A few ambient tracks that I’ve loved in 2025. Will be expanded upon.

Selected ambient works 2025

What Dreams May Come

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (SLT-008)

Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)

Priya

Oteph

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Overlooking Vashon

The Third Broadcast (Empty Words Ambient Mix)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yatsuka Ishihara’s poem “faring over the lake / drawing the light / an autumn butterfly”.

Tracklist:

Jimmy Lem · Amplitude Of Acoustic Vibration https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/amplitude-of-acoustic-vibration-naviarhaiku612
zenbytes · autumn butterfly https://soundcloud.com/zenbytes/autumn-butterfly
Meccaniche del Suono · Over the lake https://soundcloud.com/meccaniche-del-suono/over-the-lake-naviarhaiku612
Stan Magendanz · an autumn butterfly https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/an-autumn-butterfly-naviarhaiku612
windspace · Drawing The Autumn Light https://soundcloud.com/windspace/drawing-the-autumn-light
Night Note · faring over the lake https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/faring-over-the-lake-naviarhaiku-612

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house”by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #382 –  Faring over the lake – Wednesday 8th October 2025

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Schlafes Trauma

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2025-11-06

something is ringing here

My submission for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #621.

More on the challenge here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

The Third Broadcast (Empty Words Ambient Mix)

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