In addition to Jaja's Endless album featured in the previous post, I've been enjoying lots of ambient almost every night in this too-warm wintertime. Some of the newer material include
Offspring of late Pete Namlook and his Fax label, Carpe Sonum label is a beautiful tribute to the massive work of my very first ambient heroes in mid-90s. Though my taste has changed since and I seldom find anything truly moving and immersing in his catalogue anymore, so has been the case with Carpe Sonum until these atmospheric and organic soundscapes that rely on soothing textures as much as narcotic layers of blissful ambience. Never dull, attention-demanding or repetitive to boredom, it's one of the albums I reach out for in my home listening iPod when the soundtrack for dreams is appropriate. Right now I have both my son and his little sister sleeping next to me, so serene and full of radiant youth even in deep sleep.
Steve Roach & Kelly David - The Long Night
Steve Roach has over the years become my trusted name for quality soundscapes for nighttime pleasures, wheather it's intense lovemaking with sweat and tears of joy, or just lying still on futon feeling very relaxed in the body and mind (muscle- and thoughtwise). Something truly magical starts to happen straight away when I touch this album to play. I never feel the need to change it to something else, it's so captivating and interesting all over. I remember being blown away with the intro for Kelly David's 2002 album Broken Voyage where Steve Roach was also credited. That album had some almost disturbing moments that are completely obsolete in this latest joint venture. Thank you for this "a sixty-one minute mental excursion into unforeseen creative possibilities when the night becomes a special time beyond sleep, a contemplative zen noir of minimal radiant ambience."
Jaja - Endless
This album is so good that it can be featured in two posts in the row. And the cover fits so well in. Again tonight my lovely children could easily let go of their daytime activities and drift into peaceful rest in these room-expanding soundscapes.
Max Corbacho - The Ocean Inside
It's been featured in this blog after the release, and now it's appearing again since I've been playing it over the course of the past two years maybe somewhere between 50-70 times or more. Max Corbacho was recommended to me by someone reading this blog, and his pure ambient magic has been playing in my bedrooms quite a lot ever since. The tribal part of his work hasn't got so much attention from me though, maybe because most of the records date back towards early 2000. The Ocean Inside is his latest album from 2012 in a pure ambient sense, or should I say amblissence (ambient, bliss, essence). I can only hope he's been working on more beautifully drowning soundscapes for my ambient-hungry ears.
Two more Roaches till I go to my delicious bed to enjoy what I write about
Steve Roach - Delicate Beyond
Steve Roach - Invisible
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