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Signal To Noise Ratio * Minua

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2025/11/20

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO - POSZYCIEAlthough the trio already formed in 2003, this is my first encounter with the Warsaw-based trio Signal To Noise Ratio. Since its formation, the trio developed 'from early prog-rock and lo-fi experiments into the current ambient/drone/experimental incarnation'. Their 22 years of experience are combined in this album, which is a sonic surprise in different ways. The four tracks on Poszycie (which translates to 'sheathing') are exploring real-time musical

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Nÿland * Hadley Roe

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2025/11/14

NŸLAND - MODAL COLLAPSE / CONTINGENT OVERLAYKringloop Kassettes is an ongoing series curated by Frans de Waard with an interesting concept: each title is released in a limited series of 26, on reused cassettes found in thrift shops, housed in handmade art on (of course) recycled paper. The releases (currently 21) present a diverse range of electronic and experimental music, which is, of course, no surprise when you know a bit about De Waard's musical taste or if you followed his Vital Weekly

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DreamScenes – November 2025

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2025/11/09

Did you forget I exist? Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:48 Steve Hauschildt - Inertia & RefugiaAeropsia, 2025, Simul Records 06:13 Nesa Azadikha - The Wound Where The Light EntersImaginal Soundtracking 3: The Wound Where The Light Enters, 2025, Phantom Limb 07:31 Jo Montgomerie - Everything Goes Silent (edit)Ephemeral Rituals, 2025, Helen Scarsdale (release Nov 14) 12:40 Le Code - And If I LeftSomething In The Air, 2025, Chitra Records 16:15 Michael Begg -

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Kasper Bjørke * Mike Majkowsky

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2025/11/05

KASPER BJØRKE - HEIMR (MUSIC FOR LANDSCAPES 1) Heimr is an Icelandic word that can mean different things. It can mean 'home' as well as 'world' (which is not really strange if you think of it). It is also the title of this EP by Danish producer Kasper Bjørke, inspired by his journey across Iceland's northwestern coast. The four tracks obviously include field recordings from this trip, 'but not as adornments but as vital co-narrators, grounding each composition in specific geographies while

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Scanner, Scanner & Gareth Davis

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2025/10/31

SCANNER - FORCES, REACTIONS, DEFLECTIONSRobin 'Scanner' Rimbaud is one of the veterans of the ambient/electronic scene. With almost 100 album releases to his name, and collaborations with artists like Michael Nyman, Laurie Anderson, and Pauline Oliveiros (to name only a few), I can safely assume he needs no further introduction. For his new album Forces, Reactions, Deflections, released on the Quiet Details label, he avoided the use of synthesizers, but recorded the ''resonant clangs,

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Ø (Mika Vainio) * Franz Kirmann

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2025/10/25

Ø - SYSIVALO Mika Vainio was (was, indeed: he died in 2017 at the age of 53) a Finnish electronic musician, composer, and producer of huge importance. He was one half of Pan Sonic (with Ilpo Väisänen), but also released his work under various other aliases. One of these pseudonyms is Ø.As Ø, he released 9 albums (including Sysivalo). All of them are released on the Sähkö Recordings label, which he co-founded together with Tommi Grönlund. 'Sähkö', by the way, is the Finnish word for

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TWENTY YEARS! – (AND TWO FREE MIXES)

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2025/10/20

If you check the oldest posts on this blog, you'll find that they were posted on October, 21, 2005. So hey... it's the 20th anniversary of Ambientblog today!! A good moment to look back on the past 20 years - ánd for a fitting celebration gift! TL:DR:I really enjoyed myself doing this over the last 20 years, and still have no intention to stop. Also: free celebration gifts below!! The start - a beginning of a new hobby So why are there eight posts on that same date, October 21,

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DreamScenes – October 2025

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2025/10/12

No One Is Free Until All Are FreeTracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:46 Julie Walkington & Jim Howard - You Can See Your Home From HereBeyond The Treeline, 2024, Elsden Music 05:07 Drift - Distant FadingFragments Of A Distant Now, 2025, Ambient Cat 08:05 Mendel Kaelen - Fertile Voids (fragments/edit)Fertile Voids, 2025, self-released 16:17 Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill - Dreaming In GamelanDreaming In Gamelan, 2025, Riparian Media 18:35 IKI - Float Body,

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Michael Begg * Lukas Lauermann

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2025/10/06

MICHAEL BEGG - LULU AND THE BLACKS Lulu And The Blacks. It sounds like the name of a 70s Soul/Funk band, or even like an 80s punk band. But it is the enigmatic title of a new album by Scottish composer and sound artist Michael Begg. And it is presented without any introduction or explanation about the album, so we can only guess what this is all about. Or not guess at all and simply enjoy the music of course. Quite some of Michael Begg's previous work has been featured here on

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Mendel Kaelen – Fertile Voids

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2025/09/29

MENDEL KAELEN - FERTILE VOIDSDutch composer Mendel Kaelen (currently living and working in Portugal) released three albums between 2010 and 2012. Two of these were featured on Ambientblog (so you can catch up if you want): Remembering What Was Forgotten and The Tragedy That Drowned Itself. After that, he focused on other important things. Looking back now, Kaelen has a very interesting biography: he studied and became a neuroscientist with expertise in the use of music and/or psychedelics

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Aiko Takahashi * Seth Thorn

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2025/09/24

AIKO TAKAHASHI - MONOLOGUEShortly after the release of The Grass Harp (in June, on Laaps), the Quiet Details label features another beautiful gem by Aiko Takahashi. It is called Monologue, because 'when an artist creates, they speak in solitude, and only later does the work become a dialogue, resonating with the listener's sensibility.' The track titles - like 'Foam, Glue And Pencil On Paper', 'Soap And Glass Beads', 'Collage On Paper Laid On A Cardboard' - all reflect the way Aiko

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Crows Labyrinth * Rick Sanders

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2025/09/19

CROWS LABYRINTH - NEON SCENES II: ECHOES OF THEN Crows Labyrinth is the name of Dutch musician Theo Tol. On previous releases he created his 'ambient cinematic soundscapes using solely bass guitars and effect processing'. Neon Scenes II: Echoes Of Then is a bit different: this time, the lead and bass sounds are sourced from Arturia's Analog Lab. Like on its predecessor, Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams, Tol deliberately focuses on the use of synthesizers in generative compositions. For Neon

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DreamScenes – September 2025

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2025/09/14

"Where We Are At Night"Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:30 Rafiq Bhatia - Glimmers In The Ocean DeepEnvironments, 2025, Epitaph Europe 05:11 Skee Mask - 32Crescent (edit)E, 2025, self-released 11:41 Kaukolampi - Synestopia - ClarinetSynestopia Variations 1-4, 2025, Öm-Sound 15:59 Michael Borowski - Pale Blue DotWander, 2025, Heart Dance Records 21:12 Sylianrue - Cobalt Blue In The BottleReflection, 2025, self-released 23:36 Benny (BJ) Nilsen - Where We Are At

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Underwater Sleep Orchestra * Emmanuel Régis

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2025/09/01

UNDERWATER SLEEP ORCHESTRA - OTHER SIDES OF NOWHERE Underwater Sleep Orchestra is the name of the duo formed by Pär Boström and Bruce Moallem. Both artists are also known under different aliases: Cities Last Broadcast / Kammarheit (Pär) and God Body Disconnect (Bruce). All Cryo Chamber artists, so it's only natural that their third album as Underwater Sleep Orchestra is once again released on that label. Cryo Chamber is well known for its focus on 'dark ambient with a cinematic edge'

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Wolfgang Voigt

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2025/08/19

WOLFGANG VOIGT - RÜCKVERZAUBERUNG IM TUNNELRückverzauberung (Reverse Enchantment) is an ongoing project by Wolfgang Voigt (also known as the man behind Gas, as well as behind many other aliases - also the founder of the Kompakt label). This project started in 2011 as a single track on the Pop Ambient 2011 compilation, and was followed by 9 further editions, all of them released on the Profan label, another label run by Voigt. Later, the Astral Industries label released Rückverzauberung

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Music For Isolation * Henrik Meierkord

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2025/08/17

MUSIC FOR ISOLATION - SVALBARDSince Brian Eno began his ambient album series with Music For Airports, 'Music for ...' is a much used way to indicate albums with ambient music (some of them quite sarcastically, like 'Music For Toilets', or 'Music For MRI Scanners'). In this case, however, Music For Isolation is the name of the performing duo. And - though there is a lot of ambience on this album - it is not even primarily ambient music at all: it is music 'at the crossroads of folk,

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DreamScenes – August 2025

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2025/08/10

"Dreams In Slow Matter"Tracklist: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:50 Music For Isolation - IshavbasillenSvalbard, 2025, self-released 05:23 Billow Observatory - The Glass CurtainThe Glass Curtain, 2025, self-released 07:39 Illustrious - Dose 2 Mesmerine 111 (Vocal Mix) (fragment)Mesmerine 111, 2025, Cold Spring 12:21 Arvin Dola - The DriftO Ghost, 2025, Dragon's Eye Recordings 16:01 Lucina Yue - The End Of Snow Is Nirvana (edit)Transcendent Phoenix, 2025,

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Yann Novak * øjeRum

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2025/08/05

YANN NOVAK - CONTINUITY In case you wonder what the incomprehensible characters on the cover of Continuity mean: it's an encrypted text that you can decrypt following Yann Novak's instructions here. (I won't spoil the fun, just decrypt it). It's also the introduction to the complex conceptual background of the album - a problem we unfortunately face much too often: "the album explores how our mechanisms for establishing truth often function in direct opposition to their stated purpose". One

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Melaine Dalibert/David Sylvian * Akhira Sano

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2025/07/30

MELAINE DALIBERT & DAVID SYLVIAN - VERMILION HOURS Musique Pour Le Lever Du Jour ('Music for dawn'), the first of two tracks on this album, was previously released in 2018 as a CD on the Elsewhere label. The solo piano version was a 61-minute version of Melaine Dalibert's 'infinite piece', a piece 'without beginning or end' that theoretically could play forever. For that release (and three others to follow), David Sylvian is credited as the cover artist. This new version is condensed to

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Thomas Ciufo * Isostatic

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2025/07/24

THOMAS CIUFO - THE RISING MOONA 17th-century Japanese haiku by Mizuta Masahide is the introduction to this album:My house burned downNow I can better seeThe rising moonA remarkable (and enviable) way to keep looking for the positive aspect of something disastrous, like a burnt-down house! On The Rising Moon, Thomas Ciufo invites us to a "contemplative sonic exploration of the forces of loss and beauty, darkness and light". In the manner of his late mentor Pauline Oliveros, he "invites deep

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