Ambient Soundscapes

【 Honkai Star Rail  】If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

Ocean

Only Tears (Le Code Rework)

ambient music with nature sounds, cinematic immersive soundscape

Calm Night Mantra

Campo

A Breath of Hope

Celestial Drift

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - E.F.S. n1

Gamardah Fungus is the collaborative project between Ukrainian musicians Igor Yalivec and Sergio Berry, based in the city of Dnipro. Since forming in 2009, the duo has explored the intersections of Ambient, drone, and experimental music, releasing on many labels including Flaming Pines, Polar Seas Recordings, and Hidden Vibes. Their sound world is informed as much by cinema, folklore and mysticism as by music itself, drawing from classical, jazz, noise and minimalism, with influences that include Eric Satie, Krzysztof Penderecki, Fennesz, Stockhausen and Bohren & Der Club of Gore. Over the years, Gamardah Fungus have built a reputation for their atmospheric live performances and conceptual studio work, often inspired by the landscapes and cultural heritage of their homeland.

Trees and Roots marks a significant shift in the duo’s creative process. For the first time, they abandoned the guitar that had been central to their previous work and here they embraced a more tactile, exploratory approach. Sergio used a series of custom electroacoustic instruments using unconventional materials: wooden and plastic boxes, strings, stones and even paper envelopes fitted with piezoelectric sensors. These objects were manipulated, processed through pedals, and layered into intricate textures. Alongside these are Igor’s immersive Ambient drones created by using Eurorack modular synthesizers. Field recordings gathered across Ukraine from over the years add another dimension of intimacy, anchoring the album in the natural and cultural environments that inspired it. No virtual instruments were used; the entire project was captured, mixed and mastered in the analog domain.

Written during an ongoing time of conflict in Ukraine, this album carries with it a deep emotional and cultural resonance. Rather than respond to these challenges directly, Igor and Sergio chose to look inward toward the enduring symbols of their heritage. Trees and Roots is dedicated to the mythology, folklore and natural beliefs of their ancestors. Trees have long been sacred in Ukrainian culture, representing strength, wisdom and spiritual continuity. Each track bears the Latin name of a tree revered in these traditions, reflecting both its physical roots and the metaphorical roots of identity and belonging. In this sense, the album is both a personal and cultural statement: a meditation on resilience, memory and the quiet power of nature to heal and sustain.

The sound of Trees and Roots is meditative yet charged with a fragile tension, balancing organic resonance and abstract tones. Drones swell like distant winds through the forest while percussive textures suggest movement beneath the surface. It is an album of layers and spaces, inviting deep listening and reflection. At its heart lies a quiet determination: to preserve the stories and symbols that shape a people, even in times of uncertainty and upheaval.

Credits:
Written, produced and mastered by Gamardah Fungus
Cover photography by Anton Pavlyukov
Artist photography by Yuriy Bulychev
Art and design by Andrew Heath

wlr190 Gamardah Fungus - Trees and Roots

Partial Holograms is the latest album by US-based artist Todd Gautreau, who records under the moniker Tapes and Topographies. Since launching the project in 2014, Todd has crafted a distinct form of Ambient music which is built around quietly expressive and cinematic textures. He has released on respected imprints such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Rohs!, Shimmering Moods his own label Simulacra Records. This is his third record for Whitelabrecs, following Amplitudes (2021) and Floating World - Reflections on 36 views of Newland Island (2022) in which he collaborated with painter Jonathan S Hooper. His practice blends analogue and digital processes, drawing from a background in guitar, hardware pedals and synthesizers. His artistic worldview is shaped by the shadowy, poetic sensibilities of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Jean Cocteau.

In Partial Holograms, Todd shifts his usual methods by intentionally removing one of his most familiar tools: the guitar. Though there are timbres that mimic stringed instruments, none were recorded in the traditional sense. Instead, this work leans more heavily into software processing, filtering Ambient textures and melodic fragments through a deliberately limited palette. This approach is typical of Todd’s ethos which is to change direction from one project to the next, by excluding previously used techniques. This creates a sense of evolution without abandoning the core aesthetic of Tapes and Topographies.

Initially, Partial Holograms was conceived as a more melodic record, one that incorporated piano, strings and even brass. This was the version which reached the mixing stage, but something essential felt absent; its atmosphere, its texture. Most of the material was set aside, with only two tracks surviving into the final sequence. What emerged from the second attempt was more immediate, with ideas flowing freely and a final product that strikes a thoughtful balance between melody and abstraction.

While there was no set narrative concept guiding this album, recurring themes began to surface during its creation, of isolation, dreams, memory and loss - all hallmarks of the Tapes and Topographies’ sound. Sometimes these themes are consciously woven in and at other times, they only become apparent in hindsight, or through the interpretations of others. As with his previous work, Partial Holograms invites the listener to drift between real and imagined spaces, forming connections in the half-light of memory and meaning.

Credits:
Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Artwork by nkl
Art and design by Andrew Heath

wlr191 Tapes and Topographies - Partial Holograms

As summer's warmth dissolves into twilight, grey clouds gather on the horizon, bearing the whispers of rain and the pine forest's scent yields to the caress of a fresh breeze. We are delighted to unveil Estimulo's latest mix for Deep Breakfast Series, a sonic journey to envelop your senses.

Estimulo is an avid record digger and die-hard music aficionado with extensive vaults of records since the late 80s. In his club DJ sets he’s on the lookout for those special moments of dancefloor salvation, oscillating between Deep House and Techno’s classics and more obscure electronic treasures, with splashes of Electro & Disco / Funk and with an extended broad perspective on genres and epochs not forgetting recent and upcoming gems. It’s not purely a retrofuturistic thing, rather he strives to connect music of different epochs to form a holistic flow. His special passion is to make his own edits / versions of the music he loves. With his label Mixomat Recordings (founded in 2004) he has been putting out early releases by artists such as
Marco Nega, immer.Chic (Workshop), Rezkar (Running Back, Meakusma) and Serendipity/Rai Scott (Inner Shift Music / 2DeepSoul).
His weekly Radio Show (EstimuloShow @ mixomat.org since 2007, also on Cashmere Radio since 2017) is regarded as a mainstay by many in the scene.
The last years have seen Estimulo taking the vibe to places like the US, Chile, Argentina, Australia, UK, France, Canada, Norway, Poland, Ukraine and Jordan on his DJ tours.
Estimulo used to co-run the futura event agency and DJ crew, that has been causing some stir in the Berlin scene with their proceedings in beloved underground spots like ://about blank, Paloma, Horst and Chez Jacki/Maria am Ostbahnhof.

About the mix he said:
"It's like a sequence of childhood memories. You close your eyes and remember science fiction films with the infinite universe and thousands of stars, a summer beach with your parents and siblings, then a spaceship with robots running around excitedly and making beeping noises. A few minutes later, you're beamed back to Earth and standing on the top of a mountain, gazing down into the wide valley, then a long walk through the forest along a mountain river. Or you hear the large church organ. In the end, it's all about aural beauty. I invite this music to give me and all listeners goosebumps. Nostalgia is only part of the equation here; i reckon timelessness is even more important. I hope you enjoy the journey through my memories and moods."

Tracklist:
1. Some Other People : Relativity : Infinite Mass
2. Robert Charlesworth : Haven Brow : Universal Egg
3. Cabaret Voltaire : Other World : Plastex
4. Justin Chodzko : Untitled (Beatless Edit by Estimulo) : Weekend World
5. Triola : AG Penthouse : Kompakt
6. Heights Of Abraham : Dolphins (Instrumental Edit by Estimulo) : Pork Recordings
7. Moc In Dub : Halb Zehn (Track 04) : Unreleased Private CD-R
8. Cabaret Voltaire : Belly Of The Beast (Back in Babylon) : Plastex
9. Mind Gear : Don't Panic (The Peaceful Karma Remix) : MFS
10. Heights Of Abraham : E.V.A. : Pork Recordings
11. Cabaret Voltaire : Let It Come Down : Plastex
12. Markus Guenther : Pilot : Kompakt
13. Wellen : Precious Nests
14. Wellen : Transform Echo
15. Dan Piu & Estimulo Present Time Synthesis : Pools (Estimulo's Atmospheric Pass) [unreleased]: Moto Music

Photo by Ilya Monistah

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Tracklist

01. Aiko Takahashi -  Soap and glass beads
02. Amble - Where i vanished for a while
03. Maps and Diagrams - Still blue
04. Paul Beaudoin - They thought it would be better if he didn't know about it
05. Thme - Ombre
06. Rosales -  Half-Light IV
07. Harry Towell - Snowdrops
08. James Murray - Feverfew
09. Rhucle - In Haze
10. James Osland - The Mountain Will Forever Be My Home

433. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)






https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-a-city-is-made


How a City Is Made explores the construction site as a transforming sound ecosystem, in which building becomes a rhythmic act and the city manifests itself as a score in the making. Sounds collected from a construction site in Rome—beats, friction, metallic resonances, and voices emerging and dissolving—are electronically reworked not to abstract them but to reveal their latent dynamics. A city is not merely a collection of buildings; it is a continuous process—an unstable balance between order and contingency, design and improvisation. Just as architecture takes shape through gestures and materials, sound becomes space, and the construction site becomes a city in power—a sound organism that exists in its making.

releases September 5, 2025 

Music: Ludovico Franco 
Mastering: Anacleto Vitolo @ AV-K studio Cover design: IRA 


SHM 353 
Shimmering Moods 2025

Ludovico Franco - Echoes B

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-storm-is-any-disturbed-state-of-an-environment


After completing their first album FIELD REPORTS for Moving Furniture Records, Philipp Bückle and Martijn Pieck went straight into the production of their second album. 

While FIELD REPORTS was an exploration of various fictitious urban scenarios, the goal for the second album was to be even less musical without losing the narrative thread in the tracks. And while the production progressed, the feeling of being lost in stormy weather, overwhelmed by the breeze occurred on several occasions. 

So A STORM IS ANY DISTURBED STATE OF AN ENVIRONMENT seemed to be a good headline for these new creations. The little melodic fragments of the first album were lost completely for a more droning and noisy approach. Field recordings, FM manipulations and white noise became the most dominant elements. The album consists of six different sonic environments that are soothing and disturbing at the same time. 
After the album received a digital-only release by Whitelabrecs in 2023, Shimmering Moods Records now offers a limited physical edition on CD.

releases September 5, 2025 

Philipp Bückle & Mar#jn Pieck: Electronics 
Mastered by Philipp Bückle 
Photography by Martijn Pieck 
CD Layout by Philipp Bückle 

SHM 354 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Philipp Bückle & Martijn Pieck - Grains

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bizenteo

This constitutes the most human-centric collection of tracks to date by the producer and composer World's Museum. Written between 2020-2024 using a collection of old synths, toys, and field recordings, these tracks make up a collection of tone poems and vignettes thematically exploring the residual presences that humans leave behind in both physical and media spaces.

releases September 5, 2025 

Written, performed, and recorded by Will Burghard 
Mastered by Will Burghard 
Artwork by Will Burghard 

SHM 355 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

World's Museum - Death on the Pub Crawl

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moir-s

"Moirés" delves into a conceptual exploration of patterns and interference, using the Norns device and various synths and samples to create a sonic experience that parallels the complex and evolving nature of visual moiré patterns. This album is a journey through a world where sound and vision intersect, revealing hidden layers and creating an immersive auditory and conceptual experience.

releases September 5, 2025 

All music by Milam Wisp 
Recorded & produced in Sydney, Australia 
Mastered by David Newnes 

linktr.ee/MilamWisp 

SHM 356 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Milam Wisp - n0rn_drift

ChristianAlsemgeest
Dutch guitarplayer making ambient guitar loops.
close your eyes and let this space cadet take you somewhere where you can close your eyes and zone out for some time.
enjoy the ride!

Only Tears (Le Code Rework)

Christian Alsemgeest

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