Ambient and drone recommendations

xpost. careful with the "that type of stuff" line. derailed the last ambient thread we had from the start.

for frightening drones check SunnO))) - White1

for minimal drones check Kaffe Matthews - cd eb + flo

Also, several of Robert Rich's early releases (Trances/Drones and Sunyata) as well as Below Zero or the awesome Stalker album he did with Lustmord would probably do the trick.

Accelera Deck "Ski" (3" CDr on Scarcelight of lofi electric guitar drone.. beautiful)

Black Forest/Black Sea "Radiant Symmetry" (live improvisations from european tour... cello & guitar + guests unique to each show, based on location)

I'll second the SunnO))) recommendations.

Amp -- Perception
Stars of the Lid -- Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

On BE, how are their subsequent albums?

Vibrcathedral Orchestra are thick layers of acoustic/sometimes electric drone and clatter. S: Dabbling With Gravity & Who You Are on VHF and My Gate's Open, Tremble By My Side on Lexicon Devil.

Birchville Cat Motel is generally pretty decent, I guess. I've never been bowled over by his stuff but I know people who are crazy about it. There's tons of it, too, so maybe I just haven't heard the right bits.

Derrick, later Bowery Electric albums weren't as good. 2nd was OK, but now probably sounds too much of stale trip hop. 3rd was truly awful.

That's a shame about Bowery Electric. I take it they're defunct now?

It is universally agreed that their third album is their weakest, but the stuff that sounds like Curve is really quite good. No drones, however.

I really wanna hear pandit's teacher Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan: he reacorded a one hour long version of a raga for all india radio. This wz released but its prob out of print.

Beautiful Speck Triumph is the best Birchville Cat Motel album I have heard, and it is completely epic and beautiful, I can't recommend it enough. There are a ton of BCM titles, but this is the one to buy.
It's on Last Visible Dog.

Have you heard the first five or six Tangerine Dream albums yet?

and this never ever gets said, but John Duncan's Phantom Broadcast is one of the loveliest drones ever. a captured shortwave shimmer that sounds like the monolith scene of 2001 if it were on the sun instead, all plasma and somewhat 'metallic'.

re: "drone" live shows - been to a few myself, enough to have noticed that apparently the standard/proper way take in the show is eyes closed, legs crossed, rocking back and forth, head down. does the guy who looks the deepest meditatively get the girl? (assuming there is one in attendance)

otm harshaw on the 4th disc of pan sonic's rekkid from last year. tributes to charlemagne palestine are appropriate to this thread.

phil niblock's "young people's guide to..." is goodness.

polyphonic spree "a long day"... the only PS song i really care for. the haley's comet cult halleluyah chorus.

i like lot's of the krautrock/motorik influenced rock that might fit here. stereolab, etc. boredoms. suicide. oneida to thread.

youngsbower and vibracathedral orchestra rule. in that direction you can really go into bollymusics and probably find some great trance out stuff.

pita, etc?

mahogany.

etc
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Added bonus, ice-cream!

one incapacitant, one overhang partier, more than an hour of hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Rutman is the innovator who's being doing this for decades, his records are more crazy/wild noisy than mellow. Warren and Samolis' record actually manages some consistent intervals, they've actually tamed the instrument into producing consonant sounds... Rutman 'industrial', W&S 'space music'.

I've only heard 'music to sleep by' and '1939' though.

& there's earlier W&S recordings that are noisier, and probably better, that should come out... if you have a label looking to put out some crazy brilliant drone, you should drop them an e-mail

is there something to "get?" i just put it on and let it go. seems like an obvious descendent of the taj mahal travellers, kosugi's "catch wave," etc.

not ambient nor drone! neither is pita! shit is aggressive, dudes!

But, to the recommendations ;):

Pandit Pran Nath
Thomas Köner
William Basinski: The River
Bernhard Günter / John Duncan: home, unspeakable
Eliane Radigue (everything by her - she is truly a genius!)
Lionel Marchetti: La Grande Vallée

Totally OTM. I have been saying a very similar thing about the satastornade album for a while now.

Gas - Pop (or anything else) (drone)
Woob - 1194 (ambient)
Vladislav Delay - Anima (drone/ambient)
Mick Harris & James Plotkin - Collapse (drone)
Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz - Web (drone/ambient)
Klimek - Milk & Honey (ambient)
Omicron - Acrocosm (ambient)

My refrigerator. Dude, it's totally like an self-contained white obelisk shamanic ceremony. Waaaaaaahmpwaaaaaaahmpwaaaaaahmp.

Added bonus, ice-cream!

― john'n'chicago, Monday, February 28, 2005 12:15 PM (5 years ago)

Some A+ recommendations in this thread, plus the above lol-worthy quote.

artist called Soriah hitting the drone/ambient bullseye for me this morning

in case folks are not aware, the black dog have teamed up with psychick warrioirs ov gaia under the dadavisitic orchestra guise, and are to release a proper full length album of golden FAX era ambient drones.
the results are very nice.

holy fuck that sounds awesome

Soriah is a super nice dude fwiw

Didn't know this thread existed... I was searching for a Loscil thread yesterday but couldn't find one, so I'll ask here: can someone do a c/d s/d on his discography? I've loved most anything I've heard from him but have not heard any full lengths - something I want to remedy.

'Submers' and 'First Narrows' have steadily been my favorites, I think they are archetypes of Loscil's sound. Great depth and density, underwater waltzes. You can't go wrong with either, though I'd recommend 'Submers' for starters.

Noted, thanks for the rec.

Lustmord is too obvious?

Gonna have to dig through this thread more because this type of stuff is up my alley recently.

Anyone have anything to say about CM Von Hausswolff? The bits on iTunes sound promising but hard to judge this type of stuff with clips that short.

Also if anyone cares, here's something I did for a friend's art installation a number of years ago: https://files.me.com/seancarruthers/c6tod4.mp3

Second Loscil's _Submers_ as the album to start with, as it's the one that hooked me to pikc.

Also, Loscil's _Stases_ is a free album download here. It's at ...archive.org, as it seems the original site is defunct. Good bookend to his first four albums.

"to pikc" = "to pick up his other albums". There are also a handful of compilation tracks on iTunes, if you're a completist.

Man, thanks for the Submers recommendations. Listening to it now and it is absolutely gorgeous.

Has anyone ever done a POX for classic/best ambient records? ie the ten ambient albums that must be in your collection.

Ah, I see that the answer is yes.

Although hearing everyone's personal top 10 might be more interesting.

Ha! Very glad you're enjoying it!

Soriah on America's Got Talent

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

^ this video made me angry btw, just so you know, it's not a pleasant yay Soriah thing but more a burn in hell Piers Morgan thing

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

This is a friend of mine, and I think it's really fucking good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jGdApdqGV8

I guess this responding to a post from four years ago, but Soriah live (with Ashkelon Sain) was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen.

gas - rausch is very good. starting my second proper listen right now. "The album consists of one piece of music that is indexed solely for navigational purposes, and is designed to be listened to in one sitting" : good to know, it felt like it.

i can't remember this and it's impossible to google and it's driving me crazy: who composed the early drone/experimental piece "was?" (german for "what?")

folke raab

rabe

THANK YOU

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