Ambient Thread

[Zeno Marx]

It's already been a very good year for ambient.  This month alone, new albums by both Lustmord and Voice of Eye, both being great; but also both album covers leave a lot to be desired.  VoE isn't known for their cover art, so it almost becomes a game of sorts.  The Lustmord cover...color block it or something...find a Rothko ripoff artist...looks like a poor metal album cover.

[Manhog_84]

There's also 10 page topic for Dark Ambient. Should these threads be combined? https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=283.0

That being said, I noticed there's no mention of Otavan Veret on this forum. From Kaarna (Circle of Dawn, Tervahäät etc.) and another member XVL. S/T album already released ten years ago, but I just bought from the recent Tervahäät gig. There's a ritualistic and mystical vibe as can be expected. It's not really cosmic ambient, even though it wakes up images of starry autumnal skies and vastness of space. Beautiful and sublime. The whole thing can be listened at Cyclic Law Bandcamp page: https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Another "space themed" album I have listened is Lousberg's The Darkest Universe. https://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/the-darkest-universe It's a complete opposite to Otavan Veret. Here we are plunged to depressive inner space. There's also beauty and certain grandiosity, so it's not boring wallowing in misery. The Death of Humanity EP is even better.

[Decrepitude]

I have been listening to this compilation of Dirk Serries' guitar ambient a lot lately when relaxing. Very much textbook ambient but very rich and deep sounds.

https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/streams-of-consciousness-compiled

[V.T.R]

^Need to check that out.

This has been my go to guitar ambient album for years:

https://rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/wave-field-remastered

Pretty much the same description for this one as above mentioned haha!

[Zeno Marx]

The new Sequences album is also very good.  Not purely ambient, but that's how I'm associating it.

https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/album/a-gua-viva

[Spectral_Hiss]

"Two or three rapidly repeating notes, like tinkling bells... a child's voice, indistinct, footsteps, birds... sound effects, the life of a small village perhaps; human scenes. A plane engine, bells in the distance... then a first distinct piece: a synthetic guitar chord and percussion, whistles. Then again two obsessively repeating notes, slower than at the beginning. A bell repeating the same note, as if marking a stage in a ritual. Indefinable breaths that come and go, like the sea, like the wind, like a breath: the world is alive. A man's voice, in English, whispering incomprehensible words, which we guess are intimate. Other chopped up voices, interspersed, that repeat themselves until they lose all meaning; they are only reassuring sound textures; the voice of a benevolent old man. Flutes – is it a party?"

Interviews are readable on the website Pays Fantôme

www.paysfantome.fr/p/interview-tertia-die-francais.html

www.paysfantome.fr/p/interview-tertia-die-english.html

https://lesnouvellesprimitivites.bandcamp.com/album/nouvelle-glise

[DrRichard]

An article / interview (I wrote) about a somewhat 20 years old lo-fi ambient demo tape and the story behind - communal life, meditation, black metal and house obsession.

https://www.paysfantome.fr/p/the-house-protects-dreamer-english.html

[Cranial Blast]

I had gave Jonbenet in Valhalla V/A on Hospital Productions another listen to this weekend and I feel like this compilation equally belongs to the ambient world. Old Tower has a very solid ambient track on this comp and so does Prurient with the last concluding track, which seems like a good precursor for whats become of Prurient as of lately.