My Bandcamp subscribers get a new edition of The Ambient Archives album series every month plus a bonus album every now and then. 

Cherry Blossom - ambient sketches & improvisations is one of those bonus albums. Like the title suggests, it is a series of in studio sketches and improvisations. Peaceful and thoughtful ambient music to soothe your soul. 

This track is a taste of four tracks from that album. 
Should you want a copy of this album and many other subscriber exclusives, visit https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Cherry Blossom - ambient skeyches & improvisations

Cherry Blossom (Improvisations)

Cherry Blossom - ambient sketches & improvisations (preview)

A remix I did years ago of a wonderful Trespassers William song. 
One of the first things I did as Bing Satellites.

I never got permission to release it (I was cheeky enough to ask!) but Matt and Anne-Lynne liked it and said I could post it on MySpace, so hopefully they'd be cool with me sharing it here.

I was lucky enough to interview Anna-Lynne Williams when I did a show for the now defunct Rebel Radio. 

Trespassers William are no more but Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams still continue to release wonderful music in various guises. 
You should search it out.
Also the Trespassers William album 'Different Stars' is available. It is still one of my favourite albums - a beautiful piece of work. 
I recommend getting a copy for yourself!

Trespassers William - Different Stars (Bing Satellites remix)

The sixth of 28 pieces of music, one created from scratch on each day of February 2022. At the end of the month, the whole album of 28 brand new pieces of music will be released.

Generative ambient music.  
Layered pianos, guitars and various synths. 
I started out with two layers of piano and slowly built up from there. 
The bell sound at the start is actually one of my dinner plates. 

My Bandcamp subscribers can listen to the whole album as it grows over the month. More info / listen at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/28-pieces

28 Pieces

The Forest Dwellers

The Forest Dwellers (28 Pieces - 6 February 2022)

Day 27 of my 28 Pieces project and the twenty-third piece of ambient music, one created from scratch on each day of February 2022. At the end of the month, the whole album of 28 brand new pieces of music will be released.

Recorded as the sun rose on a clear Spring-like Sunday morning. Quiet and peaceful. 
I've been really trying to make something quiet and intimate. I guess I'll have to make do with peaceful and spacious. 
The music has a slow breathing tempo. It is very relaxing to create. I like having spaces between notes and being able to choose whether or not to fill that space. 

Completely written, performed and produced on 27 February 2022.

My Bandcamp subscribers can listen to the whole album as it grows over the month. The whole album will be available to download at the end of the month. More info / listen at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/28-pieces

Welcome to the Void

Welcome to the Void (28 Pieces - 27 February 2022)

Day 28 of my 28 Pieces project and the twenty-third piece of ambient music, one created from scratch on each day of February 2022. At the end of the month, the whole album of 28 brand new pieces of music will be released.

A fitting finale, I feel. 

There have been several sounds that have appeared several times over the last month. I have been so engrossed in making this music over the last four weeks that it felt important include a few of these sounds on this, the final piece of this project. The slow washes and bells are there - almost like saying goodbye to old friends. I am sure they will be back though! 

Completely written, performed and produced on 28 February 2022.

My Bandcamp subscribers can listen to the whole album as it grows over the month. The whole album will be available to download at the end of the month. More info / listen at bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/28-pieces

Picture a Wave on the Ocean

Picture a Wave on the Ocean (28 Pieces - 28 February 2022)

A piano and a heartbeat. 

Playing piano has been inspiring to me over the last few days. It is interesting how each piece progresses: some stay quiet and delicate, whereas others, such as this one, become bigger and find a pulse. 

Needless to say, I am enjoying this burst of creativity.

Flotsam and Jetsam

A grainy lo-fi piece of atmospheric ambient music created in response to @naviar-records latest haiku challenge - https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/05/04/naviarhaiku435-softly-spun/ 

Sakura signals
an end to the darkest nights
forever in light

I've been interested in this challenge for a while. It was quite inspiring.

Forever in Light

Forever in Light (naviarhaiku435)

Made in response to @naviar-records Haiku challenge 436.
Details: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/05/11/naviarhaiku436-lightning-thunder/

The challenge called for the thunder, lightning and rain. I tried to represent them all here. A great thunderstorm approaches. Little drops of rain, distant rumblings, darkening skies, then wind, flashes of light and heavy cracks of thunder. 

There is something about this challenge that I am finding inspiring.

Cumulonimbus

Cumulonimbus (naviarhaiku436)

Made in response to @naviar-records haiku challenge 437. 
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/05/18/naviarhaiku437-high-noon/

Sunlight, birds and water. 
Slow, calm. 

Once again, I've found this to be a very satisfying and inspiring challenge.

Birds on Water

Birds on Water (naviarhaiku437)

The opening track from my latest album 'Another Music / A Different Reality', four pieces of emotive electronic ambient music, drifting somewhere between mysterious atmospherics and Berlin School euphoria with a healthy dose of vocoder thrown in for good measure. 

Here we have a rare thing, a song of mine with lyrics (performed with the vocoder). 

Atmospheric and soothing. 

Get the album on CD or name-your-price download from https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/another-music-a-different-reality

Another Music / A Different Reality

Elizabeth

A little taste of this month's edition of the Ambient Archives, four pieces of drifting ambient music to soothe your soul. 
The album, along with previous editions, is available to my Bandcamp subscribers at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/the-ambient-archives-september-2022 

The album is available on CD or download. Each month, my subscribers get a new album not currently available to the public.

The ambient archives - September 2022

The ambient archives - September 2022 (preview)

Every month, my lovely Bandcamp subscribers receive a new album on CD or download. This is a little taste of this month's album - 5 pieces of atmospheric ambient music to soothe your soul. 

You can find out more and subscribe at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The ambient archives - October 2022

The ambient archives - October 2022 (preview)

A little taste of this month's edition of The Ambient Archives, an hour of drifting ambient and Berlin School electronics to soothe your soul. 

Every month, my lovely Bandcamp subscribers receive a new album on CD or download. This is a little taste of this month's album - 5 pieces of atmospheric ambient music to soothe your soul.

You can find out more and subscribe at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The ambient archives - January 2023

The ambient archives - January 2023 (preview)

A little taste of this month's edition of The Ambient Archives, drifting drones, Berlin School type sequencers and hypnotic percussion blend into 68 minutes of peaceful music to soothe your soul.

Every month, my lovely Bandcamp subscribers receive a new album on CD or download. This is a little taste of this month's album - 5 pieces of atmospheric ambient music to soothe your soul.

You can find out more and subscribe at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The ambient archives - February 2023

The ambient archives - February 2023 (preview)

A little taste of this month's edition of The Ambient Archives. The full album is available now to my Bandcamp subscribers. 
For more information and to become a subscriber, visit https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Three tracks of atmospheric electronic ambient music to soothe your soul.

The ambient archives - March 2023

The ambient archives - March 2023 (preview)

A quick improvisation in the studio, trying out a new reverb with the guitar (no ebow this time). 
Creating music through improvisation is very inspiring. A new sound can suggest something new. I played three notes before pressing record and knew there was something there, something otherworldly and spacey. 

I imagine there will be more of this sort of thing very soon.

Untitled (space improvisation 7 May 2023)

A little taste of this month's edition of the Ambient Archives, available to subscribers at https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/the-ambient-archives-may-2023 

The whole album is a mix of peaceful, reflective, epic and uplifting electronic and experimental ambient music.

The ambient archives - May 2023

The ambient archives - May 2023 (preview)

A simple improvised piano piece over an improvised drone played on synths and ebowed guitar, recorded this afternoon. 

A work in progress.

The photo is of Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona, taken from a plane on my way to Cailfornia.

The final version of this track is featured on my new album The Village, out on double CD and download on 14 December 2015. Details at http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/thevillage/

The Village

Waiting

So it turns out I only went and wrote and recorded an album on my recent visit to California (I was there for much more important non-musical reasons).
The place and the company are very inspiring. 

The album, entitled The Village, will be released on double CD and download in December. Until then, you'll have to make do with this part of this track and the ridiculous photograph I actually took of the actual sunset. We don't get sunsets quite like that in Manchester!

Jigsaw Pieces

A live improvised piece of music fro the soon to be released Twilight Sessions volume 17

Sweet

Recorded in the beautiful and inspiring surroundings of the frozen Baltic coast on my second trip to Sweden asa guest of electronic music collective Dogma Noveau. 

Recorded with a minimal set up: laptop, midi keyboard and Roland SH-32 synth (small enough to fit in my carry on luggage!)

Update: The full version of this track, along with all the other tracks I recorded in Sweden will beincluded on the album The Visitor, available on double CD and download from 12 February 2016 from http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/thevisitor/

Stars

A little taste of the next Twilight Sessions album that will be heading your way on double CD and download at the end of April 2016. 
More info: http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/twilightsessionsvolume18/

Like the rest of the album, this piece is improvised and recorded live. I press record, play a few notes and see where the music takes me.

Bourbon and Ginger

A little bit of my latest album of quiet ambient music celebrating a year of love and happiness. 

More details / CD / download: http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/eighthours/

Eight Hours

A little bit of my new album, out on CD, download and stream on 6 January 2017. 

Like the rest of these albums, Twilight Sessions volume 20 is a collection of live ambient improvisations. I play a few notes in to a lonmg, slowly decaying loop and see where the music takes me.

Twilight Sessions volume 20

Thanasphere

A live, improvised ambient piece from Twilight Sessions volume one.
Free / pay-what-you-like download - http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/twilightsessionsvolume1/
Watch the video - http://vimeo.com/10628798

Notes on Twilight Sessions:
Each piece starts as a blank canvas with no preconceived notion of where the music will go. Notes and noises are played from synths, guitar, voice and samples and fed into one or two loops which repeat and layer and decay.

These loops can be quite long, so as a performer I can add notes as I see fit, but only have a certain amount of control over what is heard - the rest is serendipity.

You Were In A Dream

Taken from 'Soothing Images 1-15', released by BFW recordings.

The first in a new series of live, improvised ambient albums.
15 quiet ambient songs with 15 accompanying photographs.

How the music is created:
A 16 bar phrase is played.
That phrase is fed into a slowly decaying 16 bar loop, similar to the one used in Twilight Sessions.
That loop is fed into a slowly decaying 6 bar loop which repeates the first loop every 6 bars, so that soon, there are several layers of the original phrase that interact and create new themes and melodies.
They seem to appear from nowhere, but these new melodies are destined to happen as soon as each note is played in the original 16 bar phrase.

More details and free / pay-what-you-like download links - http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/soothingimages1-15/

Soothing Image 5

Part of the opening track from my latest ambient album Real Life and How To Avoid It, out on CD, download and streamies.

This track (like most of my music) was improvised live in my studio with most of my synths rather than just the laptop. 
It is another example of me exploring ways of making even more minimal music that is still satisfying.

Real Life and How to Avoid It

Once More

Part of the first track from my new ambient album Treasure, a collection of atmospheric and peaceful ambient music recorded in one day.

Treasure

Driven

A little taste of my latest album A Life in Dreams, a collection of slow and drifting ambient music. Three warm, atmospheric pieces of music to warm your soul.

A Life in Dreams

All of This

All Of This

A taste of the first in a new series of albums of peaceful ambient soundscapes to soothe your soul. 

Available on CD, download and all the usual places: http://www.bingsatellites.com/releases/frozen-in-time-atmospheres-textures-volume-one/

Frozen in Time (Atmospheres & Textures volume one)

Star Trails

A little atmospheric taste of my album Inner Landscape (Atmospheres & Textures volume six), a collection of slow, spacious ambient music.

Inner Landscape (Atmospheres & Textures volume six)

Sustained Resonance

A work-in-progress of a quiet piano track with delicate atmospherics. 

The finished version can be found on the album The History & The Mystery of The Adirondack Piano, available on CD and download from https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/the-adirondack-piano 
Also available soon on Spotify and elsewhere.

The History & The Mystery of the Adirondack Piano

West

West (rough draft)

Prolific ambient musician, photographer, freelance philosopher and 50s steam machine. 

I make lots of music under many guises including Bing Satellites, The Lovely Moon, The Ambient Visitor, Kowalski Room, The ambient drones of Bill Baxter, Theta Wave Orchestra and probably many more.

Bing Satellites

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