Some ambient music for Thursday- very much the kind of sounds that are doing it for me at the moment. First, a new old track from Robin Guthrie and what he refers to as an orphan track, one that was recorded in 2012 for his album Fortune but that didn't end up on that album and was put to one side and forgotten about. Imagine having something as beautiful as Her Name Is Dulcinea sitting around unreleased for over a decade. The beauty of the Bandcamp model is that individual tracks can be released easily and sent out into the world. Her Name Is Dulcinea, all shimmering haze, celestial drones and cascading guitar lines, can be found here.
Over in the USA ambient- Americana trio SUSS put out a new track at the start of November in collaboration with Six Missing (TJ Dumser), six minutes of fragile psychedelia called Old Mission- an after hours, dream state piece of music that unfolds at its own pace. Find it at Bandcamp.
The day after Old Mission came out they slipped Traverse onto Bandcamp too, another piece of ambient country- Traverse is more Western sounding but still ambient. Find it here. There's something quite beguiling and totally cinematic about the idea of an ambient Western, cowboys and ranchers drifting around under darkening prairie skies, fires and coyotes and endless space while this music plays. Slow cinema, going nowhere, ruminative. Like The Durutti Column's Situationist cowboys/ philosophers...
Cowboy 1: "What's your scene, man?"
Cowboy 2: "Realisation"
Cowboy 1: "Yeah? I guess that means pretty hard work with big books and piles of paper on a big table."
Cowboy 2: "Nope. I drift. Mostly I just drift."
More on that here.
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