Sigur Rós - Valtari 2012

its sad as hell, and im sad as hell, and thats all the science i have to drop.

01. Ég anda
02. Ekki múkk
03. Varúð
04. Rembihnútur
05. Dauðalogn
06. Varðeldur
07. Valtari
08. Fjögur píanó

http://depositfiles.com/files/c6van61m7

Aidan Baker/thisquietarmy - A Picture of A Picture 2009

one of my favorite sleep albums. compared to say, sleep research facility, it is endlessly lively and nuanced. not nearly as much as aidan baker/tim hecker album, which sounds a bit like gentleman losers, but it stays very fluid within ambient drone music. the signature aidan baker washed-out tone + distortion shows up in each song, but it's all very gentle and...well, uplifting. i think i put some of these on a cd for my mom. actually no, i gave her carrizozo, but its a similar tone.

THAT'S RIGHT, MY MOM PRACTICALLY LISTENS TO NADJA

prior to this i guess they (baker + thisquietarmy) released 'orange', which i am trying to find now.

also this album apparently charted at #1 in montreal when it came out. where TQA is from, and where it was recorded, but still. also i had no idea that thisquietarmy is also parallel lines. i am really sick of endlessly productive drone dudes. and grouper. and marina rosenfeld (get ready). and any transsexual and endlessly productive drone artists i have forgotten.

01.Imagistic Continuity
02.Loss Of Perspective
03.Negative Space
04.Horizon Line

http://www.mediafire.com/?zhyfymy90jm

Korouva - Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette (slow)

since 33 minutes doesnt quite do it justice, here's what paulstretch churned out.

3.51x stretched (although the algorithm seems a little loose), shifted lower 6%, and with a mild tonal filter that cuts what the program thought was 'noise'. the results are pretty sleepy.

bon soir, and good luck. in bed with you is now 20 minutes long. the whole thing is 106 minutes.

1. slowclub
2. dne eht ton
3. buddhist bell
4. in bed with you
5. the rain song
6. tide
7. wheat fields
8. der verlovene
9. part II
10. the martyr

http://www.mediafire.com/?zyde61ao6i13fnp

The Gentleman Losers - Dustland 2009

apparently this reached a lot more people than i thought it did. two finnish brothers. this isnt the proper cover, i guess, but i like it more.

descriptions are hard. it has just...this fucking sickening washed-out tone (and in the way i mean it, that is an extremely high compliment) that sounds like earth - hex as made by amphetamines and keyboards (not that it even remotely sounds like amphetamines or keyboards, but it occupies a space near to hex but chunky, quicker, and less riff-based). its probably drone under a lot of umbrellas, but very segmented, like tim hecker before he started making songs with 'part 1, 2, 3' (additional research suggests that there was never a tim hecker that didnt segment songs). only quieter than tim hecker. more like a soundtrack, but to what i cant exactly say...

the song that pinpointed the sound for me was midnight of the garden trees. very tor lundvall, but without the city, and requisite night sound. it could be anywhere. it's a fucking incredible sleeping album, although just that alone makes it shoot up through the ranks for me.

dustland is a great title, but it's much more lush than you might imagine. it's too fluid, even with the pronounced lack of continuation between tracks that is common with this sound (which is why i threw in 'post-rock'), and much too powerful, to just be dust.

1. Honey Bunch
2. Silver Water Ripples
3. The Echoing Green
4. Ballad of Sparrow Young
5. Bonetown Boys
6. Oblivion’s Tide
7. Lullaby of Dustland
8. Midnight of the Garden Trees
9. Farandole
10. Spider Lily
11. Wind in Black Trees
12. Pebble Beach

http://www.mediafire.com/?vgydmzinzzl

Velvet Cacoon - Northsuite 2005

instead of my since-deleted rumination on 9/11 and the rapidly decaying remnants of my worldview, heres a fitting and poorly-encoded version of northsuite. this is one of the few albums that has a moment that i think i hit exactly while listening to. but its a long, pointless description, so just listen to winterglow and stare at the cover art and see what happens.



music for falling buildings, to say the least.

1. Northsuite 11:40

2. Winterglow 8:47

3. Fire Bloomed from Frost 4:45

4. Chapelflames 6:42

5. Salts & Ashes 9:08

6. Bloodscents 9:15

7. Fire Bloomed from Frost (demo) 5:18

8. Dieselflame Novapyre 1892 (demo) 6:11



http://www.mediafire.com/?mrqjzq12m5g

Tor Lundvall - Empty City 2006

i thought this was up already. one of the very few albums that sounds exactly like its title. some songs feel like looking down on a city from the highest building and seeing no motion aside from driver-less trains, some feel like gazing up through storm drains. the hints of melody (clearing sky) dont really feel like hope, more like an insomniac's lids closing after a long empty night.



either way, most of the spirit in this album is the hum of streetlights and the urban heat island, devoid of life.

1		Scrap Yard	3:56
2		Platform #3	3:12
3		Running Late	3:10
4		Night Work	2:30
5		Early Hours	3:53
6		Grey Water	4:05
7		Buildings And Rain	2:58
8		Wires	3:02
9		Empty City	2:59
10		Open Window	3:51
11		2:00 AM	3:26
12		Clearing Sky	2:55

http://www.mediafire.com/?nkzy1hjtnin

Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze 2007

sleep research facility is the best-named musical experiment i have ever experienced.

if you are going to listen to this and not be on tranquilizers and not be in bed, you had better turn it up, because it is next to silence. like, right fucking next to silence. if you have trouble sleeping, this will do the trick.

hail antarctica, hail polar drone.

1. 79ºS 83ºW
2. 72ºS 49ºE
3. 82ºS 62ºE
4. 86ºS 115ºW
5. 80ºS 96ºE


http://www.mediafire.com/?tumojfnymmm

Port Royal - Flares 2005

one of my favorite ambidrone albums, one of the few things ive ever bought through iTunes, before i noticed that my speakers were too shit to differentiate between 128 and 320.

fuck you, for a great many things, iTunes.

id love to review this, but please, please read this instead. i dont know why they make blogs free if im just going to steal music and swear and not use punctuation. yet here we are. so read the immeasurably superior version of what i think.

which is in turn boosted from a different site.


http://rapidshare.com/#!download|315cg|143762871|port-royal_-_Flares.rar|127090

David Tagg - Wind Blown Guitar 2009

HOLY SHIT IT'S DECEMBER





SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

almost forgot. i like this album for, and it sounds kind of weird to say i like a ambidrone album for its lack of repetition, its lack of repetition. so im going to tag it as progressive, too. because it progresses. there are no loopz, a la last days or 36. just slow, slow noodles. quiet noodles. noodles that ask nothing from you, just waiting out the end times in their bowl.

plus family afgan uses a sound that last days uses on sea where i first heard it: its like a really choppy tremolo grinding wobble. i love that fucking sound. its 630am. ramnaths alarm is going off at full volume, like every night. i hate that fucking alarm.



707am update: it just occurred to me that "wind-blown guitar" would be a dieselharp-esque experiment in tonality, and i really hope that's what created this album


1. 10:53 (1:02)
2. Family Afghan (6:36)
3. Nautical Dusk (10:13)
4. Picked In Air (3:28)
5. A Glimpse Of The Valley (11:52)
6. Wind Blown Guitar (13:08)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XV6NDQT8

36 - Tape Series: Blue 2010

go back to sleep.


1. Inside (2:56AM Mix)
2. The Box (Closed Mix)
3. Forever (Universe Mix)
4. After Time
5. Glint
6. Ghostfields (Midnight Mix)
7. Far From Home
8. Darkroom Distortion (Distant Mix)
9. Siren (Seduced Mix)
10. Somewhere

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/rjc1c7sv6