28 Hours in Jyväskylä
Posted on | April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments
A bit off-topic, and the music isn’t particularly good to boot, but I thought people might find this video worth watching.
“Stars of the Lid kills the EchoPlex. Slowly.”
Posted on | April 16, 2008 | No Comments
“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.
Ambient Music Links, April 2nd
Posted on | April 2, 2008 | No Comments
- 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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Ambient Music Links, March 24th
Posted on | March 24, 2008 | No Comments
- Sounds Are Active
- WILLITS + SAKAMOTO AVAILABLE « 12k
“the Willits + Sakamoto cd ?Ocean Fire? is now available in 12k?s online shop and starting to creep into stores.” - INTERVIEWING GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS « 12k
“Tony writes beautiful and haunting ambient folk and makes arguably the best music i?ve heard in a few years.” - 12K2008 AUDIO SAMPLES NOW AVAILABLE « 12k
“excerpts from the SOLO ANDATA - SEAWORTHY - TAYLOR DEUPREE ?LIVE IN MELBOURNE? cd (12k2008) have now been posted on the release page on the website.” - NORTHERN RE-MIXING « 12k
“instead of just pressing more of the same cd and cover, however, i decided to take a slightly different approach.” - JODI CAVE: 15 QUESTIONS FROM TOKAFI « 12k
“When does a term like ?unobtrusive? turn into a compliment? With Jodi Caves ?For Myria?, it has happened quite naturally. The result of years of studying and experimenting, this fragile and tender work is as short as it was amazing…” - The Echoes Blog » Blog Archive » The Academy Awards Soundtrack Rejects
“Year after year, the Academy Awards selects bombast, sentimentality and faux classicism over innovation, atmosphere, and inventive instrumentation.” - Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews | Amoroso | Limited 7″ ::: fennesz.com
Side a: Fennesz/Matthews 3′ 34″ Side b: Jeck/Matthews 3′ 24″
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Ambient Music Links, February 13th
Posted on | February 13, 2008 | No Comments
- BBC - Radio 4 - The Last Goodbye
“A moving and inspirational feature about an extraordinary humanitarian project to create a musical and artistic space in a hospital morgue. Sound artist Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) embarks on a remarkable personal and artistic journey of discovery.”
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Ambient Music Links, January 31st
Posted on | January 31, 2008 | No Comments
- Sounds of seclusion - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
“Almost a decade has elapsed since Dupe - the composer, producer and musician behind the beauteous instrumental soundcraft of Saddleback - left Sydney for the south coast of New South Wales.” - beaconsfield
“Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in London and Glasgow.”
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From the Mailbox
Posted on | January 28, 2008 | No Comments
Here are some things we’ve received lately in the Ambient Music Blog mailbox, presented for your perusal. Have a look, take a listen. There’s a lot of free music you might not have heard here.
The Secret Garden Project
“We are an assorted bunch of ambient musicians from Australia and New Zealand who decided to put around 80 ambient tracks up for free download.”
Sonanaut
“I’m an artist from New York working under the name Sonanaut. I’ve written several albums, the music of which is currently in use in media (TV Radio etc) throughout the world. I’ve just released my debut commercial CD ‘Sinking Upwards’ on my own label IVSI Records. It’s an album inspired by New York and my experiences here. The style is Ambient/Downtempo/Chillout”
redgreenblue
“This is my instrumental project. I consider it a side project despite the fact that I have a finished redgreenblue album, ‘red’, but not a shane king album.”
Onderuit Records
“We.re a NetLabel from Madrid. All our music is for Free Downloading. We would like you to check our last project: X-Music”
Ambient Music Garden
“I would like to let you know about my new site, Ambient Music Garden which is a download site for ambient and chillout music from a range of independent musicians. We sell our music to music lovers and therapists as well as license the music for use as backgrounds for websites, meditation CDs and retail outlets.”
Lea Longo
“I’m a canadian singer/songwriter and I would love to get a review if you like my music. It’s called ZEN Voyage and it’s an ambient , mediatative , mantra CD.”
Paztech Records
“I run a small record label called paztech records. I am now giving my music away for free with the hope of gaining some new listeners. The music i create ranges from ambient, electronic, techno, breakbeat and drum and bass.”
Ambient Music Links, January 25th
Posted on | January 25, 2008 | No Comments
- apestaartje : about
“The basic premise for all of our work comes from an acute interest in both gradual development and extremely detailed listening”
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Ambient Music Links, December 28th
Posted on | December 28, 2007 | No Comments
- Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music | New Home on Techno.org
It’s kind of nutso, but start at Downtempo, which will take you to Ambient, and away you go!
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Ambient Music Links, December 5th
Posted on | December 5, 2007 | No Comments
- Cameron Webb/Seaworthy Selects
Interesting post at Cyclic Defrost with Cameron Webb of Seaworthy talking about some of his favorite records.
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