Links, discussion, commentary, and reviews of Ambient music.
To get you excited about the upcoming release of Slow Dancing Society’s album Priest Lake Circa ’88, Hidden Shoal Recordings is offering a track from the album as a free download.
Download A Warm Glow (.zip)
The new Sigur Rós album með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust can be streamed in its entirety via last.fm.
I stumbled across Swedish band Tape, who play quiet, spooky instrumental stuff with a bit of found sound added in as texture. Luminarium is their latest release from Häpna Records. They’ve got another couple records, all worth your time, but I think this latest release is likely their best.
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.
Related
Official Glowworm Web site
Glowworm MySpace Profile
Glowworm on Virb.com
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’
Those of you who listen to actual music on actual physical media will be happy to know that Fennesz has released two tracks on 7″ vinyl titled Transition.
For the rest of you, the good news is that there’s a new full-length release scheduled for sometime this Spring.
From the fine folks in Australia at Hidden Shoal Recordings comes the latest release from Ambient Music Blog favorite Slow Dancing Society titled The Slow and Steady Winter.
It’s quite nice stuff. Long, stretched out tracks with a lot of breathing room. Some towards the beginning of the record are rather dark, in a nice way. The tracks are generally atmospheric electric guitar ramblings with nice texture added throughout.
It’s not a huge departure from 2006’s The Sound of Lights When Dim, but if you liked that record, this one is definitely worth your time.
Room40 has recently released a 3″ CD single from San Francisco based drone-ist Christopher Willits titled Plants and Hearts. It’s a single track of 21 minutes and 30 seconds of droning guitars and etc. Really nice stuff and great value as an eMusic download, if you’re the kind of person who uses eMusic.
From the Room40 site:
Incorporating 4hz isochronic pulses and panning at the same frequency, this work encourages the formation of 4hz brainwave patterns associated with states of meditation, deep relaxation, enhanced creativity, light sleep and lucid dreaming.
Science! I don’t know about any of that, but I’m listening to it while writing this blog post and I feel pretty ok.
Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced that Drew Sullivan, better known as Slow Dancing Society, is set to release a new record November 6, 2007. The title is The Slow and Steady Winter and apparently it’s the first half of a double album, the second half of which will arrive sometime in 2008.
There’s a preview track available via the Slow Dancing Society MySpace profile, and you can learn a bit more about the new record via the announcement at Hidden Shoal Recordings.
Matthew Cooper, better known around here as Eluvium, has just released a set of tracks for free download. I don’t know much about it other than what the site says, which is that they’re “unedited improvised basement minidisc records.” Sounds good to me!
Go have a listen: www.concertsilence.net.
