Easily the most beautiful thing I've heard in quite some time. From Tom Auty of Ann Arbor, who records ambient loops as Sad Souls. Fans of Geotic will certainly appreciate this. Follow Sad Souls on bandcamp, SoundCloud and Twitter.
Brand new untitled piano essay from Diamond Messages. It's plenty chill, but it's not chillwave. Or, if there is a wave, it's in the way these majestic mediatations curl and fold into one another like raindrops running off deep green leaves. Part of a compilation celebrating Spontaneous Rhythm's first birthday.
I am remiss to have not posted Moon Gangs immediately upon hearing "Sea" on 20jazzfunkgreats, and further to have not posted it in the interim. I've been listening to it A LOT. At least once a day, but usually much more. Via car stereo, computer speakers, headphones and phone speakers. Paranoid waves of steely cool sound, placated by warmer oscillations of a sun-burnt hue. Like the slip of sun that banishes the shiver of night and sets in motion the scurry of a summer's day. Ambient, kosmische, meditative, New Age, synth, etc. Free download below; extremely limited run of 50 cassettes from Where to Now?
The Animal Collective fan in me will likely always remember Lisbon as the place Panda Bear picked to record Person Pitch and to live with his wife and child. But now I can add Pedro Magina and his music to my list of Lisbon-based associations. Magina's Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five tape is out now on Not Not Fun Records, and though his music is nowhere near the sunburned, tropic-tinged sounds of Person Pitch, it manages to be just as meditative and every bit as excellent. Britt of Not Not Fun was nice enough to send over "Miyagi," and its undulating synthesizers have been transporting me ever since. Fans of the spaced-out sounds of Megazord, Oneohtrix Point Never and Zonotope should enjoy it. Meanwhile, the other songs streaming at Magina's MySpace sound a bit more subdued. Regardless, these are blissfully ambient songs that shimmer and soar even as they're soused in Lisbon's coastal waters. Buy Magina's Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five tape from Not Not Fun.
Oxford/South London's Glass Animals shared "Drips" with me (and 90+ others) via SoundCloud. The song's aqueous, echoing key tones immediately captured my attention. Then came the distinctively British-sounding, smooth-as-silk vocals, and suddenly "Drips" was the most hauntingly beautiful thing I'd heard all week. Sounds a bit like Morrissey writing some ambient New Age while cooped up in a cave. Creepy yet gorgeous. Listen to "Drips" below; get more Glass Animals at their SoundCloud.
Evan Abeele of dream-pop trio Memoryhouse justed posted a new solo EP at his bandcamp. You can stream his Lineage EP below and then support Abeele by buying a download for $5 (or more). This is gorgeous-sounding ambient/classical/meditative/New Age-type stuff, perfect for your next chill-out session. Fans of Ambient-era Eno will know and love it at first listen.
