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DANIAILYAS – Breathe and Start Again

Well this is just totally lush. DANIAILYAS is a transatlantic collaboration between Barcelona’s Dania Shihab and Portland’s Ilyas Ahmed. On their debut EP, Enough For Me To Remain, Shihab’s ethereal vocals and sweeping synths are intricately intertwined with Ahmed’s fluid, unpredictable guitar work. The result is a deeply immersive, almost spectral experience, balancing tenderness with an underlying tension. What emerges is both intimate and disorienting, like a love letter written in shadow and light, offering release and rupture in equal measure.

https://daniailyas.bandcamp.com/album/enough-for-me-to-remain

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Oliver Coates – 90

The blog has gone pretty ambient-heavy this week, but the heart wants what it wants. Today’s offering is taken fromThrob, shiver, arrow of time, the new album from Oliver Coates who created the incredibly moving soundtracks for the 2022 film Aftersun (highly recommended) amongst many other things. 90 is glassy, sparse, delicate and beautiful.

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CS + Kreme – Corey

Naarm’s CS + Kreme return with a dreamy, psych-folk-infused third album that drifts through bittersweet electronics and dubby, heady grooves. Known for their shape-shifting sound since their 2017 debut, their latest album The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise, from which Corey is taken, is their most poetic and ethereal yet. Blending early industrial influences with Pacific rim sounds, it features everything from flamenco and Javanese strings to South African rhythms and chamber classical moments. A captivating, mind-bending journey, perfect for a reflective escape.

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-butterfly-drinks-the-tears-of-the-tortoise

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Not Waving, Romance – From The Weary Earth To The Sapphire Walls

Last seen joining forces on their transcendent new album Infinite Light, Not Waving and Romance are back with a fantastically named new single, about which I can find absolutely nothing online save for a YouTube upload with a mere 77 plays. If more people liked this kind of celestial ambient droning, the world would be a significantly better place.

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Quazar554 – Pulsar (Jupiter-6)

Quasar 554 is the project of producer Paolo Alberto Lodde, also known as Dusty Kid: someone I was pretty obsessed with close to two decades ago, especially his track Luna, which I think opened a mix or compilation I used to hammer and still holds up as an absolute banger. Anyway! As Quasar 554 he was invited by the One Instrument label to create an EP exclusively using the Roland Jupiter-6. Often overshadowed by its pricier predecessor, the Jupiter-8, and sometimes criticised for its cold and thin sound, Lodde has eked out some genuinely emotional moments from the Jupiter-6, the results of which are worth checking out even if you’re not a massive synth nerd.

https://oneinstrument.bandcamp.com/album/quasar-554-jp6book

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zakè & Tyresta – Undiscovered

The Worlds We Leave Behind, the second full-length from the duo of zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) and Tyresta (aka Nick Turner), opens with Undiscovered; a heavenly, inviting glide that occupies a full quarter of the album’s run time. It sets the scene perfectly with a bedrock drone beneath a cyclical, ascending melodic theme, until gently shifting into shadows and choral loveliness in its final third.

https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/the-worlds-we-leave-behind

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Illuvia – Vale Of Shadows

Illuvia is the music project of Ludvig Cimbrelius who also releases music as Purl, Eternell and Abraço de Vapor. New album Earth Prism is his third under this ambient drum n bass leaning alias, and does pretty much exactly what you’d expect, with atmospheric pads and lush melodies combined with lo-fi drums filtered almost out of existence.

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/earth-prism

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Dylan Henner – Lullaby

Dylan Henner has made some of the most enriching, soothing ambient music I’ve ever heard, so I’m very excited about diving into his new album. Also, it’s called performs Raymond Scott’s Soothing Sounds for Baby, so I’m anticipating being pretty fucking relaxed in about an hour’s time.

https://dylanhenner.bandcamp.com/album/performs-raymond-scotts-soothing-sounds-for-baby

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Greg Foat & Gigi Masin – Sabena

Following their excellent collaborative LP Dolphin, UK jazz maestro Greg Foat and Venetian electronic luminary Gigi Masin join forces once again for The Fish Factory Sessions, an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2024. Also featuring the talents Moses Boyd on drums and Tom Herbert on bass, Sabena is an alternative version of the track of the same name from Dolphin; a beautifully poignant tribute to Masin’s late wife, with this new version even more delicate than its predecessor.

https://gregfoat.bandcamp.com/album/the-fish-factory-sessions

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Lb Honne – Longing (interlude)

Glassy ambient from Karl Primo under his Lb Honne alias, taken from the new album present future / here there. I’d like to tell you more, but there just isn’t time.

https://projindigo.bandcamp.com/album/present-future-here-there