Post Rock/ Ambient Thread

[Timmy666]

my ambient music myspace with cool movies to go with the songs:

www.myspace.com/wakinginthedream

[Zevaka]

do u think i know u good enough?

come on dont act as you dont know me. were best friends.

I thought i was Zevaka's best interweb friend

my best friend was Hydro82

[Zevaka]

Ok, since this band is becoming one of my favorite post-rock bands (remember the fact, i don't like post-rock at all), i decided to share a bit with others. So that you could get awesomeness of this band, too

ok, let's go

   
Hammock - Kenotic [Hammock Music, 2005] V0 Lame 3.97



Artist: Hammock
Title: Kenotic
Label: Hammock Music
Catalogue: HMK001CD
Date: 2005-03-25
Country: US
Style: Post Rock / Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. Before The Celebration 2:03
2. The Air Between Us 3:43
3. Through A Glass Darkly 5:19
4. Blankets Of Night 7:59
5. Winter Light 4:12
6. Miles To Go Before Sleep 5:16
7. Wish 5:20
8. Overcast/Sorrow 3:58
9. Glacial 1:46
10. Kenotic 4:15
11. Stars In The Rearview Mirror 7:04
12. You May Emerge From This More Dead Than Alive 1:13
13. What Heaven Allows 4:24
14. The Silence 5:20
15. Dawn Begins To Creep 4:11
16. Rising Tide 4:04

Hammock's debut, Kenotic, is in every way a contender for classic status in the shoegazing genre. Expertly merging ambient guitar drone (think Bowery Electric), electronic beats (think Boards of Canada), and live instrumentation (the violin on "Blankets of Night"). Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson craft a 70-minute sound sculpture, a paean to the beauty inherent in the drone. By turns smooth and expansive, then chiming and circular, Kenotic has excellent sequencing, with moods of tension and relaxation blending together into a perfect evocation of an afternoon drifting in a vast ocean, looking skyward. The music flows in a manner evoking a slow-moving river on a winter day. A notable exception to this is the uptempo (for Hammock) "Wish," falling at the mid-point of the album, which focuses your attention and re-energizes it. The album art and song titles, ("Overcast/Sorrow" "Stars in the Rearview Mirror." "The Silence"), along with the mood of the music suggest isolation in nature, but their message is not one of sadness, but of timeless, serene joy. The few people that will find this record will cherish it as something special, similar to One Mile North's Glass Wars. ~ James Mason, All Music Guide

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Hammock - Stranded Under Endless Sky EP [Hammock Music, 2005] V0 Lame 3.97



Artist: Hammock
Title: Stranded Under Endless Sky
Label: Hammock Music
Catalogue: HMK002CD
Date: 2005
Country: US
Style: Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. Stranded Under Endless Sky 5:00
2. Birds Flying In Sequence 7:47
3. Always Wishing You Were Somewhere Else 3:02
4. An Empty Field 9:40

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Hammock - The Sleepover Series (Volume 1) [Hammock Music, 2005] V2 Lame 3.98a



Label:   Hammock Music
Catalog#:   HMK003CD
Format:   CD, Album
Country:   US
Released:   Nov 2005
Genre:   Electronic
Style:   Abstract, Ambient

Tracklisting:
1           Moon Through The Branches (4:22)
2         Empty Page/Blue Sky (4:14)
3         Dropping Off (15:07)
4         Just Before Breathing (5:54)
5         Still Point (24:33)
6         No Stopping The Sea (5:49)

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Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Ech [Darla Records, 2006] V0 Lame 3.97



Artist: Hammock
Title: Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo
Label: Darla Records
Catalogue: DRL 176
Date: 2006
Country: US
Style: Post Rock / Shoegazer / Ethereal / Ambient

Tracklisting:
1. I Can Almost See You 4:13
2. Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo 5:01
3. Losing You To You 6:22
4. When The Sky Pours Down Like A Fountain 5:22
5. The House Where We Grew Up 4:16
6. God Send Us A Signal 4:33
7. Clouds Cover The Stars 1:28
8. Floating Away In Every Direction 6:41
9. Take A Drink From My Hands 4:59
10. Startle The Heavens (Lament) 4:19
11. More Dead Than Alive (Get Away From The Medicine) 1:11
12. Disappear Like The Morning... 4:46
13. ...Like Starlight Into Day 3:54
14. Shipwrecked (Flat On Your Back) 3:58
15. Chorus Of Trees 2:11
16. Passing Away 5:07
17. Will You Ever Love Yourself? 5:47
18. Sparkle And Fade 1:12


Hammock is a duo that, in the manner of a lot of modern duos, doesn't sound like one, piling on the ethereal guitars and synths like Dagwood piles on the cold cuts. At least I think those are synths. Some of them could be guitars-- it's the kind of record where things blend, and you only start to notice the constituent parts after a few listens. Even then, extricating that lovely, wordless female voice that sometimes colors the texture from the guitars is nearly impossible. She's the silver lining on the cloud of vibrating strings.

The owner of that voice, Christine Glass Byrd, also isn't a member of the duo-- she and cellist Matt Slocum are brought in at strategic points to enrich the astral spaces created by Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson. At 75 minutes and 18 songs, it could be charged that the album is overlong, especially given its general uniformity, but that would also miss the point-- this is meant to be a contrail in a solid blue sky, a smear of sound that goes oddly well with any number of emotional states. You could call it ambient music, for the most part, but it obviously draws many of its cues from non-ambient sources like Sigur Rós and Slowdive-- the distant sound of the drums in particular reminds me of Souvlaki.

Three vocal tracks (not counting those wordless female interjections) rear up from the mostly instrumental landscape, somewhat like the starched, posed jackets set on the barren salt flat in the cover art, but these are only slightly more direct than what surrounds them, with minimal lyrics delivered in a soft falsetto that melts into the slides guitars, e-bows, and other glass-like noises around it.

Raising Your Voice... isn't especially innovative; it is, however, an unassuming record that speaks to all those things in our lives that aren't tangible, yet feel nearly within our grasp, and the song titles almost read like a list of the things the music could mean: "I Can Almost See You," "When the Sky Pours Down Like a Fountain", "The House Where We Grew Up", "Floating Away in Every Direction", "Startle the Heavens", "Sparkle & Fade..." Those phrases are basically what it sounds like.

-Joe Tangari, January 26, 2007

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[deepest_ocean]

Ok, since this band is becoming one of my favorite post-rock bands (remember the fact, i don't like post-rock at all), i decided to share a bit with others. So that you could get awesomeness of this band, too

nice post, thanks. i just checked it out on myspace and it sounds really good. have to try out one of those albums later.

[Deadradio]

good stuff, thanks again Z

[bright lights, big city]

DEERHUNTER - CRYPTOGRAMS

http://rapidshare.com/files/15133161/deerhunter-cryptograms.zip

[bright lights, big city]

anyone hear of/enjoy Biosphere??
http://www.myspace.com/biosphereofficial
i just got into them, "Substrata" is incredible but i can't find any other albums

[lostpilot]

Zevaka,
I really enjoyed Hammock's 'Raising Your Voice..', which album should I try next?

[Zevaka]

Kenotic is their best, fo sho

[Velvet Tongue]

shouldn't we make a new thread for requests, and leave the established "discussion" thread where it was?

juuuuust saying...

[Zevaka]

i repeat we should return all to General Music Discussion board and make it closed instead of having two boards which must be kept together

[sleepiswrong]

http://www.myspace.com/ghastlycitysleep

this band is amazing. very sigur ros/godspeed-y. check it out

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WL1NCDP2
(not my upload)

[bright lights, big city]

i dig

[Fireal1222]

http://www.myspace.com/ghastlycitysleep

this band is amazing. very sigur ros/godspeed-y. check it out

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WL1NCDP2
(not my upload)

since i was listening to godspeed yesterday. ill give this a shot

[neurotic]

"these monsters" are great. if you haven't listened to them, please do.
These Monsters - These Monsters EP
Tracklist:
1. intro
2. nice day to start a war
3. still that dust cloud lies
4. night of the storm
5. dust and ivy

These Monsters - CD single
Tracklist:
1. to swing back and forth with a steady uninturrupted rhythm
2. mort pour rien

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[Alvar]

i wanna

[deepest_ocean]

http://justinkbroadrick.blogspot.com/ just read from justins blog about Jesu/Envy split coming up. can't wait for that. a fucking cool combination made me nearly shit on myself aeae

[Zevaka]

yes, it's blowing my mind

[bright lights, big city]

http://justinkbroadrick.blogspot.com/ just read from justins blog about Jesu/Envy split coming up. can't wait for that. a fucking cool combination made me nearly shit on myself aeae

yep. joygasm.

[Starz]

Jacaszek - Treny (2008)



1. Rytm To Nieśmiertelność
2. Lament
3. Orzula
4. Żal
5. Powoli
6. Taniec
7. O Ma Załości
8. Tren IV
9. Walc
10. Martwa cisza
11. Rytm To Nieśmiertelność II

Marsen Jules, Arvo Part, Zbigniew Preisner's soundtrack work for Krzysztof Kieslowski, Deaf Center, Max Richter, Erik Satie, Alberto Iglesias - if you are familiar and in awe of any or all of these names then this latest album on the exceptional Miasmah label will no doubt end up on your essential listening pile for the foreseeable future. Jacaszek has managed with "Treny" to assemble an album so heart-stoppingly beautiful and personal that we've been stunned into silence for its entire 55 minute duration. With string arrangements provided courtesy of Stefan Wesolowski, the foundations of the album are set with Cello and Violin painting fragile outlines coloured by subtle electronic manipulations, harp, piano and reduced, haunting operatic voices. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Michael Jacaszek doesn't make use of any samples, with everything on the album assembled by the musicians on hand (notably Maja Sieminska, Anja Smiszek-Wesolowska and Wesolowski and Jcaszek themselves) - and the subtle grandeur of the album is almost impossible to take in over one sitting, even if the impact is absolutely immediate. This is the kind of album that you just cannot believe a bijou imprint like Miasmah is able to lay its hands on - such is the scale of its success that it feels like a hugely important piece of work, far outweighing almost anything else we've heard in the modern classical field these last eighteen months. Cinematic without ever feeling contrived, "Treny" is surely one of the most impressive, mystical and astonishing albums of the year - we just cannot imagine that anyone listening to it will fail to be utterly bowled over and taken in - listen to the previews and you'll get an idea of just what we mean. Deaf Center's Miasmah label has slowly and carefully assembled a life-changing catalogue of releases designed to enrich and expand our musical horizons, and with "Treny" they have just delivered their most complete and compelling musical statement to date. We absolutely implore you to check this album out, one of the year's most important releases thus far. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.

http://rapidshare.com/files/102027369/Jacaszek-Treny-2008.zip