Aphex Twin – Eric Morello

Ambient Music Releases of the Week: September 6, 2024

Control Your Soul’s Desire for Freedom – Rafael Anton Irisarri

I really like this new track by Irisarri. It goes real low, real crunchy, and real wide. It’s the first track off of his upcoming LP, FAÇADISMS, releasing November 8^th, 2024. It features Julia Kent on cello and Hannah Elizabeth Cox on vocals.

IV – Alessandro Cortini

‘IV’ is the penultimate movement from Cortini’s Nati Infiniti, a 40-minute piece based on an immersive audio installation that he created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 presented at the Museu de Lisboa’s Moagem.

th1 [evnslower] – Aphex Twin

New Aphex Twin! Well, not really, but this is the first time it is officially on streaming. Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edtion) will be out October 4^th in various formats via Warp.

Migratory – Masayoshi Fujita

The Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player was inspired to create this new solo album by his return to his native Japan with his family in 2020, after 13 years of living in Berlin, fulfilling his dream of living and composing music in the midst of nature.

Temporary Stored II – KMRU

KMRU created the original Temporary Stored as a response to gaining access to the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and reckoned with the collective inheritance of colonial (sound) archives. Temporary Stored II extends the original album by inviting other artists (Aho Ssan, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kariũki and Jessica Ekomane) to draw upon their listening experiences of museum archives holding recordings of African songs, traditions and practices.

Ambient Music Releases of the Week: June 21, 2024

#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 4^th. 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.