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Richard Skelton * Madeleine Cocolas

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2025/07/18

RICHARD SKELTON - THE SECOND CHAMBER Apart from releasing his work through various channels, Richard Skelton also runs a private label named Sustain-Release, releasing 'a string of hermetic, landscape-oriented albums under a series of pseudonyms' since 2005. To mark the 20 years anniversary of Sustain-Release (which, incidentally, coincides with Ambientblog's own anniversary this year), Skelton did not choose to release a retrospective collection or a set of unreleased material, but presents

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DreamScenes – July 2025

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2025/07/13

Muzak For The Encouragement Of Unproductivity Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:31 Reggie Hubbard / Stephane Pigeon - Gong Bath (fragment)Gong Bath, 2025, MyNoise.net 03:56 Trondheim Voices & Asle Karstad - The HealingSobre Las Olas (OST), 2025, DL MNJ Records 06:07 Michel Banabila - Through Global Frequency (First Mix)Through Global Frequency, 2025, Tapu Records 09:26 Music For Isolation - Om MorgenenSvalbard, 2025, self-released (tba) 12:08 The Newton

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Hler * Polaroid Notes

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2025/07/07

HLER - ANCIENT GROUNDSHLER is a Finnish duo that has been releasing music since 2018 (including LGM-1 in 2020). The duo's name comes from the intials of its members: Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho (also known as Lackluster), who both were active musicians already before they became a duo. I'm not sure if the word ('hler') means anything, but according to their own description it also "describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo: Heikki mining for sound, Esa

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Sadie Powers * Kurt Liedwart

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2025/07/02

SADIE POWERS - SOUVENIRSadie Powers is a bassist and sound artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has a wide range of experience: she performed with Shearwater, Ed Rodriguez (Deerhoof), Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), and many other artists, composed works for ensemble and dance and has a considerable track record in the field of musique concrète, ambient, and electroacoustic music. On her solo album Souvenir, her music is a meditation on loss and grief. "Between 2020 and 2022, a significant number of

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Donohoe / Carr * Berger * Ristić

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2025/06/26

DAVID DONOHOE & KATE CARR - A STORM AND ITS AFTERMATHField recordings can be an enjoyable listening experience, but at what moment can it be considered 'music'? That, of course, depends on your personal definition and experience, but personally, I think it becomes music when the recordings get manipulated and restructured by the composer. Like Edgar Varèse said, "Music is organized sound." With that definition, A Storm And Its Aftermath can definitely be seen as a musical composition

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DreamScenes – June 2025

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2025/06/08

REVERIETracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:44 Deaf Center - Erie (Excerpt 1)Reverie, 2025, Sonic Pieces 03:23 Zyklen - Legend Of Cape BojadorDesire Paths, 2025, Owl Totem 06:36 RL Huber - DagosDagos, 2025, self-released 10:24 Philippe Deschamps - Shapes Of The SeaEndless Vanishing Lines, 2025, self-released 13:56 The Harp Players - Some Place I KnowDestruction, 2025, Constellation Tatsu 18:15 Caldon Glover - A Dream About A StrangerEternal Night Radio, 2025,

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Richard Hamilton * Anthony Pateras

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2025/05/29

RICHARD HAMILTON - DEUS EX MACHINAWhen a co-owner of a post-production sound studio, film/tv composer, award-winning sound designer (who worked for clients like Google, NASA, etc) releases his own debut album, it's time to pay attention. Deus Ex Machina is a captivating sonic journey that showcases Richard Hamilton's many years of sound design experience. 'Deus Ex Machina' is used in film making or storytelling when 'a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly

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Di Domenico / Zuydervelt * Hara Alonso

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2025/04/22

GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO / RUTGER ZUYDERVELT - PAINT A PICTURE - PICTURE A PAINTINGGiovanni Di Domenico and Rutger Zuydervelt first met in 2019 for a short live improv set. Later, in 2022, Di Domenico also performed live with the Hydra Ensemble. As things go, the two decided to work on a collaboration project Paint A Picture - Picture A Painting are the titles of the two tracks on this album. With their relatively short length (13:10 and 17:46) they are perfectly fitted for a vinyl release

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Ben Bertrand * Guentner / Spieth

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2025/04/17

BEN BERTRAND - RELIC RADIATIONRelic Radiation is Ben Bertrand's fourth solo album since his 2018 debut NGC 1999 (not counting two collaboration albums with Otto Lindholm and Manah Depauw), and the second release on the Belgian Stroom.tv label. If you've heard his music before (or saw him perform live, which I heartily recommend) you'll have no problem recognizing his sound. The way he plays his (bass) clarinet and embeds it into abstract layers of electronics is a personal 'interpretation

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DreamScenes – April 2025

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2025/04/13

Two Hundred Words For Loneliness Tracklist 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:30 Rebekka Karijord - Megafauna Pt. 1The Bell Tower, 2025, Bella Union 02:11 Ben Bertrand - Big BounceRelic Radiation, 2025, Stroom 07:51 RL Huber - Universe For OneHafgufa, 2025, Self-Released 11:39 Bitoi - Bu-Ru-SeSirkulu, 2025, Supertraditional Records 15:37 Maya Fridman - Fjóla Evans: Vatnaskuggi - Meeting Your Water ShadowOrdo Ritualis - Black Edition, 2025, Trptk 20:17 Brannan Lane -

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Opus (Mix)

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2025/04/02

[audio src="https://www.ambientblog.net/mix/Opus.mp3" controls /]Maybe I should begin with a disclaimer: this one is different from the previous mixes.After publishing many ambient mix-collages (87 and counting!), I decided to challenge myself. What if I combined ambient soundscapes and classical music? Would that work out? This proved to be more difficult than I expected. It proved to be much easier to combine abstract atmospheric music than ambient music with 'program music' like

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Paul Beaudoin

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2025/03/19

PAUL BEAUDOIN - ICOSA / MOON WOKE ME NINE TIMESUntil recently I had not heard of Paul Beaudoin before. This felt weird when I checked out his Bandcamp page: no less than 30 releases since 2020. And that is only his musical output: as an 'interdisciplinary artist', he also works with paint, video, and text. But it was even more remarkable when I found out Beaudoin is an academically trained composer (with a Ph.D. in music theory and composition) who published on John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, and

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Kate Carr – Rubber Band Music

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2025/03/14

KATE CARR - RUBBER BAND MUSIC Kate Carr is unafraid to take things a few steps further and go where others hesitate to go - last December's Rubbish Music, which was literally created using rubbish, is a great example. "Everything from vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, to indistinct murmurs, music in public space, and the roar of distant sporting events has found its way into my compositions." Carr's growing catalogue of works was released on various labels, but mostly on Flaming Pines

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DreamScenes – March 2025

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2025/03/09

Dreams RememberedTracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:20 Clima - Mutant Dub (edit)Appx:15 Transient State, 2025, appendix.files 02:11 Rutger Zuydervelt - Concrete FieldsMicrotopia (Original Game Score), 2025, self-released 07:13 Robert Farrugia - Qabru (Radio Version)Natura Maltija, 2025, Phantom Limb 09:59 Erik K Skodvin - Alone In The DarkFrom Darkness (OST), 2025, Miasma Recordings 11:30 Jacob Kirkegaard - AnimalSnowblind, 2025, The Helen Scarsdale

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Philippe Deschamps * Arborescence

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2025/03/06

PHILIPPE DESCHAMPS - REMEMBER THE CLOUDS Philippe Deschamps is a French composer and sound engineer who primarily composes and creates film music but also releases ambient music. Most of his releases are short: there is only one full album listed on Discogs, next to 15 EPs. With its 14+ minutes, Remember The Clouds is also one of these EP's. All tracks on this mini-album are created with a Telecaster guitar, 'and a volume pedal to soften the attack'. Wind sounds and bass were added, as well

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Cameron MacNair * Wil Bolton

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2025/03/01

CAMERON MACNAIR - TO MAKE THE BODY GLOWThis one has been waiting on my 'to-do list' for some time. In the past few weeks I noticed I regularly returned to this album (which is always a good sign).Cameron MacNair is a Seattle-based composer and musician. Some of you may know his work as Carbon in Prose. He has a background in music technology and traditional instrumentation, and holds a Master of Science degree in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh. His work

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James Murray * Lantscap * Ian Hawgood

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2025/02/24

JAMES MURRAY - SAFEHAVEN James Murray's Landscapes of Lovers was originally released on the Fluid Audio label in 2018. But the releases on that label usually sell out quickly, so a physical release was unavailable - until Home Normal recently re-released it. I won't write the same words about this release again, just click the link in the title to read my 2018 recommendation. So, if you're unfamiliar with Landscape Of Lovers you can now make up for that. I mention this re-release because Home

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Markus Guentner * Jacob Kirkegaard

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2025/02/19

MARKUS GUENTNER - BLACK DAHLIA Markus Guentner is not only a well-known ambient music artist but also the designer creating the visual identity of (Joachim Spieth's) Affin label. Black Dahlia, his latest release and follow-up of September 2024's Kontrapunkt, combines both: the hand-crafted 4-panel CD comes with an extra cover insert card and a sticker. On Black Dahlia, Guentner presents dark and immersive soundscapes, venturing into 'unexplored territories of experimental sound design while

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Andrew Heath * Glåsbird

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2025/02/05

Andrew Heath and Harry Towell are two names regularly featured on Ambientblog. Both are active musicians, and Harry also runs the Whitelabrecs label. The two worked together in creating a new and promising ambient music label called Driftworks.Driftworks specialises in lower case, ambient and minimal music from artists that specialize in soundscape, experimental electronic, and electro/acoustic music, often containing fragmentary melodies and field recordings. Together with the label launch they

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Lawrence English * Sara Persico

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2025/01/31

LAWRENCE ENGLISH - EVEN THE HORIZON KNOWS ITS BOUNDSThere is a direct relationship between sound and architecture: what you hear at home will sound quite different in a church. Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds started with an invitation to create a sound environment 'reflecting on the Naala Badu building ar the Art Gallery of New South Wales'. Following the opening in 2022, this music was played for a year 'offering an atmospheric tint to visitors walking through the building'.It is now

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