https://seaoleena.bandcamp.com/album/weaving-a-basket

Kinda interested in this -

https://www.thesocial.com/monolithic-undertow-harry-sword/

Thanks table - it only struck me last night I should be checking out Richard Skelton for exactly this kind of thing! He's got a lot of stuff out. I'll check out Weaving

Oh wow I'm already loving Sea Oleena

dl, since you mentioned Tanner, I assume you're familiar with Alison Cotton, but if you aren't... godspeed!

https://nickschofield.bandcamp.com/album/glass-gallery

lovely is this

this is gorgeous

Currently playing this lovely bit of slow droning synth ambient from 1984. Probably old hat for this crew but new to me. Any other releases by Roach to recommend? I saw he did an album with Robert Fripp called Trance Spirits and may check that out next.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Structures_from_Silence_1.jpg

Dreamtime Return is pretty classic, less spacey, more fourth world-y.

Padang Food Tigers have quietly become one of my favourite bands. Their new one with Andrew Tuttle is gently hovering bliss: https://andrewtuttle.bandcamp.com/album/a-cassowary-apart

https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/

Pretty niche but this is catnip to me: great mix of stuff recorded in 'resonant spaces' (cathedrals, water tanks etc): https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/resonant-spaces/

Download here: http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2021/02/resonant-spaces.html

thanking you

Can ilxors recommend me some nice folk ambient/drone?

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

Love that Resonant Spaces mix. Thanks for posting that!

pomenitul, i hadn't heard alison cotton, but that was very excellent and spot on.

I've started a little aural "mood board"/sketchpad for a nature-based drone/ambient album. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14AdnvL9dneFvxUkGLWdTn?si=qGkteuUGQqS7-WhTY6m-zQ

The idea is I might go for a walk and record the sounds around me with a portable recorder, then "DJ" the sounds of the walk over the mix. I've never DJ'd a walk before - it might end up sounding bad, but it's a fun idea.

If anyone liked that Sacred Harp track, it's available for free download here: https://dyingforbadmusic.com/blog/post/2010/11/sacred-harp-2010-apparitions-at-kenmore.html

(Daniel Bachman's 1st project before releasing under his own name btw)

This has some chime-y found-sound beats and is extremely vibe-y

https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/fibre-fusion

Jordan is it okay if I give you the password to my Bandcamp account

lol

https://christinachatfield.bandcamp.com/album/sutro

it took me a couple of listens for this beauty to click and I'm glad I persisted.

also Andrew Ryce from RA gave it a rave review and he's got a good record with this music

Dope album. My first reaction was "this sounds like stuff I've heard before" but then it opened up to me.

https://annebourne.bandcamp.com/album/wave

anne was the cellist / keyboardist with jane siberry in the 80's, then in the 90's fell in with pauline oliveros / fred frith / john oswald / weirder B.C. scenes and she's never stopped turning up in cool contexts but never put out anything solo, till a year ago she began quietly uploading single tracks to bandcamp, and then she just put up this 'album'

now that more people know Radigue the last ten years has seen a lot of people doing extreme minimalism (and all I can really hear is that it's easier to automate five minute cross-fades on your rack) but what Anne's doing is that kind of restraint that took decades to learn

Excellent recommendation, thanks!

This is nice (metallic jingly drones made from small objects), although I was hoping for something more rhythmic:
https://shamefilemusic.bandcamp.com/album/molecular-gamelan

This came out last year but I've been playing it a bit— riyl Laraaji, Seven Fields of Aphelion, Charalambides, etc. Great record: https://flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting-spring

this is lovely, thanks

Maybe this is familiar to people, but I'm really enjoying this Alessandro Cortini record from 2017 after listening to an interview with him:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6fXNm5RvqVEMi2X7368caX?si=d262565de87b4fe6

Apparently all made on a Roland MC 202 in hotel rooms. Also he dropped approximately 1 million archival records on Bandcamp this year.

Making an album on a single piece of gear is very much my shit

love that Cortini record, glad it's still finding listeners.

yeah, I'm a big fan of Cortini's stuff!

if you haven't heard it already, I recommend checking out this M. Geddes Gengras album which was made on a Korg Volca FM (and in a hotel room like the Cortini):
https://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/hawaiki-tapes

Ooh thanks! I too recently made an EP using the Volca FM primarily, but like sequenced dance music using samples for all of the bass and drums. The Cortini record made me wonder if I could do something more live & dubby with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZuea6aD3vw

Sort of weightless black metal/drone/shoegaze from a moniker of Golden D0nna/Auscultati0n:

https://regionalattraction.bandcamp.com/album/did-you-find-my-letter

Cross-post this to the rolling jazz, chill lo-fi beats to study to, and rolling low-passed L.A. post-Low End Theory people playing instruments threads

https://samgendelsamwilkes.bandcamp.com/

Also very Lounge Lizards-y at times

love the first one. that blake mills/pino palladino record has lots of wilkes on it too, similarly good

nice I really loved Sam Gendel’s album from last year. on the surface it’s like like jon hassell doing jazz standards but the weird production gives it a different vibe

Yeah, I love that, it's like its own radio station

I feel like this belongs here somehow - I'm going back to Jacaszek's 2001 LP "Glimmer" and this is just my sort of thing. Romantic electro-acoustic ambient with lots of dark lush timbres, wide soundscapes, a good mix of ... well everything, really - sampled traditional instruments, harsh electronic noise, harmony and dissonance. Looking forward to his other work, I'm going to check out KWIATY next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dq9Zn-UyQ

near the top of my list of "artists no one is obsessed with but me"

I really like that— he seems to have stopped making music.

glad you like it!

he's still going actually, I dig this from 2018: http://michaeltrommer.blogspot.com/2018/10/executive-shore-unawatuna-sri-lanka.html

https://www.discogs.com/artist/497234-Michael-Trommer

but yeah his newer stuff is very different. wish there was more hydraulic material.

also, if you like that, the rest of the comp it's on (Magnetic Blue, from Interchill) is worth checking out.

just loving the Sofie Birch album

is she part of a ... scene? I see a lot of collaborators on this record.

good question

a lot of the collaborators are from Copenhagen, afaik joined by common taste, interests, friends

but the international stuff I dunno, if there's a scene I'd like to be more familiar with it

https://lilienrosarian.bandcamp.com/album/every-flower-in-my-garden

"RYMbient" album that splits the difference between pastoral/cozy/childlike ambient and tape noise — riyl Nuno Canavarro, Colleen, Tim Hecker. ideally this should be used a soundtrack for a Netflix adaptation of Marianne Dreams/Paperhouse

I've also been loving Foresteppe and you c's Seven Sleepers EP from 2016. more folky and less noisy but sort of in the same vein

(er, 2009, not 2016)

(er, it actually was from 2016, not 2009. first thought best thought)

I like the Rosarian album, tho it has taken a minute to grow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTb4dlByJfc

yes please

https://laraajinumero.bandcamp.com/album/segue-to-infinity

$10 for the digital version of a 4LP set!

no previews, sadly, releases today though?

This Rival Consoles album from last year (Now Is) is really nice. Mostly beatless rhythmic synth pieces. I've seen the name but never really checked anything out until now.

I've really liked a few of his albums though he walks a fine line for me, the noisier and more experimental he is, the better.

Persona grabbed me the most. It is a good deep-listening headphones album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwS5cpqFCvo

Maria Steed - Green Eyes

sailing out to sea

Made some really great discoveries through the latest Trilogy Tapes NTS show, most notably Ernest Hood (jazz guitarist who lost the ability to play and walk from polio, made some amazingly ahead of their time records on zither and synth in the '70s, maybe all you hipsters already know about them?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFdJqbV8a4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUdSrNAgr2Y

And this lovely EP of tactile piano/cello/guitar pieces (Flaer - Preludes):

https://flaermusic.bandcamp.com/album/preludes

This new Moritz Von Oswald record is something, drone-y but has so much detail and depth with the choir elements, and just enough rhythm lurking under the surface

Really lovely record from Memotone on The Trilogy Tapes:

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/tollard

I’m enjoying this Purelink album on Peal Oil:

https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/signs

very chill moodz

Glad to see that record has somehow had such reach, I've enjoyed Akeem's dance music for years

xp hearing the Purelink for the first time after noticing it on Pitchfork's AOTY list -- brilliant stuff

Not sure where to put this, but I would have nominated it for the EOY poll if I had heard it a few weeks ago (came out in December). Pretty stunning electronics + Rhodes + vocal improvisations.

Joseph Branciforte + Theo Bleckmann - LP2
https://josephbrancifortetheobleckmann.bandcamp.com/album/lp2

no idea who ferdi schuster is but this rules

https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/nun

YES!!

I recently discovered that label exploring Gespensterland connections, love most of it

same label also did this stunning 90-minute tape of Arvo Part on guitar

https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/wherever-i-go

(which I fell asleep to just last night)

damn, i can already tell i'm gonna play the shit out of this

ha I immediately bought like six tapes from that label, the Balruin and Spiritual Emojis ones are good too

*Baldruin

Part album is sounding very lovely, ty sleeve

<3

immense vibe on this track

https://ufordia.bandcamp.com/track/earth-love

This is more like a film score than ambient music per se, but it's super good

https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/ministry-of-tall-tales

The live instruments rework/reimagining/re-recording of Taylor Deupree's Stil. (w/Joseph Branciforte) is excellent -

https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/album/sti-ll-2

This is the stuff — cheers for the heads-up.

Lovely stuff

https://hotspring.bandcamp.com/album/apodelia

That sounds great

digging the hell out of this https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-logic

and it comes with a hat. more ambient albums should have hats.

That's sounding great ^^

Listened to this a few times; it's good - based on JG Ballard's 'The Drowned World'.
https://healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeral-maps

got a spare ticket for Kali Malone's gig in London on Friday. Can't make the child care work, So one of us must stay at home. chiz chiz.

https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/kali-malone-all-life-long-organ-choir-brass/

if anyone interested, I can let you have it for a donation to a refugee / womens refuge charity.

let me know in advance in case its gone already.

Nice travelogue-in-Japan synth record from beaunoise
https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/ongaku

^ loving that

bliss

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

"Be Sure To Loop (Be Sure To Loop Remix)
Remix – Tatsuki Masuko"

i am late to the kali malone parade. i just started listening to the sacrificial code this week in my car and the sound is just massive, it feels like another dimension. im overwhelmed.

this beaunoise is stellar, thanks for sharing

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/teratai-kande

An absolute stroomer

Good uses of guitar a+

https://dustinwong.bandcamp.com/album/water-map

The Royksopp thing "Nebulous Nights" is worth a listen. I'm only partway through but this is two hours of Rokysopp at their most Vangelis with some of their usual collaborators.

this album brings 2am at noon

highly recommend both albums by Cloud Forest Protection Agency, kind of like a more benevolent Rainforest Spirtual Enslavement…

https://infinitytraxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-f-p-a-itc002

https://infinitytraxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-f-p-a-vol-ii-itc011

uhhhhhh p sick, thanks

srsly it's my birthday on Saturday and I doubt anyone is going to get me anything as good as this

big St. Giga vibes on these

I keep coming back to these. Thanks for the heads-up, brimstead.

oh glad to hear yall enjoying it :-)

fr

big St. Giga vibes on these

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I will direct you to Lucy Liyou’s 'Dog Dreams'

https://lucyliyou.bandcamp.com/album/dog-dreams

The tone of this is somewhere in between a St. Giga broadcast complete with Satsuki Shibanoesque furniture piano, Luc Ferrari’s ‘Cycles des Souvenirs’ and the glut of ASMR videos on youtube.

For better or worse, it seems like lately if you dig around enough you can find exactly what you want. It used to always be elusive.

This 2019 album by INNSYTER, Magnolia Shade is really doing it for me lately, just my kind of lofi chill vibes

https://goodmorningtapes.bandcamp.com/album/innsyter-magnolia-shade

anybody into the ambient musician Warmth? these albums were great winter droney ambient companions for me. anybody in the southern hemisphere needing some musical... warmth right now might want to check these albums out

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/home

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mourning-ghost-slowed

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-night

New Purelink album: https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/faith

Good interview with them with Philip Sherburne. https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/purelink-make-ambient-music-you-can-believe-in/