Ambient Music Thread Genre • Page 43

Yeah, I may not post much in here, but that’s because you all are one of my main sources for this stuff, and I don’t feel like I have much to contribute. I check out a majority of what’s posted in here though and love a lot of it! I’ve been listening to that Eli Keszler and H. Takahasi album a lot, for instance.

I have been working through some of the artists I don’t know from the Big Ears Festival line-up and have been really enjoying this Clarice Jensen album, which probably fits in here. Really awesome cello drones. Johann Johansson worked on the first track.

 

Pumped to check that out!

I’d also just love to know what are some of everyone’s recent favorites vs. all-time favorite ambient albums. Doesnt matter if they aren’t rare- just want to get a sense of peoples’ tastes.

 

Been listening to a lot of M Geddes Gengras lately,

 

probably missing a bunch of stuff but based off of my most played albums...

all time:

Windy & Carl - Depths
Grouper - A I A Alien Observer
Stars of the Lid- And Their Refinement...
Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
Huerco S. - For Those Of You...
Brian Eno - Apollo

recent:

Eli Keszler - Stadium
Aqueduct Ensemble - Improvisations on an Apricot
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
Kali Malone - Cast of Mind
Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest

 

God, that Leon Vynehall album is exquisite.

 

for some reason I stopped getting alerts for
this thread hmm

I’ll post my list tomorrow and will work through recent recs too

content: been listening to Varg’s Crush and Skee Mask’s Compro a lot - ambient techno but I’m sure you will enjoy

 

I just remembered about the DJ Healer album for some reason....really need to go revisit that one

 

that’s on my top 5 of the year for sure - maybe even top 3

 

ok bear with me, this is going to be kinda long.

Favorite of all-time in no order. Probably gonna be missing a bunch but whatever:

Helios - Eingya
Helios - Unomia
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds...
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
Boards of Canada - Geodaddi
Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Susumu Yokota - Love or Die
Susumu Yokota - Acid Mt. Fuji
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
The Ghostwriters - Remote Dreaming
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
GAS - Pop
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
Roedelius - Wenn der Sudwind weht
Kyle Bobby Dunn - ...and the Infinite Sadness
Gabor Szabo - Dreams

2018 favs in no order so far. Been very into ambient techno this year:

Geotic - Traversa
Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner - Care
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Bvdub - Drowning in Daylight
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time
Yagya - Rigning
Warmth - Parallel
Masayoshi Fujita - Book of Life
Dino Sabatini - Omonimo
GAS - Rausch
Araceae - Lunae Semita
Anenon - Tongue
Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Lose

 

that Keszler album is p unique and very good!

 

I will make a list of this year tomorrow morning!

 

@Horrorca , if you are into ambient techno, listen to this;

 

dloaded from Spotify - thanks!

 

sadly I just can’t get into ambient techno or any rhythm-centric ambient

 

I only reallllly got into ambient techno stuff this year. I've always enjoyed it to a certain extent, but I finally devoted some time to the genre and now I'm very interested in how percussive elements can deliver layers of atmosphere and texture, while still maintaining ambient's soft-spoken quality- if that makes sense.

I feel like the new Leon Vynehall is very rhythm-centric, though not nearly as much as his older shit which is literally titled Designed to Dance lol (that album is truly incredible too).

I think my very first ambient techno album was Helios' earliest record, Unomia. There is a lot of organic instrumentation as well, and that combination is what initially intrigued me. It's probably their darkest album, but I love it.

 

Happy I'm the guy who posts extremely random and unknown old Japanese ambient albums here. I can only find these hidden gems on Youtube. Listen to these beauties before they're ever removed, god-forbidding.

 

can’t believe I slept on the new Laurel Halo - it’s great!!

also the new Abul Mogard is deep

 

The reason you like the new Laurel Halo is because Eli Kinzler plays on it.

 

haha there you go! I did feel a jazzy undercurrent

(in all fairness I love LH - Quarantine is immense!)

 

here we go... and apologies in advance for the long ass fucking list

all time

Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds
Stars of the Lid - Refinement of the Decline
Sean McCann - The Capital
Sean McCann - Music for Private Ensamble
Sean McCann - Music for Public Ensamble
Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano and Strings
Max Richter - Sleep
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
Yves Tumor - Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - s/t
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atmos
Migrations in Rust - Two Shadows
Brian McBride - When Detail...
Brian McBride - Effective Disconnect
Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath
Ian William Craig - Centres
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Le Berger - Music for Guitar and Patience
Disasterpeace - Fez OST
Drombeg - Earthworks
Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness
Eno - Ambient 1
Eno - Discreet Music
Eno + Lanois + Eno - Apollo
Ben Frost - By the Throat
Ben Frost - Aurora
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Fennesz - Venice
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the Estate
Andre + Mason - Call, Response
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Gas - Pop
Gas - Konigsfort
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Eluvium - Copia
Eluvium - Similes
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
The Fun Years - Baby It's Cold Inside
Nils Frahm- Spaces
Jefre Cantu Ledesma - Stream of Love
Jefre Cantu Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons
Budd + Eno - Ambient 2
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right...
Boards of Canada - Geoggadi
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Nicholas Szczepanik - Please Stop Loving Me
Juliana Barwick - Nepenthe
Grouper - Dragging...
Grouper - AIA
Benoit Pioulard -Plays Thelma
Jason Lescalleet - Pilgrim
Inventions - Maze of Woods
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
Goon Night & Good Morning - Narrowing Type
Hammock - Raising...
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Clouds & Stairs
Lussuria - American Babylon
Polymer Slug - Cloud Types
Keith Fulerton - Lisbon


recent

Huerco S. - For Those...
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
Dedekind Cut - $uccessor
Bibio - Phantom Brickworks
Joseph Shabason - Aytche
Alessandro Cortini - Avanti
Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
Secret Boyfriend - Memory Care Unit

EDIT: and I did leave a lot out that should be there!!!

 

Got a lot to check out on this rainy friday it seems!

The Brian Mcbride records are too good, was considering them for my list as well. Also wasn’t sure which Jefre Cantu Ledesma was my favorite bc theyre all pretty incredible but if i were to add one to my list itd probably be On the Echoing Green. I love optimistic ambient.

Not strictly ambient but with ambient tendencies, here is a great neo-jazz album that came out today

 

Huerco S. label West Mineral released this one today as well.

FFO: Basic Channel, GAS, breathing air, and super burritos.

 

What do you guys think of Andy Stott? Might be going to his live show next month.

 

I think that will be excellent. I want to go to an ambient show--they just never happen where I live, or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

Also for fans of The Caretaker, this album came out today too and it's really great so far:

 

Not strictly ambient but this album is out today. Dreamy ambient-pop reminiscent of a sparse Julia Holter. Full thing on streaming.