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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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Joachim Spieth & Warmth * David Cordero

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2025/01/26

JOACHIM SPIETH & WARMTH - FRAGMENTSThe music of Joachim Spieth has a characteristic 'widescreen' production and sounds deep, comforting, and warm. So it's only fitting that he collaborates with Spanish ambient producer Agustin 'Warmth' Mena on this album. Both have extensive experience creating music: Spieth released nine albums since 2000, and Warmth presented no less than 29 albums since 2014 under this alias alone (not counting the releases from his side project SVLBRD). Apart from

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øjeRum * Thierry David

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2025/01/21

∅JERUM - LANGT FRA JORDEN The IIkki series - combining the work of a photographer with that of a musician - continues with edition #26: the result of a dialogue between Spanish photographer Irene Zottola and Danish musician øjeRum (Paw Grabowski). The book - titled Lejos De La Tierra (Away From The Earth) - is available as a limited (100) hardcover edition, which will not be reprinted in the future. Zottola's photography 'explores the limits of analog photography to generate a world of

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Marianna Maruyama / Hessel Veldman * Nate Wooley

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2025/01/07

MARIANNA MARUYAMA & HESSEL VELDMAN - SALTHessel Veldman has produced experimental music ever since the '70s. He was (and still is) a passionate advocator of DIY music and cassette culture. In recent years, he turned his focus to creating new music, such as releases with Martijn Comes (such as Manifest Exodus), and his solo album Ymuiden. For Salt - released on cassette (as expected) via Stroom - he provides subtle, almost unnoticeable (but atmosphere-defining) drones for the spoken

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Matilde Meireles * Baldini, Dafeldecker, Strüver

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2025/01/01

MATILDE MEIRELES - LOOP. AND AGAIN "Has it ever happened to you while passing by a familiar place that you noticed or heard something for the first time? Something that was always there but because you were not attentive enough it passed unnoticed?"That's the kind of introduction that triggers anyone devoted to 'ambient' (music and) sound. It is also the introduction to X Marks The Spot - an 'environmental walk' project in Belfast, Ireland, in which telecommunication boxes emitting an audible

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Winter Solstice 6 (Mix)

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2024/12/22

[audio src="https://www.ambientblog.net/mix/WinterSolstice6.mp3" controls /] The Winter Solstice Ambient Night on Concertzender Nederland has become a yearly tradition: this is the sixth edition already of the 8-hour ambient music night presented by four of their radio show hosts. Like in all previous editions, I'm honored to close the night with a two-hour collage. My contribution is presented here, but for those interested the complete night will remain available on-demand from the

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Fringo Chills * Rubbish Music

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2024/12/18

FRINGO CHILLS - ...IN NORWAY Fringo Chills is the alias of German electronic music artist / synthesizer player Frank Rothe. Since 2015 he has released five albums under this name (including this one), each of its titles beginning with "...". "... In Norway" is inspired by the landscape, mountains and fjords of - you guessed it - Norway. And especially Norway in the Winter season, with its never-ending nights and northern lights (known as Aurora Borealis). Rothe's music is firmly rooted in the

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Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol. 5

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2024/12/03

ALVA NOTO - XERROX VOL. 5No less than four years after 2020's Volume 4, we finally can welcome the closing part of the Xerrox series that Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) started in 2007. I doubted the series would ever come to a close, because of other releases that came in between, like HYbr:ID I-III and various movie soundtracks. The Xerrox series is based on the concept of repeating digital copies as in a sonic photocopier, each time with subtle distortions, and finding out what happens to

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Janek Schaefer * Başak Günak

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2024/11/28

JANEK SCHAEFER - CONSCIOUS SEDATIONWhile struggling with serious health issues, and awaiting an operation, a nurse mentioned that Janek Schaefer was about to have 'conscious sedation' surgery. Janek immediately recognized this as the title for his new album. Empowered by his concept of '+ve intent' (+ve = positive), the album portrays Janek's 'cosmic metaphysical experiences having daily ‘photon power showers’ in order to save my life, using the same fundamental electromagnetic waves that

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Rod Modell * Loneward

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2024/11/24

ROD MODELL - MUSIC FOR BUS STATIONS Anyone who ever travels by public transport knows the feeling you get when you just miss the bus or train and have to wait for the next one. And how it raises your blood pressure, not just from running trying to catch the one that just left, but also from irritation. With this release, you can comfortably retreat into the audio bubble that Rod Modell (also known as DeepChord, Echospace, Waveform Transmission, and more) creates for you. It is called '..

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Baars-Jansen-Zuydervelt * protoU

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2024/11/19

MARISKA BAARS, NIKI JANSEN, RUTGER ZUYDERVELT - HARDANGER You can trust Rutger 'Machinefabriek' Zuydervelt to always come up with surprises again and again - even with approximately 103 albums as Machinefabriek and another 43 under his own name. This time, it's a new collaboration with Mariska Baars - known for her work as soccer Committee but also for various other collaborations, Piiptsjilling and Fean among them. And with Niki Jansen, who plays the hardanger fiddle that gave this album its

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Lorenz Weber * Bistro Boy

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2024/11/14

LORENZ WEBER - A SHEPHERD'S LIFEIt's a commonly known fact that musicians - especially those in the ambient genre - have to have a side job to be able to earn a living. But I doubt there are many whose side job is being a shepherd. Lorenz Weber is - or was. On A Shepherd's Life he combines his experiences as a shepherd with his music. His quiet piano phrases are combined with sounds he recorded during his work as a shepherd. In that way, the twelve-track album is "a diary-like sound

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DreamScenes – November 2024

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2024/11/10

The Joy Paradox Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:25 Alva Noto - Xerrox XenonymXerrox Vol. 5, 2024, Noton (release November 29) 05:32 Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst - HinterlandLento, 2024, Klein Records 08:07 Jacek Doroszenko - Identity Values - Movement IIdentity Values, 2024, Audiobulb 12:25 Craven Faults - Long StoopBounds, 2024, Leaf 15:17 Faith Coloccia - Pleione (fragment)Philip Jeck - RPM, 2024, Touch 17:14 Philip Jeck &

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Edu Comelles * Jacek Doroszenko

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2024/11/06

EDU COMELLES & SERGI PALAU - ABOUT BERLANGA The audio-visual multimedia project About Berlanga is a homage to Spanish film director Luis Garciá Berlanga (Valencia, 1921). It is created from completely deconstructed parts of the soundtracks for his films Placido (1961), El Verdugo (1963), and Bienvenido Mr. Marshall (1953) - all written by composer Miguel Asins Arbó. You will probably have a hard time recognizing the original soundtrack (assuming that you are familiar with them), because

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Acoxaca – The Longest Time

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2024/08/06

ACOXACA - THE GALVANIC MEASUREThis is the first time I heard music by Acoxaca, but it is not his (her? their? no idea) first release: there were two earlier albums, both on the same Other Forms Of Consecrated Life label. With a running time of two hours (divided into 4 parts of 30 minutes each), this is music for patient listeners. There is a slow, barely noticeable but also undeniable, progress in these four movements. The origin of these orchestral sounding loops comes from Wagner's

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PJS * Mu Tate

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2024/07/31

PJS - FLORAThe PJS duo (Patrick Dique and Jordan Cristoff) have released quite some albums since their first release in 2015. Almost every single one was released on a different label - this is their first release on Dronarivm. The album is introduced with a quote from Hildegardis Bingensis (also known as Hildegard von Bingen). I am not sure about her relation to this music (Hildegard is known for many things - music, poetry, and philosophy among them), but since this album is called Flora

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Samuel Reinhard * Nestor

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2024/07/26

SAMUEL REINHARD - FOR PIANO AND SHŌ On Discogs, Swiss-born but New York-based composer Samuel Reinhard is described as 'a composer of electroacoustic music'. I am not (yet) familiar with his earlier work, but I definitely would not call the two pieces on For Piano and Shō 'electroacoustic': they are performed with only two acoustic instruments. (Maybe that is why on the About page on his website, this part is skipped). 'Guided by minimalist and aleatoric tenets, Reinhard's work emphasizes

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Rutger Zuydervelt * Associated Sine Tone Services

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2024/07/05

RUTGER ZUYDERVELT - BANZO Blink with your eyes and you have probably missed at least one new release by Rutger Zuydervelt (or his alter ego Machinefabriek). It's virtually impossible to keep track, and it's also unbelievable how he manages to come up with so many releases and maintain such high quality. When he uses his own name and not his alias, it often concerns a score for a play, a dance production, or a movie. Such is the case with Banzo (Music For A Film By Margarida Cardoso). Banzo

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Kilometre Club * Brannan Lane

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2024/06/27

KILOMETRE CLUB - LET US COMPARE GEOGRAPHIESKilometre Club (Daniel Field from Toronto) is a relatively new name in the ambient music field: he has created music under this name since 2020. Let Us Compare Geographies is his fifth album. The title refers to Leonard Cohen's first book of poetry published in 1956: Let Us Compare Mythologies. ('Do not look for him in brittle mountain streams: they are too cold for any god'...). But here, each track's title refers to one of many small towns in

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Ekin Fil * Tristan Da Cunha

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2024/06/22

EKIN FIL - SLEEPWALKERS "... Vaporous tone and forlorn, distant song, as if plucked from a dream" reads the description of the music of Ekin Fil (Ekin Üzeltüzenci, from Istanbul, Turkey). And that is exactly how it sounds on this new album - her 17th (according to Discogs) and the seventh for the Helen Scarsdale Agency label. Obviously, Ekin found a fitting place on this label 'dedicated to a particular thread of post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic

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