Ambient
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Electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer Cole Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On the meditative ambient jazz of Land’s End Eternal, Cole adds a welcome new texture with the introduction of the electric guitar, an instrument previously unheard in their music, which took on a central role as a compositional...
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Moving Day captures André 3000 in a very important time. Before New Blue Sun was recorded, filmmaker Dexter Navy films André in Venice Beach, California. The day happened to be when André was moving out of his home and into a new place. The score for Moving Day is a...
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Compiled by Tsunaki Kadowaki artwork by Yoshirotten mastering by Kuniyuki Takahashi Tsunaki Kadowaki, a staff member at Kyoto’s record store Meditations, the supervisor of "New Age Music Disc Guide", and the founder of Sad Disco, curates the fourth installment of "Midnight in Tokyo" themed around Ambient Kayo. The Midnight in...
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Audiopile Review: Vancouver’s own Scott Morgan, aka Loscil, has amassed a large, varied discography since his 2001 debut for Kranky. That album, ‘Triple Point’, announced a major new talent, and a distinctive new voice, in electronic music. Previously, Morgan had been best known as the drummer in Destroyer. But ‘Triple...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season reissues keep coming! A mere week after gushing about Purl’s Stillpoint finally coming to vinyl, ASC follows suit with one of his CD-only releases for the label that’s also been hopelessly OOP for years, now going for eye-popping sums online. Much like Purl, ASC, the...
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Audiopile Review: Yumiko Morioka’s 1987 sole release Resonance, a kankyō ongaku classic, is mercifully repressed by Métron Records, who initially reissued it back in 2020, those copies now hitting triple digits price points online. Considered a notable part of the Japanese Environmental Music movement of the 1980s, Resonance actually has...
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Audiopile Review: NYC-based composer Lori Saxl hits close to home on her new mini-album, acting as a companion piece to her Earth Focus LP issued just last year. The EP, simply titled Texada, was created for an NFB documentary that examines the manmade and natural changes of the evolving limestone...
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SHITSURAI unfolds like ambient origami, embodying the essence of Japan’s age-old traditions and the ephemeral beauty of its changing seasons. Conceived as a commissioned work for Japanese integrated art brand WARA, Hiroshima-based composer Meitei (Daisuke Fujita) sculpts a soundwoven narrative inspired by the 24 sekki — nature’s poetic calendar of...
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Taba, the new album from Japanese musician, songwriter and traveller Satomimagae, unfolds as a series of vignettes that document both the personal and the universal, seen and unseen. Observing and absorbing the fleeting scenes and sounds of life flowing outside of her home studio, Satomi sings beyond herself, in an...
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‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886 Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret...
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Following the much-lauded trio of meditations, from Woo, Davis Galvin and Graintable, that launched the series, "Cosmos" continues the label's gentle exploration of music to accompany moments of nurture and patience. This composition from E Ruscha V, once again mirrors the quiet and satisfying tending of the season ahead, creating...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season catalog is a dense one. Though the label has been dormant for a few years now—label head Jamie McCue currently focusing on his dub-forward 7 inch-only imprint Moon Garden—this week and next will see first-time vinyl pressings of a pair of releases, dusting off some...
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More than two decades since he blew minds with a suite of brilliant releases on Warp, Vincent Gallo returns to the world of music at long last in Butterfly, his duo with Harper Simon, with the project’s full-length debut, “The Music of Butterfly”. A gesture of gentle, DIY / bedroom...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Music From Memory is proud to present ‘SUN SHONE’ by Loradeniz, the multidisciplinary music and art project of Istanbul-born, Amsterdam-based Deniz Omeroglu. ‘SUN SHONE’ marks the arrival of her debut full-length album: eight tracks of ambient electronic music painted masterfully with a palette of synthesizers, effects, percussion and ethereal voice....
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No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler. After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country...
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Under his Blendreed nom de plume, French saxophonist Musina Ebobissé follows the success of 2024’s “ARMAUN” EP with a revived and ramped-up reissue of his second album “Tales Of Tides”, originally self-released digitally in late 2022. Imagine yourself floating on a vast expanse of water with no sight of land....
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Audiopile Review: Every great artist has a singular moment when they produce something unique and unrepeatable. Arthur Russell clearly knew this, as he never even tried to recapture the magic unleashed by 1987’s ‘World of Echo’. Using voice and processed cello, Russell pulled nine-dimensional song structures from that ethereal zone...
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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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The classic spacy and deeply electronic album by Thomas p. Heckmann. Inspired by the german 60s science fiction series Raumpatrouille Orion....
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Sean La’Brooy is an Australian sound artist and composer currently based in New York, who’s work traverses ambient, jazz and electronics. With this release, Le’Brooy has hooked up with the Scissor and Thread label to put out Merchant - five pieces of dreamy, abstracted and genreless music featuring his distinct...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Audiopile Review: Hot on the heels of Music For Bus Stations, his overt nod to Brian Eno, Rod Modell burrows even deeper into finely detailed ambient immersion with the appropriately titled Northern Michigan Snowstorms. Once again landing on Italian imprint 13, the label has been a primary outlet for Modell...
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Audiopile Review: Since the dissolution of ambient post-rock legends Labradford in the early 2000s, Mark Nelson has made loads of excellent albums as Pan American. What started out as a more electronically inclined side project has blossomed into a formidable back catalogue. If we’re honest, for us, little of it...
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Audiopile Review: Like Oren Ambarchi, Lawrence English emerged from Australia in the early 2000s producing edgy takes on post-Fennesz ambient music. The similarities don’t end there. They’ve both recorded for Touch, they both run phenomenal experimental music labels (Black Truffle and Room 40), and they both have large back catalogues...
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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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The third installment of a series of mini albums opens with previous single, Los Claveles 36, a sublime strummed summer samba, that dances to the percussion of Pablo`s pal, Berlin Lama. This latin, Brazilian flavour, and Berlin`s fervor, also drives the balearic bossa of Recuerdos. Señor Color constructs El Beso...
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With guitarist and ambient composer Joel Shearer’s new album, Listening, he took the path of repetition, subtle movement, and pure sound rather than conventional songwriting. What began as a disciplined experiment — limiting himself to just electric guitar — soon expanded. At various points, he introduced piano, cello, and trumpet,...
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Previously unreleased music from the archives of Can cofounder Holger Czukay will be released as an album in the new year. Out on March 28th through Grönland Records, Gvoon - Brennung 1 contains 65 minutes of material that's believed to date back to the '90s. The genesis for the release...
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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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Hiroshi Yoshimura was commissioned in 1984 by Japanese multi-national personal care company Shiseido to create something that might be entirely out of his own wheelhouse: music that could complement a fragrance. Mixing bird song and sea sound with environmental field recordings, plus the usual electronics paraphernalia, he just released something...
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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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Originally released in 1993, The Brown Album marked a significant evolution in Orbital's sound -- and was met with widespread critical acclaim. NME awarded it 9/10 in their review, and it was chosen as one of Mixmag's best albums of all time. Standout track, "Halcyon + On + On", became...
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Sailing beyond the boundaries of electronic music, Purelink embrace liquidity on their second album, washing live instrumentation and exposed vocals over their patented cascade of dubbed ambience and ebbing rhythmic experimentation. Since 2020, Tommy Paslaski (aka Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (aka kindtree) and Akeem Asani (aka Millia) have channeled their...
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