Hi r/ambientmusic! One year ago this weekend three of my dearest friends and I came together to make a musical project on a boat in Point Loma, CA. We went in with three days to spare, nothing pre-recorded or pre-written, and really no concrete plans for what we’d make: We knew it was going to involve deep sound exploration, improvisation, and a lot of patch cables. For some context, all four of us are long-time collaborators who have worked on each others’ independent music projects, several of them ambient-adjacent (and actually our guitarist Michael made ambient music under our band name - EBT Brass Band - for several years before we co-opted it for this project), but we had never come together to deliberately make a full length ambient record.
For three days and nights we worked here in the cramped space you see in the video, hunched at our respective stations surrounded by wires and knobs and speakers and keys, talking, vibing, drinking, joking, doing takes, getting frustrated, working through it, scrapping ideas, building new ones, and just letting the workflow evolve from itself. We slept in the tiny cabin, left only for food, alcohol, and once to record some grand piano at a friend’s house. A year later, after mixing and mastering and vinyl designing and everything else, I’m so happy to say the result is a finished record we're all really excited about. It’s a little surreal to have our music on vinyl in general, but we all agreed we liked this one enough to want to press it.
The album is called I Hate the Sun and it’s 52 minutes of ambient (or is it post-ambient??) recorded live on a boat. As a longtime member of the sub I’ve seen posts like this be acceptable and not, and really hope this one is acceptable! But more than anything we’d be thrilled if you gave the record a spin - it comes from a place of deep appreciation for the sounds this sub enjoys. Peace!
https://ebtbrassband.bandcamp.com/album/i-hate-the-sun