"Laramie '68" by Blindcrake [ambient guitar, a little IDM]

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:18 pm

Some guitar explorations today in the garage after I called off from work... thanks for listening!

https://soundcloud.com/blindcrake/laramie-68

thedeadsoul · Post by **thedeadsoul** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:27 am

Always have a thing for ambient guitar, very nice! A bit of piano with a lot of reverb and a bit of delay might fit.

Best,
Adi/Thedeadsoul

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:14 am

thedeadsoul wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:27 am
Always have a thing for ambient guitar, very nice! A bit of piano with a lot of reverb and a bit of delay might fit.

Best,
Adi/Thedeadsoul

Thanks Adi!

jethrobull · Post by **jethrobull** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:26 am

What a beautiful piece. Absolutely love this, fantastic work!

Love the picture too. Fits the mood.
You have a new follower

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:43 am

jethrobull wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:26 am
What a beautiful piece. Absolutely love this, fantastic work!
Love the picture too. Fits the mood.
You have a new follower

Hey thanks jethro!

telecode · Post by **telecode** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:14 pm

That's really great sounding stuff. Real nice mood piece.

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:21 pm

telecode wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:14 pm
That's really great sounding stuff. Real nice mood piece.

Hey thanks Tele, I followed you back on Soundcloud!

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:11 pm

I think this has a similar vibe to some of the guitar tracks on David Sylvian's Gone to Earth album. That's one of my favourite '80s albums, so this is a good thing, imho. Great sounds and atmosphere.

Good work

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:35 pm

seismic1 wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:11 pm
I think this has a similar vibe to some of the guitar tracks on David Sylvian's Gone to Earth album. That's one of my favourite '80s albums, so this is a good thing, imho. Great sounds and atmosphere.

Good work

Thanks so much! I haven’t heard Sylvian’s name since I was a teen and not familiar with his work... will check out.

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:52 pm

black tea and codeine ...
feverish , a lucid dream ...

codec_spurt · Post by **codec_spurt** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:56 pm

Reminds me of Spacemen 3.

In fact, reminds me of a track I heard recently from Amberience here on KVR - https://bridgedisaster.co.uk/

Drenched, soaked, drums, guitars. There's art to doing that and it not sounding shite.

Good work.

On both counts.

codec_spurt · Post by **codec_spurt** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:03 pm

seismic1 wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:11 pm
I think this has a similar vibe to some of the guitar tracks on David Sylvian's Gone to Earth album. That's one of my favourite '80s albums, so this is a good thing, imho. Great sounds and atmosphere.

Good work

Gone to Earth is right up there in my little collection of David Sylvian CD's.

Brilliant Trees would probably be my top.

I know some of the Ninja Tune DJ's love him - was it Strictly Kev (DJ Food)?

I can't really listen to that stuff now. It evokes too many emotions, too many memories.

Stuff like this is a nice journey back to that style of music, without drowning in the nostalgia of it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBupS5PMMsc

codec_spurt · Post by **codec_spurt** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:23 pm

Just had a look who was doing guitar duties on Sylvian's first album (Brilliant Trees) and his third album (Gone to Earth).

I'm hearing Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew all over them but neither were on the first album and only Fripp was on Gone to Earth (which I already knew).

If David Sylvian albums were a fine wine, I'd be hearing tones of early Peter Gabriel, not just with the guitars but with the drumming/percussion. Someone like David Rhodes could work well on any of this stuff. Yeah, I know, he's pretty much Peter Gabriel's top session guitarist. I love him more for his ethereal work with Talk Talk though. Probably one of the few session guitarists in the world that could get a call and play with Sylvian any time as well.

This is not fantasy football!

And why am I not surprised to find Danny Thompson on Brilliant Trees? I knew Holger Czukay was on there, but funnily enough, he's not credited with bass. Which is what I thought he did.

It must be amazing to play at this top tier of musicians.

And not even play the instruments you are famous for.

Kudos.

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:41 pm

experimental.crow wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:52 pm
black tea and codeine ...
feverish , a lucid dream ...

codec_spurt wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:23 pm
I'm hearing Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew all over them but neither were on the first album and only Fripp was on Gone to Earth (which I already knew).

It's funny... as a teen, I was 99.99% prog, almost exclusively listened to Rush with a lot of Yes thrown in. I knew of Fripp and Belew, respected them a ton but listened to them very little. Interestingly, though, seeds for ambient were planted back then because my guilty pleasure was U2 and f*cking adored The Unforgettable Fire (Eno and Lanois, of course...)

Fast forward to 2002, my band had already broken up, and I hear this song that's blowing my **MIND** in the other room on the TV (one of those satellite/cable music channels). It's a band called Porcupine Tree and became obsessed.

Which of course helped me to (re)connect with ambient and re-discover Fripp and Belew and just a boatload of post rock and drone and IDM and a bunch of other stuff too. And of course, posts like this remind me there are cats from my teens that I had totally forgotten about like Sylvian and Henry Kaiser that I need to reconnect with.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:05 pm

codec_spurt wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:03 pm

seismic1 wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:11 pm
I think this has a similar vibe to some of the guitar tracks on David Sylvian's Gone to Earth album. That's one of my favourite '80s albums, so this is a good thing, imho. Great sounds and atmosphere.

Good work

Gone to Earth is right up there in my little collection of David Sylvian CD's.

Brilliant Trees would probably be my top.

I think most of Sylvian's back catalogue from Brilliant Trees to Snow Borne Sorrow (Nine Horses) is worth repeated, frequent listening.

codec_spurt wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:23 pm
Just had a look who was doing guitar duties on Sylvian's first album (Brilliant Trees) and his third album (Gone to Earth).

I'm hearing Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew all over them but neither were on the first album and only Fripp was on Gone to Earth (which I already knew).

Phil Palmer, Fripp, Bill Nelson, B.J. Cole, David Torn, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey are some of the guitarists that have featured on Sylvian's albums. Quite an impressive roll-call.