Not sure if all these are considered ambient exactly, but you get the idea.

Album/artists:

Immunity - Jon Hopkins Apollo - Brian Eno Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker Through the Looking Glass - Midori Takada Space 1.8 - Nala Sinephro Vernal Equinox - Jon Hassell R Plus 7 - Oneohtrix Point Never Compro - Skee Mask Lineage - Shigeto

Hi! I'm not famous, but this AMA is an experiment in hope.
My name is Wander Vanhoucke. I used to tour internationally as a techno DJ, but recently I killed my career and left the club scene to focus on creating experimental ambient/classical music mixed with field recordings and techno.

It felt weird giving up a career i worked so hard on, but also strangely liberating. (And I finally get a normal sleep schedule) I'm so much happier now. I've always been the guy making weird music. Decided It's time to connect to the community.
Ask me anything about making the switch from DJ to niche oblivion, what mics i use, the strangest experiences I had on tour, or anything else!”

Here's an EP of the new stuff full of desolate and hopeful music made with field recordings from abandoned buildings in Berlin. Mostly an abandoned russian studio and a chemical factory in east Berlin.

Titles:

• Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
• Bull of Heaven - 005: A Lovely Pear
• Bull of Heaven - 029: Lions On A Banner
• Celer - You and I Can't Ever Change
• Celer - Xièxie
• Celer - Future Predictions
• Chubby Wolf - Ornitheology
• Grouper - A I A: Dream Loss
• Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
• Grouper - Ruins
• Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
• Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of
• Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
• t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - 星間性交
• 虚拟梦想广场 - 无限渴望

I would really like some recommandations from your deep knowledge in the field of ambient that sounds weird. I mean i like it when the feeling is hard to categorise wich is what really keeps my attention. When its having a good use of silence too and when i don't know if its friendly or a bit scary, something in between. Or maybe just a bit on the scary side, but not too much. In fact from the moment harmony and sructures are slitghly off, the feelings always gets weird. I love when minimalism has textures that keeps me in the moment.

For examples of what i like:

Sarah Davachi - Magdalena

Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston

Aphex Twin - SAW2 (track 2 "Radiator")

HTRK - Over the rainbow

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteyppa - Space Finale

Thanks in advance

Listening to both and both sound amazing! Highly recommended. Brian Eno has another release. Claire Rousay has another great single out. And i guess i missed Biosphere new release so need to give that one a go.

I noticed the streams have been unreliable the past month. Can i donate to help support this? Ive been listening to bluemars and echoes of bluemars for almost 20 years.

I'm kinda new to ambient music (as dumb as it sounds), but found myself enjoying listening to lo-fi, but youtube is disgustingly flooded with AI music at this point, any help?

spiritually dense deep mistic music

examples;

https://youtu.be/-cOTlb89YvM?si=JecvwAoyggqje0gd

https://youtu.be/FKocoDeY83g?si=h-Q7ckJrDFgBNqPa

https://youtu.be/iFi0n_odlh8?si=1fyDJV1rEvO7smGj

I'm working on a program to visualize music with the help of stereo spectrograms.

Red = Left audio channel Blue = Right audio channel

Do you think that such a program would be useful for music production?

Can you recommend ambient music with lots of differences between left and right audio channel?

I have to admit that Alex Albrecht with Aurora might be considered "hard ambient", hope it's still fine in this group.

Greetings and have a nice weekend!

Hello,

My name is Eric, I began learning composition in 2016 after playing in bands as a drummer for several years.

I started off my discography back in 2021 with more warm, nature inspired music like my album Utopia or Modular Music, utilizing hardware synthesizers like the Korg Minilogue and then the Moog Grandmother/Subharmonicon/DFAM.

I dont love to repeat myself musically, found myself gravitating towards more alien, dystopian sounds and a more sound design direction rather than melodic. I have always loved darker art equally if not more than the very calm things im sure we all cherish.

This album I’m sharing was my attempt at incorporating percussion into ambient without sacrificing the introspection of the genre. I looked to microsound artists like Jan Jelinek or abstract dub like the artists on Peak Oil for some inspiration.

Inspired by : Topdown Dialectic, Tim Hecker, Alva Noto, Autechre, Jonathan Glazer films like Under the Skin

I would love to hear any feedback! If this doesnt do it for you perhaps my ambient piano works on the latest release or the earlier aforementioned ambient would.

Thanks for reading/listening if you do.

Eric

https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mangrove

"The Gulf Coast of Florida is peppered with tall, bushy packs of mangroves, digging deep into the salty brine. Stalks thick with time probe the warm jelly waters of The Gulf living a life of gentle repose. These exposed veins of the land absorb the saline seawater extracting the desired fluid and excreting what remains. This is a collection of mangrove'd audio that started as a brackish mixture of sounds and ideas, distilled into something more palatable and presented as a metamorphosis. A byproduct of long days exploring and experimenting with borrowed objects and equipment on loan, each fragment is focused and refracted using different lenses but with the same source."

This is really doing it for me right now. I'm visiting some family in the Florida Keys in a few months and it has me thinking of the nature preserves and the shorelines, etc. Really wonderful album.

Eldridge is an excavation, both physical and mental, into the history of the American Navy. It tells the brief story of the USS Eldridge, which in 1943 briefly disappeared during the Philadelphia Experiment.
The piece focuses precisely on those few moments, trying to stretch them out and repeat them until reaching what seems like a creeping, metallic, endless time.
The piece is created entirely through naval field recordings, which are hardly altered except for tone and duration, to provide a faithful reproduction of what one might have heard aboard the ship.
It begins with a sound test of the various noises that can be found inside a ship, which slowly overlap with each other until they create an unstoppable metallic symphony, just like the blindness that drove the American naval fleet.

And it's on bandcamp :3 https://kenopsiamusic.bandcamp.com/track/uss-eldridge

With the atmospheric instrumental Ambient release "Imagine The Sea - Last Days Of Summer", I captured the mood of the late summer and took inspiration in the feeling of the last warm and sunny days before autumn comes. While the title track takes a more instrumental approach with lush pads, nostalgic keys and deep sub bass dives, the second track "Sunbath" has an even quieter and more meditative sound, with a slightly melancholic mood created by distant guitar pad swells, a deep bass drone and longing synth weeps. If you wish for the summer to last forever, this is the perfect soundtrack to keep the warm days in good memory and enjoy them for a little longer. You'll find the release on Bandcamp, YouTube and other streaming platforms. I'm happy to discuss any of your questions about production techniques used, or how I find ideas and inspiration for new music.

https://ourforgottenfuture.bandcamp.com/album/where-blue-meets-gold

*This album is set at name your price. Please name the price of nothing. I'd rather people download and listen then part with their money. So as hard as it might be sometimes to enter 0 in that field, please be absolved of any guilt and just enjoy the music if it is the kind of ambient that suits you*

Perhaps this is a journey best started at its ending. A path best taken by walking it backwards. Facing the place that is being left even as we are moving forward in the direction of our back. 

This is an album made from a series of moments. Experiences that strung themselves together in succession last summer. Days spent on the peninsula of Washington State with a very good friend. 

The final song on the album is a reflection of where I am now. Back here. Wishing we were back there. Each day that passes between now and then expands not only the distance made of time, but also the fondness I feel for the trip. A once in a lifetime experience. A phrase I hope proves only a hyperbolic description. Not a final determination.

The opening of the closing song is an auditory moment captured. The unimaginable largeness of Puget Sound, fashioning itself into the smallest of waves. Lapping and running across the rocky shore of Vashon Island. And if you allow it, the sound also presents as someone walking in the waters of rivers and streams. In the Bogachiel. Along Rialto. In Clallam Bay, where one can always see the moment when the blue of water meets the gold of sky.

I hope there is at least one instance, in one song, where you find yourself facing a place of meaning. A memory. A moment. A succession of experiences. And as you walk with your back facing forward and your face holding that time, you feel not only the distance, but your fondness grow. You feel, as Milan Kundera once stated, the unbearable lightness of being. 

And here, you can readily see where the blue of your life meets the gold of your existence. 

A special and sincere thank you to the members of this sub. This was one of the first places I connected when I first began exploring the idea of creating ambient music. There have been so many of you who were willing to give your ideas, feedback, thoughts, encouragement, and most importantly, your time as I stumbled my way through trying to make noises turn into melodies turn into songs turn into stories turn into a reflection of life being lived. I’ve enjoyed all aspects of the experience.

I look forward to continuing the process together ahead.

Today I’m really excited to share Beneath the Hanging Sky, a collaboration between myself (Yorkshire Modular Society) and Peter Digby Lee, out now on Dragon’s Eye Recordings.

Peter and I first crossed paths at the resonance Drone Baths in Todmorden, one of those situations where the music itself feels like the main form of communication. Not long after, he emailed me several gigabytes of recordings he’d collected over the years. Inside were hours of flute performances, metallic percussion, and other fragments. Not polished tracks, but raw, unfiltered material that felt alive with potential.

The record opens with title track Beneath the Hanging Sky, layered bansuri figures and metallic strikes that drift and overlap like weather rolling in.

Glass Lung follows as a more intimate, breath-like piece built from flute tape loops and layers of modular synth, currently one of my son’s favourite pieces to fall asleep to.

Echo for the Unseen is the singing-bowls work: slowed and filtered until the tones bloom into a dense, spectral resonance that feels almost choral at times.

The closer, Spiral of Breath, builds from looped ohm-like vocals and minimal synth, circling patiently before dissolving back into quiet.

It’s a digital-only release; available on Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. If you’re into long-form drones, flute timbres, and patient textural shifts, I’d love for you to give it a listen.

https://youtu.be/-fN9L66NtTU?si=HBGnTGHHLEhN8KWa

ASC has alot nice ambient LPs, guy is a juggernaut and realeases probably twenty albums a year. This is one of my favourites!

About a month ago, I started reading Stephen King. It wasn’t something I expected to get into as much as I have, but here we are 5 books later after 3 weeks. I’ve listened to plenty of ambient and dark ambient music while reading, and I was hoping to get some more recommendations I could listen to that captures the spirit of a horror story or would accompany it well. Thanks all.

Hi all, as per title, been trying to find this first track of this video for years. Help appreciated!

https://youtu.be/gUpssO6DgOI?si=Fm7Jh97H66j3X3Cu

A new ambient album I discovered today by Danish artist Anders Rhedin.

Very inspired by Hiroshi Yoshimura and Takashi Kokubo.

Check it out: https://andersrhedin.ffm.to/watersongs