This duo from Austin, Texas, is Kranky Records' alumni, and certainly an exponent of its kind in the 90's. Obviously, ambient music is not a new concept. SOTL is simply good at what they do - texture exploration, oscilating between the ambient music concept of repetition itself (also the impressionist sense of ambience) and the dark-ambient consequent mood variation.
The Ballasted Orchestra is a drone masterpiece; Avec Laudenun is a dark synth lullaby, and The Tired Sound is considered their best work to date, gathering chamber music samples and synth drones.
(2007) And Their Refinement of Decline / 192k
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(2007) Carte-de-Visite (self-released) / 276 VBR
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(2001) Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid / 320k
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(1999) Avec Laudenum / 192k
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(1998) Per Aspera Ad Astra / 192k
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(1997) Ballasted Orchestra / 190 VBR
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(1996) Gravitational Pull Vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life / 225 VBR (V0)
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(1995) Music for Nitrous Oxide / 192k
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It sounds VERY intersting ! Thank you very much
ReplyDeleteGreat selection, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing these.
ReplyDeleteWhat else is good here on your page? Digging the ambient tip.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Thanks for the albums.
ReplyDeleteThis is perhaps their most interesting, IMHO. Dark and tense ambience.
ReplyDelete"And Their Refinement of Decline" is considered to be as good as "Tired Sounds" by the critics. I agree. Also igmore the Dark amd Tense label above - they are Light and Relaxing.
ReplyDeletethank you very much!
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ReplyDeleteWhat's the password for Gravitational~ ?
ReplyDeleteThanks.