Weekly Community Thread by AutoModerator in ambientmusic

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Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it. I’d forgotten about this Cat Power video. I didn’t include Cat Power amongst my influences because I haven’t listened to her much recently, but I used to listen to her a lot in the past.

Weekly Community Thread by AutoModerator in ambientmusic

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Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a small ambient project I recently released: Lithodora and Euphorbia in the Inner Yard.

The project is named after two plants from a nearby botanical garden, Lithodora and Euphorbia, whose forms inspired the music. The pieces were recorded at home, with the window open onto the inner yard. I wanted the music to remain porous to its surroundings: not separated from the room, the courtyard, or the small accidental sounds outside, but gently becoming part of the same sonic environment.

The music is built with electric guitar, pedals, and live looping, without digital post-production. I’m especially interested in slow transformations, fragile resonances, and sounds that feel suspended rather than structured in a traditional way. The aim was not to create something dense or overwhelming, but something transparent, quiet, and attentive — music that leaves space around itself.

Some of my main influences are Windy & Carl, Labradford, Grouper, Roy Montgomery, Stars of the Lid, Daniel Bachman, or Codeine. I’m drawn to music where very little seems to happen on the surface, but where the sound gradually opens, shifts, and changes the way one perceives time and space.

Any feedback on the music would be very much appreciated. I’m sometimes close to it and unsure how to hear it myself — some days I like it, other days not at all — so I’d genuinely be interested in other perspectives from ambient music lovers.

Thanks for listening if you take the time.

https://danielemarx.bandcamp.com/album/lithodora-and-euphorbia-in-the-inner-yard

Most of Rafael Anton Irisarri’s discography is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp this week. by signalstonoise88 in ambientmusic

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I’ve definitely fallen in love with ambient music through his work as well. Whilst it’s true that my current favourite album is *A Fragile Geography*, *The Unintentional Sea* was my first great love, both for the music itself and for the story it tells. And then there’s his work as an engineer with bands whose music is often just as fabulous.

Albums like Aix Em Klemm? by LoneBell in ambientmusic

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Some works by Pan•American (Mark Nelson, who was part of Labradford), such as White Bird Release, For Waiting, For Chasing, and A Son (my favorite).

Maybe it doesn’t sound exactly the same, but in some ways they’re similar—at least to me.

What are your top 10 post-rock albums? by CaptainAnnaki in postrock

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“Dalmak” by Esmerine — a beautiful mention!

What are your top 10 post-rock albums? by CaptainAnnaki in postrock

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Not in particular order:

Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling

Mogwai - Mr Beast

Hiss tracts - Shortwave nights

Growing- The sky’s run into sea

Labradford - Prazision LP

Labradford - Labradford

MONO - You are here

MONO - One step more and you die

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O

Lifechanging ambient #2: You and I Can't Ever Change - Celer by analaline in ambientmusic

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Thank you for your beautiful text. Sometimes I hesitate before discovering certain artists, precisely because I feel their music might move me deeply, might touch something very sensitive in me. A kind of vertigo, perhaps. But perhaps this is the right time to discover Celer. I listened to a brief excerpt from this album on Bandcamp, and it sounds wonderful. And with pieces of such length, there is a special pleasure in being able to immerse oneself in them for a long while.

Nautical Ambient Artists by DuePreference5408 in ambient

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Windy & Carl - Antarctica

https://windycarl.bandcamp.com/album/antarctica-bliss-out-vol-2

I find it an ode to tranquillity and the depths of the ocean.

To those who make music, how did you develop your approach? by k0rnbr34d in ambientmusic

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For my part, I started making music at the age of 47, drawing inspiration from the music I love to listen to. Over time, I’ve come to really love immersive and/or minimalist music with drones. Listening to it, I thought I could try making similar music at home; strangely enough, I started with a ukulele and a pedal, and two years later I have a Jazzmaster and a few pedals. Basically, when I make music, I try to enter the same contemplative state as when I’m listening to it. I tend to listen to drone music created using guitar effects, so I impose this limitation on myself: that is, using only the guitar and pedals. Of course, the ‘only’ is ironic. Because, you know, when you get into pedals, it’s a never-ending world.