ThirdDrawerDown Posted September 6, 2015 Author Posted September 6, 2015 Currently spinning: very much an Eno theme in this thread so far. So to break the mould, next up is: 3
ABG Posted September 6, 2015 Posted September 6, 2015 Nils Frahm - Felt (2011 - LP). An album recorded on a piano that's had felt wrapped around the strings to dampen the sound. In addition, Nils plays with super soft hands to further the effect. The mics are placed inside the piano, literally millimetres from the strings. Because the music is so quiet, the ambient noises of the room are clearly audible. Lovely album - well recorded and well pressed. 6
mrbuzzardstubble Posted September 6, 2015 Posted September 6, 2015 Harold Budd & Hector Zazou-Glyph. By ANDY GILL-The Independent. Friday 09 August 1996. Like drum 'n' bass, ambient is a genre which relies on making a little go a very long way; the resultant glut of weedy minimalist pastiches barely bears a cursory listen for the most part, but this collaboration between Harold Budd and Hector Zazou demonstrates better than any recent offering how the spaces between the sounds can be made pregnant with possibility. On "Pandas in Tandem", the ghost of Erik Satie treads lightly over a shuffle breakbeat; the result is fragile and crystalline, as tentatively pristine as snowflakes. Elsewhere, heavy rhythmic breathing carries "Around the Corner from Everywhere"; slivers of what sounds like hammered dulcimer undulate through "Johnny Cake", and clarinets collude conspiratorially on "As Fast as I Could Look Away She was Still There". BJ Cole adds a lustrous haze of pedal-steel guitar tones to "Reflected in the Eye of a Dragon Fly". Sometimes there are trumpets, and sometimes guitars intrude. Sometimes Budd recites a poem. But nothing endangers the fragile poise which Budd and Zazou sustain throughout, and there is never the slightest suggestion that any of these pieces are in thrall to arbitrary rhythmic fashions. It is all beautifully simple, and simply beautiful. 5
Viognier Posted September 6, 2015 Posted September 6, 2015 Nils Frahm - Felt (2011 - LP). An album recorded on a piano that's had felt wrapped around the strings to dampen the sound. In addition, Nils plays with super soft hands to further the effect. The mics are placed inside the piano, literally millimetres from the strings. Because the music is so quiet, the ambient noises of the room are clearly audible. Lovely album - well recorded and well pressed. I have had his good mate playing tonight also. Olafur Arnalds. For Now I Am Winter. Just grabbed this on vinyl recently after having the cd since release. 5
LogicprObe Posted September 6, 2015 Posted September 6, 2015 If I want ambient......................I fire up the computer and keyboard!............and after a few beers..........I might even play along with stringed things.......... 1
zog Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 An ambient/drone sunday night DJ mix: flac and 320k mp3 versions... http://static.zog.net.au/sundaynight-ambient-drone-mix-djzog-20150913-mild-compression.flac http://static.zog.net.au/sundaynight-ambient-drone-mix-djzog-20150913-mild-compression.mp3 track listing (starts at #2 due to a false start....) 02. 0:01:12 desolate horizons - we'll never fade away, pt. I03. 0:05:12 desolate horizons - we'll never fade away, pt. II04. 0:07:00 Stars of the Lid - Tippy's Demise05. 0:12:36 A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears06. 0:15:24 Astral & **** - soup07. 0:18:24 Loscil - Showers Of Ink08. 0:21:20 Jan Jelinek - Moiré (Strings)09. 0:23:58 BATMAN1600 - A510. 0:27:16 Cass. - Autumn Night I11. 0:29:38 Brian McBride - Piano ABG12. 0:32:10 ZOG - April-DX-stretched13. 0:37:04 Dead Can Dance - Emmeleia two octave down stretched14. 0:40:52 Dead Can Dance - Emmeleia stretched15. 0:42:06 Dead Can Dance - Emmeleia16. 0:44:06 BATMAN1600 - A117. 0:49:08 Alva Noto - xerrox isola18. 0:52:40 Astral & **** - low viscosity19. 0:55:50 desolate horizons - together we feel new life20. 0:57:58 Loscil - Helluland21. 1:03:32 Sleep Research Facility - A-Deck22. 1:05:10 Loscil - Khanamoot23. 1:08:42 Slow Meadow - Grey Cloud Lullaby24. 1:12:52 uncertain - owl (tyto alba)25. 1:14:12 Stars Of The Lid - The Atomium Part Two26. 1:17:56 The Dead Texan - A Chronicle of Early Failures Pt. One27. 1:20:36 Loscil - Fifth Anchor Span28. 1:24:26 Jacaszek - Żal29. 1:30:00 Stars of the Lid - Dungtitled (in A major) 4
Demondes Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Harold Budd & Hector Zazou-Glyph. By ANDY GILL-The Independent. Friday 09 August 1996. Like drum 'n' bass, ambient is a genre which relies on making a little go a very long way; the resultant glut of weedy minimalist pastiches barely bears a cursory listen for the most part, but this collaboration between Harold Budd and Hector Zazou demonstrates better than any recent offering how the spaces between the sounds can be made pregnant with possibility. On "Pandas in Tandem", the ghost of Erik Satie treads lightly over a shuffle breakbeat; the result is fragile and crystalline, as tentatively pristine as snowflakes. Elsewhere, heavy rhythmic breathing carries "Around the Corner from Everywhere"; slivers of what sounds like hammered dulcimer undulate through "Johnny Cake", and clarinets collude conspiratorially on "As Fast as I Could Look Away She was Still There". BJ Cole adds a lustrous haze of pedal-steel guitar tones to "Reflected in the Eye of a Dragon Fly". Sometimes there are trumpets, and sometimes guitars intrude. Sometimes Budd recites a poem. But nothing endangers the fragile poise which Budd and Zazou sustain throughout, and there is never the slightest suggestion that any of these pieces are in thrall to arbitrary rhythmic fashions. It is all beautifully simple, and simply beautiful. Yes Hector Zazou has done some great stuff. There is a great track on a great album called Onda, Ryuichi Sakamoto plays piano over a chant by great coriscan singer Lanfranchi. All music has a snippet of the song. http://www.allmusic.com/album/les-nouvelles-polyphonies-corses-mw0000539859 Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses with Hector Zazou 1
analog brother Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 onda is indeed, a beautiful track. 1
dwbasement Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 I have had his good mate playing tonight also. Olafur Arnalds. For Now I Am Winter. Just grabbed this on vinyl recently after having the cd since release. Looking forward to seeing Olafur live at the Opera house. Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk 2
ThirdDrawerDown Posted November 1, 2015 Author Posted November 1, 2015 Now playing; it finally arrived this week because the best efforts of @@cafe67 prevailed over the incompetence of Australia Post. Honestly, if you transport a package interstate you think you'd pop a little card in the letter box of the intended recipient to say 'we have a package for you' and hold the package to await pickup at the local post office (which is what happened the second time around). The first time, it made it to the regional sorting centre before someone decided 'oh, the recipient probably won't respond to one of our nifty cardboard cards, we might as well return this pacakge to sender without telling the addressee it exists." I sit here, listening to delightful chilly synth/mckennitt crossover music, and contemplating a broken business model. 4
Bell Ringer Posted November 1, 2015 Posted November 1, 2015 I've gone old school tonight and started with Eno's Apollo and now listening to Discreet Music. 3
analog brother Posted November 1, 2015 Posted November 1, 2015 nice one! funny as i started this morning with the shutov assembly. 2
ThirdDrawerDown Posted December 6, 2015 Author Posted December 6, 2015 Playing now because the man who introduced me to this album (and changed my life forever) has just died. Goodbye my friend. 3
t_mike Posted December 6, 2015 Posted December 6, 2015 @TDD Sorry to hear. I hope the music brings you some peace. 3
ThirdDrawerDown Posted February 7, 2016 Author Posted February 7, 2016 Life goes on. Tonight, spinning the bonus CD to this Eno/Abrahams work, I felt I'd intruded on several U2 tracks. I like the experimental U2. The main album is occasionally choppy rather than ambient. Small Craft on a Milk Sea 5
andrewhollo Posted February 14, 2016 Posted February 14, 2016 As a long-time ambient music devotee, I've been on a rediscovery of ambience over the past six months, largely because I've discovered these three blogs: http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/ https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/ http://www.ambientblog.net/ Anyone who's on Deezer can have a listen to what I've been enjoying lately: AMBIENT DOWNTEMPO AMBIENT PIANO Andrew 2
dwbasement Posted February 14, 2016 Posted February 14, 2016 As a long-time ambient music devotee, I've been on a rediscovery of ambience over the past six months, largely because I've discovered these three blogs: http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/ https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/ http://www.ambientblog.net/ Anyone who's on Deezer can have a listen to what I've been enjoying lately: AMBIENT DOWNTEMPO AMBIENT PIANO Andrew Thanks for the links, got some really good stuff there, need to spend some time to explore...Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 2
Stevesie Posted February 14, 2016 Posted February 14, 2016 I was reminded of this great album last night as it provided the opening track on In The Quiet on PBS radio. https://birdtraps.bandcamp.com/ Really lovely stuff. 1
metal beat Posted February 28, 2016 Posted February 28, 2016 seems Eno and Sunday night ambient goes together. no need for me to change that. beautiful 2lp set from Eno / J Peter Schwalm - Drawn from Life 5
ThirdDrawerDown Posted February 28, 2016 Author Posted February 28, 2016 most of what I know of ambient I learned from@@andrewhollo ; it appears this process is not yet complete... 2
hired goon Posted March 3, 2016 Posted March 3, 2016 (edited) It's not Sunday night but it is ambient and it is now spinning: Various Artists - Dark Ambient Of 2014 -- an 85 minute continuous mix of ambient works from the Cryo Chamber netlabel. Available for nowt on bandcamp if yer cheap. I wouldn't call this dark; it's not Lustmord, more like some of the shimmering beatless works of Steve Roach. There's also a Dark Ambient Of 2015 compilation available that I will download next ... --Geoff Edited March 3, 2016 by hired goon 2
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