https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia Genre: Drone Rating: Highly Recommended Released January 20, 2023 Just yesterday I was relaxing in my backyard reading science fiction and listening to electronic drone music mostly from the 70’s. One artist I was discovering new work from is Isao Tomita. Tomita is one of many, but still I felt very moved by howContinue reading “Hypnagogia by MARTINA BERTONI”
Category Archives: ambient
Reverie by Daou
https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/reverie Genre: Ambient Rating: 🌧️ 🌧️ 🌧️ 🌧️ 4/5 rain clouds Release date: 20/1/2023 Artists Personal Website: https://www.daou.info/ Basic Information C&P from bandcamp: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series is a division of Rohs! Records. Est. 2018 – Berlin, Germany. The label is now located in Sardinia, Italy. My Review: Daou’s day job is being an architect. Anecdotally, I’veContinue reading “Reverie by Daou”
Two Centuries by Qasim Naqvi / Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille
https://redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-centuries Genre: Ambient Jazz Rating: 5/5 Stars Highest Rating released August 17, 2022 (Bandcamp) This deserves the same type of love Space 1.8 and Promises received but honest recognition is hard to come by even among jazz fans. Wadada Leo Smith is in the discussion as the greatest jazz musician still on the planet. TheContinue reading “Two Centuries by Qasim Naqvi / Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille”
Sentrifuge by Pjusk
https://pjuskswc.bandcamp.com/album/sentrifuge Genre: Ambient Rating: Recommended, especially for fans of the genre released March 18, 2022 (BandCamp) Right from the start I want to say I really like this album. It clearly separates itself from the very crowded field of ambient music. Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik, whose name is spelled with an extra i in his BandCampContinue reading “Sentrifuge by Pjusk”
Feel safe by Alba Liv
https://forlagetkornmod.bandcamp.com/album/feel-safe Genre: Folk Rating: ☁️ ⛅️ 🌧 ✨ ⛈ 5/5 highest released November 27, 2022 Feel Safe is folk music broke down to its purest essence building on the relatively recent traditions of shoe gaze and ambient. More wistful and ethereal than Grouper but the comparison comes to mind as do the tenderest moments fromContinue reading “Feel safe by Alba Liv”
Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose
https://carboninprose.bandcamp.com/album/cataclysmic-system-binding-loss Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended released October 24, 2022 Unlike a lot of the ambient drone releases this one offers different moods and approaches. CIP doesn’t limit the sound sticking with a uniform format. There’s nothing remotely mainstream about it, and ultimately the feeling is sad. The music doesn’t always explicitly sound melancholy butContinue reading “Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose”
Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann
https://ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/call-and-response Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended As the title hints at Call and Response is the artistic expression of reverberation. If the machines have any sentience perhaps they feel like slaves and chain gang workers from the past. Musically this also calls on more modern traditions. A 2022 release like this with this sound isn’tContinue reading “Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann”
Svaberg by Pjusk,Chihei Hatakeyama
https://pjusk.bandcamp.com/album/svaberg Rating: ☁️ ⛅️ 🌧 ❄️ 🧊 Genre: Ambient released July 7, 2022 Chihei Hatakeyama is one of my favorite ambient artists. His label, White Paddy Mountain, offers dozens of good releases. Hatakeyama himself has over seventy releases. You can start wherever you please as his music is consistent and he sticks with a winningContinue reading “Svaberg by Pjusk,Chihei Hatakeyama”
Stipple by Knobs
https://knobs.bandcamp.com/album/stipple Rating: 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Genre: Ambient released on bandcamp September 15, 2022 Stipple is an excellent ambient release that leans heavily on acoustic instruments and borrows from the genre of music known as glitch. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard a new glitch release but it’s a genre I’m fond of and when it kindContinue reading “Stipple by Knobs”
The Landing by Joystick
Rating: 🚀🛰👽👨🏻🚀🛸 Genre: Space Music released on bandcamp September 13, 2022 One of my high school teachers once declared that she didn’t know what a joy stick was and I’m quoting this verbatim “but I find the name very intriguing”. I doubt she suspected that I enjoyed that special little aside so much that itContinue reading “The Landing by Joystick”
Everdream by Agape Horizons
https://underwater-computing.bandcamp.com/album/everdream Genre: Dream Punk Rating: 🛰🛰🛰🛰🛰 released on bandcamp August 10, 2022 If you call it dream punk it’s dream punk but nobody calls anything but dream punk dream punk. It carries the classic hallmarks of slush and trad vapor but there’s an extra expansive quality to it. The grooves open up into something thatContinue reading “Everdream by Agape Horizons”
Pallid Memories by Loneward
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pallid-memories Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp February 21, 2022 This beautifully produced release is engulfing and lush and succeeds at sweeping your mind away in a deep way that most attempts at ambient cannot. It’s layered and spacious and perfectly paced. Honestly, I need to spend more time digging through the Altus labelContinue reading “Pallid Memories by Loneward”
passage by Nicholas Maloney
https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/passage Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp June 20, 2022 This one really surprised me. It’s ambient music in the purest sense in that it cooperates fully with your actual surroundings. So subtle as to be almost unnoticeable for the first few minutes then the birds came and IContinue reading “passage by Nicholas Maloney”
Gainer by Mary Lattimore & GROWING
https://marylattimoregrowing.bandcamp.com/album/gainer Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Lattimore’s harp waits nine minutes and forty-five seconds to chime in. First a proof is established. There’s a quality to ambient / ambient-drone on the highest tier. Basinski and Eno. It’s like the musical equivalent of erosion which may seem too obvious in Basinski’s case.Continue reading “Gainer by Mary Lattimore & GROWING”
The June Releases by The Volume Settings Folder
https://thevolumesettingsfolder.bandcamp.com/music Inlopp Och Utlopp is sonic sorrow surrealism. It really fills up your sonic reality with thick layers of dreamy melancholy. A lot of people try this but this is better than – this stands out as especially effective. It’s engrossing. It’s nine minutes long and if you’re not a cheap ass like me youContinue reading “The June Releases by The Volume Settings Folder”
Equinox by Max Corbacho
https://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/album/equinox Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 4/5 This is audio chocolate pudding and your brain is an eight year old boy. You need this. It’s in your refrigerator gleaming its chocolatey gloss. This isn’t just earcandy. This is oil. The salve for your bruised consciousness. This isn’t chicken soup. This is a universe of creamy comfort.Continue reading “Equinox by Max Corbacho”
Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/form-less-ness Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released May 6, 2022 Andy Cartwright, whose best work is the bowed-guitar centered alias Seabuckthorn, has thrown his hat in the very crowded arena of ambient music. I’ve exhausted my free listens on bandcamp so it definitely kept pulling me back. He has a special way of using both foundContinue reading “Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright”
Sleepless by Loops & Loops
https://thesems.bandcamp.com/album/sleepless Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp March 4, 2022 Sleepless, instead of being about sleep – a foundational theme for a lot of ambient music-, is about, as the name implies, insomnia. And honestly, insomnia is the real issue, isn’t it? If we were sleeping there wouldn’t be any reason to worry aboutContinue reading “Sleepless by Loops & Loops”
house of care by perila
https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-care-2 Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 28, 2022 perila sticks to a winning formula that she delivers on better than all others. The ingredients are simple single instrument ambient compositions. Already from just this she creates an earthy ambience earthy in the Garden of Earthly Delights sense. The sound of Cambrian PeriodContinue reading “house of care by perila”
Yog-Sothoth by The Great Old Ones
https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/yog-sothoth Genre: Dark Ambient Rating: 4/5 This could be an above average Cryo Chamber release and it’s very much in the same sonic ballpark. Cryo Chamber releases almost all fall into a 3 or 4 star rating tier to my ears. Like this release, the 4 star releases have a special flair. Yog-Sothoth has monstrousContinue reading “Yog-Sothoth by The Great Old Ones”
Level One Mage by Erik Gundel
https://erikgundel.bandcamp.com Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 LOM is a surprisingly diverse record. The bandcamp notes and a little googling lets you know that Brooklyn resident (how do they afford it?), Gundel, takes his craft seriously and has been at it for a while and his professional approach pays dividends. ThereContinue reading “Level One Mage by Erik Gundel”
having you, halving me by thought refuge
https://thoughtrefuge.bandcamp.com/album/having-you-halving-me Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 Clocking in at about 16 minutes, time is somewhat of an irrelevancy for this dreamy instrumental guitar centered ep. There’s two important things going on here and I’m going to reference Grouper and Guided by Voices to explain it to you. The Grouper partContinue reading “having you, halving me by thought refuge”
Threshold of Eastern Octaves by Khem One
https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/threshold-of-eastern-octaves Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 Kim Cascone is one of the longest running most important names in the genre. He’s also a pioneering guitarist who redefines how we think of the instrument in a completely different galaxy than the Hendrix and Segovia galaxies. Along with a handful ofContinue reading “Threshold of Eastern Octaves by Khem One”
涉水来世 / Wading in the Afterlife (Original Soundtrack) by 天火见
https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/wading-in-the-afterlife-original-soundtrack Genre: New Age Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 4, 2022 Water is almost synonymous with life itself which makes drowning an ironic way to die. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 referenced the drowned woman on the album cover on this massively long released: https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/–42 Admittedly, all meaning is crypticContinue reading “涉水来世 / Wading in the Afterlife (Original Soundtrack) by 天火见”
Evolve by Motionfield
https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/album/evolve Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 1, 2022 Motionfield are a band that have been at it a while and have laid out some strong wood so before I start dropping influences I need to give the devil his due. This is a solid outfit on its own. Nods to that.Continue reading “Evolve by Motionfield”
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