Sunday, March 3, 2024

February 2024




and always more...

K. Nogami & Circa Alto – Oyasumi (A Quiet Room)
Ducks Ltd. – Harm’s Way (Carpark)
Tibslc – Chronicles Of Greeeches (Cime)
Gregory Uhlmann – Small Day (Colorfield)
Lemon Quartet – Lemon Law (Dead Currencies)
The Children’s Hour – Going Home (Drag City)
Andrew Pekler “Love Among The Crickets” b/w “Waterway Rhythm” (Duophonic)
Romance – Endless Love (Ecstatic)
Bardo Pond – Volume 9 (Fire)
The Telescopes – Growing Eyes Become String (Fuzz Club)
Wet Tuna/ Dunza – In The Running 3 (I Heart Noise)
The Humble Bee & Offthesky – Here In, Absence (IIKKI)
Kali Malone – All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
Medicine – On The Bed (Laner Archival Service)
Loving – Any Light (Last Gang)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Souvenirs (Mississippi)
MJ Guider – Youth and Beauty (Modemain)
Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution (Moikai)
Karen Vogt – Waterlog (Nite Hive)
Nate Scheible – Or Valleys And (Outside Time)
Flowertown – Tourist Language (Paisley Shirt)
David Grubbs & Liam Keenan – Your Music Encountered In A Dream (Room 40)
Blue Lake - Sun Arcs (Remixes) (self-released)
The Bures Band “The Pilot” b/w “A New Day” (self-released)
Four Tet “Daydream Repeat” (self-released)
Kaja – Mrng Trx (self-released)
MV & EE – RATS (Whiff Of A Jinn-A+ Roll Lands Vol. One) (self-released)
Oval – Now/ Never/ Whenever Vol. 4 (self-released)
Et Attendant Ana - Magical Lies (Sub Pop)
J Mascis – What Do We Do Now (Sub Pop)
Omni – Souvenir (Sub Pop)
C. Diab – Imerro (Tonal Union)
Phill Niblock – Looking For Daniel (Unsounds)
Elkhorn & Mike Gangloff – Shackamaxon Concert (vhf)

January 2024:

Water Shrew Trio – Following the Lichen Into the Brush (Drongo)
Pye Corner Audio – Acid 1 (Emotional Response)
Pye Corner Audio – Acid 2 (Emotional Response)
Billow Observatory – Soliton (Felte)
Andrew Tasselmyer – Where Substance Meets Emptiness (Mystery Circles)
Four Tet “Loved” (self-released)

December 2023:

Michael Nau – Accompany (Karma Chief)
Bahia Mansa – Patagonia EP (self-released)
Somnambulists – Ascending Planes (Zum Audio)

November 2023:

Cerca – Spirit Witness (self-released)

October 2023:

The Bures Band – Birds Nest (Cardinal Fuzz/ Echodelick/ We Here & Now)
M. – Grow In Private (Ro Pax 2)
Reuber – Rueckschau (Staubgold)

September 2023:

Ulrika Spacek – The Tier Drop 7” (Tough Love)

March 2023:

April Magazine – Wesley’s Convertible Tape For the South (self-released)
Ulrika Spacek – Compact Trauma (Tough Love)

June 2022:

The Umbrellas – Write It In The Sky (Slumberland)

February 2022:

Kitty Craft – Mew (1996 - 2004) (Disc Drive)
ML Wah – Mirrored Night (Flower Room)


Saturday, February 3, 2024

january ambient 2024




and more:

Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator (12xU)
Leslee Smucker - Breathing Landscape (Beacon Sound)
Otto Taimela – A Life (Cudighi)
Astrid Sonne – Great Doubt (Escho)
Naemi – Tenebre (Exael)
Jan Jelinek & Arthur Clees – Live In Luxembourg, December 3rd, 2021 (Faitiche)
Nailah Hunter – Lovegaze (Fat Possum)
Stefano Pilia, Alessandra Novaga, Adrian Utley – Spiralis Aurea Trio (Maple Death)
Frunk29 – Sequentia (Not Not Fun)
Phil Geraldi – AM/FM USA (Not Not Fun)
Tegu – Forest Hills (Not Not Fun)
Bolts Of Melody – Film Noir (Outer Battery)
Swervedriver – 99th Dream (Outer Battery)
Cowboy Sadness – Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 (People Teeth)
Dancefloor Classics - Vol. 5 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay – Hide Behind The Silence (Rajaton)
KILN “Flox.Atrium” (self-released)
Skee Mask – C (self-released)
Mol Sullivan – Goose (self-released)
Oval – Now/ Never/ Whenever Vol. 3 (self-released)
Jonathan Sielaff – Coral City (Siela Tapes)
The Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
Vanishing Twin – Life Drummer 7” (Sub Pop Singles Club)
Microstoria – Init Ding + _Snd (Thrill Jockey)
Patrick Holland – Infra (Verdicchio Music Publishing)

December 2023:

Iu Takahaski – Sense / Margin (Laaps)
Mike Cooper & Andrew Tuttle – One Volt Per One Ampere (Room40)

November 2023:

The Sundae Painters – Sundae Painters (Flying Nun)
Mo Dotti “For Anyone and You” b/w “Late August Early September” (self-released)
Tara Clerkin Trio – On The Turning Ground (World Of Echo)

October 2023:

Matt Lajoie – Lilac From The Valley (Flower Room)
Kevin Richard Martin – Black (Intercranial)
San Kazakgascar – Too Many People (Lather)
White Poppy – Sound Of Blue (Not Not Fun)

September 2023:

Medicine – Silences (Laner Archival Service)
Rosie Carr – Yew (Toothpaste Worldwide)
Tengger – Tengger (We Are Busy Bodies)

July 2023:

Jeanines – Each Day (Where It’s At Is Where You Are/ Slumberland)

June 2023:

Decisive Pink – Ticket To Fame (Fire)

May 2023:

U SCO – Catchin’ Heat (self-released)

February 2023:

Medicine - Her Highness (premiere mélange) (Laner Archival Service)

December 2022:

Baby Bong – Baby Bong (Exael)
Skee Mask – B (self-released)

October 2022:

Dedalus Ensemble – Performing Brian Eno: Discreet Music/ Music For Airports/ Thursday Afternoon (Sub Rosa)

September 2022:

Jeanines – Latest Light b/w After All (Market Square)

April 2022:

Ricardo Villalobos & Samuel Rohrer – Microgestures (Arjunamusic)

Monday, January 15, 2024

december ambient 2023



along with some other older titles to check out:

December 2023:

Joseph Branciforte & Theo Beckmann – LP2 (greyfade 006)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – We Can’t All Be Heroes (self-released)

November 2023:

Misha Panfilov – Atlantico (Miraaz)
Pole – Tempus Remixes (Mute)

October 2023:

ML Buch – Suntub (15 Love)
a.s.o. – a.s.o. remixed (low lying)
Kacey Johansing – Year Away (Night Bloom)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Dull Panic & Sunday Gloom (self-released)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Murder, Oral Sex & Cigarettes (self-released)

September 2023:

Big Thief – Vampire Empire b/w Born For Loving You (4AD)
Lemon Quartet – ArtsFest (Last Resort)
KMRU – Dissolution Grip (OFNOT)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Build Love (self-released)
The Replacements – Tim (Let It Bleed) (Sire/ Rhino)

August 2023:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Inner Richmond (self-released)

July 2023:

Roman Flügel – Lucky Charm (Running Back)

June 2023:

Rrose – Please Touch (Eaux)
a.s.o. – a.s.o. (low lying)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Unloveable Losers (self-released)

May 2023:

Bahia Mansa & Emho – Sonic Dialogue #2 (Sonic Dialogue)

April 2023:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – You Know You’re Burning Someone (self-released)
Four Tet “Three Drums” (Text)

March 2023:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland/ Tough Love)

December 2022:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Dust In The Path Of Love (self-released)
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Mountain Lake Park (Tough Love)

October 2022:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – They Only Wanted Your Soul (Slumberland/ Tough Love)

July 2022:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Still Clouds at Noon (self-released)

June 2022:

Roman Flügel – Yes People (Rekids)

April 2022:

Ghost Power – Ghost Power (Duophonic)

March 2022:

Widowspeak – The Jacket (Captured Tracks)

February 2022:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage (self-released)

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Gibbs' Picks Vol. 2, 2021 redux



A distillation of tracks from RxGibbs' "Best Of 2021" Spotify playlist -- sequenced to flow naturally between dream-pop, indie-rock, cosmopolitan pop, ambient, laid-back electronica and other uncategorizable styles -- with a handful of unmissable covers thrown in. Still fresh! Listen on...





and a short list of new, December 2023, discoveries and a few prior:

Christopher Bissonnette - In A Second Floor Window (12k 100)
Edena Gardens – Dens (El Paraiso)
Roméo Poirier & The Exposures aka Jan Jelinek – Love/ Hate (Faitiche)
Akhira Sano - In Front Of (Otoroku 009)

November 2023:

Alexia Avina – In The Pantheon Of Decay (Lost Map)

June 2023:

Not Waving – The Place I’ve Been Missing (Ecstatic)

Sunday, December 3, 2023

November ambient 2023



and more:

Akhira Sano – Far More Decentralized (33-33)
Guentner/ Spieth – Overlay (Affin Ltd)
MJ Lenderman – And The Wind (Live and Loose!) (Anti-, Dear Life)
Anagrams – Blue Voices (Balmat)
Wax Machine – The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On (Batov)
Sam Dunscombe – Two Forests (Black Truffle)
Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn – Fantastic Light (Cosmic Range)
Bahía Mansa - Mallki (Cyclical Dreams)
Rainy Miller/ Space Afrika – Grisaille (Fixed Abode)
David Holmes ft. Raven Violet – Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly)
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang – Azure (Ideologic Organ)
The Smashing Times – This Sporting Life (K)
Blank Gloss - Grab (Kompakt)
Pop Ambient 2024 (Kompakt)
Niecy Blues – Exit Simulation (Kranky 240)
Skyphone – Oscilla (Lost Tribe Sound)
VA – Synthetic Bird Music (Mappa)
Skyway Man – Flight Of The Long Distance Healer (Mama Bird)
Wurld Series – The Giant’s Lawn (Melted Ice Cream/ Meritorio)
First Tone – 1 (Modemain)
Roy Werner – Imagine My Surprise (Moon Glyph)
Other Joe - A Cat Can Look At A King (OST)
Pauline Anna Strom – Echoes, Spaces, Lines (Rvng Intl.)
M. Geddes Gengras – Dual Optics (self-released)
Mo Dotti – For Anyone and You (self-released)
Our Dear Friend, The Medic – The Inaccessible Solitude Of The Sky (self-released)
Thomas Brinkmann – Quila/ Romy (self-released)
Jules Reidy – Trances (Shelter Press 147)
Animal Hospital – Shelf Life (Sipsman)
Better Corners – Continuous Miracles Vol. 2 (The State51 Conspiracy)
Earth - Earth 2.23 - Special Lower Frequency Mix (Sub Pop 1603)
Hotline TNT – Cartwheel (Third Man)
Daniel Bachman – When The Roses Come Again (Three Lobed)
Tuluum Shimmering – The Mountains Are Singing and The Roses Are Singing (Tuluum Shimmering)
Kurt Vile - Back to Moon Beach (Verve)
Shackleton – The Scandal of Time (Woe To the Septic Heart)

October 2023:

Yolabmi – Hydra (29 Speedway)
Quicksails – Surface (Hausa Mountain)
Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata – Mirage (Important)
Forest Swords – Bolted (Ninja Tune)
KMRU – Stupor (Other Power)
Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem – Midnight Letter (Past Inside the Present)
Maria BC – Spike Field (Sacred Bones)

September 2023:

J and The Woolen Stars – Personal Problems… (Daisart)
Jason Calhoun – Small Circle (Dear Life)
Colin Miller – Haw Creek (Ruination)

July 2023:

Bedroom Eyes – Turned Away (Ala Carte)
Animal Hospital “Ok, Kevin” (self-released)

June 2023:

Animal Hospital “Found”

May 2023:

Jeffrey Silverstein – Western Sky Music (Arrowhawk)

April 2023:

Josephine Foster – Domestic Sphere (Fire)
Akhira Sano – Shadow’s Praise (IIKKI)

October 2022:

The Smashing Times – Bloom (Meritorio)

February 2022:

Andrew Tasselmyer – Limits (Laaps)

Sunday, November 5, 2023

October 2023



and more:

October 2023:

Mike Reed – The Separatist Party (Astral Spirits/ We Jazz)
The Feelies – Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground (Bar/None)
Dave Easley – Ballads (Big Ego)
Aaron Dooley – The International Disassociation Of (Centripetal Force)
Helena Deland – Goodnight Summerland (Chivi Chivi)
The Inward Circles - Before We Lie Down in Darknesse (Corbel Stone Press 10)
BCMC – Foreign Smokes (Drag City 866)
Mike Donovan – Meets The Mighty Flashlight (Drag City)
The Bures Band - BirdSG (Andrew Pekler) – For Lovers Only/ Rain Suite (Faitiche)
Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire)
The Vacant Lots – Interiors (Fuzz Club)
Ilyas Ahmed – A Dream Of Another (Geographic North 73)
Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International)
American Analog Set – For Forever (Hometown Fantasy 04) Lee Gamble – Models (Hyperdub)
Tele Novella – Poet’s Tooth (Kill Rock Stars 705)
Bill Seaman/ Tim Diagram/ Stephen Spera – The World Was Turning Before (Laaps)
Jake Acosta – Retrospector (Lake Paradise 20)
Arp – The Enormous Room (Longform Editions 133)
SUSS & Andrew Tuttle – Rising (Longform Editions 136)
Red Pants – Not Quite There Yet (Meritorio)
Gregg Kowalsky – Eso Es (Mexican Summer 264)
L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
Observatories – Frost Forms (Quiet Details)
Dancefloor Classics - Dancefloor Classics Vol.4 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay - Hide Behind The Silence EP 4 (Rajaton)
Salmon Graveyard – Salmon Graveyard (Ramble Records)
Half Stack – Sitting Pretty (Royal Oakie)
Sun June – Bad Dream Jaguar (Run For Cover)
Blue Ocean - Fertile State (Slumberland 274)
Lightheaded – Good Good Great! (Slumberland)
The Laughing Chimes – A Promise To Keep (Slumberland)
Lost Girls – Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Soundscape 1: Surround (Temporal Drift/ Misawa Home, 1986)
Hyperdawn – Steady (Them There)

September 2023:

Tom James Scott – Nightshade (Alter)
Monokle – Ultraflowers (Constellation Tatsu)
Seawind Of Battery & ragenap – Chaos Life Preserver (Eidertown)
Moniek Darge/ Vanessa Rossetto – Dream Soundies (Erstwhile)
NHK yx Koyxen - Climb Downhill 1 (Hyperdub)
Duffy x Uhlmann – Doubles (Orindal)
Ng’at Maler – Pearl House (self-released)

July 2023:

NHK yx Koyxen - Climb Downhill 2 (Bruk)

April 2023:

Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream (No Quarter)
The Soundcarriers – Celeste (2010, Ubiquity)

February 2023:

The Ducks – Invitation (feat. Ratboys & Mo Troper) (Carpark)

January 2023:

Jake Acosta – Genius Or Not (Blorpus)
Observatories – Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (IIKKI 19)

July 2022:

Flowertown – Half Yesterday (Paisley Shirt)

Sunday, October 1, 2023

September 2023



and more:

Illuha – Tobira (12k 2058)
Zimoun – ModularGuitarFields I-VI (12k 2057)
Will Samson – Harp Swells (12k 2059)
Ohio – Drift Of Autumn (12k 3035)
Lewsberg – Out and About (12xU)
Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – New Earth Seed (Arrowhawk)
Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe)
Continuity – Continuity (B.A.A.D.M.)
Modern Nature – No Fixed Point In Space (Bella Union)
Catherine Christer Hennix – Solo for Tamburium (Blank Forms)
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark)
Wilco – Cousin (dBpm)
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)
Tirzah – trip9love…??? (Domino 514)
CV & JAB – Klima (Editions Basilic)
blackbody_radiation – Ultra-Materials (Faitiche)
Matthew Halsall – An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
Félicia Atkinson/ Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (GRM Portraits)
Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, & Robbie Avenaim – Placelessness (Ideologic Organ)
Channelers – Generation/ Harvest (Inner Islands 90)
Golden Brown – Wide Ranging Riders (Inner Islands)
Sawyer G. – It’ll Be Gone For a Little While (Inner Islands)
VA – Total 23 (Kompakt)
Medicine – Silences (Laner Archival Service)
Tu M' - Monochromes Vol . 2 (Line 142)
Soccer Mommy – Karaoke Night (Loma Vista)
Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge)
The Small Intestines – Hide In Time (Meritorio)
Gonubie – Signals At Both Ears (Metron)
M. Sage & Zander Raymond – Parayellowgram (Moon Glyph 136)
Setting – Shone A Rainbow Light On (Paradise Of Bachelors)
Purelink – Signs (Peak Oil)
Blue Dolphin – Robert’s Lafitte (Post Present Medium)
Blonde Redhead – Sit Down For Dinner (Section1)
Karen Vogt – I’ve Been Waiting For The Longest Time (Extended Version) (self-released)
Yumi Zouma – KPR (self-released)
The Laughing Chimes – Laurel Heights (Slumberland)
Tony Jay – Perfect Worlds (Slumberland)
Andy Bell & Masal – Hallogallo (Sonic Cathedral)
Deeper – Careful! (Sub Pop)
Sally Anne Morgan – Carrying (Thrill Jockey 597)
Natalia Beylis – Mermaids (Touch Sensitive)
Melenas – Ahoras (Trouble In Mind)
Six Organs Of Admittance – Sleep Tones (Hermit Hut 2020, Vin Du Select Qualitite 32)
Pauline Hogstrand – Áhkká (Warm Winters)
Serwed – IV (West Mineral Ltd. 86)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Severed Belonging (Yellow Electric)

August 2023:

Mike Nigro – Argyle Place Park (Oxtail)
Madder Rose – No One Gets Hurt Ever (Trome)

May 2022:

Zimoun – Guitar Studies I-III (Room40)