HOLY SHIT. I just realized that this is run by the guy who owns my favorite local record store
Ambient / Noise / Lowercase / Field Recordings / etc.
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Can't wait!
I wouldn't hold my breath, they've been teasing new SotL for like almost 10 years now. But, I do know that the day they finally announce something new, that will be one of the happiest days of my life.Can't wait!
Rip_City
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Posted this in the Tunes from Asia thread earlier. It isn't quite ambient throughout, but she reminds me of Ana Roxanne in places. A couple of chamber folk songs sprinkled in. Loving it.
Also, RIP Harold Budd.
Also, RIP Harold Budd.
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Love this! Have been listening to this all week. So soothing.
Dtknuckles
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Anybody listen to the William Basinski interview on Aquarium Drunkard’s podcast?
What were the most interesting bits?
I have mixed feelings about Basinski's music but his creative process is fascinating.
Dtknuckles
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There was some interesting stuff about process, you be super ex what I’m he uses for source recording. There is a story about the person who inspired a song and another about finding an assistant. Also some stuff about Henry Grimes I found interesting.
Why the cold feet about his music?
i got loops when it came out on a whim and an emusic subscription, but really fell in love with Selva Oscura
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For such a very long career, too much of returning over and over to the same ideas (analog loops, decay, loss, etc.). I rarely call ambient music boring but I carve out an exception for Basinski. If you isolate any of his albums they’re quite interesting — Loops is obviously the one that gets the most attention— but I wish he explored new ideas.
I agree. I love The Disintegration Loops and his 92982 album. That one is loops but it's a little more interesting. It seems like he has two albums out a year nowadays. I always give them the benefit of a doubt but it's more/less the same thing each time. I can easily do without them.
Rip_City
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All of this, @dropsonde. I just don't care for the guy's music. Relaxing, sure. But just so fucking boring and a snoozefest from the first second to the final.
If anything, this discussion above is related to my development of a better ear for the genre and to try to find more interesting progressions in artists' musical ideas and concepts. If I were to have, say, a cube of records housing ambient albums (though I'm sure I'll have more in my ideal collection of 500 LPs as a maximum cap), I want each and every one of them to sound distinct. I don't get that with Basinski from album to album.
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Dtknuckles
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@dropsonde @wokeupnew
I get it, listing to a loop playing over and over again can be a little mind numbing, but the Selva album is where he really gets me. The sound on that album is so massive. for some reason i find that it is like some all encompassing presence that slowly and gradually unfolds. Like being stuck insides a star or watching humanity from a distance. I think I really get image because I was listening to it in the early morning darkness in a part of my commute where I look down on a freeway.
@Rip_City better ear? What do you think has changed about your enjoyment of ambient music?
I get it, listing to a loop playing over and over again can be a little mind numbing, but the Selva album is where he really gets me. The sound on that album is so massive. for some reason i find that it is like some all encompassing presence that slowly and gradually unfolds. Like being stuck insides a star or watching humanity from a distance. I think I really get image because I was listening to it in the early morning darkness in a part of my commute where I look down on a freeway.
@Rip_City better ear? What do you think has changed about your enjoyment of ambient music?
hmmm I've never listened to that one. It could also be because it's a collab with Lawrence English so his style has to change a little to collab.
Dtknuckles
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since this conversation started I was thinking the elements I like may be because of English.
Rip_City
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Variations within the same track. The ability to feel emotion with the slightest of chord changes with that can vary from being elevated and uplifting, to crushing and debilitated.
Of course, this feeling varies for all artists.
To clarify, I can find a lot of joy in repetitive loops. It would be a challenge to enjoy ambient music otherwise. I enjoy pulling a random Basinski album out every once in a while when the mood is right. But I can't get excited about 20 years of 30 albums of revisiting the same sounds and themes. (Although I won't say that about AC/DC.
)on the topic of loop ambient, not sure if anyone here listens to Celer or Willamette but they are two of my absolute favorite artists
some favorites
https://willamette.bandcamp.com/album/always-in-postscript
some favorites
https://willamette.bandcamp.com/album/always-in-postscript
aparently RYM is all over this and calling it the best EAI or onkyo album (basically good morning and good night but not good morning and good night because though it has the 3 people in it it doesn't sound the exact same)...
EvanBenner
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Quick cross-post from Preorders
Past Inside the Present's second release in their Anon series is up for orders. Two label artists on a split album, only to be revealed after the vinyl sells out. (The first one sold out pretty quick. The pairing was 36 & Isaac Helsen.)
Also at Juno for those yonder UKward.
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