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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: March 21, 2025

Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Shakers came to America 250 years ago and instruments (female acolytes) of the religion would create “gift drawings” based on reported visions of the spirit realm–gifts from God. Cantu-Ledesma’s anticipated release comes from a similar place, in that the artist believes music is a gift, but also the influence of practicing as a Zen priest and a hospice worker.

Banshee / Basse Brevis – François J. Bonnet / Sarah Davachi

This isn’t a collaboration but a combined release by Portraits GRM. Banshee is composed from materials collected on the Isles of Mull, Staffa and Skye, Inner Hebrides, and feels like you are traveling to and from, and to and fro, these seaside locations. It’s orchestral, and evokes the natural and foreign simultaneously.

The Reverent Sky – Steve Roach

It’s not the sheer volume of Steve Roach’s output that amazes me, it’s that all that output is always of such a high quality.

Siamo tutti in pericolo – Golem Mecanique

Drones layered with chants give this Golem Mecanique release a liturgical feel.

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: April 19, 2024

Entai – Michiru Aoyama

Michiru Aoyama practices Zen Buddhism for 3 hours every weekend at a temple. Then, the ambient music just comes out of him.

It Would Be Giving Up –Celer

Although It Would Be Giving Up is not a new release as it was released digitally in August of 2020, the album is now shipping as a 4-CD set.

Moving –Yorkshire Modular Society

Described as a cathartic exploration of loss and love, Moving is a tribute to the the artist’s late father.

Lysergic Lullabies – Ogle

Rome, Italy based artist Ogle describes Lysergic Lullabies as “a collection of lullabies that sounds both reassuring and warm but at the same time also psychedelic and otherworldly.”