Ambient Music Blog

“The enduring enigma that is Stars Of The Lid finds an appropriate home in Montreal”

Pittzburgh City Paper talks to Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid: Stars of the Lid brings elegant soundscapes to the Warhol.

I’ve never really been much a fan of his work, but Kevin Kelly has posted an interesting email from Robert Rich discussing how he’s been able to make a living as a “microcelebrity.”

So let’s look a bit at the finances. If I can make about $5-$10 per download or directly sold CD, and I sell 1000, I clear a maximum of $10,000 for that year’s effort. That’s not a living. Let’s say, after 20 concerts I net about $10,000 for three to four months worth of full time effort. That’s not a living.

The Coachlight Woods is a new record from Portland’s Glowworm. It’s mostly stuff of the post-rock variety, but with some interesting instrumentation. It’s a bit more quiet and introspective than your standard slow-build-into-kaboom post-rock. Been listening to it over the last few days quite a bit.

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Christopher Bissonnette has a really nice new release available titled In Between Words. It’s six tracks of stretched out, quiet drones and fuzz. Really delicate and well done. Highly recommended for those of you interested in the more subtle side of ambient music.

In Between Words is a collection of works, that continue Christopher Bissonnette’s explorations into orchestral and spatial acoustics. Cultivating an increasing interest in field recording and found sounds, Bissonnette has woven spatial ambience into these new compositions, while still concentrating on moments of near empty space between ‘instruments’

christopherbissonette.com

• My Formica Table
  “The aim is to try to help and nurture a growing community of experimentally minded musicians and artists. I think, along with many others, that Free Music is the way forward, so that’s what is being provided here.”

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A bit off-topic, and the music isn’t particularly good to boot, but I thought people might find this video worth watching.

28 Hours in Jyväskylä

“It’s so beautiful,” a beaming young girl clad in the requisite librarian chic said to the fellow manning the Stars of the Lid merch table. “I don’t even know what it is, but isn’t it beautiful?”

Nice review of an LA Stars of the Lid show. Looking forward to seeing them in a few weeks here in New York City.

• Better branding through music: Original airport theme songs - USATODAY.com
  “They wrote on-hold music for the telephones, special elevator music and an airport “gong,” a four-second piece of music called Happy Sky played before every overhead announcement in the airport.”
• The Wire: Bang On A Can All-Stars: Music For Airports
  “From the June 1998 issue of The Wire - Adventures In Modern Music, kindly supplied and typed by Robert Phan”

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