In an increasingly busy, digitized world, this record is a quiet refuge. It’s the sound of connection—between collaborators, between memory and place, between heart and horizon. With their debut, Almost An Island have crafted something truly special: an album to live with, return to, and slowly get lost in.
Tag: Awakened Souls
4PLAY :: Past Inside the Present — Awakened Souls, Tyresta, From Overseas & zakè, James Bernard & anthéne
What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
Kenneth James Gibson :: Further Translations (Meadows Heavy Recorders)
Further Translations is a collection of remixed works by Kenneth James Gibson. Each of the contributions examines, infers and expands upon the original materials with […]
Snufmumriko :: Havstrakt (Sun Sea Sky)
Somehow Havstrakt simultaneously sounds as if deep underwater, quite daring while remaining gentle and relaxing.
MULTI-VIEW :: Past Inside The Present (in the past…)
Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
Elsewhereness revisited #19 soundsfromlockdown
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, with accompanying mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Healing Sounds from Past Inside the Present
Out now on Past Inside the Present, home of all that’s good in Ambient Drone and otherwise: Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in […]

















