Atmospheric (or just easy to get lost in) records

http://e.imagehost.org/0826/Jim_O_rourke_Bad_timing-1997.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-Dexcd-eQ

mood music caveat: one of the songs on that record has a kind of silly mariachi horns bit that changes the atmosphere up & if you forget it's going to happen it usually makes you giggle. Playing now, a fine Saturday AM record. no view to speak of here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISucGq5dsk

Good call on Jim O'Rourke! I do really like that album but I haven't listened to it in at least 4 years...

Ugh why is there no vinyl version of that Roy Montgomery??

good call on V Astley scott

and I keep coming back to Music For Airports after almost 30 years.

other records I have gotten lost in for extended periods (more in the electronic/drone vein here):

David Jackman - Sol Mara
Gas - Koenigsforst and Pop albums
Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon
Zoviet France - Shouting At The Ground
Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Lilith
Nocturnal Emissions - Spiritflesh

sensations fix - fragments of light (1974)
tangerine dream - firestarter OST (1984)
relatively clean riverst - s/t (1975)
steve hillage - fish rising (1975)
dom - edge of time (1972)
ashra - correlations (1979)
phil keaggy - the master and the musician (1978)
linda perhacs - parallelograms (1970)
emeralds - the overlook (2009)
cocteau twins - victorialand (1986)
mirroring (grouper/tiny vipers collab) - foreign body (2012)
earthstar - atomkraft, nein danke (1981)

*rivers

robert ashley - private parts!!!!!!

Once I get back home I have some catching up to do on all of this!

the two recent albums by Earth

Of all those recently listed, I have Victorialand. I have to be in the right mood for that record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpEr0yzof0

Eyvind Kang and the Neti Neti Band "Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age" usually takes me there.

But I am pretty sure that is only on cd.

yeah (also maybe oop), but I agree that it is a towering achievement and a great record.

I love some Bardo Pond, some is too post-rocky. I'll come around.

Ian, nobody will tell me, is El Capitan by Utah Phillips a good record??

i'm not the hugest utah phillips fan. that one's on philo right? if yer into folk-revival with a western theme then go for it! those records certainly aren't bad things to listen to.

Yeah it's on philo. There is a sealed copy I can grab for $15 but it's really hard to get a good sampling of the songs anywhere. I saw you had heard it.

$15 seems high in my opinion. most things on phlo can be found in the $1-5 range with a little luck..

i just checked and i don't have a copy anymore, or else i'd sent it to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7EZYAu0ms&feature=related

^^ classic cheapo philo records recording artist!

Ok, I'll pass on it then. The owner of my store gets a little overly hopeful about the potential cost of a record if he doesn't see thorough evidence that it isn't going to sell for the price he is dreaming of. He thinks he'll get $50 for the 12" folkways issue (1964) of Dust Bowl Ballads just because it went for that in 2008, despite some recent sales with only slightly less mint copies completing for 30.

Thats a great song!

mary mccaslin is the best. pretty sure it was skot who started a thread on her on ILM? or mentioned her on ilm.