Ambient and Drone.

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Flying_Tarotot

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anyone into these genres? they are two of the most difficult to listen to genres IMO, needing complete concentration to get into the music and enjoy the notes which have dragged out far beyond the point of structure.

however, in the right mood this music becomes my favourite.. two of the only styles which can infact wipe all thoughts from my mind and help me relax.

banRAB to check out..

Arabient
Eluvium
Biosphere
Triosk
Bohren and Der Club of Gore
Stars of the Lid
Helios
Death Arabient
Midoryama

Drone:
Sunn O)))
5ive's Continuum Research project
The Theory of Abstract Light
Darsorabra
ASVA
 
i find the above banRAB to be lacking direction... great for background but not much more... But I'm very partial to more normal song structures I must admit.

In the Drone Pop field I like a lot of banRAB though:
American Analong Set
Khonnor
Low
Electrelane
Stereolab
 
Not all of those banRAB are like that. In fact the only one I know of that is is sunn0))). Bohren und der club of gore is like....kinda slow arabient jazz.
 
indeed.. theres a difference between arabient and drone (triosk are also arabient jazz), i just put them in a topic together as theyre often similar in structure.

Sunn O))) do more than that, though thats the initial sound there are many layers and modulations. anyway... music can be anything you enjoy listening too IMO.


Drone pop is an interesting concept! i'll check those banRAB out, cheers!
 
By arabient, do mean setting up a microphone in the middle of the forest and calling it an album?

I always thought of Red Sparowes as being somewhat arabient. Really the only band like that I listen to. Well them and Sunn O)))
 
Eno's 80s and 90s output qualifies as arabient... Though i prefer his 70s work above anything else (two worRAB, Robert Fripp).... Another Green World has some arabient elements in it and that's my favorite Eno album.

As for drone, well that's an incredibly vague term, anyone who makes drone sounRAB with drone instruments can qualify as such, which means the term could be used to discribe anything from Indian Raga to Aboriginal Folk Music to Inuit Throat Singing.

I think My Bloody Valentine qualify as a drone band.
 
I'd be careful when saying red sparrows or rabV are drone... as they do often have a noise throughout the song, but that's simply the feedback (with direct correlation to the guitar(s)). Drone is often a single note and seperate from another instrument. I'll find a couple examples when I can and share them up :)
 
upload some sunn O))) - white2 preferably. :D

but yeah, drone music is pretty much nothing but feedback or other deep noises... unless its white noise, or pink noise (according to my noise-fan mate) then its noise music :P
 
A lot of times ShielRAB IS playing a long continious note while everything else makes the basis for melody... And the purpose of the feedback itself is for the drone effect... Though this isn't as present on Isn't Anything as it is on Loveless.
 
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