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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: 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.