Winter Light – …that first season
Winter has come! The cold dark stillness has enveloped much of the earth and many are seeking warmth. However warmth is not necessarily exclusive to being physical in nature. A combination of things can create a warm atmosphere for those weathering a hard freeze.
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Alphaxone & Protou – Stardust
When we think of space and the cosmos what is it we hear? What do we see? Of course it’s silent, but our imaginations tend to hear that silence. This album is almost certainly what an isolated journey through the void would sound like if we were able to perceive it.
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Interview
Bruno Sanfilippo is a contemporary composer with a focus on beautiful piano music, sound sculpture and ambience. The music itself will make you cry, feel happy, sleepy, pensive and introspective as the gorgeous passages float easily through the mind/body. His albums could very well be some of the most important works in the genre and it is imperative that music fans of this style spend some quality time with his aural dreamworlds
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Erinome – First Snow
A deep subterranean tone rumbles through the earth as "The First" snow falls onto the warm ground and slowly starts to freeze. A vast drone-scape seemingly rolls across the the scenery with an otherworldly brass-like choir sounding in the distance like horns signaling an important event.
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Janek Schaefer – Lay-by Lullaby
As each vehicle passes, the sleepy dreamer is lulled into the traffic's momentum and it's lazy rhythm of forward motion. The roadway fades into the subconscious creating a vast soundscape that envelopes both the listener and Janek Shaefer's stunning compositions.
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Tone Harvest – V.A. Vol #1
The very first Tone Harvest Compilation is here! This album is filled with some of the talent featured on the site as well as some other rarities. The tones contained within are the best we could harvest, and the talent is incredible. You will be moved, inspired and relaxed. Enjoy the music that these composers have generously contributed and be sure to support them!
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Rhian Sheehan – Stories From Elsewhere
This literal sonic orchestra will sweep you off your feet, and by the time you reach "The Upper Sky" you will be filled with so much emotion that you will beg for its release, the rest of the album grants just that. And the listener floats on the relief and is lifted to a higher realm.
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Perry Frank – Music to Disappear
Fading easily into the scenic background, "Music to Disappear" by Perry Frank is the sort of album that truly can't be categorized into a single genre or mood. The music wanders from glorious new age swells all the way to progressive rock elements and truly uplifting neo-classical arrangements with some traditional Italian flair.
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Forest Management – Sky image
An absolutely beautiful sonic haze slowly rises to reveal an earthy undercurrent of stunning tonal energy. The warm drones intertwine gracefully in the air creating a "Sky Image" which is easily visualized in the minds eye, thanks to John Daniel.
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Nino Martino – Colonne sonore per gli specchi
Italian composer Nino Martino's "Colonne sonore per gli specchi", is filled with drama and tension as the strings and light cinematic arrangements move the listener with powerful emotion. Although the music is exciting it exudes a pensive calm and inspires deep thought.
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Mote – Frames
Frames by Mote is an uplifting modern classical album that comes across as light at the end of the tunnel, hope in an otherwise hopeless world. The music never sways too far into melancholy but you can feel it, and the contemplative nature of the string arrangements are both thought provoking and moving.
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thehappymask – Ruines
The melancholic distortion of "Ruines" slowly lumbers through a thick fog, making itself known in betrayal of isolation. Drawing the listener in with a profound and familiar sadness, the album explodes with emotional bursts of tragic happiness.
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The Green Kingdom – Expanses
"Expanses" from The Green Kingdom gently rains down a cacophony of plucked strings enveloped by atmospheres of soothing tones and experimental sound. Tumbling from the clouds onto the surface of the earth, the music morphs into a deep rhythmic journey which inspires you to follow it's heavy footsteps, even if the destination is unknown.
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36 – Lithea
Lithea by 36 is a truly vast album that delves deep within the soul floating on soundscapes that that seem to orbit consciousness itself. The natural flow of each track truly cultivates a great listening experience and it is easy to become lost in the dreamworld, content as can be.
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Valerinne – Arborescent
3 piece post rock/metal group Valerinne of Romania tear through the atmosphere with frenetic and beautifully spacious guitars accompanied by driving drums and absolutely crushing heaviness. The album sways in and out of energetic blasts of sonic glory and hazy drone rich melancholy, exploding and settling within the vastness of the mind.
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Massergy – The Vast Colure
Deep, pulsating bass tones and seemingly infinite sweeps influence the mind and soul to drift pensively along "The Vast Colure". The painful tinge of melancholy evokes strong emotions in the listener with music that is brutally honest.
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Darren Harper – Rising Sea
Floating endlessly across the "Rising Sea," Darren Harper's drones envelope the panicked swimmer and aid in the submergence of mind into the depths of the self conscious, transcending ever deeper over time.
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Cétieu – “Diptych”
Cétieu reaches far into the abyss that is isolation and brings forth long-form melancholic dronescapes that could torment the soul, If not for their majestic and subdued beauty. The darkness is kind and the setting is warm with a pensive breeze.
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Rosetta – The Anaesthete
"Music can be deeply therapeutic, and seems to be a space where pain and beauty coexist in tension. There’s a paradox in that killing our pain often involves killing our sensitivity to sublime beauty and wonder. Music can be a means by which people confront pain with beauty, or falsehood and injustice with truth." - Rosetta
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Linear Bells – Over & Over
A minimalistic tone approaches like an interdimensional entity or apparatus, seemingly silent, awakening with a blast of earthy orchestral might cutting through the curious soundscape, communicating it's true purpose for the visit. Coming in at 42:57, Linear Bells "Over & Over" is a truly epic drone based contemporary classical album.
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tsone – Exiles
Fading into a wonderfully warm harmonic haze, washed out by it's own distortion and reverb, "Exiles" from contemporary ambient composer Tsone turns out to be a little known masterpiece.
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Lightsystem – Lost Language
"Lost Language" by Lightsystem is possibly the equivalent of awakening from a deep sleep to find oneself floating in the vastness of dark matter with the only lights flowing from distant stars. And as the physical body turns over involuntarily from a slow spin in zero gravity, the earth is revealed and the vocals make you understand the importance of the human connection and bring you right back down.
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Reverberant Evenings – 2nd Report
Reverberant Evening's "2nd Report" slowly cascades over the edge of imagination and flows intently toward eternity. A follow up to the "1st Report", the album proves to be a very welcome addition creating a two album series that should not be overlooked.
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Lights Dim & Gallery Six – Between Spaces
Moving easily between drone-scapes, ambient guitar and piano this beautiful album from Kraków, Poland's Lights Dim and Hiroshima Japan's Gallery Six is an absolute must have for fans of the project and genre.
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Hakobune – Nebulous Sequences
Quite a few months ago, I was having trouble sleeping and turned on Ambient Sleeping Pill for some quiet sleep-scapes. A gentle track by Hakobune came on and with a few deep breaths I was swept into its sleepy undercurrent.
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Forest Management – Upload
"Upload" by Forest Management opens with deep bass tones and rich layered pads speckled with the rhythmic reverberations of pops and clicks, slowly eroding any angst left over from the day.
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Near the Parenthesis – L’Eixample
Near the Parenthesis returns just one year after "Of Soft Construction" with another stand-out electronica album of lush, warm, subtle, and pensive soundscapes.
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Amethystium – Isabliss
For the fourth time now, Øystein Ramfjord somehow pulls out of the trite "New Age" genre with something new and truly inspiring. As new age-flavored electronica, his compositions are richly textured with synth, percussion, flutes, strings, guitars, and female vocalise.
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Airlock – Drystar
Chilled side-project of a truly skilled pro studio team, not just another electronic/trip-hop outfit with a female vocal!
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