"Midsummer --
I walk about with my staff.
Old farmers spot me
And call me over for a drink.
We sit in the fields
using leaves for plates.
Pleasantly drunk and so happy
I drift off peacefully
Sprawled out on a paddy bank.
How can I possibly sleep
This moonlit evening?
Come, my friends,
Let’s sing and dance
All night long.
Stretched out,
Tipsy,
Under the vast sky:
Splendid dreams
Beneath the cherry blossoms.
Wild roses,
Plucked from fields
Full of croaking frogs:
Float them in your wine
And enjoy every minute!"
Download Sacred Flowers by Apollo Vermouth for free from Bandcamp.
Dark ambient drone artist Dirty Knobs is set to release a double vinyl album called A Disenchanted Snake but only if it reaches its Kickstarter funded goal of $10,000 in 26 days time. Quite a difficult feat I can ashore you. I urge you to go support it somehow if you can at Kickstarter here.
Dark experimental ambient drone with industrial overtones... this is the new "Heads In Dust" album from Australia's Hollow Press. These guys always create amazing records so dont hestitate to download this one, free from the Wood And Wire Records Bandcamp.
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by Raju Arara, a throbbing drone filled soundscape, glittering with promised beats and inferred melody. It was available to buy on tape from Hare Akedod a home of "Limited Edition Cassettes and Electro-Acoustic Improvisation Rituals" where trades are welcome. But its sold out. You can however download it for free and you really should if you like this kind of thing.
KVLT by KVLT is a fantastic ambient album, 5 tracks of pure perfect minimalised crystal sound, majestic piano inflections and glacial droning dirged out atmospherics to die for. Beautiful like a National Geographic photo of a crocus pushing through newborn snow that has been scruffed up and lost down the back of a dusty Victorian cabinet.
The Hollow Press label has put out a great 32 track remix compilation which you can download for free from their Bandcamp. Check out their info about it:
"Friends of Hollow Press have contributed 32 incredible remixes on this free Bandcamp release. This compilation acts as a project from which artists can connect with other artists, and collaborate with creative minds from around the world.
Included with this download is a PDF which features website links (Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Facebook) to all of the artists featured on this collection. With these links you can find out more about them, purchase their music, or even contact them for a collaboration.
To everyone involved, I thank you immensely for your time and love."
Its a really good label with some awesome artists on its roster and this album is a great little endeavour. Definitely worth a listen.
It starts so slow you'll think your speakers aren't working but then it gets going and grinds and howls its way into the room, slow, spiralling and ancient. Caustic ambient drone for late winter afternoons. This is a two part single collaboration between two artists, Fake Blood Universe and Apollo Vermouth and its called Blackwash. Download for free at Bandcamp here.
Arbee is from Quebec and creates truly ambient soundscapes, quiet, minimal and considered. Sometimes a loose beat filters its way into a track but often its a world of spaced beauty and free floating noise. Check out this artists Bandcamp for a huge range of quality records to download.
Aural Sects is a net label releasing a never ending stream of high quality releases, its almost to hard to keep up with all their content, this album "Virescit Vulnere Virtus" is from a brilliant progressive/ambient-Black Metal band called Wolcnum. Six tracks of killer atmospherics, epic wall of sound grinding synths and doom laden vocals. Download it for free from Bandcamp now.
This is a split EP on the Chapel Yard label out of Yorkshire featuring the bands Paper Dollhouse and Raining Leaf. Atmospheric ambient drone and loose experimental noise. Quiet and beautiful at times and a good remedy from worrying you're not doing enough, stop, listen and envelope the sound. Download for free from Bandcamp.
High Tide At Gold Beach by Golden Brown is a five track EP of "new age" electronic psychedelic ambient jams, all quiet, subtle, slow, highly listen-able and very mellow.
Download it for free from Bandcamp.
Breezer EP by Swing Delux, a three track down tempo ambient EP with a bit of a soulful feel. Available to download for free from Bandcamp.
Soft beautiful down tempo with mild RnB vibe, all floating and ambient. Blam, quality!
Swing Delux - "Triple Water EP" go download it from Bandcamp for free.
Here's some new tracks from ARPEGGI8 in collaboration with fellow Seapunk artist Whitely. Nice chilled out spacey ambient pieces, like the soundtrack to some epic n64 underwater platform game. Both tracks can be downloaded for free from the Soundcloud players below.
Smörgåsbord (3 Flavors) by Super Buddies is an eclectic sounding album ranging between great mid-fi post punk, ambient soundscapes and slick downbeat. That's because its a three way split EP from How Scandinavian, Donny Yen and Andrew Henry. Free to download from Bandcamp it describes itself as "Like eating from a greasy Smörgåsbord with your eyes closed." Have a listen.
Bijou describes herself as "Dream Faerie, I make music while living in the forest. She is a girl from Iceland who makes ethereal drifting spider web music, quite half sung/spoken songs all quiet and magical like a more gothic Boards Of Canada. Minimal, slow and atmospheric, she also collaborates widely with a whole slew of glo-fi, ambient artists, her sleepy whispering vocal style fitting perfectly. She also records soundscapes and acapella vocal tracks, all of which are up on her Soundcloud and available to download and play with.
She's also made a blinding mixtape, like really really good! Plus I've heard of very few of the artists on it. Check it out:
Luminous Debris by Pigeon Breeders is a beautiful ambient noise album based aroud internal and external themes. While this blog like to go hard a lot of the time it also likes to float around in an ambient drifting dreamscape of nature and beauty. This Pigeon Breeders album facilitates the experience immensely. Download it all for free from the Soundcloud player below.
Circular Ruins by Congregations is an album of experimental ambient noise and post rock awe-and-wonder, full of nature sounds, drifting distant electronic rumbles, scattered vocal stretches and dark glistening feedback intonations. the album comes with the instruction to "listen to at night" and I imagine the would be the ideal time, hopefully also while walking alone through a woodland or muddy field your eyes barely picking out the landscape around you. Go download this album from Bandcamp for "name your price".
Seedge is a 21-year-old producer from Montreal who make experimental electro-acoustic music along the lines of Warp's more chilled out prog artists there are shades of Boards Of Canada or Burial in there. He releases a lot of EPs, four this year so far.
His latest the "Saturates" EP is a spacey chillwavian little number while earlier releases (like "Shorter Moods which was mashed together using an iphone or "The Killer Kisser Series, Part One" which is more glitchy and trip hop in feel) are more beat driven and experimental. He has 14 EPs up his Bandcamp go check some of them out!
