today's AMBIENT selection

[BostonDave]

Deiter Moebius
Tonspuren
Sky Records
1983

 

[pgerhardt]

Check out

http://www.jimbutlermusic.com/

lots of free podcast downloads and have been enjoying it...

 

[pgerhardt]

David Parsons for some sitting

David Parsons Parikrama good for sitting

 

[Vaughn]

I'm glad I stumbled on this thread

I think I'm going to be spending some time researching all of the great recommendations here. I've been a long time fan of Brian Eno and ambient music in general but haven't really been that proactive about collecting it.

In the record store the other day and I heard some music that definitely resonated with me, turns out it was Tim Hecker "Ravedeath". They didn't have it in stock on vinyl so I went home and ordered it directly from Kranky. The record store clerk gave me several other artists to research; Christian Fennesz, Aidan Baker, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Eliane Radigue. I also ordered a copy of an Aidan Baker album (can't remember which one?).

I don't wander into the music forum much but recently I've found my focus shifting from the equipment to the music:tresbon:

Thanks everyone for the recommendations, and please, keep them coming!

 

[shrinkboy]

working in the general sphere of ambient/drone/minimal is this LP i recently discovered by an artist named JD Emmanuel. if you do some googling, you will discover he recorded this album in the early 80s and released it on his own. a collector going through the bins at Half Price Books Dallas came across a trove of them still sealed and posted clips on his blog, and then proceeded to sell out what he'd found. he contacted Emmanuel and arranged a reissue through a Belgian obscure music distributor-- since then, its been something of an international underground hit. he's been lionized by a number of contemporary artists working that whole weirdly wonderful retro-futuristic analog synth new age revival world such Dolphins Into the Future, with whom Emmanuel is on European tour right now. i've communicated with him some and take pride in the fact that he is a Texan from the Gulf Coast, and even more pride in the fact that he and i were neighbors within a few blocks of one another in Oak Cliff Texas back in the early 80s. i say check it out...

Wizards, by JD Emmanuel

 

[Scuzzer]

Grouper - Cover the Windows and the Walls

I think I'm addicted to Grouper. I prefer the really droney stuff like Wide and Dream Loss though. Unfortunately her vinyl is silly expensive otherwise I'd be buying it.

 

[Scuzzer]

This one has been played a bunch lately as well.

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet

Anyone have any other recommendations for more drone oriented ambient?

 

[cicero2]

Jeff Greinke - Changing Skies

 

[Mr. Lin]

working in the general sphere of ambient/drone/minimal is this LP i recently discovered by an artist named JD Emmanuel. if you do some googling, you will discover he recorded this album in the early 80s and released it on his own. a collector going through the bins at Half Price Books Dallas came across a trove of them still sealed and posted clips on his blog, and then proceeded to sell out what he'd found. he contacted Emmanuel and arranged a reissue through a Belgian obscure music distributor-- since then, its been something of an international underground hit. he's been lionized by a number of contemporary artists working that whole weirdly wonderful retro-futuristic analog synth new age revival world such Dolphins Into the Future, with whom Emmanuel is on European tour right now. i've communicated with him some and take pride in the fact that he is a Texan from the Gulf Coast, and even more pride in the fact that he and i were neighbors within a few blocks of one another in Oak Cliff Texas back in the early 80s. i say check it out...

Wizards, by JD Emmanuel

Cool I'm going to check him out.

 

[E2]

Just about anything on ECM.
Leo Smith, Devine Love. I had not played this for a long time, and forgot how good it was.
I am surprised at how much of the Catalog is not available. Even the stuff re-issued just a few years ago is hard to get.

 

[Mr. Lin]

EDIT: whoops, wrong forum. I don't think anyone would classify the music of Elgar as ambient.

 

[E2]

Bennie Maupin - Jewel In The Lotus
Bill Connors - Of Mist And Melting
John Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1, Possible Musics

 

[wajobu]

M Ostermeier - The Rules of Another Small World

 

[wajobu]

Monty Adkins - Fragile.Flicker.Fragment

This video will give you a sample: http://vimeo.com/17819669

 

[Infinitoid]

I don't think anyone would classify the music of Elgar as ambient.

Probably not; but the music of one of his contemporaries, Frederick Delius, just might.

 

[Mr. Lin]

Probably not; but the music of one of his contemporaries, Frederick Delius, just might.

I'll keep that one in mind.

 

[cicero2]

Experimental Audio Research - The Koner Experiment

time-warp and mind-warp!

 

[olson_jr]

A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1

• Harold Budd ~ Flowered Knife Shadows
• Tangerine Dream ~ Thru Metamorphic Rock (Edit)
• Robert Fripp & Brian Eno ~ Evening Star
• Amorphous Androgynous ~ Mountain Goat
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ~ Sea Of Vapours
• Hawkwind ~ The Forge Of Vulcan
• Killing Joke ~ Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub Mix)
• Brian Eno ~ An Ending (Ascent)
• Richard Horowitz ~ Marnia's Tent
• Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri ~ Rapido De Noir
• Ashra ~ Kazoo
• Brian Eno & Harold Budd ~ Their Memories
• The Grid ~ Leave Your Body
• Christopher Franke ~ Electric Becomes Eclectic

 

[Mr. Lin]

Experimental Audio Research - The Koner Experiment

time-warp and mind-warp!

That's a great one, and I believe I listed it in this thread a while back - or maybe it was a different play list thread.

 

[Mr. Lin]

Biosphere
Shenzhou

2002 Touch

I have to toss this one in here since it is undeniably an ambient music album.

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