Kontrapunkt – Markus Guentner
A Strangely Isolated Place artist Markus Guentner’s Kontrapunkt is an 8-track collaborative album that includes some of the best contemporary ambient artists such as Abul Mogard, Benoît Pioulard and Arovane.
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#19 – Aphex Twin
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.”
In uno spazio immenso – Grand River and Abul Mogard
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.
Salt And Sugar Look The Same – Tim Koh / Sun An
This collaboration of 18 short tracks combines soft guitar, electronics and warped samples to send you in a dream-like state.
b_b – Yetsuby
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.
Chemo Sessions – Tony Rolando
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.
stray light – anthéne
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.
Intershop / Oasis – Dettinger
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.
Dissolvi – Grand River & Abul Mogard
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.
Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal – Adam Wiltzie
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.”
Rendezvous – Jogging House
A sampler, some table-top synths, some guitar pedals, a Kalimba, some Modular, recorded in single takes straight to 1/4″ tape.
Sognato di Domani – Fennesz
Christian Fennesz latest recording is part of an upcoming album due for release later this year.
Tsuta – Michiru Aoyama
Michiru Aoyama not only releases an Ambient album every
Impossibly distant, impossibly close – Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri
This release is borne of a remote partnership that was ignited during a 2023 performance Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri did in Madrid for the opening of the SoundSet Series at the Condeduque cultural center.