Thomas Köner

'on the first one, nunatak gongamur', the gongs are loud & brash, it's a harsh record I haven't returned to much. 'kaamos' sounds overtly digital & crispy to me and I never quite got into it, though for some that's the appeal. I also like his disc 'nuuk' on the beyond-excellent 'driftworks' 4cd set.

Haven't heard the last two, still chewing on 'daikan', which is epic but maybe too monolithic, not as much variation, but I haven't played it really loud yet so we'll see...

avoid the dbl cd zyklop which is stuff from film soundtracks "installations" etc. you can tell it's missing some other aspect of the whole picture when you listen to the music on that. it sounds compromised.

dang- really? just picked this one up last night

i really dig the nunatak / teimo / permafrost three-pack, anyway. been playing it a lot.

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/to85_thomas_koner_novaya_zemly.html

this tread is too short. just listened to this - didn't know his music and videos before - and the music is pretty brilliant. it sounds a little like brian eno's ambient stuff. the difference is that it has a very strong pull and is not two-dimensional like aural wallpaper at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38KUYckikN0

thread, not tread!

the only eno lp that thomas koner particularly resembles is on land, which is certainly not a neutral or indifferent thing in the way his early definition of 'ambient' indicated, or in the generic sense it used today

on land is my favourite of eno's ambient albums. my description was meant as a very lazy and broad description just to give an idea what this sounds like. if you have a better one just tell it instead of criticizing in a destructive way. thanks.

Nakh's post = useful, not destructive.

Saw Koner perform a cpl of years ago w/ accompanying glacial drift vids. He hasn't really changed his act all that much, but it was gd to hear this stuff v. loud w/ decent low-end - emphasised that feeling of land masses moving, slowly rumbling, that links it to On Land.

thomas koner is good, perhaps a little bit simplistic and 'awed' in that biosphere way? very strong sense of place and emotional heft, certainly not nearly as agonized or ambiguous as 'on land'

la barca is a good entry into his work

my description was meant as a very lazy and broad description just to give an idea what this sounds like. if you have a better one just tell it instead of criticizing in a destructive way. thanks.

alright, well refining a broad description is to clarify not destroy

yes, you are right, i realized later on that you actually did add something by getting more precise. on land to me is very organic and full of animal-like sounds. köner seems more spacy and open, more in the vein of tangerine dream's zeit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by5T3W3ipGs

eno? hell no, koner is physical music for your bowells, mate

i don't think his music is very electronic, it's just reverbed out gongs and shit, right?

I used to listen to this dude a lot. His stuff is so glacially paced, that when the ADD bomb that went off and destroyed my generation (and all the ones following it), I no longer had the patience to listen intently to it anymore.