The Sunday night ambient now spinning thread

[ThirdDrawerDown 3,712]

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 8,200]

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 2,536]

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

 

[Viognier 2,232]

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 2,039]

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

[dwbasement 3,444]

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 3,444]

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 2,039]

just heard stars of the lid - 'avec laudenum'

time for bed.

[zog 334]

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 8,769]

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 3,771]

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 3,712]

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 3,702]

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 558]

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 2,996]

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