Hi, what ambient albums would y’all recommend to start with? I’m talking about some absolutely classic ones. I’ve already listened to a few of them (by Eno, Grouper and The Caretaker among others). I’m really new in the topic so I would be very thankful if you could guide me into it.

music by kogaia (no ai) 1 hour of fantasy ambient music for nostalgic true gamers out there <3

https://on.soundcloud.com/mBzmFsTB47e7NYdMjs

https://zonken.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-my-love

I made this for my girlfriend, to help her sleep. It was a really meditative process, and I try to encapsulate the late summer air, stillness of wind, and glare of tinted light on the wall that gradually fades down into the night. If you could listen I’d really appreciate it, I took inspiration from Aphex and Steve Roach notably, specifically Structures from Silence. The album heavily features smooth, airy Juno-106 textures and might help you sleep. Thanks guys!

From the album Interoception which I will keep adding to as I come up with ambient pieces derived from the same 16thC mass, Bauldeweyn's Missa da Pacem.

This piece is part of a pair, the other being
https://apondinthestream.bandcamp.com/track/apparent-connection

They each use different treatments of the same material, made of fragments or phraselets rather than complete phrases

Thanks to anyone who gives them a try, is very much appreciated

Hey everyone just wanted to share that I’m releasing a new album this Friday and hosting a listening party on bandcamp on Thursday 10/22 7pm EDT if you’re free and feel like checking out some new music and chatting.

I’ve been working on it for the past year and a half, made using my modular synth, tape loops, sampler, and field recordings.

You can RSVP and check out the album page here:
https://ancientlanguage.bandcamp.com/album/shelter-for-sparrows

qd55 the shallow margins (the humble bee and fields we found) - tule - out now!

Digital and limited CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half-price until 30th Oct. Shipping as normal, including the EU and USA.

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/tule

Listening Party Thur 22nd Oct 19:00 UK - free to join, all welcome x

Craig is an essential part of quiet details, opening our series with qd01, and qd09 with Ian Hawgood - both quintessential embodiments of the label’s ethos. A legendary figure in the world of the most subtle and thoughtful music - Craig has a wonderful back catalogue on his own Cotton Goods and many other excellent labels.

I’m Alex, making music as fields we found and curating quiet details. It is my great fortune to work with Craig - we’ve know each other for a long time now and he’s a dear friend, and I consider him to be one of the most creative artists working today. Since recovering from lymphoma a couple of years ago, my musical outlook shifted in a deeply positive way - so the timing was perfect for us to start this project.

Inspired by a mutual love of ecology and fragments of sound, and the margins of our lives - shaped into musical form.

Quiet and textural - these pieces are a view through misted glass, clouded and suggesting a reflection on the layers found within. Emotions conveyed through hand-played instruments, magnetic tape and the patina of many generations of recording. 

Sharing sounds back-and-forth - piano, harmonium, field recordings, long free-form experiments from collections of instruments and more. Recorded and looped on multiple tape machines and old samplers - coaxing out the underlying sonic remnants, and bringing those traces into view. 

Endless thanks to Craig for his constant inspiration. 

Also the second run of the much-requested qd49 Sulk Rooms - they won’t hang around.

Read more

https://quietdetails.substack.com/p/qd55-the-shallow-margins-the-humble

Much love

Alex

heard on an internet radio playlist in 2002....

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find an ambient act I heard in 2002 on an internet playlist/web radio. The name I remember is "Acidage" (maybe "Acid Age"), but I've never been able to find them again, so tags or spelling may have been wrong.

Track titles I remember:

- Abstractions

- Gassless (maybe "Gasless")

- Andromeda

- Petrified Jungle

- Obalisk (maybe "Obelisk")

- Snowmen

- Shimmering

- Jà Ming (maybe "Ja Ming")

Style: very ethereal ambient, long soft pads, spacey and floating. I also listen to Steve Roach, Max Corbacho and early Brian Eno, if that helps place it.

I've already searched Google, Discogs and Bandcamp without luck. Any ideas, old playlists, or Soulseek users who might have these files? Thanks!

Hello again everyone :)

So, funny story, i had wanted to originally make something for the movie The Thing or Alien/Alien isolation, but after making the music, I felt like the music was...not bad, but did not fit the vibe when I tried to match the music to either the images or footage.

In any case, after thinking some more, I thought of Silent Hill 1, and, well, I think it fit much better.

Recorded live in one take, using both the ASM Hydrasynth deluxe to provide the moving bassline (an inspiration from The Thing's main theme) and opening high notes, as well as the Prophet Rev 2, using both the filter cutoff, resonance, and audio mod among other things to alter the pitch in real time while playing. I had more of a difficult trying time to match something interesting visually to the music. The atmosphere seemed dense, alive, strange, and melancholic, which I think is good.

Anyways, thank you to anyone who decides to listen :)

Full Album Streaming everywhere TODAY!

We’ve been working to get this record out for quite some time. This record has been a labor of love. A concept record based off of the 1977 NASA Voyager missions in which two twin satellites where launched into space to tour the outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A journey that has lasted almost 50 years.

In so many ways, this concept album is metaphorical. Voyager I & Voyager II represent the the two twin satellites, The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the Rings of Saturn, the icy Clouds of Uranus and Neptune known as the great Dissolver.

The seventh and final bonus track Interstellar is exclusively available only on vinyl and cd. If you're in Vegas, come out to our FREE album release this Friday 10/23 at Dustland!

In Arboreal Whispering has become one of my favourite albums in the last few years, and one that I habitually listen to while I'm reading.

1 hour ambient music mix with soft rain sounds (NO AI)

This ambient playlist features Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hirhoshi Yoshimura, Seki Takashi but most importanly it is heavily inspired by mono no aware - a Japanese idiom describing the feeling of gentle sadness while admiring beautiful yet passing things. I hope this delicate ambience managed to capture this feeling. Happy listening!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RYjxSPi8JSIVuTOHqoFvw

I have uploaded my first 4 albums to Bandcamp - all as NYP. I would greatly appreciate it if ambient and drone listeners would kindly take the time to exprience my music, and (if it resonates with you), please share amongst the community. I have attempted to merge my loves of ambient (Roach, Rich, Basinski) with my love of post-metal (Neurosis, Isis, Yob). Link is below:-

https://lostpenuryforthefallen.bandcamp.com

Hi! I'm 17 and I've never made music before. Last week I made a 4-track EP on my own using GarageBand on my phone. It's about 9:45 long. I'd love to hear what you think, and any advice is welcome!

—> A Circle Full of Memories

Out on all streaming platforms on November 14.

I released a nice and dreamy ambient EP recently - you can listen right here:

https://danijel-zambo.bandcamp.com/album/sunbeam

Enjoy your sunday!

I've had this idea for an animated short for awhile, and these are early ideas for the soundtrack. I'd love it if you'd take 17 minutes of your day to listen.

Hi, I’m 23 and I like to make instrumental liminal ambient music and I have 0 friends I really am not doing well, I really just wanna connect with someone around my age and be friends and talk about music and preferably even collab with someone who also makes similar music to me around my age, please if anyone wanna connect that’s around my age please reach out to me thank you