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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: February 7, 2025

The Milky Sea – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has released the first single off of his upcoming full-length Gift Songs (March 21, 2025). Coming in at a hair over 20 minutes, if the The Milky Sea is an indication, Cantu-Ledesma’s new album will be one of the best ambient releases of 2025. Also, if you pre-order the album, Mexican Summer will be donating 100% of Bandcamp Sales to MusiCares that provides crisis relief, preventive care, recovery resources, and need-based financial assistance for people across all music professions.

Koselig – Benoît Pioulard, Viul, From Overseas, zakè, Marc Ertel, Wayne Robert Thomas

To celebrate Zakè Drone Recordings’ 5th anniversary, they released Koselig—a curated collection of long-form compositions featuring Zach Frizzell’s (zakè) close friends:  From Overseas, Benoît Pioulard, Wayne Robert Thomas, Marc Ertel, and Viul.

Metals – Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon’s debut album Metals features his custom Spinning Plate Instrument, that he first started experimenting with in 2018, and is a kind of idiophone featuring 9 suspended plates of different sizes that can rotate freely on the vertical axis, modulating the tones produced when struck.

Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds – Lawrence English

The Art Gallery Of NSW curator Jonathan Wilson invited Lawrence English to create a sound environment, reflecting on the Naala Badu building (meaning ‘seeing water’ in the Gadigal language) that opened in 2022. Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds is the piece that was offered as an atmospheric tint to visitors walking through the building throughout the year following its opening.

Ways To The Deep Meadow – Ocean Moon

Ocean Moon is one of the aliases of producer and Lo Recordings label head Jon Tye. This release is tranquil, hypnotic, and borders on New Age but is also reminiscent of the ambient lounges of techno’s yesteryear.

Sleep Deprivation [Broadcast channel] – The Black Dog

The Black Dog have created a broadcast project to share new music, share rarities, play live, and feature other artists. They’re broadcasting on YouTube, Twitch, and Kick. They’ve set a goal to get 1000 subscribers on YouTube and reach 3000 watch hours…so go subscribe! They’re still testing the software and bandwidth, so it could be a little rough around the edges, but it has always worked well for me.

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: August 16, 2024

Op. 448, Adagio (Hallucination archive) – Benoît Pioulard

Thomas Meluch, aka Benoît Pioulard, was inspired by British playwright Sarah Kane’s last work ‘4.48 Psychosis’ to create this intertwisting of ambient and lo-fi guitar lines.

ShellType – Lawrence English

Lawrence English’s latest album comes from the artist’s life-long questioning of humankind’s relationship with technology, and how what was once thought of unreachable or distant often becomes reality, especially in this new AI era.

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: July 19, 2024

Collected EPs [2015​-​2023] – Benoît Pioulard

This is a collection of various Pioulard’s EPs spanning 2015 to 2023, and includes several tracks that were previously subscriber-only.

Natur – KMRU

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 – Sarah Davachi

Possente Spirto is the first track released off of Davachi’s upcoming album, The Head As Form​’​d In The Crier​’​s Choir.

Total Blue – Total Blue

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 – Throbbing Gristle

‘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.

An hour of sleep – Michiru Aoyama

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.