Ambient - The Megathread

Sorry but that probably describes hundreds of ambient albums.  

Remastered edit of State Azure's YT stream, longform Vangelisian ambient from the event horizon. PWYW, highly recommended.

I just found out that Pantha Du Prince released an ambient album last year. It's called "429Hz Formen von Stille" (Forms of silence, I think). His website seems to be down, and I can't find a band camp site, but the album is available on streaming.

22nd compilation in Neotantra's V/A series, 2 GBP for 3+ hours of staring into space.

Checking out some Brian Eno I haven't heard. I Dormienti is originally from 1999. Very pretty and at times it sorta calls to mind the music Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai did together. This is because of the the piano, background drones, slight glitchiness. It is much more minimal though.

Soooo glad I got to see a live performance of this album on Halloween 2019 not long before COVID hit:

https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone

  On 4/7/2022 at 5:25 PM, splesh said:

Checking out some Brian Eno I haven't heard. I Dormienti is originally from 1999. Very pretty and at times it sorta calls to mind the music Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai did together. This is because of the the piano, background drones, slight glitchiness. It is much more minimal though.

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The full release of Music for Installations is available on Apple Music (probably elsewhere too) and it's just shy of five and a half hours. Highly recommend.

This is currently wrapping up my Friday afternoon:

This is lovely

Basinski's Disintegration Loops

Eno's Discreet Music

I'll also say that I love Eno's Ambient 3, but not a whole lot else.  

His work with Harmonia is great, of course his proper glam/pop/rock music is great, and I do like The Ship, but a lot of it is not so good to my ears.   However, I do love the aforementioned releases.   

Aphex Twin's Ambient Works are not to be missed, even if they've been mentioned over and over, and may or may not be "truly ambient".  

The Caretaker is essential, as far as I'm concerned.  

Windy & Carl

Oval

Protman is known as an IDM type, but he did do an ambient album that basically sounds like a canned soft drink opening, and all the effervescence that comes with it....   

I'll just leave it at that for now, before I start getting into Dark Ambient and arguing with myself between the two.   I do have an ambient record out, limited to 5 copies...  Ahem.. .  if I may say so.   

Feel free to take a gander.  

https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/heaven-brain

I couldn't remember the name of this one.   It is considered a "classic" in some circles.   For good reason.   

https://akirarabelais.bandcamp.com/album/spellewauerynsherde

VG

A recommended 2022 release: Postcards by Sweatson Klank. Downtempo and ambient with a slight new age touch.

Latest from Neotantra, PWYW for a couple of days.

Temple ov Saturn navigates a lot of territories, but this one could be considered "loop-based ritual ambient" in a sense, although there are some beats involved.   
https://templeovsaturn.bandcamp.com/album/bride-of-the-sun
 

Some classic bell drone here
 

  On 8/16/2022 at 5:11 PM, droid said:

Some classic bell drone here
 

 

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mixes well with a few middle section tracks off Ingram Marshall’s ‘Alcatraz’ lp

https://www.discogs.com/release/1480598-Ingram-Marshall-Alcatraz

New Ben Frost album out. Dark Ambient with some field recording made for the film Broken Spectre, about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

I've probably already posted this one but it's so amazing

  On 11/16/2022 at 6:27 PM, milkface said:

I've probably already posted this one but it's so amazing

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I was lucky enough to be at this show and when the booming drone kicks in at around 46:00 - 47:00 I swear I had an out-of-body experience.