Well its 2018 folks, whats coming out this year that you know of ? Nils Frahm - All Melody - January (Erased Tapes) Dedekind Cut - Tahoe - February (Kranky)
crazy new Dedekind Cut's being issued by Kranky - well deserved there's a new Sakamoto + Alva Noto record coming Feb and rumors of a Lorenzo Senni that could be power ambient instead of dancefloor oriented (but mere speculation only based on... well... he's on Warp... but nothing really ha) ambient is not known for huge blockbusters (with some exceptions e.g. Tim Hecker) so releases tend to be more low-key haha BUT it's a thriving always surprising genre and there's always a ton of interesting releases, so here's for 2018
I'll bite. This was tough because insane amount of good stuff this year-- even more that I haven't checked out yet. here are my lists in no order: bvdub - heartless gas - narkopop chuck johnson - balsams the caretaker - everywhere at the end of time bing & ruth - no home of the mind jefre cantu-ledesma - on the echoing green visible cloaks - reassemblage gigi masin & charles hayward - les nouvelles musiques de chambre, vol. 2 poppy nogood - mood paintings rafael anton irisarri - the shameless years honorable mentions: earthen sea - an act of love lowercase noises - the swiss illness windy & carl - blues for a ufo pausal - avifaunal pan - mono no aware compilation max richter - three worlds: music from woolf works the fun years - heroes of the second story walkup gaussian curve - clouds hammock - mysterium haco - qoosui roedelius & andrew heath & christopher chaplin - triptych in blue heathered pearls - detroit, mi 1997-2001 golden retriever - rotations joseph shabason - aytche kaitlyn aurelia smith - the kid four tet - new energy the seven fields of aphelion - keep the ocean inside hakobune - landfall geotic - abysma mark mcguire - ideas of beginnings anjou - epithymia
on my list of 2017 ambient releases I still need to hear (will edit to this based on others' lists): rainforest spiritual enslavement - ambient black magic palta - universel wanderwelle - lost in a sea of trees vera dvale & psykovarius - udu gailes - seventeen words suso saiz - rainworks r beny - cascade symmetry sw. - the album. high plains - cinderland grandbrothers - open yves tumor - experiencing the deposit of faith kiasmos - blurred ep hayden pedigo - greetings from amarillo indian wells - where the world ends metro riders - europe by night leandro fresco & rafael anton irisarri - la equidistancia
awesome - I've been listening to some of the shit you guys posted might do my list tonight some glaring omissions btw. :P
also, don't know where else to post this, but I figure that if there's a crowd for this at Chorus, it's here: last Sun Araw LP is fucking magical go listen to that - Cameron fucking outdid himself - shit is golden: nothing quite like it out there, not even previous Sun Araw
Will check out this week for sure. Been working through my list of things i missed and rainforest spiritual enslavement’s new one is amazing, as well as leando fresco’s + rafael anton irisarri’s la equidistancia
I liked it but didn’t think it quite reached the quality of the records i listed above. There were hundreds of amazing ambient albums released in 2017 so the bar was very high
seriously guys, this is amazing and will probably creep to my #1 spot of 2017 LOL - this literally single-handedly restored my mental health (which was pretty bad after the end of Q4 2017) - its a balm If you were Carlos Castaneda and the chillest robot-cowboy was don Juan Matus, then Viaje a Ixtlan would be The Saddle of the Increate. Some YouTube comments for you, just so you get a feel of what people feel when listening to this journey: "every time he says alright ten years are added to my lifespan" "Sun Araw, your guide to the stars and campfire embers. Once past the first two tracks the journey is a treat, so saddle up and ride out. Mind psalm, get on it." Read this: Interview: Sun Araw Cameron explains the concept behind the record and the ideas that shaped it, but it is basically an exploration of Greek mythology through the eyes of cowboys and Alice Bailey. FUCKING AWESOME. LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN
Huerco S. sticks his landing, launches new label and new moniker with new double album Make Me Know You Sweet
Rework of Balmorhea's latest feat contributions from William Basinski and Jefe Cantu-Ledesma Also, a few things I really enjoy from last year that I don't recall seeing talked about in here GRAFTS
"In 1979, Jürgen, a self-taught amateur musician studying oceanic science at the University of Kiel, travelled with a film crew to document a mission testing sea-water toxicity a few kilometres offshore in the North Sea. As ever, necessity was the mother of invention, and the experience proved so memorable that he was impelled to create a soundtrack to the footage and his own recollections using some electronic equipment borrowed from friends and a local school. Armed with nothing but a faint memory of piano lessons as a child and - perhaps to be expected for a German student in 1979 - some awareness of (undisclosed) avant-garde electronic composers from the early '70s, Jürgen set about creating this lush suite of twelve marine-themed vignettes, plainly channeling his thoughts, moods and emotions into what could be quite easily called a prototypical, deliciously frothy form of "New Age" music. It simultaneously triggered ambitions of becoming a film composer and lead to the creation of his publishing company - Neue Wissenschaft. He wrote the album in his spare time off from studying between 1981-82, finally releasing an edition of 100 copies which largely ended up in the hands of friends and family, with only a few reaching prospective clients and relegating it to the sea of privately pressed synth music."