AMBIENT: Currently Spinning

[hired goon]

 

Sangam - Suffering In the Quest To Find You - Latest release on the Pure Life label, which typically peddles a hypnogagic vaporwave style, but this album has just the right combination of melancholy, drawn out strings, and interesting sound design to warrant a late-night listen. Currently "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp.

--Geoff

[hired goon]

 

zakè & City of Dawn - An Orchestral Suite For Tape -- a mix of tracks from previous albums, in a style that could be called orchestral drone. So there are big swells of undulating strings, kinda like a slowed down symphony. Noice. Currently US$1 for the lossless download from Bandcamp (for a short time).

--Geoff

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Eivind Aarset - Dream Logic. A gorgeous album by the Norwegian guitarist, ably assisted by Jan Bang on electronics/FX.

 

[metal beat]

My Disco – Alter Schwede - claustrophobic Germanic dense ambience 

 

 

[hired goon]

 

Various Artists - Sustain Series Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 / Vol. 3 -- three lengthy compilations on the Ambientologist label, each featuring the work of one artist recycled by another artist. Featuring Anthéne, Henrik Meierkord, Svan Laux, All India Radio, etc. Covers a variety of styles, but mostly beatless euphoric ambient. Each volume is currently "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp.

--Geoff

[metal beat]

Daniel Avery – Love + Light

 

[metal beat]

Federico Albanese – By The Deep Sea

 

[hired goon]

 

Various Artists - Ambient Twang and  Slow Road: The Endless Potential of the Pedal Steel Guitar - two mixes of ambient pedal steel guitar tunes, featuring tracks from Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Chuck Johnsen, etc. Noice. 320 kbps MP3 download from LowLight Mixes blog.

 

--Geoff

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Giulio Aldinucci - Disappearing In A Mirror.

 

[brissenden29]

make music, not war - an album by an unknown Ukrainian musician NK x [Ųvás Gøød It]. The sounds of the first day of the war stretched and processed to the point that only harmonics and distant echoes remain

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Takagi Masakatsu - Journal For People.

 

[hired goon]

 

Stratosphere - Rise -- using guitar, bass, and pedals to create cinematic textures. Noice. "Name Yer Price" lossless download on Bandcamp.

 

--Geoff

[ThirdDrawerDown]

Came here to post the link to "Rise" and see I'm ninja'd. Geoff, noice!

[cafe67]

3 x old skool ambient , picked up via Discogs and eBay 

[hired goon]

 

Assembly Of Honey - Шамбала / Shambhala -- latest release, this one is over 3 hours of improvisations , mostly following the same style of glistening guitar, shimmering pads and ethereal harmonies.  Noice. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp.

 

--Geoff

[metal beat]

Jon Hopkins – Music For Psychedelic Therapy

 

[cafe67]

Interesting g collection of ambienty tunes recommended by PTA , some nice stuff here and mostly by artists unknown to me 

 

https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2022/12/31/favored-reflections-2021-22-music/?fbclid=IwAR3mwuTB-3zDKrSuwX6eKqREYN_UzrFJQ77JxdhlIu1F4-KHwl4Y4H5l-2c&amp

 

 

[hired goon]

 

Erik Emil Eskildsen - An Introduction To Otherness and Falling Into Otherness -- two collections of solo improvisations by this Danish touch guitarist, with the sound kinda like a mix of lap steel and Frippertronics. Noice. Both are currently "Name Yer Price" lossless downloads from Bandcamp.

 

--Geoff  

[hired goon]

 

Lorenz Weber - Ray Of Hope -- 2 x 35min solo piano improvisations, very quiet, with lots of space between the notes. Just the thing for a sore head on a Sunday morn. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp.

 

--Geoff

[ThirdDrawerDown]

Sunday night.

 

 

[cafe67]

Just received this Stefano Guzzetti - Exa , very good album listening to it now. Ambient in the Brian Eno style, but not just a clone - album includes drums, guitars violins, even Nutmeg was impressed.. I bought the cd via band camp but his albums can be bought/streamed via band camp . 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by cafe67

[hired goon]

15 hours ago, cafe67 said:

Just received this Stefano Guzzetti - Exa , very good album listening to it now. 

 

I've got some Stefano Guzzetti releases ... the two Piano Books volumes, and maybe a few others.

 

There is a Guzzetti track on this 48 track "Name Yer Price" compilation from the Home Normal label:

 

Various Artists - Places For Peace 

 

--Geoff

[cafe67]

7 minutes ago, hired goon said:

 

I've got some Stefano Guzzetti releases ... the two Piano Books volumes, and maybe a few others.

 

There is a Guzzetti track on this 48 track "Name Yer Price" compilation from the Home Normal label:

 

Various Artists - Places For Peace 

 

--Geoff

Yes got that as well ( d/l) and a few of his other albums as either as cds or downloads 

[Hydrology]

Jóhann Jóhannsson - "Fordlandia"

 

So consistent was Jóhann, really sad we wont get any more music from this genius.

 

 

[ThirdDrawerDown]

Sunday night again.

 

 

Allmusic's review:

 

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The Room Review

by Jason Gross

With The Room, Harold Budd makes his major-label debut. Expanding on a track from The White Arcades, he crafts 13 pieces with a simple, childlike innocence that also contain rich textures beneath, inducing a calm, meditative state -- perfect for relaxation therapy or cloud watching. As he has been a longtime master of ambient atmospherics, Budd is able to create a benign, peaceful aural gallery as each piece slowly, quietly unfolds into a different "room," heard in the shimmering bells of "The Room Alight," the chanted voices of "The Candied Room," and the somber "Room of Forgotten Children" (note the wonderfully evocative titles). Though some of the synthesizer textures verge on a little too much new age sweetness, his piano is always a thing of tranquil beauty, veiled in layers of eerie echo, evoking a half-remembered dream. After many interesting collaborative records, this is an impressive return to form to Budd's early to mid-'80s heyday.