Sonmi451 * Coral Sea
Mysterious immersive music with ASMR-like qualities by Sonmi451, and an album from ‘the Jacques Cousteau of ambient music’: Coral Sea.
Tag: immersive
The Lonely Bell * Loneward * David Cordero
Three albums with immersive ambient drones: from The Lonely Bell, Loneward, and David Cordero respectively.
Katharina Schmidt * Deepspace * NRV
Katharina Schmidt helps you fall asleep on her release on Slaapwel Records, Deepspace explores the Blue Dunes from Mars, while NRV demonstrates that beauty can be seen in seemingly ordinary landscapes.
Pruski * Glåsbird * Toàn
Immersive music from Pruski, a sonic expedition to the Himalaya with Glåsbird, and music like ‘sounding stones’ by Toàn.
Vittorio Guindani * Fells * Emile Bojesen
Three minimalist albums perfect for Deep Listening sessions or to meditate to: Death Poems (Jisei) by Vittorio Guindani, Fells sitting on a hill, and Emile Bojesen’s Scrape.
John Luther Adams * Stavros Gasparatos
John Luther Adams’ ‘Become Desert’: “Close your eyes and listen to the singing of the light.” *** Stavros Gasparatos explores the range of emotions of losing control, without any repercussions.
Steve Roach; Erik Wøllo; S.E.T.I.; As Lonely as Dave Bowman
Etheric Imprints by Steve Roach – Echotides from Erik Wøllo – a new Companion to an older album by S.E.T.I. – and a Monolith tribute to 2001 by As Lonely As Dave Bowman
Thomas Koener – Novaya Zemlya
It starts with a deep trembling sound. It’s not thunder, but it does not exactly sound mechanical or man-made either. It may come from somewhere deep inside the earth…a strange kind of sound to break the vast silence.
With sounds like these, it’s not difficult to imagine you are witnessing the birth of New Land – which is in fact the translation of “Novaya Zemlya” (or Nova Zembla in dutch, known for the famous Willem Barentsz expedition in 1594).
The name also refers to the archipelago in the north of Russia, extensively used for nuclear testing during the Cold War – which creates an entirely different context for the sounds on this album.
Shinobu Nemoto – Melting Loop Trip
“Melting Loop Trip” by Shinobu Nemoto (from Kanagawa, Japan), should not be missed by anyone enjoying long-form drone music.
It is released as a handmade 4CDR release if you want a physical copy, but it can also be downloaded (for free!) from the Resting Bell netlabel.
It’s a massive download including sixteen loops, each loop between six and thirteen minutes long, totalling over two-and-a-half hour of deep drone listening.
A fairly extreme release in size ánd content.