Ambient / Noise / Lowercase / Field Recordings / etc.

Spiderland77 said:
Brian Eno.
Apollo.
SIGNED.
Nuff said, go get it:
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Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks (Extended Edition) - LPx2

Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks was written, produced and performed by Brian Eno together with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois. The music was originally recorded in 1983 for a landmark feature-length documentary, For All Mankind, directed by American journalist, film director and...
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Is there a US version of this or just UK?

Edit: yes - https://roughtrade.com/us/music/bri...-atmospheres-and-soundtracks-extended-edition
 
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Just UK as far as I know; go for it,..feels like they are flying off the shelves. Approx. only 100 pieces get signed by the master himself :-)
 
Highly recommended.

Rupert Clervaux - After Masterpieces
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After Masterpieces, by Rupert Clervaux

6 track album
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On May 24th, experimental musician Rupert Clervaux releases his debut solo album ‘After Masterpieces’ on Whities.
The record features guest performances from saxophonist and trumpet player Eben Bull, singer Sian Ahern, and renowned experimental artist Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman) whose inimitable voice ushers us into the record’s opening prelude, and out of its redemptive final piece.

The design by Alex McCullough and Kia Tasbihgou illustrates a 1:1 scale etched steel plate; the industrially machined casing through which an abstract landscape by the late Brian McMinn is visible. The printed sleeve is a reproduction of this steel ‘breach artefact’, bound with custom produced elastic band denoting the tracklist, strapping in place an accompanying poetry chapbook to it’s outer.

‘After Masterpieces’ sets six recitals of Rupert’s poetry in unique, unpredictable and expansive musical scenery. The enigmatic and densely compacted texts, reworked and gently honed throughout the album’s slow creation, find an aerial perspective from which a lifetime of reading, listening and thinking is carefully re-mapped. The broad thematic scope takes in aesthetics, ancient mythologies, the origins of language and music, epistemology and ecology––to name just a few––all of which remain tightly intertwined, resistant to abstraction, and imbued with a sense of inquisitive ambiguity which treats all certainty with suspicion: the listener is invited to find their own threads, draw their own conclusions and think their own thoughts––as Anna Homler once aptly said of her own work, “…it’s not didactic, it’s poetic.”

Initially deriving its impetus from the mood and rhythm of the words, the album’s music utilises a wide-array of performance and production techniques. Clervaux draws on his full range of musical interests, creating long-form pieces that at turns support the recitals and then lead the way for the instrumental swathes within and between them. The sounds of ‘After Masterpieces’ revolve through the melodic ambience of ‘Her Fingers of Pink Light’; the dark electronics and multi-layered samples of ‘In Shadowlands of Like and Likeness’; the tentative interplay of piano and voice on ‘Damper and Drum’; and the riff-like patterned percussion and free improvisation of ‘Make Nature Speak.’ As the LP draws to a close, Homler and Bull join Rupert on ‘L’amore che Muove il Sole’—a sprawling anti-hymn, echoing the structure of ‘The Divine Comedy’, which discovers, in place of Dante’s heavenly paradise, a fragile optimism for positive change in the wreckage of failed grand narratives.

Additional thanks go to Noel Summerville, James Marrs, Laura Lies In and Ju Canon for all their work on this project.
 
This dropped a few months ago, but I still return to it. One of my faves, Celer, who I saw got big props a page back, inspired by another one of my faves, Godflesh. Inspired may be a stretch, but I'm sure Will could explain where Godflesh fits in to the compisition. No vinyl as of yet...

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Plays Godflesh, by Celer

1 track album
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New Eluvium album is out today!!!!!!

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Pianoworks, by Eluvium

25 track album
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My expectations for this album were extremely high, and I wouldn't say I am over-whelmed, just adequately whelmed. After a first listen the new songs sound around the same tempo and pace which is fine, but without paying attention to the music it doesn't do too much. On second listen it was much better. These songs sound Erik Satie-esque. If you didn't tell me they were Eluvium and I were to listen to them blind, my guess would be they were long lost Erik Satie pieces. Completely unexpected sound for Eluvium.

The reworked songs are decent as well, Hymn #1, Caroling, The Well Meaning Professor are all improved. Radio Ballet especially is miles better in this new version. That Copia version always was so "pointed" and "sharp" considering it is one of his most popular songs.
 
Dtknuckles said:
Americans hate noise
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I mean, you're not wrong, the UK/Europe has slightly more refined taste as far as classical/drone/ambient, etc.

Whenever classical musicians tour, Erased Tapes artists especially, they only ever play Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Prague, etc because they can get an audience for those shows and that type of music. European cities are also significantly closer together so it is easier for them to play several all in a row.

Last month Nils Frahm came not only near me but in my exact city I nearly freaked out. That never happens. It's either NYC, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, etc. never a regional tour like most other regular rock bands. The show obviously didn't sell out but there was a good crowd and Nils was amazing.
 
wokeupnew said:
I mean, you're not wrong, the UK/Europe has slightly more refined taste as far as classical/drone/ambient, etc.

Whenever classical musicians tour, Erased Tapes artists especially, they only ever play Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Prague, etc because they can get an audience for those shows and that type of music. European cities are also significantly closer together so it is easier for them to play several all in a row.

Last month Nils Frahm came not only near me but in my exact city I nearly freaked out. That never happens. It's either NYC, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, etc. never a regional tour like most other regular rock bands. The show obviously didn't sell out but there was a good crowd and Nils was amazing.
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I was sad when I missed out on Nils coming to LA. The only thing that made it better was that it was at an expensive venue, Walt Disney Concert Hall. I saw Youssou N'Dour there just before we had our son. One last night out.
 
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