Experimental / Ambient

Blue Hour is the most recent release from Friday Night Plans, recently signed by Modern Obscure Music. The project marks FNP's shift from their ‘pop’ roots towards a more experimental and ambient sound. Friday Night Plans is pioneered by singer/songwriter Masumi who has collaborated on this project with acclaimed Japanese producer Ena. Together, they have created a collection of songs that represents the quiet introspection and emotions of the AM hours, using improvisation during the production …

*2026 repress. 300 copies limited edition* After serving for years as a sought-after harpist in various constellations and genres, Laura De Jongh now shares with us an intimate insight of what sounds like the Third Space of her daily, rooted life as a music teacher and mother of two offsprings, where she composes meandering miniatures free of ego, validation and urge. With references to New Age, ambient and the proximity of field recordings, Laura De Jongh teaches us that music doesn't need to g…

On Stash, the absolutely energy-drenched 2nd album from BCMC, the guitar and keys duo soars through waves of pleasant rhythmic turbulence on the way to show us just what they got: Needle down: increased activity dubs and baubles the sonic surface of BCMC’s Stash planet. Waves from Arabian, Indian, Flamenco and Soul groove in alliance under the expanse of an all-world flag, representing a borderless pursuit of cosmic music moments in the hand, of/by/for all the people of folk, rock and jazz, psyc…

*300 copies limited edition. Black sleeves with paste-on artwork and a postcard*  Debut LP from a new Gothenburg duo consisting of Irma Krook (Makthaverskan) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election).  Alyssa takes elements from Irmas Military Arms 12" released a few years ago and combines it with the mind expanding synth stuff Dan has explored with the Psychic Panorama recordings recently. Adding a few larger-than-life piano bangers and whatnot, the result is a dreamy and mesmerizing night time album …

Night is about to fall, the day slowly fades away, and it is this twilight time that Magda Drozd’s latest album inhabits. Divided by Dusk carries the promise of a crepuscular otherworldliness. Inspired by Drozd’s stays in Japan, its rich tradition in ambient and experimental music and a collaboration with Japanese flutist Rai Tateishi, as well as a renewed engagement with her roots in Poland and its folk and ancient history, her work is a form of sonic excavation. Layers of dark-ambient tones in…

Emerging from Studio HC Orchestra, Pakachume is a collaboration between producer Adrien de Maublanc and multi-instrumentalist Yonatan Levi. The album blends minimalism, jazz, chamber music, Afro-carribean sounds, and ambient electronica, recorded intimately in Paris’ Studio HC with acoustic instruments and analog synths.

»vents d’aether« is the first collaborative album by sound artist Jérôme Bouve and composer-performer Delphine Dora for Hallow Ground. The six pieces are based on live improvisations on organ and harmonium. They were recorded in different churches on the Cotentin peninsula in France’s Normandy region and later enriched with additional field recordings by SA~RA. This adds an extra layer to compositions which were created both in and out of the moment and which quite literally resonate with the hi…

Italian electronic music producer PSTMRD returns with Lanzarote, his highly anticipated second album arriving February 6. Drawing inspiration from the raw, volcanic landscapes of the Spanish island that gives the record its name, the album unfolds as an immersive sonic journey across seven tracks of detailed sound design and evocative electronic textures. First single "Fullmoon" bridges the rhythmic complexity and textural play of classic IDM with glitch-infused minimalism and warm analog atmosp…

*2026 stock* Solo 3 is the first album by cellist, composer and improviser Daniel Brandl on Protomaterial Records. It is the work of a fearless artist. Brandl explores a variety of sounds on the cello using digital editing. The soundscape of the album is rich and diverse: from blues-based tracks like “Drip Drop” to beautiful, ambient-centered landscapes like “Touching Ground.” In several compositions, Brandl overlays recordings of his cello, creating something that is reminiscent of a chamber mu…

*2026 stock* New York-based electro-acoustic duo NTHNL and Sphente release their debut album "Awareness of the Wind Within," a profound document of their years-long collaboration. Specializing in consciousness-expanding vibrational exploration, Sphente and NTHNL combine gongs and winds in immersive long-form improvisations that blur the boundaries between ambient soundscapes, ritual performance, and experimental acoustics. The gong, manipulated with Sphente’s innovative microphone techniques, fo…

'We Fell In Turn' is the solo debut from Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and quartet leader Kalia Vandever. Vandever, who plays with Harry Styles and Japanese Breakfast, “sculpts her trombone’s golden tones into dazzling compositions” (Pitchfork), writing music that tends to “dip you into a feeling or a pattern or a breathing speed, and keep you there” (The New York Times). In 2022, Vandever released Regrowth, an album that “features the ecstatic, brilliant melodies that have become Vandeve…

*2026 stock* "Magnetic Tape is able to record, store and playback audio recordings. It enables repetition and the capturing of time in a sonic shape. It frees listening from the confines of chronology and thus of history and creates a sonic pluriverse where everything can be played at once, again and again sounding between the familiar and the unfamiliar the particular darkness of the human heart and the peculiar density which surrounds everything that is real. Thus giving access to time’s plast…

Flourishing minimal composer Juho Toivonen returns with Kuun Sininen Rinki (‘Blue Circle of the Moon’), a four-track LP assembling recordings from two distinct moments in his recent work. Issued by Infinite Expanse, the release gathers previously unreleased material alongside pieces that first appeared in extremely limited CDr form, offering a glimpse into an early phase of Toivonen’s developing piano practice. If you’ve spent time with Toivonen’s 2023 LP Kasveille ja eläimille, the A-side will …

New album by FLOCKS, the duo of drone specialist Werner Durand and percussionist Uli Hohmann. Musical landscapes that move between traditional as well as experimental sounds with influences from Krautrock and Jon Hassell's "fourth world" aesthetics.

*300 copies limited edition* Belgian formation Razen joins forces with Dutch composer and theatre musician Dick Van der Harst for a new collaborative album Stained Glass Starling. Between modal mysticism and otherworldly folk trance, “Stained Glass Starling” draws the Razen universe into its deepest listening mode yet. After their recent LP Mirages (Kraak Records, 2025) with French turntablist Guilhem’All, the group continues to explore collaborations with artists and instruments from diverse mu…

This cassette release features live performance recordings from Suspense and Romance, Dumb Type’s first large-scale exhibition, held in 1987 at Tsukashin Hall in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.This work marks the first time composer Toru Yamanaka created and produced all the music for a Dumb Type project. It documents a unique musical collaboration with saxophonist Harry Kitte.Developed under the theme of “Suspence and Romance”, Yamanaka's compositions weave together the cinematic lyricism of jazz …

Nantes based Kévin Couapel aka Pont Alexandre III crafts a sonic world grounded in ambient and experimental electronic music, where slowness, repetition, and texture shape the core of its language. The music unfolds as an immersive architecture of sound, balancing shadow and light, density and silence. The compositions favor understated emotional narratives, allowing traces of nostalgia, isolation, and delicate serenity to surface. Synthesizers, hazy and enveloping, are treated as organic matter…

On Health & Safety, Johan Surrballe Wieth drags his post‑hardcore sensibility into a hushed, modern‑classical fever dream: 25 minutes of grief‑stricken keys, corroded drones and ghost‑violin traces that move like medicated insomnia.

Duori is an imaginary word. It combines the ideas “dentro” (inside) and “fuori (outside) invoking a place between.

"Dream of the Egg" is the debut solo album by Tomo Katsurada, known for his work with the Japanese psychedelic band Kikagaku Moyo. This project is a unique fusion of music and visual art, inspired by the Japanese 1920s children's book “Yume No Tamago (Dream of the Egg)”. It reveals a deeply personal journey, reflecting Tomo's dreams and the numerous rebirths experienced in 2024—a year marked by profound new beginnings in every facet of his life. This mini album was driven by a passion for raw an…

Formed in Japan after the collapse of the noisy, SPK-ish White Hospital — the other half of which, Jun Konagaya, went on to continue as Grim — Vasilisk consisted of Tomo Kuwabara and Yukio Nagoshi, with other members (including longtime fixture of the Japanese underground, drummer Tatsuya Yoshida) joining in from time to time. Live Blood was compiled from two live sessions held in Tokyo in 1992 and 1993, music is like a looser version of the explorations into African tribal music manifested by a…

Certain paths necessitate and call for one singular long sequence in order to arrive at a fully formed conversation or reasoning. Nothing seems to broadcast it more clearly than the trajectory Brussels based Italo-Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Zen Mỹ embarked on during the last decade as Radio Hito. After a string of highly cherished and sought out tape releases, Radio Hito’s new album ‘L’uso e gli attributi del cuore’, co-released by Maple Death & Meakusma, unfolds with devastating clarity, a profou…

In Osni the Flare, the second chapter of Tristan Allen's mythic trilogy, the composer, producer, and puppeteer follows a mortal’s transformation into deity through the discovery of fire. Recorded over four years using wordless vocals, organs, ocarinas, an arsenal of toy instruments, and intricate sound design, Osni the Flare unfolds the origins of flame and temporality across four acts. Weaving a creation myth that shifts between beauty, shadow, and wistful embers, Allen provides a portal to met…

** 2026 Repress, revised artwork ** Artist and multi-instrumentalist Flaer looks to the landscape to explore pastoral melancholy on debut release, Preludes. Ensconced in his family home in rural Leicestershire in the early months of 2020, painter and musician Realf Heygate (b. 1994) picked up his childhood cello for the first time in several years and began to play. Setting himself parameters to only record onto 4-track tape with acoustic instruments – cello, piano and acoustic guitar – he assem…

*150 copies limited edition* Alexander Eldefors is a producer, composer, and mixing engineer based in the countryside outside of Stockholm, Sweden. With a background as both a sound engineer and musician, he has spent years recording, mixing and playing in a wide range of bands and solo projects. In 2019, he consciously slowed down and returned to a more intimate and quiet musical expression, leading to the release of his debut album Bergen in 2020 under his own name. Bergen is the Swedish word …

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with Gift Songs, a deep distillation of touchstones and influences drawn from the natural world and his spiritual practice. Enlisting a brilliant cast of collaborators, and blending a rich sonic palette of guitar, modular synthesizer, and acoustic instrumentation and arrangements, Cantu-Ledesma illuminates a profound sense of humanity and transcendent possibilities across a suite of five sublimely minimal compositions. Drawing its title from Cantu-Ledesma’s belief tha…

Endlessly uplifting, gorgeous sunshine art-pop from Swedish librarian cum insanely talented multi-instrumentalist Sternpost. Who said the underground had to be glum??Sternpost’s 2023 hit Ulrika felt like something of an awakening, an open door to a vivid and unbelievably lush sound world that was totally at odds with its humble home-recorded nature. Back on Portland outpost Concentric Circles, unworld.afterpop takes our hand again and guides us into a dreamworld of charming avant-pop, drawing in…

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Maidstone is the debut album on Stroom by Swedish artist Velv.93, released as a double LP featuring 12 tracks of deeply immersive ambient music. Drawing from '90s ambient influences with understated drones, warbling tones, and scattered field recordings, it unfolds patiently like a slowly advancing glacier, offering a comforting yet chilly companion for winter introspection. Behind the scenes, the record bears the imprint of a strong visual and spatial imagination. Mixed by Eraclio Pagliuca and …

On Tectonic, Simon Berz turns drums, electronics and electronically manipulated Icelandic basalt into a roaming, 15‑year travelogue: club‑pressured rhythms, gamelan echoes and cavernous ambience formed with stones as both instrument and co‑author.

On Rituals of The Last Dawn, Saba Alizadeh draws Persian classical memory into long‑form electro‑acoustic rites, two side‑long pieces that breathe like prayers for a wounded world - hushed, spacious, and quietly defiant.

*300 copies limited edition* Words have never been my strongest point. I have many ideas in my head, often too many. I can talk a lot about them, but putting them on paper is not really me. I rather just work on my ideas. ‘cause whatever your thoughts are, as soon as it is out there and people start to listen it becomes theirs. What I might have thought up before, and have as concept behind the music, might not be how someone else listens to it. And that’s okay. If we keep in mind that my music …

On Reverse Acceleration of Dragons, Radx (X.Y.R. & Vlad Dobrovolski) drift through retro‑synth mirages and sci‑fi haze, blending Cascone‑esque electronica and “living machine” dragons into a soft‑focus, humid strand of 12th Isle ambient.

Featuring 8 tracks of dazzling electronic soundscapes, 'Race at Neon Club' sees Brice Dreessen fulfill the promise of his early work to deliver a beautiful, if at times unsettling, album that ranges from blissful interstellar ambience through to disorientating experimental noise and industrial rhythms.

On Notes from the Air, Ciro Vitiello turns the seagull into a trembling patron saint of dizziness and desire, drifting between orchestral swells, shoegaze haze and post‑rock afterimages in songs that hover on the edge of meaning and never quite touch down.

Recorded in high summers and brutal winters in 2022 and 2023, Nightingale Floor’s debut album Five Stagings takes the listener through a quintet of spontaneously conjured and patiently crafted pieces for a quartet of musicians scattered across North-West England. Manchester-based poet Lauren McLean provides voice and words, joined by cellist Josh Horsley of Preston duo Powders, Benjamin D. Duvall of Liverpool four-piece Ex-Easter Island Head on sound collages, strings and trombone, with Tombed V…

** Edition of 100. Beautifully designed sleeve by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano. ** Die Schachtel's latest follows naturally from the sonic territory explored within the label's Decay Music series, while pushing well beyond. La Donna del Lago is the debut release from the geography-spanning trio of the Italian bassist and composer, Massimo Pupillo; the Canadian soprano singer and conductor, Barbara Hannigan; and the French composer, sound engineer and musician David Chalmin. An immersive tapestry o…

** Edition of 300. Glacial Blue Vinyl ** A meeting in tidal waters. Sixteen years in the making. On Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems, Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou release their first full-length collaboration, arriving as the third installment of RVNG Intl.'s ongoing Reflections series - contemporary convergences, orchestrated with care. The two artists first met in 2009 and have circled one another ever since, sharing stages intermittently, most notably at the Philharmonie de Paris in …

*Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the artist* Casida de la tierra que nos dejan is a sound work by Marcelo Expósito composed of four pieces published on 7’ vinyl record. This work dialogues with the way in which the Italian musician Luigi Nono early adapted the poetry of Federico García Lorca, trying to dig into the layers of idealisation traditionally accumulated about the writer from Granada, in order to carry out a materialistic updating of procedures common to both the writer and the m…

"Metsä henkii" (Finnish for "The Forest Breathes") is a captivating 7-inch vinyl EP by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Simo Hakalisto, aka Shakali, released in 2024 via Stoned to Death Records. Based in Brno, Czechia, Hakalisto crafts immersive electro-acoustic soundscapes blending ancient and modern elements, evoking the subtle rhythms of nature like fungal networks and whispering pines.