Ambient Music Thread Genre • Page 26

Well its 2018 folks, whats coming out this year that you know of ?

Nils Frahm - All Melody - January (Erased Tapes)
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe - February (Kranky)

 

crazy new Dedekind Cut's being issued by Kranky - well deserved


there's a new Sakamoto + Alva Noto record coming Feb and rumors of a Lorenzo Senni that could be power ambient instead of dancefloor oriented (but mere speculation only based on... well... he's on Warp... but nothing really ha)

ambient is not known for huge blockbusters (with some exceptions e.g. Tim Hecker) so releases tend to be more low-key haha

BUT

it's a thriving always surprising genre and there's always a ton of interesting releases, so here's for 2018

 

Looking forward to the other half of the Caretaker releases.

 

PLEASE let there be new Lorenzo Senni omg

 

you guys wanna play top 10 drone/ambient/contemporary composition/noise of 2017?

 

I'll bite. This was tough because insane amount of good stuff this year-- even more that I haven't checked out yet.

here are my lists in no order:

bvdub - heartless
gas - narkopop
chuck johnson - balsams
the caretaker - everywhere at the end of time
bing & ruth - no home of the mind
jefre cantu-ledesma - on the echoing green
visible cloaks - reassemblage
gigi masin & charles hayward - les nouvelles musiques de chambre, vol. 2
poppy nogood - mood paintings
rafael anton irisarri - the shameless years

honorable mentions:

earthen sea - an act of love
lowercase noises - the swiss illness
windy & carl - blues for a ufo
pausal - avifaunal
pan - mono no aware compilation
max richter - three worlds: music from woolf works
the fun years - heroes of the second story walkup
gaussian curve - clouds
hammock - mysterium
haco - qoosui
roedelius & andrew heath & christopher chaplin - triptych in blue
heathered pearls - detroit, mi 1997-2001
golden retriever - rotations
joseph shabason - aytche
kaitlyn aurelia smith - the kid
four tet - new energy
the seven fields of aphelion - keep the ocean inside
hakobune - landfall
geotic - abysma
mark mcguire - ideas of beginnings
anjou - epithymia

 

on my list of 2017 ambient releases I still need to hear (will edit to this based on others' lists):

rainforest spiritual enslavement - ambient black magic
palta - universel
wanderwelle - lost in a sea of trees
vera dvale & psykovarius - udu
gailes - seventeen words
suso saiz - rainworks
r beny - cascade symmetry
sw. - the album.
high plains - cinderland
grandbrothers - open
yves tumor - experiencing the deposit of faith
kiasmos - blurred ep
hayden pedigo - greetings from amarillo
indian wells - where the world ends
metro riders - europe by night
leandro fresco & rafael anton irisarri - la equidistancia

 

awesome - I've been listening to some of the shit you guys posted

might do my list tonight

some glaring omissions btw. :P

 

also, don't know where else to post this, but I figure that if there's a crowd for this at Chorus, it's here:

last Sun Araw LP is fucking magical

go listen to that - Cameron fucking outdid himself - shit is golden: nothing quite like it out there, not even previous Sun Araw

 

Will check out this week for sure. Been working through my list of things i missed and rainforest spiritual enslavement’s new one is amazing, as well as leando fresco’s + rafael anton irisarri’s la equidistancia

 

missed the rainforest set at the Hospital anniversary show in NY because I was too hungover

:(

 

Bibio's Phantom Brickworks was one of the best of 2017.

 

I liked it but didn’t think it quite reached the quality of the records i listed above. There were hundreds of amazing ambient albums released in 2017 so the bar was very high

 

seriously guys, this is amazing and will probably creep to my #1 spot of 2017 LOL - this literally single-handedly restored my mental health (which was pretty bad after the end of Q4 2017) - its a balm

If you were Carlos Castaneda and the chillest robot-cowboy was don Juan Matus, then Viaje a Ixtlan would be The Saddle of the Increate.

Some YouTube comments for you, just so you get a feel of what people feel when listening to this journey:

"every time he says alright ten years are added to my lifespan"

"Sun Araw, your guide to the stars and campfire embers. Once past the first two tracks the journey is a treat, so saddle up and ride out. Mind psalm, get on it."

Read this: Interview: Sun Araw

Cameron explains the concept behind the record and the ideas that shaped it, but it is basically an exploration of Greek mythology through the eyes of cowboys and Alice Bailey. FUCKING AWESOME.

LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN

 

This is one of the weirdest things I’ve heard in a long time, but I really like it (I think).

 

Huerco S. sticks his landing, launches new label and new moniker with new double album Make Me Know You Sweet

 

Can't wait! Also just checking this one out. Incredibly beautiful thus far

 

^been listening to that one a ton recently - really special

 

aka huerco s.

 

New Pendant is so good.

 

Rework of Balmorhea's latest feat contributions from William Basinski and Jefe Cantu-Ledesma

Also, a few things I really enjoy from last year that I don't recall seeing talked about in here

GRAFTS

 

First Listen: Nils Frahm, 'All Melody'

 

"In 1979, Jürgen, a self-taught amateur musician studying oceanic science at the University of Kiel, travelled with a film crew to document a mission testing sea-water toxicity a few kilometres offshore in the North Sea. As ever, necessity was the mother of invention, and the experience proved so memorable that he was impelled to create a soundtrack to the footage and his own recollections using some electronic equipment borrowed from friends and a local school. Armed with nothing but a faint memory of piano lessons as a child and - perhaps to be expected for a German student in 1979 - some awareness of (undisclosed) avant-garde electronic composers from the early '70s, Jürgen set about creating this lush suite of twelve marine-themed vignettes, plainly channeling his thoughts, moods and emotions into what could be quite easily called a prototypical, deliciously frothy form of "New Age" music. It simultaneously triggered ambitions of becoming a film composer and lead to the creation of his publishing company - Neue Wissenschaft. He wrote the album in his spare time off from studying between 1981-82, finally releasing an edition of 100 copies which largely ended up in the hands of friends and family, with only a few reaching prospective clients and relegating it to the sea of privately pressed synth music."