More than even Wall Noise, Drone would have to be the most over-abused format. We've all endured second-rate releases of someone leaning on a keyboard for an hour, or chancers at gigs dragging out every speck of gear from the bedroom to replicate the transcendent moments they manage to achieve while they softly strum their guitars through banks of pedals and software. I don't blame you for groaning.
But the quality material, the really good Drone - you hear it and realise why it's such a great idea. From the empress herself, Elaine Radigue, through to Charlemagne Palestine, Folke Rabe, Jean-Claude Eloy, to more recent exponents like Eleh and Erik Jarl, there is such a thing as Drone that doesn't suck but does give. I'm particularly interested in Drone that is blatantly so - not so much drone included amongst other factors, but the pure Drone, done as well as possible. Of course, any variations to be suggested will be.
Edit - PS; I did the usual search-function search and found no topic like this here, oddly enough, although a lot of reference to drone right throughout. In any case, I haven't seen this as a topic here for a while and...actually, let's not even worry about it. Let the recommendations begin.
Please let me know what you think is worth tracking down. Thank you.
I was just listening Arktau Eos "unworeldes" LP. Much much better than the Arktau Eos CD that came out same time (commented on playlist while ago).
I think it is perhaps more than just drone, but certainly droning quality to it. Some melody, some structure, many real instruments and recording process appears to be far from the computer & synths line-in laziness. Resonating spaces, suffocating yet airy atmospheres.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_fvSAQz4g8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3mZZvO2AW8
Could be among best recent drone stuff I have listened!
I didn't realize drone was much explored anymore, so I'm relieved, yet skittish, to hear differently. I'm definitely ready for some suggestions. It was never a very busy field (puns aside). The Hafler Trio and Changeling are the two of recent years that first come to mind.
my ambient/drone recommendations in a .txt file: HERE (http://www.mediafire.com/view/3hofn5s5wfq4u5b/recommendations--ambient_updated_2015-06-13.txt)
EDIT: should add that the new Lustmord album is amazingly good; possibly as good as anything he's ever done. I'm really taken with it.
The A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000 2CD compilation (http://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Selection-Of-Drones-Past-Singles-1993-2000/release/827093) of various 7"s on Drone Records is a great compilation with some interesting takes on the genre.
Doglady Island is definitely on the top of those currently active...
KEVIN DRUMM
Two somewhat recent albums I've enjoyed very much: Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion 2xCD (Hospital) and Double Leopards - Halve Maen 2xLP (Eclipse). Keränens Moon Over Torrelorca (Ljud & Bild) was good too.
Otherwise: Folke Rabe - What?? CD
Imperial Distortion... I think 3xLP set was just released?
If you not know him already, I'd recommend everything from Phill Niblock. Some years ago I was somehow obsessed by his droneworks (also saw him live twice these days) It was the only sound I was able to listen to. At that time I was tired of all the other 'music'. Thankfully that changed...
For example:
- Four Full Flutes (Experimental Intermedia Foundation)
- A Young Person's Guide To Phill Niblock (Blast First)
- The four (I think) CDs on Touch Records
- ...
Listen very loud!
For straight tone-drone:
Aural Holograms Vol. 1 (Aural Hypnox): Analog sounds from the dungeon.
Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble Organized Pitches Occuring In Time (Important): From the start of his works. Based around stringed instruments and organ pump.
Eliane Radigue Adnos I-III (Table Of The Elements): Three discs, all sitting perfectly, by the empress as stated above. Soon to be re-released by Important.
Eleh Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis II (Important): High-salary analog drone. Best of this three-part series, and best of the debuts, in my ears.
Eleh The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton (Important): From the Pauline Oliveros split. My favorite track by him.
Eleh Fading Spectrum Of Darkness (Important): From the Sun Circle split. A darker sound for the project.
For La-la-la-feel-good-and-sunny-drone:
Duane Pitre Feel Free (Important): Zen koan drone.
The North Sea & Rameses III Night Of The Ankou (267 lattajjaa/Type): Two awful projects did this one awesome collaboration. Physical instrumentation intermixed with heavy synthing.
For deep-dank-and-obscure-drone
Arktau Eos Ai Ma Ra (Aural Hypnox): Hard to stay focused for two discs, but there's a shit ton of highlights. Esoteric, eastern-ish muzak.
Halo Manash Taiwaskivi (Aural Hypnox): Best release from the A. Hypnox label? Doors keep opening, unleashing unknown beasts, pulling you in.
Burial Hex Four Tone Poems Of Orlog (Cathartic Process): Still cthonic, but not electronics. Rituals hidden deep in the belly of the mine.
For art-fart-lefty-drone
Born Of Six Svapiti (Important): Amelia Cuni, Catherine Christer Hennix and Werner Durand performing in the drone tradition.
Ellen Fullman The Long String Instrument (Apollo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHmsTk303Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHmsTk303Q)
For folk-drone
Pelt Ayahuasca (VHF): One of their albums where Jack Rose's heavenly talent keeps lapsing through, as well as some traditional folk music, but the drone sections are some of the best you'll hear.
Ulaan Passerine Ulaan Passerine (Brave Mysteries): Smith's most accomplished work to date - and I've felt that way many times before. Acoustic guitar, piano and silence.
For serene-and-occasionally-ominous-drone:
Troum Grote Mandrenke (Beta-lactam Ring): This and the next disc touch a lot on post-rock sounds, although made through synthesis I believe, but Troum is a household name and well-deserved of that.
Troum Mare Idiophonika (Tourette/Silken Tofu)
Troum AIWS (Transgredient) : Like segments of Grote... and Mare... all hidden under a thicker fog.
Troum Eald-Ge-Stréon (Beta-lactam Ring): Always felt like Methadrone was leaning on this album, aside from Lycia obviously. Speaking of, his Sterility has to be one of my favorite albums ever. Not straight drone, but it has it's moments. Dig it.
Troum Aerugo (Tourette): Nothing new, but 7" is kinda an exciting format for Troum. Check out the Bach 7" as well. (Burial Hex contribution to the series was tits as well.)
Ulaan Khol La Catacomb (Soft Abuse): Electric guitar compositions by Mr. Smith. Cavernous.
Good thread. In opinion there are very few (at least to my knowledge) good artist working within drone if one have the original spiritual heritage/function in mind. From a purist standpoint I see that people often when discussing drone mention artist that have a fundament in electronic or for instance new age as drone artists - confusing maybe the minimal and repetitive output with drone.
If one want to start looking into western drone tradition I suggest starting with the circle of musicians that studied with the Indian classical singer Pandit Pran Nath. Most known are Terry Riley and La Monte Young. Other than that I'd also point towards Pauline Oliveros and her deep Listening institute which is perhaps closest to the roots of drone's spiritual starting point of Indian classical music. I register the other artist I can think of at the moment is mentioned already. If some of you might be interested in the classical/folk/devotional aspect of drone check into the thread http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=2407.0 (http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=2407.0)
Coil - Time Machines
Alvin Lucier - Music On A Long Thin Wire
Tony Conrad - Four Violins
To add to the la-la-la-feel-good-and-sunny-drone:
Johannes Heldén Title Sequence (iDeal): You can listen here: https://soundcloud.com/johanneshelden/sets/title-sequence (https://soundcloud.com/johanneshelden/sets/title-sequence)
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Tony Conrad - Four Violins
Most things by Tony Conrad are good quality. I would recommend
Fantastic Glissando, it does put one's taste in drone music to test.
Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
(More exprimental ambient)
I recomend these to you off the top of my head i geuss these will cross over with noise a little but not necessarily harsh noise. And one or two might be a little bit dark. But It is better to act with utmost expediency in the acquirement of ALL of these titles ! I shit you not !
Maeror Tri Myein CD
Cisfinitum Industriewerke 2002-2012 CD, Tactio CD
Alio Die The Flight Of Real Image CD
SHRINE Somnia CD
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum Tuntury CD
Mandible Chatter Grace CD
Chubby Wolf Seasick CD
Rasalhague Rage Inside The Window CD
Apoptose, Bannwald CD
Rapoon + Wyrm Dreamtime Pantheist CD/DVD
Yannick Dauby, Hitoshi Kojo, Michael Northam Корлигон CD
Brume + Bokeh Transmutations CD
Jüppala Kääpiö Sporing Promenade CD
Lunar Abyss Quartet Zeleznaya Voda CD
Inade Audio Mythology One CD/LP
Reutoff vs Troum Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur) CD/2xLP
At Jennie Richie and irr. app. (ext.) Night Wearing Feathers / Sunshine Bus Rider LP
Fear Falls Burning Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects 5xLP
Moljebka Pvlse, Aidan Baker, Seth Nehil etc !
Any Aqua Dentata, the best new artist in this field for quite some time I think.
PGR deserve mention. Not anything like tonal drone, nor that "soaring" ambience, nor ritualistic. The early 90's exhalations were particularly cold, calculated, clinical, perfect almost to a fault. Industrial-strength music, to be sure, but supremely mellowed out. It's all great, but The Chemical Bride is one I come back to most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXG5_BQRCs
Tibetan Red. Primitive, industrial-flavored, dirge-drone. Made a first appearance on Freedom In A Vacuum in 1985, then disappeared for almost two decades, has since (2002) issued four new works. Field recordings and other electronic sources combine, often in very dense layerings, for at times rather brutish effect, an approach both simple and effective. "Ritual Breathing", dedicated to Eliane Radigue and sounding distinctly Buddhist, might be more in line with the thread (recent Lustmord duly noted), but the below-linked is probably more representative:
http://nubla.bandcamp.com/album/tao-point
http://iemradio.podfm.ru/my/85/ (loooossy)
Honorable mention also to the second track off of Tibet/Stapleton's The Sadness Of Things, "The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness". (The track is credited to Stapleton and Geoff Cox but sounds to me like a lonely lustmordian NWW effort that could never find a home.) Very straightforward, very nicely paced. I've been in love with this piece since first encountering it on the radio as a wee lad, and have always felt it's been given short shrift against the (methinks overrated) title track.
Cyclobe, Wounded Galaxies Tap At The Window. Easily their droningest, and best, to date. Sedate, warm, organic tapestries, epic in their unfolding.
Quote from: Zeno Marx on August 16, 2013, 09:57:48 AM
my ambient/drone recommendations in a .txt file: HERE (http://www.mediafire.com/?z4a8o74if671qvd)
EDIT: should add that the new Lustmord album is amazingly good; possibly as good as anything he's ever done. I'm really taken with it.
That list is absolutely spot on. Glad I read it before making several redundant recommendations. Though my personal Organum pick would be "Birds' Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies And Their Feet Froze To The Ground". (New Lustmord's certainly been getting plenty of play here. It's just such an obvious and natural progression one almost wonders why something of the kind never materialized ages ago.)
Maeror Tri is the ultimate to me. Some of it is pure "pretty" guitar drone but I also really like some of their other experiments which are in the same vein but a bit rougher in the way they're put together, sort of like a softened industrial approach at times maybe.
I have neglected to look into Troum much over the years which I'm sort of mad at myself about but I should get in deeper.
Rick Reed. Appears to have escaped mention, though he did receive relatively recent praise in Playlist. Field recordings merge with buzzing analog drone, often flirting with the louder ends of the spectrum, always quite varied in motion and texture over the lengthy duration. The dense layers frequently overlap at different speeds producing a psychedelic effect somewhat reminiscent of Jarl. Most pieces will reach a peak at some point and fade, either very slowly, or suddenly. The picks are the recent Dark Skies At Noon and The Way Things Go, both on Elevator Bath.
Curious to hear his three-way with Keith Rowe and Bill Thompson. A couple recordings I have of Voltage Spooks (Rowe and Reed) would seem to suggest something a bit more active and noise-worthy, but perhaps Thompson serves as a muting force.
Core. Chants Of Race And Emptiness, from this Cranioclast off-shoot. This is actually one of my all-time favorite albums from an all-time favorite off-shoot of an all-time favorite recording unit. The sound very much lives up to the title, hollowed out dis-embodied drone-textures that really should have achieved much more acclaim than seems apparent. We do, in fact, hear what sound like Tibetan chants at rare intervals, but always so far down in the mix, never really offering more than hints or suggestions of ritual. This might almost be darkambient were it no so cold. Their follow-up, An Area's Era Aria, is not quite up to the same heights methinks, but remains a wonderfully subtle work.
Cranioclast also delivered an excellent piece of drone in the two-part Iconclastar, Green (I) and Blue (II). The intro to the green disc is superb, extremes of high and low frequencies playing against one another to render rather ominous, somewhat unsettled, atmospheres. At high volumes this thing positively throbs, particularly through the agitated buzzsaw rhythms of the second movement. As the narrative elaborates, the constant push and pull between an underlying agitation and more smoothly sedate pastorals is what makes it for me. But the whole things just flows wonderfully, just a superb, complete, package.
Thomas Koner. Daikan. One of Koner's lesser acknowledged pieces, possibly de-graded owing to its status as sound component of greater multi-media project. I just love the tone here, however. One long piece, a very non-obstrusive flow, warm billowing layers embracing you in their womb-like cocoon; quite the irony given that the title refers to some rather out-moded kanji conjuring images of blasted subzero hellscapes. Not at all like that, Tom.
Does Zoat-Aon qualify?
Quote from: jesusfaggotchrist on September 10, 2013, 06:24:35 PMDoes Zoat-Aon qualify?
Not really "drone" by any standards I think.
The last Yrsel "Abraxas" recorded on Tuguska + 213 records is really one of the best drone albums than it was given to me to listen with "Oracle" Sunn O))) and Hermann Nitsch 17.09.2009 Orgelkonzert, Pauluskerk, Tilburg
How's the Yen Pox - Blood Music 2CD remaster? A flawless album in its original form. He moved to a more plastic sound, and I was wondering if the remaster/remix represents that.
Quote from: Zeno Marx on September 10, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
How's the Yen Pox - Blood Music 2CD remaster? A flawless album in its original form. He moved to a more plastic sound, and I was wondering if the remaster/remix represents that.
I need to listen to that. Zeno, why dont you consider Inade - Burning Flesh to be equally as important as Aldebaran? I personally that one to be better. And I think Megaptera is too "industrial" for this thread.
TenHornedBeast is awesome. dark ritual drone doom
Pickung up the thread on La Monte Young.
From the early '60s he was involved in a project titled Theatre Of Eternal Music (also referred to as the Dream Syndicate). Theatre Of Eternal Music spanned nearly to decades and ended in '75. By then the project had included musicians, artist, plus as: John Cale, Marian Zazeela, Jon Hassel, Alex Dea, Billy Name, Tony Conrad, Terry Riley, Terry Jennings, Angus MacLise, Rhys Chatham, Cornelius Cardew, Henry Flynt. This is an extended list of participants. The group worked within a strict artistic confine fundamented by Young, focusing heavily on sustained notes and harmonics. Instrumentation would vary during the projects duration. From Flute, voice and percussion to a-cappella performances with a huge PA w few vocalists; blower instruments, gong, vocals, moded and amplified viola and huge PA systems (Cale era, pre Velvet Underground). Gigs would last three to four hours. At the peak, rehearsals would be a daily 24-7 activity. Sadly there exist very little recorded material of this groups as I know of. But I am sure somebody have something on a loft somewhere.
1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn2ejTSCEGc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn2ejTSCEGc)
1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bobLwYAysg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bobLwYAysg)
John Cale, ex on moded and amped viola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53nKU6cH6pg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53nKU6cH6pg)
Quote from: online prowler on September 19, 2013, 02:11:35 AM
Pickung up the thread on La Monte Young.
Going off into that tangent, I'd like to cast a vote for Swedish late sixties improvisational group Pärson Sound . A loose constellation of musicians orbiting around guitarist Bo Anders Persson, that were deeply indebted to the NYC downtown drone/minimalist scene. In fact, the group came together after some of the members had helped Terry Riley in performing
In C at a concert in Stockholm in -67. Never committing any music to vinyl in their short lifetime, a hefty 2CD set that came out around 10 years ago collected live outtakes and studio recordings, finally showcasing their unique fusing of mantric psych rock and drone reductionism. There are shades of Velvet Underground in there, and also a heavy kraut vibe. Parts sound remarkably much alike Amon Düül II, only that this material predated the first Düül album by a year or two. Pärson Sound turned into International Harvester, before their final incarnation as the more well-known group Träd, Gräs & Stenar.
The album is available on Spotify, and I believe also in its entirety on youtube. Here's the 20 minute epic
From Tunis to India in Fullmoon (on Testosterone) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBNRYdXn22Q).
Quote from: Zeno Marx on September 10, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
How's the Yen Pox - Blood Music 2CD remaster? A flawless album in its original form. He moved to a more plastic sound, and I was wondering if the remaster/remix represents that.
just got it today, haven't given it a full listen.
matt brislawn = brizbomb = hypnotic analog/modular monotones, at times quite thick and heavy. also excellent field recordings
once again i recommend jonatan liljedahl / kymatica, amazing electronix
Where martial ambience meets drone devotional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HsWQeJlzk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Another good example is Nekyia with their works 'Alchemalady' and 'Attuner Of The Spheres'
Joe Colley/Crawl Unit is quite good
Not "pure" drone as it has a lot of melodic/harmonic progression, but I've been enjoying Finnish (mainly black metal project) Jumalhämärä's Resitaali-LP a lot and it might be of interest to drone-minded listeners. Waves of pump organ/harmonium droning sound transport at least Scandinavian listeners to their primary school childhood. Abstractly devotional atmosphere.
Only online sample I've found: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18100769/Jumalhamara_Resitaali_sample.mp3
Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010
Are there any other Troum releases like this? The tribal drumming does it for me.
Here are some of my favorites that I don't think were mentioned thus far:
Alan Lamb: Night Passage
Rafael Toral: Violence of Discovery
Aloof Proof: Piano Text
Quote from: Zeno Marx on February 10, 2014, 04:46:47 AM
Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010
Are there any other Troum releases like this? The tribal drumming does it for me.
Possibly the lengthy, closing, Troum offering on their split/collab with Christian Renou. Though I'd guess you'd already have that. The said offering deals suitably climactic drama to a release that surprises in its soundtrack-y aspirations.
Part 3 of the Tjukurrpa trilogy Rhythms And Pulsations would be the other obvious contender though perhaps only a couple tracks approach the sound you seek. (Still the full trilogy ranks among my favored Troums.) Tribal drumming does seem to be cropping up with increasing regularity in the more recent Troum discography, though again not in a way that dominates a la Mare Idiophonika.
Rhythms (or pulsations) in general certainly feature big in the Troum oeuvre, particularly the more "primitive" sounding recordings to which I gravitate, though these rhythms -better: throbs - are often well submerged and are as likely, to my ear, to contain martial or industrial elements as they are something more tribal. When I'm not reminded of the early, dirgier, CMI catalog, or the more amorphous, oversaturated, S-Core efforts, I hear Vivenza - that name again! - if one were to take the concrete factory machinations, massively overdrive the bass, and smooth everything out into, dark, saturated, throb-ient, dream textures. (Dreaming Muzak, from 2006, could serve as Troumified outtake from JM's Aerobruitisme Dynamique, but I digress.)
Into this general sphere I'd spin a couple reissues:
Darvê Sh / Ajin
Autopoiesis / Nahtscato
And:
Kapotte Muziek
Framaþeis/ Vār
Ryna
Maeror Tri did this - "primitive, overdriven, throbbient" - from time to time, perhaps increasingly, and rather naturally I suppose, toward the end – check the two part Hypnotikum swansong.
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Quote from: Zeno Marx on February 10, 2014, 04:46:47 AM
Troum - Mare Idiophonika 2010
Are there any other Troum releases like this? The tribal drumming does it for me.
Part 3 of the Tjukurrpa trilogy Rhythms And Pulsations would be the other obvious contender though perhaps only a couple tracks approach the sound you seek. (Still the full trilogy ranks among my favored Troums.) Tribal drumming does seem to be cropping up with increasing regularity in the more recent Troum discography, though again not in a way that dominates a la Mare Idiophonika.
This, and also the subsequent two parts of the "Power Romantic" trilogy: "Grote Mandrenke" and "Mare Morphosis". However, they are more post-rock influenced, and Tjukurrpa III is still superior in every way. ...Certain tracks off "Eald-Ge-Streon" might be of interest too.
Thanks for all the Troum recommendations.
Troum is awesome.
Need to mention this one Sigqan (Transgredient Records).
Anyone been following the Important/Bertoia Kickstarter campaign? The bullshit of Kickstarter aside, some good information there. Also looks like they're planning to sell the box set for $100; nice price for 11 albums of material. They met their goal, so I'll be really curious to see what that buys them insofar as a transfer station. They can't buy their own hardware?
Check Fennesz – Black Sea. Great album!
Quote from: Zeno Marx on March 04, 2015, 09:06:47 PMAnyone been following the Important/Bertoia Kickstarter campaign?
Just getting the email updates. I'm all for it, although I'm going to wait until the box set comes out before I start laying money down. There's some cassette of "unreleased" material available too, somehow, if you donate enough. I just hope the packaging isn't like the Eleh releases, where you almost have to damage the cd to pry it out of the damn envelope.
Vance Orchestra...
They tend to be associated with ambient, though they're more of the experimental type than tonal minimalists. Their track on Bunker Archeology is good, and the Drone Records 7" is also good. Can anyone recommend anything else from them?
Quote from: Zeno Marx on March 05, 2015, 04:05:54 AM
Vance Orchestra...
They tend to be associated with ambient, though they're more of the experimental type than tonal minimalists. Their track on Bunker Archeology is good, and the Drone Records 7" is also good. Can anyone recommend anything else from them?
Very good project. I have got several releases, and all are very interesting:
Mellow Moods / Immortal Moments
At Random Again
Vance Plays Vance
Drek
I Love Vance
Pity that they released so many works on CDRs and there aren't chances for re-issueing it on better mediums.
I love Vance Orchestra too - try Mars' new project (ad)VANCE(d) - there's a great 10" single on Drone Records called "24".
Re: Bertoia, I am definitely interested in that set, although I thought it was going to be released sooner rather than after all this Kickstarter stuff? Maybe I didn't read the fine print. Glad they are keeping the price reasonable. The last Bertoia set was way too expensive for me...I think it was over $400 and came with a large book.
I updated my ambient/drone/minimalism list: HERE (http://www.mediafire.com/view/3hofn5s5wfq4u5b/recommendations--ambient_updated_2015-06-13.txt)
BLINDING "1"
https://peacockwindowrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blinding-1-pw03
Paul Bradley, Jonathan Coleclough, Hitoshi Kojo & Colin Potter - Water Mountain 2013
This release is far other than just ambient, which is common from the likes of Kojo and Bradley. Same goes for contemporaries like Seth Nehil, MNortham, Yannick Dauby, JGrznich, and all the neo-ND-esque other cats that play in field recording/organic/ambient experimentalism. I wanted to mention this release because of the clear Coleclough contribution on Water Mountain. He has been one of the best ambienteers for nearly two decades now, though without a new release in the past three years. He's too easily forgotten because of various reasons. He's one of my favorites, and I forget him. This thing is massive, and it is going to take me a while to absorb it all. Powerful, heady stuff here.
Thisquietarmy: Exorcisms LP.
Guitar based drone recorded live in Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton. Stands out as one of my all time favorite drone/ambient/whatever records.
(https://img.discogs.com/EFjV9BSplsKWdB7dgPV-QgGIh0M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3905371-1416946352-3694.jpeg.jpg)
True Colour Of Blood – (Absence)
Guitar based drone album by Eric Kesner. This one should be more widely known. I like it a lot.
"Cathedral was composed over a two-year period almost entirely from piano samples, plus a very few of night-time crickets recorded in our wildflower garden in central Ohio, where Carol Deupree took the cover photo."
https://archive.org/details/Deupree_Cathedral
I would also recommend the label Drone Records if that isn't already obvious, particularly their "Mind-Drone" series, which is four volumes of 10 inches with 4 artists on each ten inch. Every track has been stellar from that, in my opinion.
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True Colour Of Blood – (Absence)
Guitar based drone album by Eric Kesner. This one should be more widely known. I like it a lot.
Amazing album! Recommended!
Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard - Svævninger 2013 - this is an amazing album of minimalist tonal ambient, and by the end, it takes on a strong sci-fi vibe (if you go with the CD version). A standout of recent years, and I'm willing to walk the limb and call it a new classic.
Thanks for the recommendation. It is not easy to find drone that doesn't venture too far out into other genres and yet doesn't get boring after 10 minutes.
From my side, I wholeheartedly recommend Forest Management: https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/
They have also released few albums on No Rent which I don't think show up on artist's bandcamp but can be found at https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/ for pay-what-you-want price
Can't recommend pretty much anything by Kanal Nula enough. Played with him twice this year and pretty safe to say everyone was blown away both times. Last thing I bought by him I believe is his most current, sadly sold out https://mindseyerecords.xyz/products/the-last-time-i-forget?variant=48125131555009 (https://mindseyerecords.xyz/products/the-last-time-i-forget?variant=48125131555009)
Around the same time I got that, I also picked up everything from Eostre upon a friend's recommendation. Really glad I did. "Phase 3" by Acteon is probably my favorite of the 4 currently available releases. https://eostre1.bandcamp.com/album/phase-3 (https://eostre1.bandcamp.com/album/phase-3)
I just posted a link on the bandcamp/soundcloud thread with new track from upcoming Black Wilderness album that I'm going to be releasing, definitely a project worth looking into, especially if you're into Dark Ambient/Drone stuff. I've been into this project from the very beginning, so it will be nice to be releasing the new album on pro tape soon.