Inner Spaces: Drone, Ambient, Experimental, etc.

[tragabigzanda]

[psychobain]

For me, the music on the record is about connecting or reconciling polarities. The electronics with the acoustic instruments, the natural world with the human world, and the big ideas of life with the personal and intimate. This is a dynamic I started to explore in my 2004 record The Blue Notebooks, and the new project shares many of that album's concerns; in a way this record is another look at the themes of the earlier work, but from the perspective of our world and our lives in 2024.[3]

[BurtReynolds]

[chuck taylor]

Hakobune - A Distant Loss

It's been my work soundtrack for the past week.

[lvc]

new Mark McGuire track, new album in February

I'm chiming in a dozen years later to say that I truly with this was the roid-enhanced Mark McGwire coming down off the rage and infamy to just make some zone-out music and pull the thorns out of his soul.

[washing machine]

Call this classical/ambient, I guess? String and horn swells with the sound of a train station high in the mix.

[washing machine]

This demands your attention. Radigue may in fact be the lineage for much of the noise/drone segment of my listening career, though I'm only just discovering her.

Immediate similarities that come to mind are the humming amps in Sonic Youth's "Contre le Sexism" or what Jim O'Rourke managed to get from Wilco during the second half of "Less Than You Think".

Set aside an hour with headphones.

First part of the 'Trilogie de la Mort'.

Inspired by the root text of the 'Bardo Thödol' (Tibetan 'Book of the Dead'), this piece refers to the six intermediate states of consciousness that constitute the existential continuity of being:

1. Kyene - Naissance (Birth)

2. Milam - Rêve

(Dream)

3. Samten - Contemplation-Méditation

(Contemplation-Meditation)

4. Chikaï - Mort

(Death)

5. Chönye - Claire lumière (Bright light)

6. Sippaï - Traversée et retour (Crossing and Return)"