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I want to hear some quiet music; Music that kind of barely there: That stuff is hard to find. Talk Talk - check. Mark Hollis - check. Morton feldman - check. The Necks, Parts of Rioji Ikeda, some Arvo Part - check, check, check...

Any of you lovely people got some good suggestions for me? I'm open to all categories.

cheers

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Bernhard Gunther and Richard Chartier come to mind.

― hstencil, Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MISS70306131925&sql=Ak2kmiknhbb89

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(That was supposed to be a link. Whoopsies.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 24 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yep - i have that - its great, but alot of it is actually fairly loud and abrasive. I mean its ambient - but its not really quiet.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it would be obvious of me to mention the Norwegian band Kings Of Convenience and their rather smugly titled "Quiet is the new loud."

And I'm just that kinda wonderful guy!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

taku sugimoto: italia

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Anja Garbarek - Smiling And Waving

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Luigi Nono - some of his last decade or so of work was hardly there at all.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You might check out the lowercase sound folks o'er at Yahoo Groups. There's been at least a 2-CD comp out by 'em (and yes, some of them are people you've heard of). There was a writeup of it, largely posi, in the Spring '03 Signal to Noise, all decked out in sidebar.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

something by acetone, maybe.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You might check out the lowercase sound folks o'er at Yahoo Groups

cheers - do you have a link for that?

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Doves 'Zither'
Aphex Twin 'Nanou 2'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what about Bark Psychosis? i have seen their name bandied about ILM in relation to talk talk - is that quiet music?

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Eno, but then you've probably already considered that. Some of his collaborators are also on the quiet side of things: Jon Hassell, Cluster, Harold Budd, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, for instance.

Among contemporary composers, Helmut Lachenmann comes to mind as someone who really explores the space between sounds.

Inspired, by an earlier thread, I'd also recommend Pole's "CD1". Second also Bernhard Gunther above.

Hmm, seems Germans do the quiet thing pretty well, so I'd also toss in Popol Vuh, particularly their "Tantric Songs" CD.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure it counts as music, but the Circulatory System's 'Silver' CDr is the closest to a blank CD I've ever bought.

― Wondering Boy Poet, Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

joshua - i found the lowercase sound link - i was just being lazy!

― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Sunday, 24 August 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

On the guitar indie side, Tram is very good. Some Red House Painters songs (those without electric freakouts) do the trick as well.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Since I just posted about them elsewhere, the Cowboy Junkies. Or Shelleyan Orphan.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Empress (this is some seriously quite stuff right here). and a second vote for Tram.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

b fleischmann (occasionally)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 24 August 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

As an alternative to Eno, Simon Fisher Turner has some quirky quasi-ambient work. Search out his hard-to-find albums recorded as "Deux Filles" which combine classical guitar, electronics, piano and strange found sounds/voices. Very dreamy and strange.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 24 August 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

boards of canada 'olsen'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 24 August 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

check out Kevin Drumm's Second and the split CD he did with taku sugimoto; folie À deux.

― hsimah (hamish), Monday, 25 August 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

get "Star is just a Sun" by the White Birch.

― willem (willem), Monday, 25 August 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Lovesliecrushing....they're great

― manuel (manuel), Monday, 25 August 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Water Melon-Field Trip
Minotaur Shcok-Chiffs, Chaffs and Willow Warblers
Natural Calamity-Peach Head
Pedro-EPs 1&2

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 25 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Tara Jane O'Neill's "In the Sun Lines" - you might like. I'm not sure how quiet it is though since I play it at volume.

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 25 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Murcof

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Scelsi, I suppose

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 25 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont want loud music to win - FITE!

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 August 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Devendra Banhart? It's more foreground than background music, but it tends to sound best at lower volumes, and I find it relaxing.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Stars of the Lid, Labradford, Aix Em Klemm, Bedhead, Thomas Koner, Lull, Zoviet:France, Slowdive, Constance Denby...

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yellow 6. It's the halfway point between Stars of the Lid and Boards of Canada.

― Will Leglo, Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Rolf Julius (esp. the four "Small Music" volumes on Editions RZ)
Miki Yui (Small Sounds)
Steve Roden (i love his solo discs, but collaborations with Brandon Labelle and Bernhard Günter are also rewarding)
Richard Chartier (maybe too quiet? best with an "audible" partner (like Roden or Taylor Deupree))
Toshiya Tsunoda (essential. the sounds of air whistling through cracks, across bottles, over surfaces, around objects)
Akio Suzuki (some noisy works, but the stone-and-water opus NA-GI is key)
Mirror / Ora / Monos / Andrew Chalk
Alio Die
the Arya/Amplexus labels. like very edgy New Age-ambient.
the Toniutti brothers
the softl label (Tomlab/BMBLab co-op. great, unsung stuff)
all recent Radu Malfatti projects
Andrew Liles
PGR / Kim Cascone - pestilential ambient then; pixel ghosts now.
Christian Wolff - Stones (a Cage-meets-Toniutti one-off)
Christina Kubisch - Sechs Spiegel (luscious vibrating-glass drone)
SSSD (Burkhard Stangl, Martin Siewert, Taku Sugimoto, Werner Dafeldecker) - Home (and all these of these quiet-music masters separately)

― summerslastsound, Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ida, rachels, unwed sailor.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 28 August 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Turned down way low, absolutely any recording becomes 'ambient'.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Shuttle 358 - Understanding Wildlife
Solar Quest - Orgship esp. track 2 (Swingtree)

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, scelsi can be pretty quiet. seconded.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Also:

Low - One More Reason To Forget (recorded live in a church)
Mogwai - Come On Die Young (esp. the first half)
Rhythm & Sound - s/t

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I would highly recommend the tribute to Morton Feldman called (For Morton Feldman), which feature pieces Bernhard Gunter, Richard Chartier and Steve Roden. Really beautiful.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 28 August 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

some music may not be quiet, but is good to listen to at low volume, some hapa haole perhaps, certainly alfred apaka

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

how is the andrew liles

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

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