What catches the ears is the groundbreaking and burgeoning ceremonial and ritual components of the music often immersing the listener in deep, quiet then unsettling or uncanny moods.
Author: Philippe Blache
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (Black Knoll Editions)
Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close is a brooding and at the same time priceless contemplative effort for entrancing noises, velveting drones and revered guitar phrasings.
Anthené :: Stray Light (Floralia)
Anthené never ceases to please our meditative capacity of listening and Stray Light is highly recommended for those who like gauzy shoegazing excursions and warm tonal drones.
Ecovillage :: Crescendo (Lo Recordings)
Experimenting in the realms of blissful melancholy and soothing new-age atmospherics.
Galati :: Cold As a February Sky (Glacial Movements)
A representative and well-crafted album of modern day ambient synthedelica with everything you may like regarding textured lush atmospheres which invite to explore the great unknown while being immersed in natural primordial stillness.
Nimh :: Before And After Silence (Zoharum)
A visceral voyage into deep hypnagogic textures, magnetic clouds and ominous towering moves. These audio works can easily convince those into cryptic drone manifests of Jonathan Coleclough, Colin Potter, Grant Evans, and Dead Voices on Air.
Francis Gri :: While (Self Released)
Written as an inner soundtrack where delicately moving melodies rise from velvet-like abstract electronics.
The Fires Of Ork :: The Fires Of Ork (2024 Remaster) (Silent State)
Warmly recommended for lovers of lysergic icy ambient beauty with a deep pulsating edge and a terrifying, disorientating cosmic/dystopian sensibility, to be placed next to releases by Vladislav Delay, Monolake, The Orb, and Kangding Ray.
Pjusk & Arovane :: Svev (Polar Seas)
This new album presents intricate, diversified and ultimately swelling soundscapes of magnetic grandiosity.