Clubber's Guide to... Ambient 2025

sweet intentions

stream entry

New album from Nilotpal Das aka Bios Contrast (@bioscontrast). Pre-orders for the album and limited edition cassette of 50 up now on Bandcamp: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/d-07-nilotpal-das-red-river

Bios Contrast - A City Painted With Red

Water ripples all around, and echoing sounds stretch out into a shady sub aquatic habitat. Its dark corners slowly burst into view as cresting noises reveal fresh caverns teeming with liquid life. This is Sueños Acuáticos, the latest sonic exploration from Lamina, a musical project by French artist, Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle. Built from years of carefully gathered field recordings, the album constructs immersive, detailed soundscapes where watery environments, caves, and forests intertwine with digital manipulations.

Rooted in the myth of the ‘Lamina’, a creature from Basque folklore, the project blends this oral tradition with technology to build a geological myth. The Lamina’s world—a nocturnal ecosystem of water and stone—serves as the foundation for the album’s sound design. Lamina reshapes these natural recordings into something new: stretching, pitching, and layering them to build intricate sound environments that feel simultaneously organic and synthetic. “I transform these sounds much like I would sculpt in ceramics,” explains Calvo-Pinsolle, “by adding, removing material, and imagining landscapes.

Drawing from hydrofeminist and posthuman ideas, particularly those in Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water, the album treats sound like water—shifting, flowing, connecting, and buoying life. Tracks flow into one another without clear boundaries, much like the natural currents they represent. The result is a continuous listening experience, inviting deep focus on texture above melody.

Lamina is exploring the potential of the field recording as a compositional tool. Natural sounds, like trickling water or wind through trees, are processed out of recognition—or cliché. A sense of weightless immersion takes hold as Lamins’a music unfolds, and listeners float freely and choose their own adventure in the Lamina’s home. Less a set of songs than its own evolving environment, Sueños Acuáticos (‘Aquatic Dreams’ in English) is a meticulously constructed work in which we can freely float.

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle in Brussels in 2024
With the voice of Hochiwah on Aqualines

www.claricecalvopinsolle.com
lalamina.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/laminalalamina/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Artwork and design by Fen ToucheMoulin
www.instagram.com/touche_moulin/

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Michaela Cagáňová

Released by mappa as MAP054 in 2024
licence
mappa.bandcamp.com  
credits
released November 4, 2024

Lamina - Éclipse

CALLISTO LOOP

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Dream

I pull at the drawer and it resists me for a moment, the way things do when they've settled into themselves over time. There is that particular sound—wood sliding against wood—and then suddenly it gives way, revealing its contents with a quiet rattle. Morning light streams over each object; items that have rested in darkness since the last time I visited, their colors now vivid and startling. It is as if the drawer itself has been safeguarding small treasures meant only for me.


Mastering by Inner Most

Album artwork by Salka Rosinkranz
https://www.salkarosinkranz.com/

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https://freesound.org/people/inner_most_garden/packs/43520/

Drawerful

rotabega 

Gather

rotabega 🍃 soft index

The Sleepless Year / Freefall

The Sleepless Year (Beatless Mix)

Perfect Silence * Break The Trance

thanks to 
E-Craig
Blank & Jones
Seretide @seretide

Angel's Cry

@c0tt0nm0uth

bloom:forever is a tale of interwoven love stories, each bleeding in to each other, understanding each other, regenerating the loveless, infinite understanding. holding us in its core (ringing eternally) basking in the glow of us looking for it ⚘

⤷ 100% of proceeds for the first 3 months go to @3ezwa.de

https://charmlink.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-forever (its bandcamp friday)

Tart

Attachment Theory