can a noise dude recommend some AMBIENT

i like the steel cello record, but it isn't what id call relaxing

new jefre cantu-ledesma record is nuts

― cutty, Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

really nice, thanks. loving the drums

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＜CONTENTS＞
裏のINTRODUCTION

クラスター・インタヴュー

STRANGE AGE 1960-1971
MEDITATION 1972-1982
SOUND ART 1983-1991
CHILL-SCAPE 1992-2001
PRESENT-FUTURE 2002-2010

flicked through today and it seems like a pretty comprehensive anthology of classic and more obscure ambient records up to the present day. want!

I take it it's in Japanese, right? Looks like a book w/companion CD according to what I saw.

been enjoying this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgq_H5bc3I

i like that jefre whatshisname album too. the guy from tarentel. ned should hear that if he hasn't already. i like everything on Type Records.

this was one of my fave shows of the year. what a nice guy. the new album on robot records is really good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTnv0p2sGI

anyone read this? i've had it on my shelf for who knows how many years, but never read it. probably because it's too big to carry w/me to read on the way to work

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413F0V6NSTL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Century-Mahler-Evolution-Electronic/dp/1582341346

it's the kind of book that doesn't introduce you to anything new and makes all your favorite records sound boring. I must admit I only flipped through it but everywhere I landed it was 2-3 pages of argh.

straight-up tragedy christoph heeman couldn't land an SF show!

good thing i only paid $7 for it

ah I don't know I like the idea of his thesis of Mahler as proto-ambient, all the early 20th century orchestral music that was careening into pure texture, there's an argument to be made there. but hopefully by someone who's a little less dull

all I have is language, I respond with language, I respond, and as I respond, I sense the desire of the leech-child I carry on my back slowly being satisfied

xpost cut and pasted wrong thing sorry

but as long as I'm on the subject on this ambient thread, here is a link to japanese radical feminist poet Hiromi Ito speaking for 90 minutes about Trichotillomania:

Hiromi - Pulling Hairs: http://vimeo.com/2502167

xposts it is in Japanese yes, but it seems fairly light on text, most of the book is devoted to nice colour prints of the album covers. was impressed by the range of stuff it covered, the 90s section for example features obvious classics like SAW II and 76:14, alongside less well known things like Rapoon and Philus

manual the north shore very pleasant album imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBJ1BoB1l4c

Mahler is ambient? WTF?

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/363812-winter-drones-blood-in-the-coffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTqmsx35iw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NCPOkt1ts

soundtrack to vahalla rising was dope. was supposed to be mogwai apparently but they fell through

digging Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet's new one, "air supply" a bit doomy for ambient, but im in favor of recordings of people doing nothing things

and then i check my email and see

01/15 @ 8:00pm - Jason Lescalleet and Graham Lambkin: Air Supply CD Release

http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/12/08/jason-lescalleet-and-graham-lambkin-air-supply-cd-release/

two new bvdub releases this month. goddamn.

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/155/122155.jpg

ive been enjoying this a lot lately its a soundtrack to a short film but certainly works as a standalone record

same lable that put out the most recent kyle bobby dunn record that i highly recommend to noise dudes

Simon SCott is the guy from Slowdive right? Still never got round to hearing his solo stuff.

yeah - this is the first of his drone/ambient records ive heard as well

that cover is nice

a few new and old things i've been playing lately:

helm - to an end lp

http://s3.amazonaws.com/typerecords_site/photos/1827/helmlp1_medium.jpg

dark ambient in a In The Shadow Of The Sun style

harold budd/simon raymonde/robin guthrie/elizabeth fraser - the moon and the melodies

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S3V.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

sounds exactly how you'd expect it to, budd brings the delicate arpeggios and cocteaus bring the swirl

alva noto - xerox vol. 2

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sG_ol0ZWrtg/Sv2oHAGWbyI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QEHqCCz7slU/s400/alva+noto2.jpg

slept on this for a bit but it's seriously amazing, among the best ambient of the 00s

keith fullerton whitman - disingenuity

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8zimgvIIW1qztmuuo1_400.jpg

deep modular bubble bath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVjKcVTaio

free bvdub digital album:

http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Mp3.rar
http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Flac.rar

if those dont work try these:

http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Mp3.raraaaa
http://www.bvdub.org/Q007d_OLLATS_Flac.raraaaa

manual the north shore very pleasant album imo.

― ☆, Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:32 PM

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sweet, I've been playing "The Art of Dying Alone" a lot over the last couple of months, looking forward to hearing whatever that album is

the track list for the bvdub record is p lol:

1 No Love Lost
2 My Only Friend
3 The House Above The World
4 Just You Wait
5 A Sisyphean Silence
6 One Last Look At The Sea
7 The Wall Between Us

xp Read an interview with Brock Van Wey the other day about that record, kind of a bummer really:

Can talk about the quote on your album, “We all die alone, but some make it their last work of art”. What is its source and effect on your inspiration for this album?

Its source is actually me. I would say it very much relates to this idea of how after you’re gone, others’ memory of you in their lives will intertwine with the story of their own lives, no matter to what extent. For me personally, the most beautiful way this can be achieved, at least in my ideal, is to somehow know the end is near, and to silently disappear to spend those last moments completely alone, thinking back on the life you lived, and then just vanish as easily and suddenly as you appeared.

This has always been an obsession of mine, but it had lay dormant for a while until one day about a year ago I asked someone what their ideal way to die was, and they answered very matter-of-factly, showing they had thought about it many times, that they wanted to die alone in a place no one had ever been. I thought that was such a beautiful answer (coupled with the fact it came from the mouth of someone around 19 years old, which was extremely unexpected) I honestly shed a tear, and every time I even think of it, including now, I do the same. Quite frankly, to me, even the thought of such a concept is truly a work of art.

No matter how many friends you make, how much your family loves you, or anything else that we arbitrarily attach to the meaning of life, we were intrinsically born into this world alone, and we will leave it alone. So to me, embracing that fact, and seeking to make that a time of beauty, makes much more sense than this absurd idea of being surrounded by loved ones etc. What possible good does that do? To me it’s just another attempt to distract ourselves from the inevitable, even when it’s weeks, days, or minutes away. I’d rather spend that time finishing the last few sentences of my own story on my own, rather than making others fumble through them on my behalf.

Basically the idea for the album, its title, and that quote all came about during an extremely low point for me, during a pretty much crippling depression I experienced when first moving back to China, when I was experiencing a loneliness that was really beyond all description. My mind being the tortuous Moebius that it is, I began to obsess on the thought of not only how truly alone I was, but the fact that I could easily disappear or meet my end and no one around me would truly care – it was the closest I had ever come to that point of being alone I had previously dreamed of as the perfect way for it all to end. And the lowness I felt, quite honestly, made me care less by the day as to whether the next day was the last. In fact, I reached one day where I literally didn’t care at all.

I don’t know what happened, but I all of a sudden decided to take that crushing weight and put it into music. I think quite honestly, it was a sort of last-ditch effort to see if I could feel something again. It wasn’t even depression anymore. I had gone numb. So thought the only thing I could do was attempt to put the experience to music, to see if I could come out of the tailspin by talking about it then only way I know how – with myself. It was the first time I had touched music since moving across the Pacific, but it seemed like the perfect time to start, to try to make something constructive happen from what I was fairly certain was a depression that might consume me.

Though from the title of the album to those of the tracks themselves, I think it’s fairly obvious how I was feeling at the time, but what I wasn’t expecting was the beauty that ended up coming through in the tracks (at least I feel it, I can only hope others do too). I think it’s the most overtly sad album I’ve ever made, but as I progressed through it, it began to take on more and more beauty along with the sadness, and before I knew it, it became as much a statement about the beauty of life as much as its futility. And really, I think it’s embracing both that futility and beauty, irrevocably intertwined, that can bring about that one last work of art – one’s ability to make that last stroke on the canvas of their life, alone, just as they were when they made the first.

on the fence about bvdub's sound, a little too http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chester-cheetah.jpg

ok no longer on the fence after reading all that

My Dr being the tortuous Morbius that it is

Ha, he makes it somewhat awkward to have it playing in the background as soundtrack music to do chores to. xp

never ever read interviews with artists = my number 1 rule

"A Sisyphean Silence" = I am putting random words together

His thinking's not entirely alien to me, but I think at the moment I'm more into a bit of humour with this whole mortality business. Which is why I have it on shuffle with a bit of yakety sax.

Anyhow, been listening to the new Deaf Center quite a bit (Owl Splinters), it's good if you're into sinister soundtrack music meets err, modern classical (horrible phrase). Definitely a progression for them.

haha yeah but ill admit that i like that theres a dude that talks about & conceives of his music in this really large, nakedly emotional tone

recommended for noise dudes at night: jasper, tx 'mute harbour'

@ nick that deaf centre record is AMAZING so foreboding & fantastic

first time I clicked with "Art of Dying Alone" I was sat here

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eating my lunch on my own, and it had been raining in the morning but the February sun suddenly went mad bright and started bouncing off all the plants and into my eyes at the same time as the music went all fake synth choir-y and my meds kicked in. So it was ordained to be a moment, whatever.

and I did actually lol at the cosmic cheesiness of it

Hey that's cheesy, but you have take lols where you find them right?

Sorry: "that's **NOT** cheesy"

fucking fingers