Experimental Electronic Music
Felicity Mangan’s String Figures is an immersive exploration of field recordings, electronic textures, and string timbres, blending natural sounds from wetlands with lush, slowly evolving drones and quasi-bioacoustic compositions. Across six pieces, she transforms subtle environmental cues—water, frogs, moss, and children at play—into meditative, minimalistic soundscapes that range from austere elegance to rich, enveloping resonance.
Seabuckthorn, the project of guitarist and sound artist Andy Cartwright, crafts an evocative blend of ambient, electro-acoustic, and semi-classical textures on A Path Within A Path, released by Laaps. The album unfolds like an avant-garde chamber work, rich with spiritual depth, intricate guitar work, and collaborations that expand its introspective, transportive soundscape.
Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth reunite for Conversion, their second collaboration on Affin, blending ambient expanses with dub-driven detail through a contemporary lens. Minimalist yet immersive, the album balances rhythmic depth and atmospheric stillness, reflecting the artists’ shared roots in early ambient, dub, and deep techno while continuing their distinctive sonic evolution.
Released in 2000, Caged is a groundbreaking collaboration between electronic music pioneers Ian Boddy and Chris Carter, blending industrial, ambient, and experimental sounds into a uniquely evocative experience. This remastered and expanded edition showcases their deft interplay of menacing drones, cinematic textures, and intricate sonic details, making it essential listening for fans of avant-garde and post-industrial music.
We Are All Strangers marks the fourth chapter in Shedir’s evolving sonic journey, picking up the thread from 2023’s Before the Last Light is Blown with a quieter, more assured voice. In this patient, immersive work, uncertainty becomes atmosphere, and beauty emerges not from clarity, but from a deep, enduring presence.
Belgium-based sound-art project ‘t Geruis, the alias of Daniël Jolan, crafts deeply introspective ambient compositions rich in textured, grainy detail and emotionally immersive soundscapes. His latest release on Home Normal leans into shadowy drones and decaying acoustic fragments, evoking a melancholic elegance reminiscent of William Basinski and Miguel Angel Tolosa.
Lorenzo Bracaloni (aka Fallen) crafts ambient music that feels like a quiet departure from the noise of everyday life, guiding listeners into expansive, reflective spaces. Secret Prayers to the Wise Dormant Moon captures this essence beautifully, blending gentle piano with cinematic tones to create a soundworld both intimate and uplifting.
Bernhard Living’s Unanswered Questions continues his tradition of sparse, minimalist electronic compositions inspired by 20th-century composers—this time focusing on the conceptual and structural ideas behind works by Charles Ives. Each of the four tracks offers a thoughtful reinterpretation, distilling Ives’ complexity into ambient soundscapes that blend philosophical depth with musical restraint.
With Clearwater, Maps and Diagrams (Tim Martin) crafts a hypnotic meditation on erosion, decay, and the quiet instability of sound. Blurring the line between ambient composition and sonic disintegration, the album drifts through fractured loops and dissolving textures, revealing beauty in impermanence and space.
Originally released in August 2025 via Yorkshire’s boundary-pushing Frosti imprint, uoying introduced a luminous array of ambient compositions—expansive, emotive, and fluid. Now, Uoying Remixed (Not Yet Remembered) reframes those original soundscapes through a prism of reinvention, where each reinterpretation offers a parallel narrative that honors the source while venturing into elevated sonic dimensions.
