Crammers, filers of taxes, lend me your ears

[petronia]

Full album uploads, as promised. Ambient, downtempo stuff; the sort of music that hangs in the air like incense, soothes jangled nerves and doesn't impede productivity. XD

Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land [1982]: basically I owe Brian Eno a drink for making this album. For a period of three months last year I abused it like a wired lab rat at the happy lever. I used it as a sedative on planes and in terminal lounges (the fact that airports do not AFAIK actually play Music for Airports is one of the mundane tragedies of modern existence). I lay in grassy fields and spaced out to it, with the volume dialed down so I could hear the birds and insects. I wrote my blind_go fic to it (this probably explains a lot). Truthfully speaking the overall moodscape of the thing is more eerie than soothing - think Lea Monde before the Dark went completely kerblonkers - so maybe I find it a great sleep aid because I'm weird that way. Who knows. Can't hurt to try. XD (68.8MB)

Chara - Something Blue [2005]: self-produced indie-released fanclub-only EP. Arguably my favorite Chara album; I always play it all the way through. The style of the individual songs shifts from shoegaze to dreampop to introvert-folk, jazz and even funk (the only other artist I know of who inhabits this nebulous space is Feist), but the whole flows in entire coherency. It's like being caught in a gauzy, thirty-minute-long dream of dappled sunlight. (33.3MB)

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia [2006]: more ambient. This is "happier" sounding than the Eno album, warm and abstract. Sort of like studying while your roommate plays flOw with the speakers on for hours on end. (69.4MB)

The Go Find - Stars On The Wall [2007]: yesterday it snowed a lot. For most of the day the weather couldn't decide whether it was snowy or rainy or (frequently) both, but by sundown it had settled fully into spring blizzard mode. It wasn't cold, but the flakes were - I'm not making this up - larger than my first thumb joint, cast distinct shadows descending and landed with the sound moths make when their wings smack against a flat surface. My boots were unsuitable and leaked so badly I may as well have been walking bare-socked. It was perfect weather for this album. I've had it on my mp3 player for a while but yesterday I realised I'd somehow managed to memorize all the songs.

In general Morr Music is the label to turn to if the Postal Service is too perky for you and Keane isn't wussy enough. Nicer than the Junior Boys, I find: I'm only impelled to listen to Junior Boys if I have a hangover and feel as miserable as the weather, whereas The Go Find, Lali Puna etc. are rather cozy if you're inside. *g* (64.5MB)

Comments

[emblem.livejournal.com]

Downloaded the first and the last. Thank you for sharing~

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

! Go Find. I remember hearing the new album was on the way but then forgot to track it down. Thanks.

Wouldn't you know, somebody else (http://community.livejournal.com/fst/448680.html?style=mine#cutid1) went and made the Richard FST with Jose Gonzales in. This is what I get for sitting on my thumbs.

[ibythetide.livejournal.com]

Snagged the last two with no regrets. Thanks for sharing.

[arboretum]

musicjghfghjfhg. snagging! thank you.

i've been listening to some of the other stuff i've downloaded from you in the past (and only just got around to listening to, haha, i have such a huge backlog) and am really enjoying it. :X

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

ohman, never has ambient been more timely in my life than in my time of midterm stress. ♥

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these~ I've been looking for new music lately.

[unearthly-calm.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the music. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but I'm looking forward to listening to it :)

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Sounds perfect -- exactly the kind of music I was needing. Thanks muchly!

[analyse.livejournal.com]

Downloaded all four, slowly listening through, and squeeing in gratitude. Thank you!