ACL 2017 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

Our readers love winter music.  How do we know?  Our list of The 25 Best Winter Albums of All Time is also our site’s most-read post of all time.  Our yearly updates continue to collect the best winter music, regardless of genre.

Shimmering Moods ~ Winter Is Over

What beautiful days we had been having ~ gorgeous, sun-dappled afternoons, warmth on upturned faces, a sense of an early spring. But then without warning, the Arctic cold descended once more.  The three newest releases from Shimmering Moods are a

Shimmering Moods: Sapphirine Phlant ~ Until The Light Takes Us / Ian Martin ~ Notations of the Form

Recently, Amsterdam’s Shimmering Moods Records has shifted and morphed into something else. It now (for the time being, at least) presses instead of leans towards a darker ambient styling. It hasn’t quite reached the fathoms of doom drone or the ambient sound

LCNL 063: Shimmering Moods presents “Tales of the Field”

Based in Amsterdam, Shimmering Moods records has yet to celebrate their second birthday, yet in that time have released an impressive run of records.  The label’s founder, Paul, hosts a monthly radio show on Red Light Radio, one of Holland’s