Ambient Music Blog

• Ambient Collective
• Deepspace ? Listen free at Last.fm
  “Deepspace is Mirko Ruckels from Brisbane, Australia. The music is amorphous, hypnotic and ambient, and influences include Steve Roach, Stars of the Lid, Debussy, Arvo Pärt, Tavener.”

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• eighteen seconds before sunrise - sigur rós news - new album details
  “sigur rós?s fifth lp is called ?með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust? (with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly). it will be released june 23rd worldwide (june 24th in north america) and will be available to pre-order on sigurros.com on june

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• Häpna downloads
  8 free full-length mp3 downloads from Swedish band Tape along with tracks from other Häpna artists.

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• tokafi - 15 Questions to Sawako
  “What I offer to my audiences in real time and in the same physical space tends toward no drama and no catharsis. Something empty.”

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“Sleep-Rocking: Stars of the Lid”

“I’m a really big sports fan,” says Wiltzie, causing the reporter to cough up Diet Coke from surprise. Wiltzie reels off his teams: the Cubs, the Spurs, the Dallas Stars (hockey = very macho). There’s tennis, which he played competitively. And English Premier League football — soccer to you. Wiltzie likes that “there’s a finality to it. We could always have two different opinions about music but in sports there’s a winner and a loser.”

What I want to know is, which EPL team does he support? If it’s Tottenham, I may have to boo him at the show tomorrow night.

“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.

• 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.

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