Ambient

  • Valencia’s Piano and Coffee Records is part of an international collective “working together for the love of art.” The group’s goal, according to its website is to “push boundaries and creative conversation.” To date, the imprint’s contribution to that conversation has featured a sophisticated mix of ambient, electronic and new classical works. Peru’s Sergio Diaz…

  • Frame – First Trip – Intro 0.00  FAX – Interior · 4.15  Departure Street – If There Was No Word for Sky 8.05  David Sylvian – Dobro #1 12.44  Chihei Hatakeyama – Twilight Sea 14.06  X.Y.R. – cocktail party 19.46  Tapes and Topographies – other distant mermaids 24.13  Rinnovare feat. Benoît Pioulard – To Be…

  • Italian composer and performer Marcello Liverani says his new EP has a second inspiration, besides the Zen philosophy that so often informs his gently beautiful work. It is the photography of the great Fan Ho, whose mostly candid documentation of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s earned him international acclaim. Ho passed in 2016…

  • Even those of us dedicated to a musical life were surprised by the extent to which it sustained us this year. Long days of restricted travel and companionship demanded that we turn inward. And so what home sounded like had a lot to do with what it felt like. What we felt like. The music…

  • Whettman Chelmets describes his latest The Poor. The Reign as a “a prelude and as a punctuation mark for the relentless year in which they were recorded.” Sourced from a number of recording sessions, Chelmets has pulled together an ambient album that has remarkable range. The customary drones are all there, but so too are…

  • Tutti Harp – Patch #1 (nic i nikt) 0.00  Yasu Ether – Merrily Swimming 8.31  Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer – Magnolia 20.34  Tim Linghaus – Ghost 24.03  Daniel Menche – The Soaring 27.00  Ty Citerman – Gebet 1.27.42  Kevin Press The Moderns, vols. 1-3 – available exclusively from Amazon