Michael Waters returns

Michael Waters returned to the Duncan Garage Showroom last week... another memorable concert. This time it was extra special, because it was an incredibly balmy evening in Duncan, the first of the year really, and there were just a handful of us in there gathered around the stage. Michael engaged us during the break. We talked about what part music takes in our lives. Michael made a comment that will stick with me for a long time: You are a success if you can do what you love to do. I like that, to make the standard for success personal, and to reject any other standard.

For an encore, Michael played some music from his upcoming CD. He gave me some tracks to share:

Mind Bandits
Farmers Cathedral

You'll find more to listen to at Ladybird Music.

Michael Sandler

Michael Sandler: archive.org myspace
Farther From Home - archive.org release
ambient, drones

Spring is here. Time for another reset. I'll be returning to San Francisco soon, after spending a winter on Vancouver Island. It's always an adjustment switching homes.

I scanned drone on archive.org -- lots to listen to there. Today's reset is an hour-long guitar drone piece:

Michael Sandler: Farther From Home

New Releases from Archaic Horizon

There are a few new releases at Archaic Horizon since I last looked... lovely drones and beautiful careful ambient listening from Sora Shima:

Sora Shima - Distancing EP: Monsoon

Hills West spins lovely jazzy dreamy sounds on this track:

Hills West - Glare: Sonsun

Michael Waters

I saw Michael Waters at the Duncan Garage Showroom tonight... authentic Vancouver Island talent, performed on a stage adorned with driftwood and candle lanterns. His music takes you somewhere really good. Here are some samples from his latest project Acoustic Psychedelic Chill:

Anaconda King
Velvet Letters 3

Verian Thomas - video

Verian Thomas releases the Massive follow up to Miniatures. Get the music at the Negative Sound Institute net label. The Fireflys video reminds me a little of Picnic at Hanging Rock...

Droog - Name Your Poison

I'm encountering a lot of cool ambient music these days. Droog's "Name Your Poison" is a first release for Norbu, a Belgrade net label.

drencrom
synthemesc

Verian Thomas

A little more mind clearing for the new year, this is a beautiful release, Minatures by Verian Thomas, released on the Negative Sound Institute net label. Memories of childhood, "pristine in their imperfection", encoded here in beautiful ambient tracks made with a guitar. Listen well... follow the track titles, or create new titles from your own memories. It's hard to pick just two to sample here...

The Drop From The Tree Is Forgetting To Fly

Those Happy Few Minutes

Thomas also supplies the sample tracks for Those Happy Few Minutes, which you can reweave to your own magic.

My mother is pretty sick right now in the hospital -- she's 83 -- she's never even had a CD player -- but today I'm leaving my headphones and mp3 player with her -- she's pretty uncomfortable. I hope she'll find comfort listening to her favorite childhood memories.

The Houston Drone Concern

The new year is here -- good time for a reset -- here's a start...

The Houston Drone Concern: Variation 3

Negative Sound Institute

Dava Sobel was featured recently on indieish CC track of the day. His music is released by Negative Sound Institute, a net label with a catalog that offers a variety of ambient treats:

Dava Sobel: Berzelii Park
Closet Ballerinas: Roaring Silence
Gurdonark: Galveston Island in December
Thomas Nunnally Trio: After Image (2)

limbus: Best of Breed

The album cover art draws you in... after the apocalypse we will be dead -- but the machines won't notice. This album sounds like it was entirely pasted together with found sounds -- very well done, with a good amount of industrial rhythms and drones mixed in.

Listen: limbus-remix
Listen: s1

iadcell - limbus dark ambient industrial on Jamendo

a pschedelic activation portal

Bulgarian net label, Ouim.net, lots of gold to mine there, everything is on a Creative Commons license.

Sample from Samdelia: Endless.

There's also a sister site ouim.org -- the descriptions are in Bulgarian (I assume) -- but more to listen to there.

Aeolian wind harp

Let the breeze decide what you hear with an harmonic wind harp.

Listen to a sample.

Heard at the Audio Archive

Internet Archive > Audio

Unit 21 > September - October (dronology) sample

Remora > Ambient Drones For One Guitar (dronology) sample

Fred Yarm > Far Afield compilation (phonography dronology) sample