Los Angeles-based ambient explorer stanleycypress finds comfort in smaller spaces with Ephemeral, a two-track slice of life where atmospheric modulations weave through melodic drone tones and cascading Detroit-inflected textures.
Reviews
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone featuring Robert Rich :: Passage (Self Released)
In Passage, some of the most elemental transitions are embraced and explored using sound to portray some complex and undefined spiritual concepts. The concept behind Passage is that of passing from one phase of your life to another. This may include new residences, changing relationships, traveling to an entirely different solar system, or passing on from this life to whatever may be next.
Fallen :: Stars are Crashing, Homes are Burning… (Touched Music)
Bracaloni’s latest traverse moves through warm, spacious soundscapes built for getting lost within, where atmosphere lingers long after each piece fades.
SUAHN :: Distort Everything Forever (Self Released)
Distort Everything Forever opens in ambience, spends most of its middle throwing rhythmic and low frequency chaos at you, then returns toward atmosphere at the end.
Ervin Omsk :: Der Saal tobt (Orange Milk)
Multiple active listens never feel like a chore, and are instantly rewarded by the lavishness of the sounds and the cleverness of the compositions, bringing together awe, humor, and bewilderment. And what else can we ask of experimental music?
Strugatsky Brothers :: Window To Askoy (Zoku – Zoku)
Everything about the sound design and palette of Window To Askoy seems suspended in the heat of summer rains and tropical smog. Yet it’s the soulful element that’s paramount: an exquisite melancholy and blessed-out bliss shape the ventricles and vessels of these lean cuts.
Lost Myths :: Lost Myths vol. VII (Lotophagus)
All in all, an emotionally intoxicating, bizarre yet alluring ghostly-ambient trip, augmented by dark clouds of noisy elements.
The Bug / Friday Night Plans :: Ladybug 2 (Pressure)
The Bug’s Ladybug 2 pairs his heavy, hypnotic bass pressure with Friday Night Plans’ hushed vocals, turning six versions of “Miss U” into a dark, immersive journey where dub, shoegaze, and electronic melancholy slowly dissolve into one hypnotic flow.
Philippe Deschamps :: Wind Paths (Silent Sonic)
When the final sound fades, the small white emblem at the bottom of the cover comes to mind. A wave reduced to calligraphy, discreet while the blue occupies everything. Wind Paths works in much the same way: it passes through the listener, leaves behind a faint vibration and entrusts the air with carrying it away.
Ian Hawgood :: Live at Still Point 2026 (Folk Reels)
Hawgood has tied Folk Reels to the idea of a mobile archive, a repository for scattered works, old tapes and encounters. Live At Still Point 2026 introduces a welcome fissure into that archive. To preserve also means admitting loss and giving it an audible measure.
Giulio Aldinucci :: Materia (Karlrecords)
Giulio Aldinucci has made an album that seems acquainted with the unnamed part of human nature, the part that surfaces in sleep or in the few seconds before news capable of changing the course of a day.
Recent Posts
stanleycypress :: Ephemeral EP (Self Released)
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone featuring Robert Rich :: Passage (Self Released)
Fallen :: Stars are Crashing, Homes are Burning… (Touched Music)
SUAHN :: Distort Everything Forever (Self Released)
Ervin Omsk :: Der Saal tobt (Orange Milk)
Strugatsky Brothers :: Window To Askoy (Zoku – Zoku)
Lost Myths :: Lost Myths vol. VII (Lotophagus)
The Bug / Friday Night Plans :: Ladybug 2 (Pressure)
