Seefeel returns with their first new music since 2011. Sky Hooks is a 6-minute ambient IDM piece that is the first track off of the upcoming one-off 6-track mini-album ‘Everything Squared’ that will be released August 30th.
Following Decayed Society in 2012 and A Restless Mind 2020, Surfacing is the the third collaborative album between ASC & Sam KDC. It is six tracks of dark and melancholic yet relaxing drones and hypnotic melodies.
This is a collection of various Pioulard’s EPs spanning 2015 to 2023, and includes several tracks that were previously subscriber-only.
A staple of KMRU’s live show, this piece was inspired by Berlin’s relative silence compared to Nairobi’s constant sounds of birds, animals, chatter and electrical buzzes.
Possente Spirto is the first track released off of Davachi’s upcoming album, The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir.
The Los Angeles-based trio Total Blue combine synths, fretless bass, and guitar to create an album that traverses jazz, ambient, and dream-pop.
‘The Man From Nowhere’ is the first single off of the reissue of The Third Mind Movements by English music and visual arts group Throbbing Gristle. Having only been available as an exclusive release during the band’s last ever American tour in 2009, The Third Mind Movements will be released commercially for the first time on CD and vinyl on August 23rd.
Japanese ambient artist Michiru Aoyama, who gained renown for releasing an album a week, has released a collection of 1-hour albums that–if I’m interpreting the titles correctly–are to help you fall asleep. I’ve included volume 1 above, but the rest can be accessed via his Bandcamp discography.
Aphex Twin has announced an expanded edition of his 1994 LP Selected Ambient Works Volume II will be released in all formats for the first time October 4th. The expanded edition includes vinyl-only track “#19“ (AKA ‘Stone In Focus’), that is not the “#19” you’ll hear on streaming services like Spotify at the time of writing. It will also include “Th1 [Evnslower]” and “Rhubarb Orc. 19.53 Rev.”
Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, and veteran Italian producer Guido Zen, alias Abul Mogard, release their first collaborative album, via Caterina Barbieri’s light-years label.
This collaboration of 18 short tracks combines soft guitar, electronics and warped samples to send you in a dream-like state.
The opener on South Korean artist Yejin Jang‘s lastest solo EP combines ‘Love on a Train’-like arpeggios with indistinguishable vocal samples and fragments of sound that cut the otherwise calm nature of the track.
Everyone’s favorite Tokyo-based Ambient artist, Will Long returns with circa 58 minutes of ambient goodness that bobs and weaves between soothing and quasi-ominous sounds.
Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) and Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) collaborated on Disconnect, a combination of Martin’s deep dub and Kamaru’s voice, and ambient sensibilities.
A window into a serene Japanese valley.
This is the second charity compilation of ambient music by Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Ambient Curation. This time all proceeds (ex. Bandcamp fees) go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (www.pcrf.net). The compilations features the likes of Sam Prekop, M. Sage, and Oora.
Although there are many ambient tracks on The Black Dog’s latest album, it doesn’t stick to that genre but rather explores the various styles that have influenced or have been produced by the British electronic music group.
Originally released in 1998, this reissue of a little-known gem unites three giants in ambient music and was supposedly built from jams between Morris and Sharp in Hosono’s studio.
This is the third in a series of photo/music projects by Vancouver-based loscil (Scott Morgan). Umbel combines a photo zine that collects a series of full colour photos taken with long exposures in the dwindling light of dusk under a blossoming maple tree and an album (CD or digital).
Coil’s Drew McDowall, like in much of his work, was inspired by the elegiac solo bagpipe style called pibroch (ceòl mòr in Gaelic). He weaves electronic processing with an orchestral ensemble to create a tapestry of solemn moods and uneasy crescendos.
The first collaboration from renowned artists and composers, Akira Kosemura (Japan) and Lawrence English (Australia). Selene sounds and feels like an introspective celestial journey through our own desire to know what’s found in the great expanse of space.
UK jazzman Greg Foat and Italian electronic artist Gigi Masin join forces for this live performance recorded at Antonio Feola’s beloved Fish Factory Studios in London, in August 2022. The Fish Factory Sessions, an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2024.
This is a vinyl release and remaster of Celer’s 2012 CD-R and a good entry point into the middle period of Will Long’s catalogue.
This week’s ambient release from Michiru Aoyama. Mastered by kuuha.
Black is a dark dub ambient ode and deconstructed of Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’.
I’m not sure what Aruba means in Japanese. A first-person pronoun used to refer to oneself? To protect? Does it mean horse?
Electronic musician, electronic music instrument designer, and founder of Make Noise, Tony Rolando, created this music for his partner Kelly to listen to at her chemotherapy infusion sessions, and was designed to be easily listened to on repeat. Temporarily living in Boston for Kelly’s cancer treatment at the time, he only had a laptop with which to make music instead of his usual arsenal of Eurorack and other analog gear.
This music is free, anything paid for it will be donated to Dana Farber Cancer Center.
Polar Seas was a Toronto-based Ambient label that ceased operating last month (see the April 5th post for their 75th and final release) but has sprouted a new “cassette label” called floralia. This is release 01 for floralia.
Two remastered versions of what some would classify as Ambient classics. Dettinger’s music definitely falls into that rave chill-out zone sub-category of ambient, with its minimal beats that entrance you instead of making you move your feet.
First single off the upcoming In uno spazio immenso, the first collaborative album between Berlin-based Dutch-Italian composer and sound designer Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, and veteran Italian producer Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard, that releases June 21st.
The latest suite by Stars Of The Lid co-founder, Adam Wiltzie, was initially inspired by a recurring dream wherein “if someone listened to the music I created, then they would die.”
A sampler, some table-top synths, some guitar pedals, a Kalimba, some Modular, recorded in single takes straight to 1/4″ tape.
Christian Fennesz latest recording is part of an upcoming album due for release later this year.
Michiru Aoyama not only releases an Ambient album every
Although technically not new (previously available on a Japanese promo CD), and I don’t really categorize this as strictly Ambient music (a little too much percussion) but perhaps something more reminiscent of Downtempo, this 2003 commission by Italian fashion house Emigliano Zegna to soundtrack their Japanese debut gets an official release for Record Store Day 2024 and is worth a listen.
Romance and Not Waving’s collaboration draws inspiration from Botticelli’s iconic painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ and combines charts with strings, tape loops and synthy goodness.
OK, this one’s got a driving beat, but I’ll allow it anyway because who doesn’t like Jon Hopkins? His new album RITUAL will be out August 30th.