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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: August 30, 2024

Gems III – Celer

Will Long, AKA Celer, has released an excerpt from his upcoming October 18, 2024 release.

September 23rd (Excerpt 1) – William Basinski

William Basinski has announced a tour, a new archival album and has shared the song above from the album. The Fall ’24 tour dates are in the USA and one in Canada (Vancouver BC). The upcoming LP is named September 23rd and will arrive on September 27. It is the first record in a new series Basinski is calling Arcadia Archive, an ongoing archival collection dedicated to the discovery and recovery of his work.

Everything Squared – Seefeel

A 6-track mini-album mainly composed and performed by Seefeel’s core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock. Their last EP, Reduct, dates from 2021.

Black Bile – Umberto

Inspired by the ancient Greek theory of the “four humors,” LA composer Matt Hill’s Black Bile is the perfect album to fully adopt your end-of-summer melancholy.

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: June 14, 2024

Gems II – Celer

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.

Disconnect – KRM & KMRU

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.

Backo – Michiru Aoyama

A window into a serene Japanese valley.

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: May 24, 2024

Perfectly Beneath Us – Celer

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.

Manabin – Michiru Aoyama

This week’s ambient release from Michiru Aoyama. Mastered by kuuha.

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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.”

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Ambient Music Releases of the Week: March 1, 2024

Indigo – loscil // lawrence english

Indigo is the first single from the Lawrence English and loscil collaborative album, Chroma, that releases April 5, 2024.

The Depth of Rain – Bvdub

The Depth of Rain is the new LP by Brock Van Wey (bvdub) born through finding a handmade steel tongue drum, made by his girlfriend’s uncle.

33 34 – NPVR

33 34 is the final release by the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Colk Void, NPVR.

Ambients – Oneohtrix Point Never

Ambients is an EP mostly comprised of previously released Oneohtrix Point Never tracks with the exception of the opening track, CC.

At Dusk Hour the Crickets – Kilometer Club

At Dusk Hour the Crickets incorporates field recordings of crickets, wind and campers’ chatter that Daniel Field captured by leaving his field recorder on top of his car on a warm, late-summer night in Oro-Medonte, Ontario.

Cursory Asperses – Celer

Not necessarily a new release for Celer as it was originally released as a limited edition CD-R in 2008, Cursory Asperses, an album that combines cassette tape recordings of sounds from various bodies of water and tape instrument recordings from synthesizers, an organ, cello, piano, and bowed instruments, is now available on Bandcamp.