Category Archives: Ambient

Tomáš Niesner ~ Bečvou

Remember if you will a beautiful river that was part of your childhood.  Perhaps you played alongside the riverbanks, sent paper boats downstream, hopped across the rocks, splashed water to cool or tease.  You may have fished in this river.

Tomáš Niesner ~ Bečvou

Remember if you will a beautiful river that was part of your childhood.  Perhaps you played alongside the riverbanks, sent paper boats downstream, hopped across the rocks, splashed water to cool or tease.  You may have fished in this river.

Spring Music Preview 2022 ~ Ambient and Drone

Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, as epitomized by the cover of Graziano Tassi’s album Blue.  But now spring is upon us, and we’re watching the buds of hundreds of new albums as they get ready to

Spring Music Preview 2022 ~ Ambient and Drone

Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, as epitomized by the cover of Graziano Tassi’s album Blue.  But now spring is upon us, and we’re watching the buds of hundreds of new albums as they get ready to

Low Altitude ~ Waves

As the pandemic eases, we expect the surge of pandemic albums to ease as well.  But we’ve been fooled before, which gives the title Waves a double meaning.  First there are the literal waves: shore sounds collected by Low Altitude in Suffolk,

Low Altitude ~ Waves

As the pandemic eases, we expect the surge of pandemic albums to ease as well.  But we’ve been fooled before, which gives the title Waves a double meaning.  First there are the literal waves: shore sounds collected by Low Altitude in Suffolk,

Arun Sood ~ Searching Erskine

Searching Erskine is an album, a book, a film and an exhibition: another elaborate release from the always-reliable Blackford Hill.  The project is a tribute to the history of Vallay, an island situated two miles off the Northwest coast of Uist,

Arun Sood ~ Searching Erskine

Searching Erskine is an album, a book, a film and an exhibition: another elaborate release from the always-reliable Blackford Hill.  The project is a tribute to the history of Vallay, an island situated two miles off the Northwest coast of Uist,

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice ~ To Live & Die In Space & Time

There’s a long-running feature in Mojo magazine giving musicians, actors or writers a brief questionnaire about their listening habits. Even if I don’t buy a particular issue, I will have a covert peek at the All Back To My Place

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice ~ To Live & Die In Space & Time

There’s a long-running feature in Mojo magazine giving musicians, actors or writers a brief questionnaire about their listening habits. Even if I don’t buy a particular issue, I will have a covert peek at the All Back To My Place

Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton ~ THESIS 20 – Isolarii

No man is an island, writes John Donne.  But during the pandemic, we have felt more like islands than at any other time.  Separated from loved ones, unable to travel, sporadically locked down, we have dreamt of reconnection as our wanderlust

Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton ~ THESIS 20 – Isolarii

No man is an island, writes John Donne.  But during the pandemic, we have felt more like islands than at any other time.  Separated from loved ones, unable to travel, sporadically locked down, we have dreamt of reconnection as our wanderlust

Sunhaus ~ Formations

Life’s little pleasures include opening the blinds in the morning, watching the snow fall, and seeing sunlight glittering off the dew.  Sunhaus‘s debut album sounds like all these and more, and becomes yet another little pleasure.  Written by an Australian

Sunhaus ~ Formations

Life’s little pleasures include opening the blinds in the morning, watching the snow fall, and seeing sunlight glittering off the dew.  Sunhaus‘s debut album sounds like all these and more, and becomes yet another little pleasure.  Written by an Australian

bvdub ~ Violet Opposition

Patient composition meets patient listening in the world of prolific artist bvdub, whose latest album features only four tracks, each approximately twenty minutes long and covering an entire side of magenta and yellow vinyl. As the word gliding seems a perfect match

bvdub ~ Violet Opposition

Patient composition meets patient listening in the world of prolific artist bvdub, whose latest album features only four tracks, each approximately twenty minutes long and covering an entire side of magenta and yellow vinyl. As the word gliding seems a perfect match