The Sunday night ambient now spinning thread

[ThirdDrawerDown 4,279]

This thread covered highlights in Australia's history of ambient music.  This thread is in honour of the tradition of ambient music on a Sunday night.

 

 

Currently spinning:

 

[rantan 9,323]

Not sure if this would be ambient or not, but I am enjoying the "Assassin's Creed " soundtrack CD which my daughter gave me when she bought the De Luxe edition of that game  ( she kept the game but doesn't spin music discs at all ) so we are both happy, albeit unexpectedly for me.

 

It is hugely atmospheric and gives one's woofers an Italian tune up.

 

Apologies for no photos,it just came in a cardboard sleeve with only the game logo and track listing on the cover

[ABG 2,539]

Cracking idea CDD.  Don't mind if I join in...

 

[Viognier 2,234]

Not spinning as such but just back from the basement after seeing A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Great gig, wonder what it would sound like in the City Recital Hall. 2 other SNAers there in @@dwbasement and @@guru

[analog brother 2,061]

i'm listening to sunn 0 with ulver at the moment...

[dwbasement 4,127]

Not spinning as such but just back from the basement after seeing A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Great gig, wonder what it would sound like in the City Recital Hall. 2 other SNAers there in @@dwbasement and @@guru

I think it would be another level of experience if it's in the recital hall.

Great nite of music it was!

[dwbasement 4,127]

Not spinning as such but just back from the basement after seeing A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Great gig, wonder what it would sound like in the City Recital Hall. 2 other SNAers there in @@dwbasement and @@guru

To finish the nite.

[analog brother 2,061]

just heard stars of the lid - 'avec laudenum'

time for bed.

[zog 346]

Not spinning as such but just back from the basement after seeing A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Great gig, wonder what it would sound like in the City Recital Hall. 2 other SNAers there in @@dwbasement and @@guru

 

I saw AWVFTS on Saturday night, amazing show - but I was listening to this last night, also good -

 

[soundfan 9,001]

Bing & Ruth: Tomorrow Was The Golden Age

 

CD

 

'Tomorrow Was the Golden Age' is an unmistakably gorgeous and refreshing suite of microtonal minimalist composition by New York-based ensemble, Bing & Ruth. Helmed by writer, conductor and lead pianist, David Moore, and supported by two upright bassists, two clarinetists, a cellist and a tape delay tech, Bing & Ruth genuinely sweep us off somewhere sublime without recourse to overblown conceit or cliche - something all too prevalent and cloying in today's neo-classical quarters. Their skill lies in the ability to drift, almost imperceptibly, between microtonal harmonies and silent/grand dynamics with patent subtlety, segueing gradient fields of colour with a grand, yet never imposing, effect. In that sense 'Tomorrow Was the Golden Age' surely recalls your Glass's and Reich's, but also the time-smudging transcendence of Morten Feldman, Brian Eno or Stars Of The Lid, and, in parts, a louder Jakob Ullmann for their keen attention to contemplative quietude and involving, delicate depth of field. The timing of release could hardly be any better, too, with a sound that beautifully mirrors the transition of the seasons, ripe for long headphone mooches and gazing out of the window alike. Warmest recommendations.

 

 

[Ian McP 4,670]

Do have a listen to local guys Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen's Residual and remix album Re-Residual.

These guys were part of Way Out West  (more jazz influenced)

http://www.jazzhead....y-out-west.phps

 

here they enter much more electronica territory

 

Residual

http://www.parenthes...uyen_-_residual

 

Re-Residual (remix album available as a free FLAC download)

In 2010, Parenthèses Records released Peter Knight & Dung Nguyen’s duo collaboration RESIDUAL seeing the pair developing unique approaches to combining Vietnamese and Western music elements in a contemporary setting.

At the start of 2014, Alexis Courtin from PR and Peter Knight discussed their shared desire to give the album a second life and thus asked a carefully chosen list of musicians from France and Australia to present their personal perspectives on Residual. The result is this amazing album that comes as a FREE download, blurring the boundaries between abstract ambient, repetitive experimental music and groove-based textures. - See more at: http://www.parenthesesrecords.be/catalog/various_artists_-_re:_residual/#sthash.fGYF0JWl.dpuf

In 2010, Parenthèses Records released Peter Knight & Dung Nguyen’s duo collaboration RESIDUAL seeing the pair developing unique approaches to combining Vietnamese and Western music elements in a contemporary setting.

At the start of 2014, Alexis Courtin from PR and Peter Knight discussed their shared desire to give the album a second life and thus asked a carefully chosen list of musicians from France and Australia to present their personal perspectives on Residual. The result is this amazing album that comes as a FREE download, blurring the boundaries between abstract ambient, repetitive experimental music and groove-based textures. - See more at: http://www.parenthes...h.fGYF0JWl.dpuf

[ThirdDrawerDown 4,279]

An elegy of nicely-produced out-takes.

 

Of interest to the sort of person who hunted down the unofficial Floyd remixes, otherwise it's a peripherally interesting taster or teaser for various parts of their back catalogue.

 

 

Edited to say: it's a grower.  4 stars, not the 3 stars of my first impression. Very pleasant.

Edited November 29, 2014 by ThirdDrawerDown

[caddisgeek 3,707]

I think it would be another level of experience if it's in the recital hall.

Great nite of music it was!

Listening to that now, great peice of music

[Gremrock 615]

Alchemy - dire straits,

Florence & the machine - lungs,

Alison krauss & more, i think I'm gonna keep looking through and listening to things I haven't heard for a while till I fall asleep in my chair

[cafe67 3,547]

Alchemy - dire straits,

Florence & the machine - lungs,

Alison krauss & more, i think I'm gonna keep looking through and listening to things I haven't heard for a while till I fall asleep in my chair

Ambient ??

[Guest Willow]

Alchemy - dire straits,

Florence & the machine - lungs,

Alison krauss & more, i think I'm gonna keep looking through and listening to things I haven't heard for a while till I fall asleep in my chair

 

 

 

Ambient ??

 

 

Yep

[Gremrock 615]

I was listening to all of it through Ambience speakers.. does that count?

[ABG 2,539]

Kicking back listening to Brian Eno's Music For Films - one of the great haul of CD's I acquired thanks to Hired Goon's generosity.  Thanks once again Geoff.  Still working my way through a rather large pile of CD's and I haven't forgotten what I said re duplicates (and those CD's I'm not interested in).  It's just going to take me a while to digest them all, but I'll get there eventually.  Nobody else is getting their hands on Music For Films however...perfect Sunday night album.

[ThirdDrawerDown 4,279]

Music For Films

 

 

Wonderful! Various pivotal Eno re-releases are due for re-release tomorrow.  Meantime tonight in the third drawer down we have let someone else choose the music:

 

Internet radio: Soma FM Drone Zone

Now playing:   Juta Takahashi - Quiet Rain

subdued synth washes and treated piano at glacial pace, lovely!

[ThirdDrawerDown 4,279]

[Bronal 733]

Listening to the latest album by Asura 'Radio Universe' on Ultimae - one of my favourite labels for many years for downbeat, space and techno.

 

Also Dr Atmo - 'Quiet Life'.

[wim 1,425]

PinkCourtesyPhone - Foley Folly Folio

 

 

Opening track:

[Soundscape 5,398]

Last night was Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Shapes. Ostensibly a jazz release, but to my ears it is largely droning/ambient in tone.

[wim 1,425]

Eric Holm - Andøya

 

 

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/07/stream-eric-holms-astonishing-new-subtext-album-andoya/

[ABG 2,539]

Been a while since I posted on this thread, even though most Sunday nights are filled with ambient tracks. More often than not, I'm just too busy to post what I'm listening to.  Anyway, tonight I'm listening to Harold Budd and Brian Eno - The Pearl.

 

 

Bliss