Reflecting the stillness of natural surroundings in the midst of human made chaos: Anthéne's Air Signs.

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Boduf Songs' instrumental works are made to be listened to in low light and long shadows.

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Daniel Jolan (also known as 't Geruis) presents Sublime Lenteur: 'amazing slowness' as part of Lost Tribe Sounds' 'Moss and Melee' series.

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Lawrence English& Werner Dafeldecker's detailed sound worlds on Fathom Tides remind us that our clocks are not those of the world around us.

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Heÿkla's Echoes Of Loneliness offers 13 tracks to 'drift though invisible places and discover beauty in quiet transformation'.

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Ben Vida's Oblivion Seekers defies existing genre definitions. Nót ambient music, but music with a strong ambient connection - and guaranteed to surprise.

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Ambient music from South Korea that you can listen and enjoy, but cannot buy (yet?): Jinwoo's 'Three Soundworks For Tea'.

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The second studio collaboration of Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri feels "like they were inside a system moving on its own".

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"Echoes of Loneliness" - DreamScenes for May, 2026

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Two massive label compilations: an overview of ambient music on the Affin label between 2022 and 2026, and a selection of (relatively unknown) artists on Passed Recordings who all contributed a track in the key of C.

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Anne Chris Bakker describes the anxiety and excitement of moving to Norway *** Ard Bit & Radboud Mens drift on an imaginary sea of silence.

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The Miasmah label surprises us with a new Deaf Center release as well as a new Kreng album. I guess you don't need my words to know what to do now ...

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Luca Formentini's Angel Lost is a 30-minute addendum to his I Am Ghost album *** Pepo Galán, Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner join forces on Obreel.

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DreamScenes for April 2026: "There Is No End To Anything Round".

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'Afterlife Requiem' is Those Who Walk Away (Andrew Patton)'s impressive requiem for Jóhann Jóhannsson, featuring unfinished recordings from Jóhannsson's hard drives.

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So much music, not enough time....
Five albums that have been waiting in vain for me to find the time to write about them but are definitely worth checking out!

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Fascinating 'neo-classical' albums from violinist Isabel Pine ('Fables', on Kranky) and cellist Dobrawa Czocher ('State Of Matter', on 130701).

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Quiet, slow, tender, intimate and introspective music by Clariloops and Robert Scott Thompson.

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Dark music for dark times: Myllykoski & Äijälä ask questions about contemporary war zones, while Kaarlo Herden & IT904 re-imagine wars and expeditions in hostile deserts.

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"A Place Where Silence Feels Safe" - DreamScenes for March 2026

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Machinefabriek can make machines sound as if they're happy *** Meredith Bates challenges your notion of time.

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Scott Monteith's Krautrock-ish session together with Andreas Voelk, ánd his new release as Deadbeat.

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Isobel Waller-Bridge shifts the focus to the objects around you *** Wil Bolton & David Cordero show you how to make sense of downtime.

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Clara Brea & Menhir's 'Growing Forests In The City is a remix collaboration with Son of Chi *** From Poland comes 'Fumarola' by Kult Masek & Petr Vrba.

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Lush sonic panoramas and antidotes to an overstimulated world: albums by Eaton & Fullen (& Mader) and The Volume Settings Folder.

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For Want Of Spring   Tracklist:   Play this edition on demand from the Concertzender website   Receive the full DreamScenes tracklist automatically at every new edition? Subscribe here!

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Rafael Anton Irisarri blends seemingly opposing elements *** Joachim Spieth explores how minimal sound particles can carry presence and motion.

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The night tremors, so it begs the dawn. --- DreamScenes for January 2026

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"Dark New Age for the New Dark Age" .... a 2x2.5 hour psychedelic trip by 400 Lonely Things.

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Ambient ambiances: albums from Laurent Pernice, Pietro Zollo, and Le Code.

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Drone (or better: drone-based) music exploring the Scottish landscape (Claire M. Singer) or researching spatial acoustics (Mattie Barber).

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My 2-hour contribution to the 7th edition (2025) of the 8-hour Winter Solstice broadcast on Concertzender Nederland.

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"AUW!?" - DreamScenes for December 2025

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Two productions by Rutger Zuydervelt were created for dance performances, and there's a third album released under his alias Machinefabriek.

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Peter Knight's new album is a must-hear for fans of Jon Hassell *** Tauceti's exploration of her cultural heritage results in a refreshingly original ambient album.

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Two 'classic ambient' albums that originated from different sources of inspiration: a walk through the dunes (Siddharta Barnhoorn), and generative audio systems (Alan Brown).

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Two immersive soundscapes using (mainly) acoustic instruments: albums by Signal To Noise Ratio and Minua.

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Two releases in the Kringloop Kassettes series, both by Nÿland *** The Subliminal Growth Patterns created by Hadley Roe.

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"Constructions Nocturnes" - DreamScenes for November 2025

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Iceland's northwestern coast inspired Kasper Bjørke to create Heimr (Music For Landscapes 1) *** Mike Majkowsky's Tide gradually decelerates and feels as if you're slowly falling asleep.

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Explore the sounds from Scanner's stainless steel staircase (on 'Forces, Reactions, Deflections), ánd his collaboration with Gareth Davis on 'Songlines'.

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A combination of darkness and light on the post-mortem release of Ø (Mika Vaino) *** Lazy sunny afternoon music for reveries and fantasies by Franz Kirmann.

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If you check the oldest posts on this blog, you'll find that they were posted on October, 21, 2005. So hey... it's the 20th anniversary of Ambientblog today!! An appropriate time for a bit of retrospection - ánd a few celebration gifts!

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"No One Is Free Until All Are Free" - DreamScenes for October 2025

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'Lulu And The Blacks' is the enigmatic title of Michael Begg's new album *** Lukas Lauermann blends post-classical music, minimalism and experimental music on 'Varve'.

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"Empty, yet vast and charged with potential" - Mendel Kaelen's return to music is an all-encompassing experience. (PLUS: your chance to get a free download code for this album)

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Refreshing as a cool summer breeze (Aiko Takahashi), and coded foggy textures (Seth Thorn).

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Crows Labyrinth matches generative music with 80s cyberpunk Sci-Fi *** Rick Sanders' latest release on Dronarivm

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"Where We Are At Night" - DreamScenes for September 2025

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Music for "VHS Drifting" by Underwater Sleep Orchestra, and a soundtrack for an expedition to an imaginary planet by Emmanuel Régis.

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Intense 'reverse enchantment' by Wolfgang Voigt on the 'Im Tunnel' edition of his Rückverzauberung series.

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Music from the isolated (far) North, melancholy blended with nature: Music For Isolation and Henrik Meierkord.

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"Dreams In Slow Matter" - DreamScenes For August 2025

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Yann Novak unlocks the hidden details from sounds collected in public spaces *** øjeRum dreams in slow matter.

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Melaine Dalibert and David Sylvian collaborate on 'Vermilion Hours' *** Akhira Sano's 'D-R' may sound vaguely familiar but different at the same time.

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Immersive warm ambient using the 'happy accidents' of reel-to-reel tape loops: albums by Thomas Ciufo and Isostatic.

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Richard Skelton celebrates the 20th anniversary of his Sustain-Release label with a new album *** Madeleine Cocolas presents an album that explores the nexus between music, place, and memory.

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DreamScenes for July 2025: "Muzak For The Encouragement Of Unproductivity"

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Ancient Grounds and Inner Harmonies... albums by Hler (Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho), and Polaroid Notes.

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Sadie Powers used her fretless bass to create soundscapes meditating on loss and grief *** Kurt Liedwart kicks off his new label with music for the chillout rooms of modern techno culture.

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Environmental (yet musical) soundscapes: a storm, a glacier, and a dystopic future. Albums by David Donohoe & Kate Carr, Ludwig Berger and Manja Ristić.

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The impressive debut album of Verloren Schatten *** Soundtracks for your own haunted horror movies presented by Sinius.

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'Partially deleting everything': albums by Monogoto (Newman/Hatami/Hawgood) and 't Geruis - both on Home Normal.

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Aiko Takahashi's perfect music for Spring and Summer *** Pan American & Kramer explore the depth of the sea and come up with a breath of fresh air.

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"Reverie" --- DreamScenes for June 2025

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Creating contemporary electronic music - 'music from now' - while inspired by artists and composers from the past: albums by Zyklen and Lawson & Merrill.

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Two soundtracks to trigger your imagination: Richard Hamilton's Deus Ex Machina and Anthony Pateras' Reise der Schatten.

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Three important releases in one month: new albums by Deaf Center, Abul Mogard, and Loscil.

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" ... " - DreamScenes for May 2025

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Music to help yourself through difficult times (Fields We Found) - or to write your own story to (KapTep).

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An overview of Michael Begg's versatility * RL Huber's Hafgufa could have been a movie soundtrack.

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A collaborative album by Giovanni Di Domenico & Rutger Zuydervelt, and the synaesthetic hallucination of Hara Alonso.

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Ben Bertrand's Relic Radiation is 'a gentle musical paradox come to life' *Some of their friends rework the Markus Guentner / Joachim Spieth Overlay album into new levels of depths (and width)

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"Two Hundred Words For Loneliness" - DreamScenes for April 2025

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After publishing many ambient mix-collages I decided to challenge myself. How would a mix combining ambient soundscapes and classical music work out?

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Rengbirds's Origami Mountains is recorded while travelling South Africa *** Hara Alonso is confusing the senses.

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Pruski's music is featured in this 27th edition of the IIKKI book/disc combination series *** Adrian Lane's creative way of taking advantage of technical shortcomings.

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A short introduction to the (ambient) music of academically trained composer Paul Beaudoin.

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Kate Carr's Rubber Band Music is exactly what its title suggests: adventurous sonic experiments with rubber bands and a home-made 'noise box'.

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"Dreams Remembered" - DreamScenes for March 2025

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Music for watching clouds (Philippe Deschamps) or for visiting ancient ruins (Arborescence).

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An album to make the body glow (Cameron MacNair), and one that should be on your playlist for coming Spring (Wil Bolton).

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A Home Normal batch: some extras accompanying the re-release of James Murray's 2018 album *** a solo album by Ian Hawgood as well as his collaboration with Warren Forrest Kroll as Lantscap.

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Markus Guentner explores dark sonic territories on Black Dahlia *** Jacob Kirkegaard's impression of a failed attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

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Fennesz is one of the four artists on the last batch of the Longform Editions series ... As Asc, James Clements presents highly immersive Tales Of Introspection.

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"Lucid Dream Technique" - DreamScenes for February 2025

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New albums by Andrew Heath and Harry 'Glåsbird' Towell, to celebrate the launch of their brand new Driftworks label.

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Two works inspired by different exhibition centers: Lawrence English's work for the Naala Badu Art Gallery in New South Wales, and Sara Persico's soundscapes created from recordings of the Rachid Karami Int'l Fair in Tripoli, Libanon.

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Joachim Spieth & Agustin 'Warmth' Mena present a 'warm' album *** David Cordero honours the fascinating Spanish landscapes (and a walking trail) in musical postcards.

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øjeRum's sonic illustrations of the photography of Irene Zottola *** and the sonic reverberated sculptures of Thierry David.

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The stunning performance of Abul Mogard with Rafael Anton Irisarri on Le Guess Who 2024 is now available as a (name your price!) download.

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Taepyongga (Song Of Great Peace) - DreamScenes for January 2025

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Intimate spoken word poetry by Marianna Maruyama over dronescapes by Hessel Veldman *** A recurring dreamsong by Nate Wooley describing the life of a fictional character called Henry House.

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Drones and hums of Belfast's telecommunication boxes turned into electroacoustic compositions by Matilde Mereiles, and otherworldly film-noir-like music created by Dafeldecker, Baldini & Strüver.

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My contribution to close the 8-hour ambient music night on Winter Solstice (December 21, 2024), broadcast on Concertzender Nederland

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Fringo Chills is inspired by Norway's landscape, fjords and Northern Lights *** Rubbish Music is not a reference to its musical content but to the source materials used to create this music.

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Longform Editions #41 for December 2024, and Dronarivm's 100th release, a massive compilation.

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"Den Farben dieser Nacht" (This night's colours) - DreamScenes for December 2024

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Alva Noto's final part of the Xerrox series, in which abstract electronic slowly transforms into melancholic and sensitive (almost orchestral) arrangements.

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Janek Schaefer's comfortable soundtrack to hallucinogenic daydreams *** Başak Günak translates the concept of 'rewilding' to her music.

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