New Slow Dancing Society Release Set for November

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Slow Dancing Society Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced that Drew Sullivan, better known as Slow Dancing Society, is set to release a new record November 6, 2007. The title is The Slow and Steady Winter and apparently it's the first half of a double album, the second half of which will arrive sometime in 2008.

There's a preview track available via the Slow Dancing Society MySpace profile, and you can learn a bit more about the new record via the announcement at Hidden Shoal Recordings.

The Prepared Piano, Hauschka

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The Prepared Piano, Hauschka The Prepared Piano from German artist Hauschka is quite a nice bit of piano music. Melodic and then dissonant in equal parts, it works as background music and still rewards close listening. From Hauschka's official site:

Hauschka is the alias of Dusseldorf?based pianist / composer Volker Bertelmann, whose work is based upon an exploration of the possibilities of the 'prepared' piano - a playfully disruptive intervention into the preconceived idea of the piano as a pure-toned, perfected instrument waiting for a gifted virtuoso to play on it.

Worth a listen, regardless of whether your taste in ambient tends towards the electronic or the "natural."

Related Haushcka MySpace profile Official Hauschka Web site

Wordless Music Series Schedule Firmed Up

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Wordless Music Series I've posted about this before, but for the New Yorkers reading, you should know that it looks like the fall program for the Wordless Music Series has firmed up. I've got tickets for the November 11th performance of Múm, Hauschka, and Bing and Ruth/David Moore. Quite a few other great performances are scheduled, including shows featuring Colleen and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood.

Scattered Practices, Ezekiel Honig

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Scattered Practices, Ezekiel Honig I mentioned Early Morning Migration a while back, the Ezekiel Honig and Morgan Packard collaboration. Well, lately I've been listening to Honig's 2006 release Scattered Pieces, and it's work of really nice quiet electronic sounds. It sounds like what I imagine a laundromat sounds like at 3am. Just quietly pumping along, and if you listen closely the dryers actually do sound different as the clothes get closer to dry.

Related Ambient Music Blog: Early Morning Migration, Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard Ezekiel Honig Wikipedia entry Ezekiel Honig MySpace profile

Air Curtain, Fourcolor

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Air Curtain, Fourcolor Speaking of 12k records, Air Curtain by Japanese artist Fourcolor is a superb record. Nice rolling textured melodies which a touch of blips and tech sounding glitch playing subtly in the background. Really quality stuff, especially for those of you who tend to listen to more of the electronic end of things.

Related Fourcolor Profile at 12k records Cubicmusic.com

Parousia Fallacy, bpmf

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Parousia Fallacy, bpmf Jason Szostek produces electronic music as bpmf. I recently got a copy of bpmf's Parousia Fallacy, and it's an interesting mix of synthy washes and spaced-out techno sounds. The best way I can describe it is it sounds like what a movie in say, 1984, would depict what a computer would sound like if it produced sound and you could hear it while it worked. And the the computer is maybe evil, or at least kind of weird and brooding. And also it speaks Russian.

Stop by bpmf.us, where you can preview tracks from the record.

Related bpmf MySpace Profile

Northern, Taylor Deupree

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Northern, Taylor Deupree Taylor Deupree runs 12k records, and he makes some rather nice ambient music himself. Northern is a record full of long drones and meandering, glitch-like sounding tracks. The songs have quite a bit of nuance and texture to them and grow into themselves over time. I'm finding the record works nicely played through as well as it does when you're pulling tracks out at random throughout the day. Highly recommended if you're into the more electronic end of the ambient music spectrum.

Related Taylor Deupree MySpace Profile Taylor Deupree Bio at 12k records

Somnia, Greg Davis

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Somnia, Greg Davis A really nice recent find is Somnia by Grey Davis. Six tracks of quiet atmospherics and synthy drones. The shortest track clocks in at 4:02, and track 4, Campestral (version 2) is over 22 minutes in length. The record is full of nice long tracks that are really quite good at fading into the background.

I picked up a few other records from Davis recently as well, and they're quite good. I'll likely have something to say about them around here shortly. In the meantime, have a listen to his work, it's really top-notch stuff.

Related Greg Davis Bio at Kranky Greg Davis MySpace Profile