What albums did you listen to today?

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: How did you find this, Sam? I should have warned it's a lot more subtle and almost drone-based than other electronic artists like T.Dream, etc. If you don't enjoy it much, you may find his third album `Atmosphere' has a bit more movement and variety.

I liked very much this album. I think it's better than his previous album: it's more accessible and atmospheric. It easily transmits the feelings he wants the listener to feel and doing that on a PE album is not always easy
I listened the album on Youtube with not so good quality, so I feel I haven't experienced it well enough

Sagichim wrote: His debut album (Sagan Om Ringen) is the only one I knew and to my understanding it's the same album as Lord Of The Rings (I don't think it's a rerecording, it's just the same album released outside of Sweden). So if you have that one I urge you to investigate, I think it's just as good as Attic Thoughts, full of dreamy atmospheres and haunting moods, definitely more psychedelic than Attic...

I listened to that one yesterday and it's really good, not as good as Attic though. It sounds psychedelic and krautrock, reminding me sometimes of Popol Vuh.

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Sagi, other than knowing Bo Hansson's `Watership Down' well (and that one is really lovely), I have two of his other albums `Magician's Hat' and `Lord of the Rings', had them for years, but I've rarely spun them. I've simply felt so satisfied with those previous two I mentioned, still enjoying them, that I haven't felt the need to move on yet! I'll agree to give them a spin if you do?!

John Frusciante - Curtains
Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gabriel - Security
RHCP - One Hot Minute

Adelbert Von Deyen - Nordborg
Bo Hansson - Sagan Om Ringen

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were here
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Great day of listening today!

Syd Arthur - Soundmirror
The Antlers - Familiars
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Arbete & Frihet - s/t
Deuter - D
LA Düsseldorf - Dússeldorf
Les Big Byrd - They Worshipped Cats
Magazine - Real Life
Sphongle - Are You Sphongled?
Maneige - Les Porches

Great, Sam! Yes, when I first started getting into prog, about 20 years ago, a friend on here, Tom Ozric, gave me his LP of `Attic Thoughts', and I was instantly blown away by the cover alone! The music took me somewhere else altogether! So it's been very special to me ever since then, and it's become one of those albums I've heard endlessly, yet never even begun to tire of it.

Glad you enjoyed!

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

Edited by Xonty - September 19 2014 at 17:25

Todays choices:

Taproban - Strigma
Ars Nova - The Book of the Dead
Le Orme - Contrappunti
Korai Orom - 2013
Syndone - Odysseas
Cousin Silas - Whispers Fall (sublime ambient album, check it out on Bandcamp! - http://freefloatingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/whispers-fall )

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Sagi, other than knowing Bo Hansson's `Watership Down' well (and that one is really lovely), I have two of his other albums `Magician's Hat' and `Lord of the Rings', had them for years, but I've rarely spun them. I've simply felt so satisfied with those previous two I mentioned, still enjoying them, that I haven't felt the need to move on yet! I'll agree to give them a spin if you do?!

Meltdowner wrote: I read your Delusion Squared review and there were too many Porcupine Tree references for me to ignore. I have no problems with her accent: she speaks English better than most French people. It was the third time I listened to 'Eros' and it's so difficult for me to put into words how amazing that album is. I listened the other day to Taproban's 'Ogni Pensiero Vola' and I think it's also really good; somehow similar to 'Strigma'.What can you recommend me from Bo Hansson? I've read that name a lot.

Sam, I read some other reviews of that band around the web and some of them seemed to be a bit hard on the singer Lorraine! I was a bit disappointed by that, so I mentioned that she was a real highlight of it. I'll be looking into their previous two CDs shortly. If you hear the `Final Delusion' album, I hope you find the Porcupine Tree influences that I did.

I bought the download of another Taproban album from Mellow Candle, but I forget which one it is (Ha, it's sitting in my car glovebox right now! ), it's got a brown cover, that's all I recall! The music was very much a love-letter to Genesis! I prefer `Strigma', but it was still very decent.

Dun - Eros usesd to really throw me, it's only in the last year or so that I've come to love it. I hear a lot of that band in Anglagard, not sure if anyone else agrees?

Bo Hansson....without question, go for `Attic Thoughts'. Sagi has recently really fallen for that one too. A friend on here gave me his LP of it many years ago, and I fell in love with it instantly. It still holds up after all this time for me, a very mellow, gently trippy instrumental light symphonic work. I bet you'll love it!