Download Album (80mb – Zip format – high quality, DRM-free MP3)
Track listing (with samples)
1. What Use Has a Mountain
2. Soldania
3. A Simple Solution
4. A Pathway to Nowhere
5. Dance of the Broken Robot
6. Alone in a Distant World
7. The Girl Who Discovered the End of the Universe…and What She Found There
The newest album is done – I hope you like it.
It’s an exciting new direction for me, and I guess your attitude towards ambient music will determine whether or not you agree.
While the album is incredibly ambient in nature, it is still melodic, and somewhat playful; I cannot divorce myself completely from my old ways. And while it is minimal in nature, I hesitate to call it a work of minimalism. The music straddles a fine line between the ambient music of the past and the stuff being made today.
It has passed all of my ambient-music tests: I’ve been able to fall asleep to it (quite well I might add), read to it, listen to it at work, and engage it on an active level.
Well, that’s it.
I should just let the music speak for itself.
Responses to “Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Music For Home Offices: Volume One (2009)”
January 14th, 2009 at 1:50 am
It’s ALL going up eventually. I’ve got Ronnie’s permission to put up the stuff we did together, as well as the guys in I Am Not the Janitor. Plus I still have a few solo albums (four I think) and some old 4-track stuff. All told, there are probably around ten more albums to upload. It just takes time, and I still have to write the liner notes.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Fantastic work! The drones were effective, soothing, and sonically interesting. I loved how the tracks seamlessly meshed with each other. This album is definitely going to be a treat to listen to while I draw. I recognized some of the drones from the in-progress tracks you posted in Nov/Dec. When heard altogether, the result really is quite astonishing.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Sonically Interesting!
One of my favorite phrases…
Glad you like it – and thanks.
(Looking forward to the interview)
Mel – I guess there are some things that won’t be added, namely the Checkmate and Flaming June stuff. I don’t have any of the original recordings, so that is the main reason why.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Very cool. I think it’s great to have all your music out there. Matilda May is still a song that I just love!! What were you and Jeff and Ronnie working on when we lived at the Bond house? I just remember hearing one song so many times I wanted to scream
January 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Ha! It was probably those songs I produced for Ronnie – The Neverending Day is Over, and Pedestrian Song. Those will be up soon – that was Ronnie’s project, The Slow System Revival.
Mathilda May will always be a favorite.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:20 am
The last track reminded me of The Moon And The Melodies. A bit. At least the very beginning.
Also liked the “My god….it’s full of stars” bit at the end. Nice.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Thanks. It’s probably the piano bit at the beginning that reminds you of The Moon… because I was going for a Harold Budd kind of feel.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
hmmm, where are the words?!
i kid because i’m insecure.
this sounds so cool, daniel. it makes me like you even more. generally speaking, i don’t think i care for ambient music all that much. i’m glad you had just enough melody and sense of rhythm to keep me into it, even if that is selfish. i really enjoyed it. thank you.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I hear ya Mich. I, too, am not into that ultra-minimalist, no-melody kind of ambient music that seems to be so popular these days – glitch music or something.
I try to be more of a mix between the earlier stuff, influenced by Eno and Budd, the mid-90s stuff, influenced by The Orb and FAX records, and with a bit of the new.
I think it is simply impossible for me to move away from melody and a somewhat playful tone.
I’m glad you were engaged enough to give a full listen, because I know what a niche this kind of music falls in.
May 25th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I’ve been listening to this album for a month straight now. … It’s pretty much the only thing I listen to. I have all the same ambient test, which I think is funny. … and it has passed them, none the less. Can’t wait for the next in the series. You’ve put my mind back to work for my own music.
Thanks!
Joe (genfish @ Lounging Sound radio)
June 5th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Thanks Joe – I appreciate it.
And that’s quite a compliment. Glad I could inspire you to start recording again. Your stuff Davine is good.
The next one is coming along, should be done this month.
June 10th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Joe and I agree; it is a very nice album and we enjoy playing it on Lounging Sound
January 13th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
so, there’s a lot of years of music missing here. I suppose you can’t really put the stuff that other people created with you, right?
That’s cool that we can have copies of more of it now. I have a couple CDs, but not all of these.