^^^^^Hey, is that any good? I haven't heard it yet.

BTW,


New Aiden Baker - Liminoid/Lifeforms is out there (See below). I haven't listened to it yet, but the write-up sounds interesting.




http://hotfile.com/dl/27912614/76a4503/seriedepadeirosdoanimaxchamadaja-paoadoroanimu.zip.html

The new Nest album is very good.

Thanks for the Aidan Baker heads-up. Dude releases too much for me to keep up. I feel like I take a week off, and nine records come out. Inevitable. Really, thanks.

I know Caley started his own thread on it, but I feel lazy and don't want to search it out, but the new Eluvium is far better than I expected. I actually agree completely withe the CMG review. Superior to his last one.

While I enjoyed Copia, the overly sweet strings tended to make it feel way more New-Age than anything he has done previously.

This new one is a really strong record, although the middle portion tends to drag a bit. The vocals are certainly preferable to more strings.

So I guess there's a new Balmorhea out I didn't know about! Awesome. I'm listening to it right now, it's more stripped down, but I think the songs are some of their strongest yet. Here's the link:

New "Sight Below" on the way

http://www.mmlxii.com/music/music.html

these prices are ridiculous!

yea, basinskis stuff is always priced high for some reason. i guess he feels he can get away with, but $20 for a CD is outrageous in 2010. I could MAYBE understand that for a 180 gram vinyl, although its still a bit of a ripoff when you get into that territory.

id love to own the Disintegration Loops, but im not going to pay $80+ for the pleasure.

Yellow Swans - Going Places




Type Records is releasing Yellow Swans final studio recording. This is "harsh" ambient - RIYL Tim Hecker's more intense harmonics, Skullflower, Svarte Grenier, Main, Final, etc. Great stuff.

link

I listened to that one a week ago and really enjoyed it. Very good recording.

helmet have you heard ben frost's by the throat? it's quite good and is along the lines of stuff like this. i highly recommend it if you haven't heard it.

this yellow swans record is awesome btw.

Sweet fuck. I got the Loops series way back when it first came out. It was about $45 for the whole thing, shipped from Germany. This shit is outrageous.

I recommend this as well.

Also why is no one listening to Nest? Best album of the year so far, imo.

Thought that record was boring as fuck, but obv diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

Anybody know this?



Read a very brief, benignly positive write-up, checked it out, and am REALLY enjoying it. I admit to being entirely ignorant in regards to Maurizio Bianchi and his terrifyingly huge discography, but am interested in hearing more. If I dug this Das Platinzeitalter album, can anybody suggest a next logical step?

So Tim Hecker and the artist known as Hecker aren't the same person? If not, are they related?

(Florian) Hecker is the Austrian noise dude who releases dangerously elite stuff on Mego. He is also the Hecker of Haswell & Hecker.

Tim Hecker is Canadian I think. No relation as far as I know.

this is really wonderful. it is the perfect compliment to all this heavy winter rain on the east coast this week. i'm not sure if it has to do with the mastering or the performances themselves, but the gnossiennes are really really quiet, and the big loud chords in the ogives are just crushing. great performances regardless.

wow, this is unbelievably good. definitely harsher than hecker, at first i listened to it through my laptop speakers and it just sounded like hollow static. i busted out my headphones though and wow it did wonders. this noise has incredible depth and beauty.

thanks for sharing.

The new Loscil is pretty amazing (first great ambient album I have heard this year).

Then for some reason Dan Bejar guests on the final track with a spoken word piece.

Not sure how I feel about it. The words are interesting, but I just do not think it works in context with the album, much like the guest spot on Pantha's last album.

Just started giving the Loscil my full attention last night. The last song struck me the same way. Besides that, I'm really loving what i'm hearing so far. This could be his best, although i need to spend some more time with it.

I totally agree that this might be his most intriguing work - that middle section from Dub for Cascadia through Showers of Ink sounds amazing so far. Given how out of place spoken word pieces can sound on these sorts of albums (that david sylvan guest spot on Venice unfortunately springs to mind), I was kinda dreading Bejar's appearance too, but it's actually grown on me a lot, and fits in with the mood of the rest of the album. I also though that Panda Bear/Pantha combination was pulled off well though, fwiw.

I forgot to post this, but ambient/experimental fans should take note of the annual Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee that I went to a few weeks ago. Its one of the best festivals I've ever been to.

I saw :

Tim Hecker
William Basinski
Ben Frost
Bang On a Can All-Stars perform Music for Airports
The Books
Terry Riley
Gang Gang Dance
Liturgy (really good black metal)

I passed on Joanna Newsom and the National.

Most of these shows were in beautiful venues like the Tennessee Theatre. I won't miss this festival again.

Damn, I was there Helmet, at most of those shows

Anyone heard the new Fenn O'Berg?



Not strictly ambient but pretty neat stuff from the supergroup consisting of Jim O'Rourke, Fennesz and Peter Rehberg. Pitchfork seems to think it's the weakest of the Fenn O'Berg albums, but I liked it, though, admittedly, I never heard any of the other albums.

One of the best things I've heard this year.

Anybody feel like trying to convince me that Dolphins Into The Future doesn't suck? Pick an LP. Any LP. I just don't understand why this music isn't hated (or at least entirely ignored; perhaps "hate" is a bit strong for these lite Ferraro-isms) far and wide.

That Fenn O'Berg record did nothing for me when I played it a few months ago. I'll give it another spin to see if it opens up.

who is Reuben Sandwich? where did I get this track from?

So yeah, Emeralds. Didn't dig the stuff that was hyped last year, but this new one is just amazing.

I liked the stuff from last year. But I second you on this one being amazing.

Hahaha, that would be me and my friend Reuben.

saw marsen jules it was good

missed tim hecker, oh well

saw nurse with wound, that was great

also saw the caretaker, one of the funniest, stupidest, worst shows ever.

go on.

well it was in a big seated theatre with several levels

he walks onstage, he has a huge puffy afro of hair, blonde maybe

he sits down in front of his laptop to begin performing, the music starts, this video with a bunch of homemade video footage spliced on top of more footage, all overlapping is playing

and he's pretty much just sitting there drinking whisky out of this bottle while his movie plays, in front of the whole theater. he doesn't touch the laptop once. occasionally he writes something in this little notebook that he has with him, and other times he swivels his chair to watch the screen with the audience.

this goes on for about 50 minutes. whisky drinking, writing in the notebook, and watching the screen. then the music dies down and the crowd claps, etc. he stands up and all of a sudden this really dark metal type noise music starts playing and he starts growling into the microphone. he tore off his shirt and walked up to the front of the stage. and he "metal-vocals" growls the same thing into the mic about ten times (something about his ex girlfriend) - except apparently he lip synced the whole thing, according to a friend who was in the front rows.

i don't get it.

Ha. Holy shit, I hope that you're not embellishing that story.

This was dog shit. It reminded me of little kids demoing keyboards at Guitar Center. How is this even ambient?

This sounds like he best show *ever*

Mark McGuire, anybody? I haven't particularly liked any of the stuff that I've heard over the last year or so, when Emeralds started getting more write ups and his stuff got more noticeable, but this reissue on wax of two old cassettes, Tidings/Amethyst Waves, is knocking me for a loop. Right up my alley, and heaps better than the last, like, five of his releases that I've heard.

Some 2010 ambient stuffage


Max Richter - Infra: New Richter isn't really ambient-y, not really, more like lots of strings and stuff but it is ri-goddamn-diculously good. I kept checking my IPod going "What song is this? It's really good!" and I ended up doing it for almost every track on the album. Apparently this is a reworking of songs he composed for a ballet he scored. It's out there, track it down ASAP.


Darren Harper - Descend: This was good, as well, but not blow-my-socks-off great. I need to give it another listen. It's meant to be a sort of winter ambient album to give way to spring, so I'll probably dig it out again in the Fall and see what it sounds like.


Fennel - A Leap Across A Chasm: This is more field recording-ish than I'm usually a big fan of, but it's not bad. It was made by a student who wanted to encapsulate his college experience before graduating in one album. It probably means more to him, and to anyone who'd been at that school than it does me, though.


Simon Scott - Traba EP: I liked this a lot but it's really short (23 Minutes or so). I need to revisit it.


Mohave Triangles Astral Holograms: This didn't do much for me. It's got a real Tangerine Dream-y feel to it (Which I reallly dig) but ultimately it lost me midway through the first track.


Lexithimie Stroll Into the Shade For A Moment: I remember literally nothing from this one. It was pleasant enough, that's about all I have to say.


Federico Durand La Siesta Del Cipres: Probably my favourite ambient release of the year, so far. Achingly beautiful songs meant to represent the space between wakefulness and deep sleep. It's almost an album of ambient lullabies in that sense. Puts to me sleep (In a good way) any time I'm tossing and turning. This and the Richter album, along with the Eluvium album are the must-hears from the ambient-ish tip of things so far this year.


Lunar Miasma - Crystal Covered: I'm having a tough time with this one. The first time I listened to it was on a camping trip with a shoddy pair of headphones that only really worked in one ear and I was in love with it and excited to get home and listen to it again and bathe in the deep sounds with a nice big pair of headphones. But, on second listen, at home with the better headphones, it didn't envelop me the way I thought it would. I'm gonna give it another go, yet, just have to find the right setting for it.

Some exciting Fennesz news

First-up, a collaboration between Fennesz, David Daniell and Tony Buck entitled 'Knoxville' available from Thrill Jockey Records on August 24th.




Next-up, and just as exciting, a Fennesz North American tour!

I haven't posted in here in ages, but thought i'd drop this record that is rejuvenating my obsession with experimental/ambient music. My AOY at this point.


here

here

here

Thanks for the links. I have heard a few good things about this fellow, will defintely check it out.

Really fucking good. Gonna put this on and go for a walk in Prospect Park tomorrow.

trust me on this



www.mediafire.com/?qng75eco92777uh






http://killedincars.com/post/1049754505/whitefir

Amidst the tape hiss on the opening track ‘Plank Press Porch’ arises a lazy, droning guitar that barely presides over the background haze. For five minutes, we wade through a subtle hum—an anthem to the waning days of summer. Through this opener, the listener is introduced to Lake Seeds Vol. 1 and White Fir, both of which were highlights of my summer. This Cabin Floor Esoterica cassette marks the first public recording of R. Franklin’s moniker, and, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is one of the most beautiful albums I’ve heard in recent memory.

The splendor continues from the first track into ‘Death Is A Beautiful Car Parked Only’ and ‘It Runs Like Melting Snow,’ adding the occasional found sound, further processing the guitar, blurring the cassette into a bummer daze. In the waning moments of the third track, a fiddle emerges, which, proceeding into ‘Her Jupiter Tea,’ oozes out a meditative melody. Its droning has haunted me at night, boring into my head, worsening bouts of insomnia. As I would lie in my bed, somewhere between my dreams and consciousness, that fiddle, that darned fiddle, would pull me back toward the latter; it’s just too perfect to sleep on.

White Fir lightens the score with ‘Forgotten Works,’ which is primarily built around what sounds like a toy piano, providing an intermission for the next two barn burners. ’Tin Slide Shallows’ and ‘Catfish/Floors Digest Into Trees’ are the epic jams to which tape culture is most equated—dopamine ~drones~. The first balances that fiddle with heaps of deconstructed guitar, slowly fizzling for almost 9 minutes, finally dissipating into the second. The heaviness is scaled back, at least at first, on ‘Catfish/Floors Digest Into Trees,’ which hides within itself—beneath the ambient crackles—for its first half. But then the hiss evolves into a harmonic guitar drone that hangs around for a good long time (thankfully), swelling near the track’s end, then once again, fades. Franklin concludes the tape with the terse, distorted guitar tone ‘In The River Down There,’ ending Lake Seeds Vol. 1 abruptly.

White Fir, on this cassette, is comforting yet evasive; as if he were running up to you, preparing to give you a big ‘ole bear hug, yet at the last minute, bailing and refusing to even shake your hand. I suppose what follows is cliche, but whatever: this distance, I think, is what induces me to return to this album so much. I listen to it so often that I desperately wish I was able to snag a copy of this cassette when it was released back in June. But alas I wasn’t able to Paypal quick enough! Hopefully the praise that this jaunt merits will coax R. Franklin into subsequent releases! (or a reissue!)

p.s. I’ve gotten word from Cabin Floor that we should expect more White Fir from them!!

this sounds really good.

New Eluvium is out there (Limited 200-only release all sold out) and it is GOOOOOOD. No vocals, one single 50+ minute track and is a homage to static and white noise.

Commenting to remind myself to look for that new Eluvium later on.

I've grown w(e)ary of uploading music and asking others to do so on this board, but for I hope that someone posts a link to that, especially if it's impossible to get any other way.