droid Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3594 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascdi Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 It’s oh-so-trendy to be into it now I guess, but all of the Light in the Attic reissues mentioned in this piece are spectacularly good. Very happy to see those mentioned, absolutely everybody should hear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Its a decent overview. Reynolds has a long standing interest in all things ambient. His experimental music blog has put me onto a ton of stuff down through the years. http://hardlybaked.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 3 hours ago, droid said: Its a decent overview. Reynolds has a long standing interest in all things ambient. His experimental music blog has put me onto a ton of stuff down through the years. http://hardlybaked.blogspot.com/ Thank you for this.. I love these kind of music sources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I love ambient ambient music, probably my favorite genre, but I fucking hate anything classified as "new age". Just loathe to see the two associated so strongly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
species8472 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 article seems more focused on 'new age'. a good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Its a bit silly to dislike music based on an arbitrary application of a label. There's a ton of brilliant new age. Music from that tradition has as much of a claim to being ambient music as anything else, certainly more so than the avant roots that are normally cited for the genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
species8472 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 i'm not saying otherwise, just saying the article focused on more of the 'new age' classified ambient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Yeah, thats fine, but who cares what people call it? I would have felt the same a decade or so ago, but the rehabilitation of new age is one of the best things to happen to ambient in 20 years. Earnest, sincere, often very deep music intended to evoke positive emotions in listeners - a necessary counterpoint to the experimental, dissonant and avant strains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 New age, Constance Demby Iasos Trans Music Consort And so much more.... a lot of them hated the new age genre name but this is what journalists do, they classify and name genres. Britain hates the IDM classification but we need names to reference stuff, braindance just didn't cut it. I wish we could put new age, ambient, and drone into one category. The individual artists will always be what truly matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Reynolds usually writes well. It”s a good overview of provenance, connections, how different worlds converge/coalesce in sound design. it’s not like you get brass-band ambient (or could u?), so technology, culture, social norms, individuals, tropes, or moods that feature in the aural worlds synth-realms create, runs into the hall of mirrors of how you extrapolate or interpret meaning from sound, an entire universe humanity has been trying to figure out for as long as life has had ears. So many releases intersect around what this range of artists do though, so any author will still bump into the meaning/interpretation + boil down a summary title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 jon hassell is brass-band ambient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 2 hours ago, cwmbrancity said: it’s not like you get brass-band ambient (or could u?), so technology, culture, social norms, individuals, tropes, or moods that feature in the aural worlds synth-realms create, runs into the hall of mirrors of how you extrapolate or interpret meaning from sound, an entire universe humanity has been trying to figure out for as long as life has had ears. what the fuck kind of grammar is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 2 hours ago, cwmbrancity said: Reynolds usually writes well. It”s a good overview of provenance, connections, how different worlds converge/coalesce in sound design. it’s not like you get brass-band ambient (or could u?), so technology, culture, social norms, individuals, tropes, or moods that feature in the aural worlds synth-realms create, runs into the hall of mirrors of how you extrapolate or interpret meaning from sound, an entire universe humanity has been trying to figure out for as long as life has had ears. So many releases intersect around what this range of artists do though, so any author will still bump into the meaning/interpretation + boil down a summary title. hey you found your thesaurus! ‘grats! Now you just need to find that elusive Style Guide. You’re doing great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" - le corbusier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, prdctvsm said: "pee pee poop poo" - Arthur Schopenhauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I'm not saying ambient needs to be dark, harsh or dissonant. It can be positive, up-lifting, relaxing or whatever. But for me "new age" is like the opposite of sincerity and spirituality. You just take the most superficial elements of spiritual and religious traditions, package them as some kind of feel-good consumer product and sell it to people who feel empty despite their material wealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 that is an amazing argument posted in usenet group rec.music.ambient, 1993 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManjuShri Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 3 hours ago, cwmbrancity said: it’s not like you get brass-band ambient (or could u?) Colin Stetson is the name that immediately springs to mind wrt brass ambient/drone due to his circular breathing and neck/throat pickup technique. Would be grateful for any recs from other people in this idea too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, Salvatorin said: that is an amazing argument posted in usenet group rec.music.ambient, 1993 Thank you, I was feeling very nineties already when I saw the thread title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 14 minutes ago, MIXL2 said: y do yall weird discord sleuths come posting all at the same time p cringe tbqh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 It's actually a quite funny subject because it has such a nostalgic value for someone who grew up in the nineties. Also funny that they mention Robert Anton Wilson who was very much anti-New Age even though he was pretty well associated with the whole thing. He would pronounce new age newage, so that it would rhyme with sewage. Ah ah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 43 minutes ago, ManjuShri said: Colin Stetson is the name that immediately springs to mind wrt brass ambient/drone due to his circular breathing and neck/throat pickup technique. Would be grateful for any recs from other people in this idea too. Every record with a trombone is brilliant, its one of the ur-ambient instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 usual suspects derail a thread @hello spiral coming from someone who goes for the David Mitchell x roll-ups x Jeff Lebowski fusion image, knock yourself out champ , but if you don't mind let's keep it to the music maaaaaaaaaaaaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Salvatorin said: jon hassell is brass-band ambient true, i was thinking northern English brass bands jamming through a minimoog for some reason, Blue Period is a personal favourite JH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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