Ambient
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Audiopile Review: This is actually 2024 release that we caught up to a bit late, but rectifying the oversight now. Issued last year on Levain, one segment of the growing circle of labels emanating from the crucial Danish Safe Distribution, Goesun reps their pleasingly warm aesthetic perfectly with a long...
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Audiopile Review: New age legend Ariel Kalma is clearly unable to rest on his laurels and be JUST a new age legend. While his music has always been as spiritually blissed as you could hope for, it has a rigour that Kalma clearly learned when studying electro-acoustic music at France’s...
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Audiopile Review: If you’re running a record store, unclassifiable musicians represent both a blessing and a curse. We love Annette Peacock, Grace Jones, Virginia Astley, Arthur Russell, and the godlike Peter Hammill. But it’s often hard to know where to put them, in a very literal, physical sense. To this...
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Audiopile Review: Loraine James has built an impeccable track record in the UK electronic scene. When working under her own name, she leans into IDM, while her Whatever the Weather moniker gives space for her ambient inclinations. This latest entry refines the sounds of the project's debut with a sharper...
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Japanese artists Yumiko Morioka and Takashi Kokubo unite for Gaiaphilia, a journey through ambient soundscapes that seamlessly blends Morioka’s graceful piano compositions with Kokubo’s immersive field recordings and atmospheric synthesisers. This collaboration brings together two of Japan’s most influential pioneers in ambient and new age music, each with decades of...
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After a limited self-release in 2022, Extravision, the deeply therapeutic musico-psychonautic offering from experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee has received the Leaving Records “all genre” re-release treatment, with the understanding that more listeners should hear with this vulnerable and graceful document. The record is, in a word, a balm. Like a...
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Bundle edition of 50, includes vol.1-3 digital download All three Nico Georis Plant Music volumes on vinyl: 2LP: Vol.1 - Shirley, Shirley Shirley! (runtime 73min) includes Shirley's Temple zine. LP: Vol.2 - Creosote (runtime 30min) includes loads of personal DIY craft touches from Nico: a dried creosote sprig...
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Experience the high strangeness of plant music—plants that “sing.” For years musician Nico Georis has used biofeedback instruments to connect a variety of flora to analog synthesizers, letting their biodata create music that is strange and existentially gorgeous. Nico’s work in plant music happened during a six year span, and...
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Portland-based ambient architect and far afield sound technician Graintable, aka James Cooke returns with his debut outing on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By and his fourth in the R$N stable; 'Blue Flax'. Following his acclaimed and sold out cassette releases 'Herons', 'Universal Ash' and ‘The Rain In The Trees’...
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Audiopile Review: Silent State Recordings faithfully restore another classic from the expansive and daunting Pete Namlook catalog, this time around landing on his beloved Dreamfish project, a duo alongside UK chill out specialist DJ Mixmaster Morris. The first of two releases from Dreamfish, it’s also one of the few FAX...
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Audiopile Review: A weird theory: when a serious artist gets goofy, it stinks, but when a goofy artist gets serious, it rules. Does anyone think ‘The Laughing Gnome’ is David Bowie’s best song? Or how about Bowie’s hero, the godlike Peter Hammill? As we’re sure you’ve noticed, his novelty single...
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Another fine out-of-print album from 1984 from the Japanese bassist/keyboardist. This one is mellow and quite easy to get into. Composed by Yoshio Suzuki. Suzuki plays all the instruments on tracks 3-10. Musicians: Yoshio Suzuki (all tracks): Acoustic and Electric Pianos, Synthesizers, Upright and Electric Bass, (also Linn Drum machine...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back hitters from the increasingly crucial Balmat Records, this new one courtesy of Belgian producer Le Motel, which chases last week’s slow-mo acid ambience from DOVS. Le Motel is a new name to us, but a little research has revealed a decade+ career of the producer...
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Audiopile Review: Any genre you may think is uniquely anglophonic will eventually reveal an international cohort of practitioners. But it takes time. We’re only just starting to see ambient music’s global reach. And as we do, it’s feels like this uniquely amorphous style was designed to shape itself to the...
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“This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way he hears it. An understanding of space within the music, nothing there that doesn’t need to be and an attention...
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Audiopile Review: Balmat Records, who, at this point, need little introduction to our regular readers, follow up last year’s bounty of six full lengths by kicking off 2025 with the second album from DOVS, the cross-continental collab between Johannes Auvinen (best known as acid techno expert Tin Man), and Mexico...
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"Echospace [Detroit] is the label launched by Rod Modell (Deepchord) and Soultek's Steven Hitchell, two leading lights of the minimal dub techno scene. And as with anything Deepchord, the entire release has an air of mystery to it. Previously, as a near-mythical vinyl pressing with minimal packaging and restricted pressings,...
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Music to Watch Seeds Grow By continues its series of plant-inspired soundscapes with new work from Pittsburgh-based sound artist Davis Galvin. This composition focuses on the Delphinium Elatum, capturing the quiet drama of this striking perennial through carefully constructed ambient textures. Where their previous work explored the complex electronic territories...
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Audiopile Review: NYC-based producer X Or Size orbits the shop for a third time with his newest release, clinching his third ROTW ring and reaching rarified air here at the shop (your commemorative plaque awaits you). If you’ve missed our previous gushings, X Or Size is the pseudonym of Josiah...
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Audiopile Review: The second of two must-hear albums from Norwegian imprint Smalltown Supersound this week is a new collab between the famed trumpeter and ECM heavyweight Arve Henriksen, who teams up with Estonian guitarist Robert Jürjendal. A constant point of reference here at Audiopile HQ is Jon Hassell, his groundbreaking...
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Audiopile Review: Does Actress still use that logo, based on the badge of the Wolverhampton Wanderers soccer team? Is it true that he was once a junior player for Wolves before an injury led him to concentrate on music? Is Vic Godard from Subway Sect really a postman? Is he...
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Audiopile Review: Hotham Sound voyage back to Montreal after their recent cross-continental offering from Frédérique Duval under her Fumerolles guise, this time pulling in her partner, Christian Richer, aka Élément Kuuda, both of whom ought to be familiar if you’ve been following our recent tape recommendations in our weekly emails....
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"Groggy, engrossing new work from Ulla under their newly minted U.e. tag, riffing to the sublime on a set of (mostly) acoustic reveries that tap into the kind of smokey vapours favoured by the likes of Vincent Gallo, Voice Actor, Jonnine. Oh aye, it’s a special one. A new year,...
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Audiopile Review: Truly innovative work by true innovators is too easily forgotten. The godlike Peter Hammill was a central inspiration for acts ranging from David Bowie to The Fall to Soft Cell, but when was the last time you heard his name mentioned? Okay, apart from in this newsletter? Anyway,...
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Audiopile Review: Wide-vista ambient zoners from Aussie duo Tunnel Dancers, made up of Jackson Fester and Hugh Burridge—the latter known under his Hugh B guise and the humble trail of releases on Not Not Fun and Planet Trip, while the former is best known as Cousin, who has had us...
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Yunam is a Montreal-based electronic music producer with a background in experimental, band, and improvised music. He crafts musical soundscapes that blend the intensity of techno with emotional chord progressions, resulting in a sonic environment that evokes both melancholy and a sense of science fiction. "We first met Emmanuel Cameron...
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"A prolific musician for many years, Lush Vegetation isn’t J.T. Gladysz’s first album, but rather his solo debut as a composer of ambient electronic music. Clocking in around 40 minutes across ten tracks, it was recorded between his home studio in Vancouver and a cabin on Gossip Island. An overall...
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New full-length LP from Toronto producer, DJ and recording artist Tony Price on his Maximum Exposure label. Host of “The Maximum Exposure Power Hour” on NTS Radio “Requiem For The Ontario Science Centre” is Tony’s ninth full-length LP since 2017, following a series of acclaimed records on labels like L.I.E.S....
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"Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in And Out and Sketches For World of Echo (AU 1029CD) offer two intimate unedited Arthur Russell solo live performances recorded at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85 and 06/25/84. Phill curated and produced with Arthur both concerts at EI...
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Audiopile Review: Blue Lake follows up his breakthrough LP, 2023’s Sun Arcs, with a mini-LP that’s apparently a warm-up for an as-of-yet officially announced full length due later this year. Weft continues down the same path that Sun Arcs initially set us on—the dusty Americana of his roots in Texas...
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Four pieces by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, a pioneer of “holy minimalism.” The album centers around a never-before-released rendition of “Silentium,” the second movement of Pärt’s most famous concerto, Tabula Rasa, performed by Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry. The group plays “Silentium” at nearly half the speed of the...
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Audiopile Review: In the UK’s post-Burial landscape, the underground has been slowly reshaping hip-hop and R&B with nocturnal, ambient-leaning textures. With a pair of preceding mixtapes, Iceboy Violet has risen up as a vital new voice alongside the likes of John Glacier, Space Afrika, Rainy Miller, and Jawnino. Enter Nueen....
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Audiopile Review: Say what you like about the reissue industrial complex, but it does a great job of shining a light on the lesser-known work of classic artists. Juan Atkins aka Model 500 is legendary as one of techno’s original architects. Perhaps inevitably, the 12” singles Atkins released in the...
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We are excited to announce that our first release of 2025 will be ‘Ways To The Deep Meadow’, an album from Ocean Moon, the alias of producer Jon Tye. In addition to running the long-standing label Lo Recordings, Tye has recorded under various names and been involved in numerous projects...
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Following up on 2021’s Scuro Chiaro, NATI INFINITI is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 where it was presented across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Moagem. Cortini later debuted the...
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"Frankly unmissable if even just for the album’s opening killer ’040468’ - named for the day MLK departed - which sounds better than ever on its sumptuous vinyl cut, ‘Tranquilizer EP3’ is the one the stans have been eagerly awaiting. It brings to a close a necessary reissue series for...
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WRWTFWW Records presents its third collaboration with Japanese electronic/ambient/synth-pop crew Interior, this time with the release of band member Daisuke Hinata's forgotten solo treasure from 1989: Tarzanland. The feel-good/smooth ride LP is available as a limited-edition turquoise and light pink vinyl housed in a heavyweight 350gsm sleeve with obi strip....
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Audiopile Review: You may know Masahiro Sugaya from his contribution to the much-loved compilation ‘Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990’. Just over a minute of tinkling, plinking ambiance, ‘Umi No Sunatsubu’ somehow manages to be one of the highlights of a very stacked comp. The truth...
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A limited triple vinyl and double CD set capturing the one and only Four Tet live at Alexandra Palace, London on 24th May 2023....
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Coming from the vaults of one of the label heads—Golden Ivy—this single presents a full-circle baleo-industrial experience that makes its mark as a firm revisit to the label after some time spent being harbored by other imprints. The foundation upon which this release stands originally stems from a sample from...
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Japanese composer Hiroko Matsuzaki began her classic music career as a flutist, and from 1985 to 1987 she worked as a studio musician as a flute/synthesiser player based in London, gaining an excellent reputation abroad without passing through the Japanese music scene. Simon Jeffs of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra heard...
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Audiopile Review: As they exit their fourth and busiest year yet, Balmat Records—co-run by music journalist Philip Sherburne (we highly recommend subscribing to his Futurism Restated Substack!)— returns Sherburne’s roots in Portland, Oregon for the newest LP from Luke Wyland. A long-time member of the electronic and experimental scene of...
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Audiopile Review: Shop fave Matt Karmil returns after a four-year hiatus, arriving on the Studio Barnhaus imprint after his impressive stint of records on Smalltown Supersound and PNN. His previous album, 2020’s STS371, broke open his usual brand of submerged ambient-house with a turn towards Actress-esque hazy techno and blurred...
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By the early 1990s, multidisciplinary thinker, philosopher and mystic Terrence McKenna had found himself to be one of the darlings of the burgeoning rave scene - going on to become one of the most sampled voices in dance music to this day. However, the very high point of...
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Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic. FLORA was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and remained unreleased until 2006, nearly three years after Yoshimura’s passing in 2003. The album is chronologically and...
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Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic. FLORA was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and remained unreleased until 2006, nearly three years after Yoshimura’s passing in 2003. The album is chronologically and...
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Recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris and one and a half years after releasing his magnum opus "Music For Animals"—described by PopMatters as “a musical waterfall of monumental proportions”—Nils Frahm shares a new live album via his LEITER label. In what’s becoming a tradition, it follows 2013’s "Spaces", a Pitchfork...
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Elkan’s self titled debut LP is in a way a lifelong album in the making, it contains all the growing pains, internet isolation, losing one’s self and finding it again, flourishing and finally releasing. Most of all it’s like finding a little portal out of our universe into a new...
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