Ambient music recommendations

Fretwired

Here is some of the stuff I listen to in addition to artists already recommended in this thread:

Hammock
The Monk by the sea
Max Richter
Erik Wøllo
Michael Brook
Warmth
Tim Hecker
Jon Hassell
Harold Budd
Robin Guthrie solo albums
Ólafur Arnalds
Patrick O'Hearn
Tortusa
Amethystium
Nils Frahm
Marconi Union
Tripswitch
Helios
John Foxx & Harold Budd - Nighthawks, translucence and drift music

kin

This guy is on the audio bus forum , lots of beautiful ambient stuff like this on his utube channel.

Johnnyseven

Global Communication - 76:14
Seefeel - Quique
Autechre - Amber
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 & Volume II
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Orbital - Snivilisation

For something more recent you could try the 2 albums by Bicep.

rlw

There's a new Robert Fripp release - 8 CDs of ambience.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-fripp-music-for-quiet-moments/851114-01/?currency=GBP&flt=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLGIX-KpxER9kaXzgeYES0XhbFZKA4eowJI5uReVYO2HxVyppSpLmuRoCBfwQAvD_BwE

I'm not sure I could make it to the end of the first one

fandango

Biosphere

Woob

Terry Riley - esp A Rainbow in Curved Air

Banco de Gaia - esp a 44 minute version of Kinkajou (but some B de G veers into ambient dance)

Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder

Fanger & Schonwalder

Rothe & Schonwalder

Ascendant (not to be confused with a guitar heavy four-piece band from Scandinavia)

Germind

Subdream

Motionfield

Fretwired

rlw said:

There's a new Robert Fripp release - 8 CDs of ambience.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-fripp-music-for-quiet-moments/851114-01/?currency=GBP&flt=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLGIX-KpxER9kaXzgeYES0XhbFZKA4eowJI5uReVYO2HxVyppSpLmuRoCBfwQAvD_BwE

I'm not sure I could make it to the end of the first one

I listen to them on Spotify. There are quite a few versions of the same song which is interesting. Fripp's ambient soundscapes are a one-off event - he never plays the same thing twice. Not sure I'd buy the CD set but there are some excellent tracks and some dross.

wesker123

William Basinski "The Disintegrations Loops"
Some good vids on YouTube 

gusman2x

For contemporary:

Ciclismo - Blue and Grey. An incomplete history of British Rail. 

Springywheel

My fave ambient album is No Pussyfooting by Fripp & Eno 
Also Ambient 4: On Land by Eno
A hidden gem is Jack Jutson - Mother. You should check that out for something a little different. 

Litterick

Asher – Miniatures

gordiji

Ozric Tentacles , This is from the album Hidden Step, whole thing's a masterpiece.

Bellycaster

I can recommend a couple of tracks off the top of my head.

Ozrics - Kick Muck

Alan Parson Project - Mammagamma (the full 6 min version)

blobb

First time I've heard Kick Muck called ambient!  Trivia: it was originally an acoustic riff and makes an appearance in this form one one of the tracks on Technicians..

Ozrics do good ambient though. They even created an ambient side project called Nodens Ictus.

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

Cryptid

A few that shouldn't be missed:

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja, E Luxo So
Manual - The North Shore
Loscil - Monument Builders
Gas - Pop
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores 

Bellycaster

blobb said:

First time I've heard Kick Muck called ambient!  Trivia: it was originally an acoustic riff and makes an appearance in this form one one of the tracks on Technicians..

Ozrics do good ambient though. They even created an ambient side project called Nodens Ictus.

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

I know, it ain't really, but seeing as I saw an Ozric track earlier, I felt compelled to introduce the O.P to that track

stimpsonslostson

I like writing to Russian Circles, Pelican & Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster (Drew's band). 
All are more instrumental than ambient, but all are great bands. 

historyisjunk

Not entirely sure where the line is between ambient & instrumental. So these may not be what you're after.

Northumbria (from Canada) on Cryo Chamber, many others also on Cryo Chamber, notably Keoz, Sabled Sun, Dronny Darko (yes really). I probably like Northumbria best, check out their instrumentation & live recoding technique.

Barn Owl (electric duo rather than folk band). II;  Ancestral Star & Lost in the Glare in particular.

Thumbs up for Hania Rani.

Might be getting a bit metal, but Dog Chasing Sun has some good tracks.

Placidcasual79

I am a fan of bitchin' Baja's - its sort of more drone based...... but for modular synth ambient stuff the records Tim Gaine of Sterolab made as Cavern of anti matter are pretty good

Woodandwires

Thanks everybody for your suggestions