Photo credit: Yogic Relaxation - Ultimate Guide. My Ambient playlist is an excellent companion to your morning yoga session. May also be enjoyed when contemplatively looking out at the rain, taking a bath, or other cases when a sense of solitude or serenity is desired. :)
“A six track suite of other worldly beauty from the tabletop electronics of Stefan Paul Goetsch AKA Hainbach. “Songs For Coco” utilises the unique Cocoquantus effects system designed by Ciat Lombarde. The signature lo-fi cascading delays of this instrument become the signature to an utterly haunting and deeply personal album wherein Hainbach doesn’t seem to “play” anything, rather the album feels like a microphone recording of some other dimension. – Boomkat
https://soundcloud.com/opal-tapes/sets/hainbach-songs-for-coco
Omar El Abd / omrr (b. 1983) is an electronic musician, guitarist and sound artist based in Cairo, Egypt.
Time Wharp’s second album for Astro Nautico, Feel No Pain, deals in remedial audio, undulating sound tonics for the relief of suffering.
A collection of minimalist synthesizer solo improvisations, Feel No Pain is at home in the neo-New Age zeitgeist. Time Wharp (Patrick Loggins) finds an idiosyncratic voice among this transnational and intergenerational thread of experimentalist sound healers. Their tender soundworld attunes listeners to the fullest extent of their capacity for peace of mind and spiritual restoration through a humble economy of heartfelt melodic elements.
Wharp’s process of creation on Feel No Pain was acutely individual. Each solo improvisation was recorded in solitude between 2013 and 2015, as guideposts for times and mindsets both dark and light. The synth exercises announce themselves like talismans, warding off the bad vibes of anxiety and self-decay. ‘Birds of North America’ matches cascading synth arpeggios with walls of tonal reverb, forming a protective architecture around this moment, this mind, this body. ‘XKEYSCORE’ and ‘3-Audio’ set mind-body-moment in motion, the former’s interlocking arpeggiator strata driving a whimsical dance; while the latter simulates the galloping rhythms of digital horses using feedback delay loops. The stuck-ness of cycles gives way to movement: from despair to hope.
After years of personal practice, the retroactive collection of these cassette recordings delineates the full body of work presented here, coupling the openness to let feelings & sound wash over you with full belief in the power of music as sanctuary.
‘Feel No Pain’ is available now on cassette and all digital platforms:
astronautico.bandcamp.com/album/feel-no-pain
open.spotify.com/album/5oviBxhD2lP9JmobxGoH1r
itunes.apple.com/us/album/feel-no…ain/id1281592371
bleep.com/release/89431-time-wharp-feel-no-pain
Ambient soundscapes from the Russian Federation.
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-xyr-dolphin-smile
Lussuria’s opiated atmospheres bring together dark and brooding Industrial signatures with augmented and re-purposed fragments of songs and spoken word that somehow create an uneasy ambience that lingers in the memory long after the music comes to a standstill. The album, “Industriale Illuminato” follows the fantastic “American Babylon”, a collection of tracks originally released on Hospital Productions as a cassette-only trilogy. The new album picks up where “American Babylon” left off, with a sullen, murky texture that leads the listener into a concrete catacomb of paranoia and despair. Total party time….- Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/farewell-forever/farewell-forever-lussuria
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20064-clouds/
Before the Flood is a collaboration soundtrack album by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Mogwai and Gustavo Santaolalla for Fisher Stevens‘s film of the same name. Wikipedia
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On this project, released by the progressive San Francisco label New Albion, accordionist Pauline Oliveros has teamed up with trombonist Stuart Dempster and vocalist Panaiotis to produce a remarkable album of atmospheric space music. The recording took place inside a huge cistern at an army fort, an acoustic space characterized by tremendous reverberation. The unlikely instruments — primarily accordion, trombone, didjeridu, and voice — produce sustained tones that are subtly modulated by the extraordinary acoustics, making it often seem as if there were more instruments present, or as if this music has been electronically processed — neither of which is the case. All the music was improvised on site, with the musicians banging on metal pipes and found objects on the final track. The effect is remarkable, immersing the listener in a hypnotic field of shifting resonance, in a truly profound experience of deep listening. – AllMusic
https://soundcloud.com/geowas/deep-listening-ione-pauline-oliveros-stuart-dempster-panaiotis
A Dark Ambient mixtape of all performing artists at 25YLOKI in Paris September 9-10, 2016.
Kane Ikin is an experimental musician from Melbourne. His music – equal parts narcotic and kinetic – conjures industrial landscapes in crystalline definition. Concussive rhythms surround a glistening soundstage, creating a cinematic experience for the mind akin to a modern-day Blade Runner or Akira soundtrack. Kane has delivered two outstanding works in 2016. The tense and atmospheric “Modern Pressure” (Type Recordings) and its dancefloor-minded companion “Basalt Crush” (Latency Recordings) have both received high acclaim from Boomkat, Juno Plus and Bleep, drawing comparisons to Raime, Andy Stott and Demdike-Stare. Kane’s next work, “Sensory Memory” (Echovolt Records), will be released late 2016. Resident Advisor
Described as their “most ambient album yet,” Chill Out World is scheduled for release tomorrow Oct 13, 2016 through Kompakt. The ten-track album continues The Orb’s Kompakt connection, after last year’s Moonbuilding 2703 AD LP (and this March’s Alpine EP) on the Cologne label. But while Moonbuilding 2703 AD took six years before it finally came together, Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann needed just six months to produce COW / Chill Out, World!. Paterson describes COW / Chill Out, World! as a protest album in reverse.” Fehlmann, who also comments on how the pair “trusted our first instincts and allowed the ideas to flow freely,” says: “We didn’t intend to rehash old chill out vibes. On the contrary. It’s the 21st century and it seems like a good idea for people to sit back and chill the fuck out, before continuing to act destructively. To chill out is to act consciously, guided from a calm centre.” RA
DECISIONS is proud to announce its second release: Empty Gallery EP by waterhouse, a Melbourne based producer, DJ and vocalist. The EP spans 3 years of waterhouse productions (2013-2015), charting a sonic emergence suffused with spatial, textural and emotional complexity.
The EP opens with ‘Breathless’, a heady rush of ambience, shimmering cymbals and field recorded textures. ‘A Little Sheep’ follows, progressively immersing the listener in accumulating layers of vocal melodies. On ‘3415’ rapturous choral textures encircle delayed claps and a reverb-drenched kick drum to form the most urgently rhythmic cut on the record. Side A ends with title track ‘Empty Gallery’, in which an intricate constellation of strings, pads, rumbling sub frequencies and brusquely dry percussion meet lyrics confronting life after loss.
‘Empty Room’ begins the B side, a gentle miasma of sound breathing to an 808 kick that dissolves into a haunting vocal refrain. ‘Untitled 2 (12:48am)’ builds a cathedral of bells, concrete percussion and deeply resonant drums to house a barely discernable vocal. waterhouse’s alchemical ability to turn raw material into something sublime is illustrated on ‘Broken Violin (afternoon recording)’ in which snippets of detuned violin and vocal improvisation entwine. ‘Song For A Prince In Exile’ closes the EP with a bubbling slab of ambience that is steadily subsumed by searing distortion. As if cauterising an open wound, it dramatically marks both an ending and a beginning. -Traxsource
GIGI MASIN, born in Venice, Italy on 24th October 1955, has been part of the music scene since the early 70’s and a radio dj with the most important radio stations. From 1978 he has been establishing a collaboration with poet/writer Massimo Palladino, a venture that had been permitting to carry out many and wonderefull pieces for theatre, television, radio broadcasting, where music and voice walk hand in hand, challenging and provoking themselves as well. Sounds, tapes, turntables, live electronics are the ground where scene music moves. As musician/director Gigi Masin had a lot of theatrical, cinema and musical collaborations. First solo album ‘WIND’ has been published in 1986. “LES NOUVELLES MUSIQUES DU CHAMBRE” for the belgian label Sub Rosa (1989) with Charles Hayward, “WIND COLLECTOR” (1991) with Alessandro Monti. Recent works include “LONTANO” (2001) and “MOLTITUDINE IN LABIRINTO” (2003, with Giuseppe Caprioli) produced by Giovanni Antognozzi for Ants Records. Many musicians covered or sampled his music and among the others there’s the singer BJORK (the track ‘It’s In Our Hands’ from her Greatest Hits album), german band TO ROCOCO ROT, pianist LUCA MITI and others. New cd will be published (2007/2008) with Diplodisc -Stella*Nera. After that little jewel (‘Fricke Out’) in ALESSANDRO MONTI first cd ‘Unfolk’, the collaboration will continue with a new piece in MONTI second cd, out in 2008. In 2008 will be finally released a dvd (title ‘ILUSTRAT’) of unpublished illustrations, designed for publishing and multimedia purposes, created by painter/designer LUIS FILIPE CUNHA, with the music of Gigi Masin. New tunes (‘The Last Dj’) are now available for free download from italian net label LAVERNA ( http://www.laverna.net ).-Soundcloud
Monochord are Vienna-based musicians Bernhard Hammer and Jakob Schneidewind, two thirds of Elektro Guzzi, though Monochord paints a different picture. Electroacoustic experiments and filmic elements define the music that develops instinctively yet irrevocably, a sense of forward motion setting them apart. Compositionally minimal, these tracks maximize their inherent potential all the way through to their logical and even illogical end. Referencing electronica, ambient, shoegaze and at times modern classical harmonics, Monochord builds and unbuilds in a slow heartbeat. Introspective and filmic, its quiet and non-confrontational nature makes Monochord move in the interzone between various spheres. Their music escapes definition and that is its truest definition. Its subtle pulse and evocative and drony feel invite and inspire.- Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/junoplus/sets/monochord-spatial-stereo-mea018
Harpist Mary Lattimore traveled across the country with her harp. At the Dam, the album she made on the journey, bursts with ambition and ideas. The only car that can even begin to fit Mary Lattimore’s 47-string Lyon and Healy harp is a vintage Volvo Station Wagon, with the the back seats folded all the way down. Before she was collaborating with a legendary laundry list of artists (Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Jarvis Cocker, and Arcade Fire to name a few) she ferried the instrument to and from the odd gig, usually weddings, playing by herself, and leaving by herself. The experience of travelling, practicing, and performing with the harp is an undeniably solitary one. And intimate doesn’t feel like it does a good enough job of describing this relationship. Lattimore’s harp is more than just the wellspring for her art and her livelihood, but a life companion.- Pitchfork
A single word that would describe Janek Murd as a composer would surely be ’cinematic’.
His creations are thrilling, dramatic and powerful as well as warm, gentle and dreamy.
Janek started out in an indie supergroup Borax, now he is part of a hippie pop rock band 3Pead (3Heads), yet his main line of activity is the creation of music and sounds for movies, TV-shows, exhibitions and public spaces. Great music is also born simply out of love for the wonderful world of sounds-Soundcloud
DIGISEEDS is the first chapter in a series of Ultimae compilations conceptualized by Czech artist Lubos Cvrk aka Ambientium. As an electronic music stakhanovite, Lubos brought together composers from all around the world to create a story which slowly enwraps the listener in a soft and eerie ambient reverie.
Over the past years Andreas Söderström has played bass with multi-awarded pop genius Jenny Wilson, trumpet and lap-steel with the international renowned electronica-project Tape, and harmonium, key harp and guitar with contemporary folk/rock-combos as Barr, Pallin and Blood Music
A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electronic-acoustic music. Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, nestling into a comfortable, shared space between muted techno, ambient and slowmotion house – using them as reference points from which to stray, rather than as steadfast frameworks. Drawing on the rich history of musique concrete, Honig looks to incorporate a material nature into his music by imbuing it with a host of field recording/found-sound sources in the search for a balance between digital software innovation and the physicality of the world around us. His music is one of contrast and contradiction, combining minimal, abstract tendencies with a core of timeless harmonics – pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty “mishaps.”