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innerspaceboy 01-04-2018 05:47 PM
Innerspaceboy’s Ambient Essentials (Pt 3)
 
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Boards of Canada released Music Has the Right to Children in 1998. Mellow and soothing sounds with a touch of nostalgia.

https://i.imgur.com/uvfcOkdl.jpg

St Germain - Tourist. A slick production of nu jazz, downtempo, deep house, acid jazz, and Mande music.

https://i.imgur.com/EYiaK3dl.jpg

Pantha du Prince - This Bliss. Glitchy ambient meditative microhouse.

https://i.imgur.com/ZXXTq0il.jpg

And one more title from 1999 - certainly more dynamic than most ambient records but I’m including other downtempo future jazz recordings so I must mention Cinematic Orchestra’s Motion LP.

2000s

The 2000s saw the release of two essential recordings by Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of… and And the Refinement of the Decline. But their full discography from 1995 to the present is well worth picking up.

https://i.imgur.com/5iymT7yl.png

The Album Leaf did some wonderful work between 1999-2004. An Orchestrated Rise to Fall, One Day I’ll Be On Time, and In a Safe Place are excellent albums. Turntable Lab is issuing two of these as deluxe colored vinyl editions with die cut covers for 2018.

https://i.imgur.com/9WYpGTBl.jpg

Iceland’s post-rock ambassadors, Sigur gained considerable global notoriety for their ambient masterpieces sung in their own pseudo-language, Hopelandic. Ágætis Byrjun and ( ) are essential, but their full catalog is top notch. The 7LP In A Frozen Sea: A Year With Sigur Rós box set is quite a find.

Robert Rich produced a 7-hour sleep concert dubbed, Somnium available on DVD. An essential long-form composition.

Alva Noto - Prototypes, Transform, Vrioon (with Ryuichi Sakamoto), Insen, and Xerrox Vols 1 and 2. Wonderful microsound works.

Also highly recommended is the complete catalog of Marconi Union, who was tapped to assist with remastering Brian Eno’s discography. Distance, A Lost Connection, and Beautifully Falling Apart are strong albums.

Hammock crafts quality ambient/post-rock/shoegaze soundscapes. Eleven albums were released between 2005 and the present.

https://i.imgur.com/tsyfRWkl.jpg

The Books ‎– The Lemon Of Pink (Vinyl Me, Please Records Of The Month Vol. 47 yellow w/ pink splatter album in die cut jacket with metallic inks + 16 page companion book). The vocals, strings, and samples meld together to form something akin to what a disembodied consciousness would sound like if it could sing.

Eno released his 22nd solo album, January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now. The complete permutations of all ten thousand years' worth of chimes are available as a free MIDI download from http://interglacial.com/clock/about.html.

Eluvium released several excellent titles, including Lambent Material, An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death, Talk Amongst the Trees, Copia, and Miniatures.

Spain’s Mus made their mark with El Naval and the Dominar La Fame (Canciones 1996-2004) compilation on Avant Garden Records.

https://i.imgur.com/iafRQcal.jpg

Skalpel’s self-titled LP is Polish downtempo nu-jazz. Very hip.

Bohren & der Club of Gore released several stellar records of doom-ridden ambient jazz music, the best of which are Sunset Mission and Black Earth.

https://i.imgur.com/g60FZbBl.jpg

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven and Yanqui U.X.O. are post-rock classics, but F# A# ∞ is the real gem to pick up on wax.

Helios was quite active, releasing Unomia, Merck, Eingya, Ayres, Caesura, and Unleft over the course of the decade. Lots of great experimental ambient to explore here.

Highlights of Max Richter’s extensive catalog during this period include Memoryhouse, The Blue Notebooks, and his score to Aronofsky’s The Fountain.

https://i.imgur.com/KNr8NuSl.jpg

Clint Mansell - Moon film score. Such a simple melodic theme but so effective.

We’ll finish up the 2000s and explore the 2010s next.

innerspaceboy 01-04-2018 05:47 PM
Innerspaceboy’s Ambient Essentials (Pt 4)
 
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The then-unknown Apparition (who would later become the mysterious Black Swan: Drones for Bleeding Hearts) released a free album online titled, Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up: A Tribute To The KLF. Quality drone music.

In the realm of future jazz, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble released a s/t album and Here Be Dragons.

https://i.imgur.com/IeoaGttl.jpg

Telefon Tel Aviv released Fahrenheit Fair Enough, an exquisite collection of downtempo IDM. The title track is a standout favorite.

2010s

Noteworthy contemporary ambient artists include Field Rotation, the minimal modern classical compositions of Jóhann Jóhannsson, the dark soundscapes of Labradford, Lawrence English, Pulusha, Purl, Goldmund, Ólafur Arnalds, and the magical works of Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Also get your hands on a lossless audio copy of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto's Summvs LP. The album contains recordings of a piano using a 16th tone interval tuning built by Sauter, Spaichingen/Donaueschingen, Germany. There are only 15 of these pianos in the world. Advance to "Pionier IOO" and don the finest studio monitors you can get your hands on. Minimal glitch bliss.

But if you’re looking for all-out desolation and stillness, one of the most powerful pieces available is Jacob Kirkegaard’s 4 Rooms - a sonic presentation of four deserted rooms inside the 'Zone of Alienation' in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

https://i.imgur.com/sSxeL19l.jpg

2012 marked the release of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops 9LP+5CD+DVD numbered box set, featuring exclusive recordings of the memorial concerts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the 54th Venice Music Biennale.

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations was reissued for its 15th anniversary, a multi-disc box set of compiled recordings of the mysterious and haunting broadcasts around the world from unmanned radio stations. (Fun fact for Wilco fans… there’s a station among them broadcasting the words, “Yankee… Hotel… Foxtrot... “ into infinity.)

https://i.imgur.com/0Cx2qczl.jpg

Brian Eno released Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Drums Between the Bells, Lux, The Ship, and the generative work, Reflection. The Ship has a somber and harrowing essence, serving as a dire reflection on the Titanic disaster and the horrors of WWI. But the record maintains a meditative and cerebral tone rewarding to any listener who’ll give the album their full attention. The Ship is my favorite album to experience during sensory deprivation.

https://i.imgur.com/fnF6p9Ml.jpg

Max Richter released Sleep, an 8-hour neoclassical ambient album. I picked up the abbreviated vinyl edition, From Sleep as well.

Wolfgang Voigt (performing as Gas) made a triumphant return to music after 17 years with the release of the dark ambient Narkopop LP. It was an instant favorite.

Nils Frahm produced several albums, the highlights of which are the treated piano post-minimal soundscapes of Felt and the field recording album, Spaces.

And with Ólafur Arnalds, they recorded the electro-ambient Trance Frendz LP.

Meanwhile independently, Ólafur Arnalds released ...And They Have Escaped The Weight of Darkness, shedding his electronic leaning in favor of a sound more along the lines of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s modern classical tone poem work on the album, IBM 1401, A User's Manual.

https://i.imgur.com/lO9gvRHl.jpg

The same year Hidden Orchestra released Night Walks - a highly atmospheric and nocturnal downtempo/nu-jazz record.

https://i.imgur.com/DlDp4BRl.jpg

More great ambient downtempo in 2010 from Bonobo with the album Black Sands - his best work yet.

https://i.imgur.com/YtxBf6jl.jpg

Adam Wiltze of Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan collaborated with Dustin O’Halloran for an album titled A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a soothing and melancholic minimal modern classical album.

https://i.imgur.com/eydScU2l.jpg

Black Swan, owner of the Ethereal Symphony label, premiered two limited numbered edition LPs - In 8 Movements and The Quiet Divide. A symphony of inky black, spiraling sadness.

https://i.imgur.com/ho5jjrnl.jpg

But I believe my favorite releases of the 2010s has to be The Black Dog’s Music for Real Airports. The result of over 200 hours of field recording and globetrotting, the limited edition hand-numbered 3LP set is a contemporary response to Eno's classic album. (I scored copy #16!)

Mark Prendergast is the author of The Ambient Century, a mammoth guide to the genre. Prendergast said this is "by far the best Ambient record released in years."

Please notify me of any errors or omissions and I’ll be happy to correct them.

OccultHawk 06-06-2019 11:59 AM
Orchestral Tape Studies by 扎克

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/orchestral-tape-studies

I found this one to be especially brainmassagy

Arkane 11-04-2019 08:50 PM
Jérôme Chassagnard - Wind
- Sea

on Hymen records (Germany)

Some videos are on youtube and you could be interested (or not)

:shycouch:

OccultHawk 06-10-2020 08:39 PM
Ground by Purl


https://purl.bandcamp.com/album/ground

Epikouros 06-14-2020 12:33 PM
Methysmerna - Kanigos Emerge (2020)

https://i.ibb.co/4d7L2Jq/kani-small.png

https://methysmerna.bandcamp.com/album/kanigos-emerge

An ambient/dreamwave album with some cyberpunk aesthetic elements. The whole album has a relaxing hazy atmosphere, synths mixed with sounds in a very nice continuous flow.

OccultHawk 06-17-2020 02:07 PM
María Sabina Cubensis by Nacht Plank

https://nachtplank.bandcamp.com/albu...abina-cubensis

Really cool

OccultHawk 08-19-2020 08:32 AM
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Martha died on September 1, 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.

She was the last passenger pigeon to exist. Originally her species was numbered in the billions. Due to hunting and destruction of their habitats, they vanished.

released October 2, 2015
Martha by Nick Keeling

https://nickkeeling.bandcamp.com/album/martha

OccultHawk 08-28-2020 11:00 AM
The Unfolding Dawn by Max Corbacho

https://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/alb...unfolding-dawn

2020 release / pure synthesizer stuff - swelling sounds

This guy has earned his name recognition and this a good release but I don’t think it’s going to recruit many new listeners. To say it’s been done before is understatement but it still should be an enjoyable listen to people like myself who are fans of the genre. If you want something chill and coherent for a peaceful hour this fine.

Anteater 08-28-2020 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2132955)
The Unfolding Dawn by Max Corbacho

https://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/alb...unfolding-dawn

2020 release / pure synthesizer stuff - swelling sounds

This guy has earned his name recognition and this a good release but I don’t think it’s going to recruit many new listeners. To say it’s been done before is understatement but it still should be an enjoyable listen to people like myself who are fans of the genre. If you want something chill and coherent for a peaceful hour this fine.
Corbacho has done some great work, but I think he needs to change it up a little more often.

OccultHawk 08-28-2020 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2132959)
Corbacho has done some great work, but I think he needs to change it up a little more often.
I think that’s about 90% of these guys. Recently when I’m looking for ambient listening if there’s no traditional instruments or if it’s solo piano I usually pass. Nothing against electronics or the piano it’s just over the past 3-4 years I’ve listened to idk how many. Maybe hundreds.

Even with new jazz releases of it’s the same old format I’m more inclined to pass unless it’s a name I’m really enthusiastic about.

Also, with jazz. Recently I’m drawn to solo works.

OmniscientNihilist 11-01-2020 04:07 PM
TYCHO

is good ambient band

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 12:47 PM
I’m doing a Robert Rich marathon.

Ninetales 11-02-2020 03:03 PM
See you in 2021

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Ninetales (Post 2142513)
See you in 2021
Two days on random max

Playlist with his beat oriented stuff meticulously removed (15 hours)

innerspaceboy 11-02-2020 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2142466)
I’m doing a Robert Rich marathon.
Excellent! I've been sleeping to Somnium and Perpetual: A Somnium Continuum all this week.

I have most of his catalog - 63 releases totaling 72 discs of content, along with the Premonitions 1980-1985 vinyl box set exploring his earliest work produced while he was still at university.

If you recommend any other particular entries from his catalog - preferably beatless, I'm all ears.

https://i.imgur.com/riZ5YXkl.jpg

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 2142557)
Excellent! I've been sleeping to Somnium and Perpetual: A Somnium Continuum all this week.

I have most of his catalog - 63 releases totaling 72 discs of content, along with the Premonitions 1980-1985 vinyl box set exploring his earliest work produced while he was still at university.

If you recommend any other particular entries from his catalog - preferably beatless, I'm all ears.

https://i.imgur.com/riZ5YXkl.jpg
Damn dude! I ain’t got nothing to add to that!

I had to go through the albums song by song. I really don’t know his catalog that well despite spending a lot of time with his music.

I fell asleep earlier with it in my headphones and it felt like the deepest sleep.I exercised for the first time in a quite a while this morning too and stayed up late chatting with elph on discord last night.

innerspaceboy 11-02-2020 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2142572)
Damn dude! I ain’t got nothing to add to that!

I had to go through the albums song by song. I really don’t know his catalog that well despite spending a lot of time with his music.

I fell asleep earlier with it in my headphones and it felt like the deepest sleep.I exercised for the first time in a quite a while this morning too and stayed up late chatting with elph on discord last night.
That sounds wonderful! Keep at it!

I’ve been holding onto a draft of a post inquiring about more non-sequencer based, beatless ambient minimal tone poems such as Indo-Tibetan music for meditation, generative soundscapes, etc. which I haven’t finalized just yet, but I’m definitely interested in expanding my library of sleep music.

Larger collections of the genre I’ve compiled so far include:
  • Transmissions of Hearts of Space (1263+ broadcast library)
  • Ambient Music Guide Podcast series (55 mixes)
  • A Strangely Isolated Place (62 mixes)
  • Brian Eno (the ambient portion of his 101 major releases)
  • William Basinski (23 albums)
  • 36 (22 albums)
  • Mathias Grassow (149 albums)
  • Robert Rich (72 albums)
  • Deuter (89 albums)
  • Klaus Wiese (100 albums)
  • Harold Budd (45 albums)
  • Steve Roach (161 albums)
  • Music For Sleep (29 albums)

Which reminds me that I still need to grab a copy of Steve Roach’s new LP.

Once I flesh out the draft I’ll have to remember to tag you - your input would be of paramount value.

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 05:38 PM
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Max Richer Sleep - you got that one?

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 05:41 PM
Steven Halpern
Sleep Soundly

OccultHawk 11-02-2020 05:44 PM
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36 (22 albums)
I love 36 but their music is often pretty upbeat for sleep imo

innerspaceboy 11-02-2020 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2142578)
Max Richer Sleep - you got that one?
An essential staple of the genre; thank you. I have the 8-hour digital release and the edited vinyl edition.

https://i.imgur.com/Y9iChdLl.jpg

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2142580)
Steven Halpern
Sleep Soundly
That one IS new to me. I'll definitely look into it!

I'm heading off to bed presently but will check back tomorrow night in case there are any others.

Cheers!

Anteater 11-02-2020 05:51 PM
Paul Horn's album Inside The Taj Mahal is like my #1 sleep album. There's something unearthly about it that turns my brain into driftwood as I fall away. Anything by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd does the trick too.

innerspaceboy 11-03-2020 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2142584)
Paul Horn's album Inside The Taj Mahal is like my #1 sleep album. There's something unearthly about it that turns my brain into driftwood as I fall away. Anything by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd does the trick too.
Thanks for the Paul Horn tip, Anteater! I'll definitely explore it. And Budd is my all-time favorite ambient musician, whether in collaboration or solo. In addition to having all 45 of his albums digitally, I've several original pressings from his catalog on wax. There are a few ultra-limited releases of his which have never resurfaced on the resale market - they're elusive grails I hope to one day claim for my library.

Ninetales 11-05-2020 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2142584)
Paul Horn's album Inside The Taj Mahal is like my #1 sleep album. There's something unearthly about it that turns my brain into driftwood as I fall away. Anything by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd does the trick too.
Years ago I found a vinyl copy of Inside the Taj Mahal for a dollar. One of the better bargain bin finds I've had.

Hiroshi Yashimura is one of my current sleep favorites. Rarely get past the first track of Surround before passing out

OccultHawk 11-28-2020 07:43 PM
Finished listening to Harry Bertoia - Sonambient: Recordings of Harry Bertoia - 11CD Box

Which is available on Spotify

Up there with Satie and Eno

Unassailable

https://importantrecords.com/products/imprec419

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bertoia


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