Resting Bell is a niche label that focuses on ambient soundscapes, drones and experimental music. If field recordings, shining drones, ambience, guitar processing, wall of noise and glitches are your thing you’d be happy to mooch off the back catalogue

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One of the most frequented bands here on undomondo is Portland rockers Grails. Somehow they manage to more than one release each year and we feel like you wanna hear all about them, because they deserve it.

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Sawako’s sound incorporates looping, field recordings, gentle noises all modified and blended in a chiming drone sound. It’s easy to make it noisier and darker since noisy music tends to sound dark. That’s probably why there are so many crap dark ambient acts. Her latest effort is a testimony to this bright chiming sound, bringing to mind Alvin Curran’s classic Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden from 1974, or recent works by Stars of the Lid.

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Some free mp3s I stumbled upon while surfing today:

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An exquisite ambient/micromusic/drone/electronica mix by our friend from down under Cenk Akyol, who’s already given us this and this. Perfect for, well calm dawns? Enjoy, uploaded to Divshare and working properly now.

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2002’s Black Earth is Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s 4th and arguably their best album. Glacially slow funeral jazz with an attention to ambience more than the playing (doesn’t mean that the playing is bad of course). Allmusic says it’s a black metal fan’s lounge jazz act which is surely true, but one thing [...]

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Let’s get the ball rolling :
Taxi Taxi - Maps and Legends : NY indie rockers Taxi Taxi have presented a solid album with lots of good songs, I even have second thoughts about how it may have deserved a higher spot.
Odd Nosdam - Level level wires (Anticon) : Released on California’s [...]

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excerpt from Echolalic Transitions
Six piece Brooklyn avant-classical ensemble appropriately titled Slow Six has a new record out called Nor’easter on the contemporary classical label New Albion.
Nor’easter has 6 long electro-acoustic compositions, with violins, viola, ‘cello, electric guitars, fender rhodes, piano, and software instruments combined to create an immersive instrumental soundscape. Nor’easter is slow, drony and [...]

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The Cardboard Lung - Fleece Sale
The Cardboard Lung - Silver Lino

* UK Netlabel Earth Monkey Productions has two new free download releases for your enjoyment. The first one I recommend is The Cardboard Lung’s Patient Lifted, which consists mostly of bright drones & grained vocals and ambience, and occasionally a subtle rhythm.

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German Stephan Mathieu and English Janek Schaefer are two big names from the “academic” sound composing scene. Their latest collaboration “Hidden Name” is an exceptional journey through ambient textures and field recordings. Recorded during the winter of 2005 in a Victorian rural area in the South of England, this is exceptional in the way that [...]

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