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    timeisart, I would like to second your approval of the Yoga Mantra album.  I have heard rumors of a Yoga Mantra 2 release in the pipeline, but nothing so far as of yet.  Yiannis, I'm glad you also (along with me) are enjoying Lab's Cloud - The Structure Of Emotions.  For you and anyone else who enjoys this kind of music, I would like to recommend a rather obscure artist named Tim Rowe.  His two solo releases, Night Runner and The Elegy Suite, are IMO superlative ambient.

    https://triplemoonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tim-rowe-night-runner

    https://weareallghosts.bandcamp.com/album/the-elegy-suite-waag-rel062

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    I thought of a parallel case.  Simon Posford is a psytrance artist who was the driving force behind the  Celtic Cross - Hicksville album, and who releases as Hallucinogen, as one half of the groups Younger Brother and Shpongle.  But recently he released his very first album under his own name.  It's titled Flux & Contemplation: Portrait Of An Artist In Isolation.  https://simonposford.bandcamp.com/

    This album is a more focused and mature Posford, subtly nuanced and many-layered.  It runs the gamut of ambient, psybient, IDM and psytrance in varying measures, but in the end remains its own unique and deeply expressive creature.  I'm now hypothesizing that the extended introspection that has been forced upon many artists by their forced isolations during lockdowns has prompted alterations in their sonic palettes.  it remains to be seen whether these changes in emphasis perdure, or whether they will fade with the eventual lessening of the severity of the pandemic.

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    The latest album by Lab's Cloud, The Structure Of Emotions, is full-on ambient rather than psybient, and the artist himself even explicitly stated that it was a departure and new direction for him (the album is gorgeous, btw).  https://labscloudmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-structure-of-emotions

    Can anyone here think of other psybient artists that have released full-on ambient albums lately?  I suspect that their psybient histories would tend to enrich their subsequent ambient offerings, as IMO it did in this case, and would appreciate other examples that might help me to verify or falsify this notion.  I'd also simply like to listen to them...;~)

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    Thank you sooo much for listing Matt Coldrick - Music For A Busy Head Vol. 2 in your upcoming album list.  I bought it as soon as it came out.  It is a worthy successor to Pan Electric's monumental Step Out release

    He doesn't do too well on quantity but his consistent quality more than makes up for it.

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    Well THAT cost me some dough....;~P

    Money very well spent.

    Thanx Much for clueing me in to what I'd missed spotting this last month.  You are indeed an invaluable resource, performing an essential service.  PLEEEEZE keep it up.

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    You were right about the pastels.  The full color was so thick that I was having problems reading the print under some of them unless I highlighted it with my cursor.  But there are no such issues with the pastels; I can easily read the underlying print unaided.

     

    Oh; except for the world fusion grey.  You might consider paling it up a bit more.

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    Kalya Scintilla - Gaian Code and Sundial Aeon - Hibernal Solstice were a nice way to end 2019.

     

    Awaiting the first 2020 new releases update.

     

    btw; I found out that Future Sound Of London - A Controlled Vista will get an eventual digital release on fsoldigital.  Thomas Shrubsole - Tape Music will also get an eventual digital release on his Bandcamp site.  At least they won't be CD or cassette only like Angelo Harmsworth - For Argand was.

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    Yeah, great week, great month.  And then there's this:

     

    https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-by-silence-please-note-fsol-is-cd-only-boxes-will-ship-in-january

     

    All but the CD-only FSOL album are now digirally available for purchase there.  Nine of them:  Eight solos and a compilation.

     

    https://touched.bandcamp.com/music

     

    One helluva fine mass release.  Too bad I couldn't afford the box set.  That FSOL will be a collector's item.

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    Xoon - Nightfall

    https://www.discogs.com/Xoon-Nightfall/release/6445004

     

    M-Sphere - Tread In

    https://www.discogs.com/M-Sphere-Tread-In/release/4244160

    Edit: I now have this release.

     

    Tomonari Nozaki - Monochrome

    https://www.discogs.com/Tomonari-Nozaki-Monochrome/release/9916918

     

    World Standard - Journal Standard

    https://www.discogs.com/World-Standard-Journal-Standard/release/10241835

    Edit: I forgot to include this one before.

     

    Angelo Harmsworth - For Argand

    https://www.discogs.com/Angelo-Harmsworth-For-Argand/release/12066585

     

    Norken - SA001

    https://www.discogs.com/Norken-SA001/release/12800889

     

    The first four are on CD, but very rare.  I am seeking either the CD or the files.  The fifth is on cassette and the sixth is on vinyl.  I am seeking the files for those, as I lack a turntable or a cassette player.

     

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

     

    BTW: I recently was able to finally buy a CD of this rare gem:

     

    Masaya Kato - Coagulation

    https://www.discogs.com/Masaya-Kato-Coagulation/release/4544339

     

    I am anxiously awaiting its arrival in the mail.

    Edit: it has arrived.

     

    What other rare, sold out and out of print releases are others here searching for, and which ones have they found?  Let me know; I might want them too...;~)

     

    If this topic takes off I'll list more rarities that I've been lucky enough to find.

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    I'm a graveyard shift worker, so I have to sleep during the day.  That means closed bedroom door, black paper on the windows, and music playing low to dampen out the sudden, harsh and discordant outside noises of people going about their day outside.  It works best for me when the music is mostly in the middle ranges (not excessively bass or treble), flowing and melodic, and has a slow soft beat that gets my heartbeat and respiration to slow in sync and my brainwaves to seek the lower sleep oscillations.  White noise is featureless, so it won't do those things for me.  And music in midrange is the most calming and restful and relaxing for me - the sonic equivalent of stretching out in the summer woods under trees (our visual wavelength range is centered around green).  Very high pitches would just make me excited or nervous, and subsonic bass is used in theaters during horror movies to induce feelings of fear and dread.

     

    I also have listened to Eguana during the day (meaning, for me, in the morning after work but not yet ready to sleep).  IMO, it elegantly fits Brian Eno's definition of ambient: being interesting enough to attend to, but not so intrusive that it cannot be ignored..    

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