HAMMOCK Reaches for the Heavens…and Takes Us Along
I started writing this site in 2012, but I actually didn’t listen to Hammock until…hmm, late 2016 maybe — around the time I stopped writing the blog. So, naturally, I […]
Tag Archives: Ambient
GILES JACOBS AND WOLFGANG MERX – I Have Fought! (2015)
This new album was released in conjunction with the We Are All Ghosts netlabel. Merx and Jacobs are two very experienced ambient/electronic musicians. For this album they came up with […]
NEW Gateless Gate releases: Ancient Ocean and Ancient Metals
The Gateless Gate is my krautambient project, and I’ve released in fairly quick succession two radically different albums. Over the winter, I collaborated with American Scott Lawlor, who is well-known […]
The Essential ROBERT RICH
by Allister Thompson I did a post quite a while back on some essential Steve Roach albums, which has proven popular in introducing some of his intimidatingly large back catalogue […]
ASCENDANT – Æthereal Code (2015) The genuine mystic trance
Ascendant is an ambient superduo of sorts, comprised of Chris Bryant (Signs of Life) and Don Tyler (Phase47, and Make Your Own Taste’s best ambient album of 2014, Amytis Rising […]
ALTUS – The Time Collection (2015)
review by Richard Gürtler Acclaimed Ottawa, Canada-based ambient drifter Mike Carss, acting under his moniker Altus, was always known as an artist who focused on digital formats only and offered […]
Ten beautifully tranquil new age albums
Ah, New Age, ambient’s shunned cousin kept locked up in the attic, well away from the cool kids. Well, it was shunned at one point, anyway. Visions abounded of people […]
ROBERT RICH – Filaments (2015)
Review by Richard Gürtler Quite a long time has passed since Robert Rich’s last album. Nest was released in September of 2012. However, it doesn’t mean this iconic sound explorer […]
THE GATELESS GATE – Landslag Norður Íslands (The Landscape of North Iceland) (2015)
by Allister I am actually working on a lengthy and very important post about a famous musician who sang about flying teapots. But in the interim, as I prepare my […]
BYRON METCALF, STEVE ROACH, ROB THOMAS – Monuments of Ecstasy (2015)
Guest review by Richard Gürtler [Editor’s note: I’m very pleased to feature a review of a new album by grandmasters Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf and Rob Thomas, by a true […]
Make Your Own Taste 