I've loved the following releases from recent years, please recommend more.

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I'll take just artists or artists and albums that you might think I'd like using the following as reference points:

Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Johann Johannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar
1 Mile North - Minor Shadows
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays...
Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds of...
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees/Lambent Material
Growing - Sky's Run Into the Sea/Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
Fennesz - Venice
Tim Hecker - Mirages

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I would recommend checking out anything on the Apestaartje label (Mountains, Minamo, Aero, Anderegg, Fourcolor)

Susumu Yokota - Sakura

If you haven't heard Fennesz' "Endless Summer" then you need to get it ASAP.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Yep, got the Fennesz, just forgot to list that one. But thanks for the other recommends, I haven't heard of any of those.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

orem ambarchi "suspension"
biosphere "substrata"
stephen mathieu & ekkehard ehlers "heroin"

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

pluramon dreams top rock

look into stuff on the touch label. you might enjoy black forest/black sea and the other stuff on their label secret eye.

i havent heard the gravenhurst record, but that might be the right alley.

― b b, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Birchville Cat Motel Beautiful Speck Triumph (last visible dog)
anything by Scorces

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Tim Hecker has another excellent disc called Haunt Me on the frequently worthwhile Alien8 label.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

philip jeck "stoke" (also "surf")
main "hz"

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

keith rowe & toshimaru nakamura "weather sky"

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

you might want to look into the VHF label...they have some clips on th site.

if you liked growing (saw them recently and didnt much dig it) you might enjoy mouthus (think they just got a pfork review) and some of the deoble leopards (side projects).

― b b, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the recommendations, please keep them coming. Has anyone heard this? Any good?

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, heard this:

http://www.krecs.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KRAD&Product_Code=ZUM019&Category_Code=OFN

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

should this thread be re-named how to a plug the my bloody valentine hole in my head?

havent heard that, but K usually has mp3's or sound clips...lemme see if i got a link from their press person.

― b b, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

keith fullerton whitman "playthroughs"

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

lars stigler - mon rideau noir
colin potter - see
ueh - ueh
b4 - the first colour of the day
ultrasound - yerida, hamesh
aidan baker - loop study 1
tape - opera, milieu
jeremy boyer - songs from the guitar solos
martin siewert - komfort 2000
trapist - highway my friend

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Jason Forrest

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Boats - Songs by the Sea: Plays/sounds a bit like Rachels (all acoustic, I think), evokes foggy sea rhythms like Tim Hecker.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

"weather sky"'s great, but not at the melodic end of the spectrum.

dean roberts - and the black moths play the grand cinema
dean roberts - be mine tonight
thela - argentina
rafael toral - violence of discovery and calm of acceptance
rafael toral - harmonic series 1 & 2
martin brandlmayr / martin siewert - too beautiful to burn

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

greg davis - 'somnia'

― aaron fenwick (aaron ef.), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

If you don't have it already, get the first Max Richter album called Memoryhouse. Almost as good as the Blue Notebooks.

I also recommend Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances on ECM, performed by Anja Lechner on violoncello and Vassilis Tsabropoulos on piano. It's absolutely gorgeous. You can read more about it here (I love to listen to classical music, but feel out of my league trying to explain it to others).

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought that Ueh album was great. Did they ever do anything else?
Also check out Nils Økland - Bris. It's beautiful.

― william m lynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

a nice way to check into greg davis and the ilk is the Fork Ends comp on audio dregs. Nice tracks from NIce Nice and FS BLumm on that

― b b, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Just another update that I'm very grateful for the recommendations. I have much to look forward to. I know there are more...

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops I-IV
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again
Johann Johannson - Englaborn
Biosphere - Autour de la Lune
Deathprod - Morals & Dogma
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
The Dead Texan - S/T

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

"too beautiful to burn" is definitely a better choice for this thread than "weather sky".

this thread reminds me of the evolution of my own whatever--pretty sleepytime stuff without beats, then pretty-ish stuff without beats or traditional song structure, then your ears get bigger and this whole world opens up.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Goldmund - Corduroy Road
Larsen - Play

― hitthe, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I'll get behind "Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again" and "Playthroughs"--along with Dntel, "Life Is Full Of Possibilities" and Herbert, "Bodily Functions," they're probably my most-listened-to records of the last few years.

Also try:

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa, Fratres
Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Brian Eno's ambient albums (obviously) - Discreet Music especially
Twine - s/t
Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Also try:

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa, Fratres
Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Brian Eno's ambient albums (obviously) - Discreet Music especially
Twine - s/t
Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire (this is completely amazing--like a more intense "Playthroughs")

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

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