Due out on limited CD on November 12th

DR-79 : ENRICO CONIGLIO - Alpine Variations

"The strenuous conquest of the top, the splendor of a landscape that slowly reveals in its dazzling beauty. In his new work, the Venetian based composer, guitarist and field recorder Enrico Coniglio leads us once again among his loved ones mountains: an epic landscape in which enchantment and fear are deeply intertwined. He chooses to do so offering us the sound as a sensory canvas of an imaginary enterprise with deliberately indefinite contours.

"Alpine variations" is a further step in the sound research carried out by the author in a long and complex path built over time inspired by environmental and atmospheric sounds.

A bewitching narrative emerges from the intersection of bright harmonic textures and dense ambient vapors crossed by restless shadows. The individual parts of this narration represent the stages of an ascent that is at the same time physical and spiritual. It is a nostalgic plot that in the partial roughness of its resonances returns the sense of precariousness of a bumpy path, poised between quiet contemplation and impending danger. 

The cinematic approach constantly reveals the genesis of an album originally built on a series of recordings dedicated to the creation of a film sound commentary that finally become an autonomous itinerary. Finally, all that remains is to close your eyes and prepare to face the journey". 

To Marina, she has returned to the mountains

ENRICO CONIGLIO - First Ascent

Catalog: INNER164
Format: Tape Cassette // Digital // Streaming

Transparent Blue Tapes // 75 copies worldwide

Music for the Ninth Silence the first full-length ambient album by TOMC, is a work that speaks of "uncategorizable emotions and silence”, comparing them to the metropolis. The duration of all the tracks is unified at 4 minutes and 33 seconds, and each track is given a name based on psychologist Carl Jung's eight typologies and the places in Tokyo that TOMC recalls.

All of the music is produced with TOMC's electronic piano playing, with a nod to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Erik Satie and Steve Reich, and without sampling from existing music. The fusion of tones reminiscent of 1980s Japanese ambient / new age music and the three-dimensional sound textures of contemporary ASMR culture, free from the constraints of the grid, is a reflection of his vision of Tokyo.

The vibrant Japan of the 1980s is considered by many young Japanese people to be a fantasy far removed from the present day. On the other hand, much of the culture and urban landscape of modern Japan undeniably originates from the 1980s. TOMC, who lives in Tokyo, the largest city in Japan today, has been thinking about the "uncategorizable emotions and silence" that suddenly come to the minds of people living in the city, which is faced with various problems unique to developed countries and sometimes has to embrace a sense of stagnation, and depicted them in this album.

TOMC sees that ambient and new age music is not a form of "escapism" but an art form to connect the self with reality. When people who are in the midst of "uncategorizable emotions and silence" (i.e., you in someday) come into contact with the tracks and reclaim themselves, this album will be truly completed.

This stage is on-going today, and is full of questions: What does it means to be oneself? What assumptions are accurate? What’s been an act all along? It’s a period of her life, and on the album, that’s deconstructive and lighter in tone. In its entirety, Yesterday & Tomorrow is deeply personal, but there’s a message for all of us to internalize: no matter how dark things get, there’s always hope. Even when you think it’s completely out of reach.

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Music for the Ninth Silence

LIMITED EDITION TAPE

TOMC - Extraverted Thinking (Shinjuku)

Our second mix is being released on Global Drone Day, an event created by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan of Weird Canada (https://droneday.org). This mix includes a new track by Chihei Hatakeyama from his forthcoming album, "Thousand Oceans," which will be released on Dronarivm in June on LP, CD, and digitally.

The mix, compiled by yours truly, Dmitry T., features tracks from various recent releases in the contemporary ambient/drone scene. These tracks have been a source of inspiration for me, and I hope they do the same for you. Drone on!

Tracklist:

00:00. Chihei Hatakeyama - Thousand Oceans (from the upcoming ‘Thousand Oceans’, Dronarivm)
05:35. Tomotsugu Nakamura - Rain Boundaries (from ‘Moon Under Current’, Teinei)
09:50. Enrico Coniglio - The Blue Hour (from ‘The Sirens of Titan’, Dronarivm)
13:22. Tim Six - Constellations Over Waves (from ‘Homing’, Atlantea Records)
19:02. Runaway Horses - House in the Woods (from ‘Recollected in Tranquility’, Dronarivm)
22:50. anthéne - Whispering Wave (from ‘Stray Light’, Floralia)
27:55. A Lily - Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed (from ‘Saru I-Qamar’, Phantom Limb)
31:35. Celer - Ultra-terrestrial Yearning (from ‘Perfectly Beneath Us’, Field Records, Still*Sleep re-issue)
35:05. Ryan J Raffa & Nico Rosenberg - On Thin Air (from ‘On Thin Air’, Muzan Editions)
42:15. David Cordero - Voice of the Forest (from ‘Important Small Details’, Home Normal)
45:50. Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - In a Gadda Da Vida (from ‘Lieder Ohne Worte’, Chitra Records)
50:35. Floating Shrine - A Moment, by the River (from ‘Connecting’, Decaying Spheres)
53:10. Masaya Ozaki - Skerpia (from ‘Mizukara’, Laaps)
56:36. The Green Kingdom - Softly Away (from 'Arcadian', Sound in Silence)

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Aether #002 by Dronarivm

05 C418 - Living Mice

Tender by Green Thing Proud Auction is a collection of emotional and cinematic soundscapes blending soft orchestral strings, white voices, and ambient textures. The music is heartfelt yet unobtrusive, designed to accompany images with warmth and elegance. Perfect for documentaries, dramas, and reflective moments, Tender offers a delicate background that evokes serenity, depth, and gentle emotion.

01 - Good Night
02 - Apocalypse
03 - Conscience
04 - Obvious Peace
05 - Repentless
06 - Mute
07 - Wait Till the End

Produced by Rudy Pusateri
Published by Zingar Music Lab

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01 - Good Night

A python can sleep an average of 18 hours a day. When it "sleeps," its eyes remain open. What does it dream about all that time?
Un python, peut dormir en moyenne 18 heures par jour. Quand il "dort", ses yeux restent ouverts. A quoi reve t-il tous ce temps ?

Électro Shock  ⚡
Playlist: https://on.soundcloud.com/S3JvBcwwTM2LH7s01z

Hypnotic Dream

Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's was commissioned to write a new story for the BBC, investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season.

I scored the new work and a separate documentary exploring the subject. This is an instrumental excerpt from the score as many people had expressed an interested in hearing it again.

No Point Talking

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Under Blankets'...

Audio: Caught In The Wake Forever
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Under Blankets

Caught In The Wake Forever - Under Blankets

Strange Slip In Time

Taken from the self titled record on ALTER, released on the 23rd of June.

Order: https://lovetheme-alter.bandcamp.com/album/love-theme

Love Theme - Desert Exile (ALT34)

If you recall, exactly a month ago, on November 3rd, I have premiered a track by Roger Goula from the upcoming Various Artists compilation, titled Ambient Layers, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow, December 4th, on 7K! imprint. I retrace my words and see that I was processing the news about a second lockdown in the UK. Well, yesterday the stores have opened up again. So at least the government has kept its word and did not stretch it further. But things, of course, are not the same. It’s still suppressed, a little cold, a little dark, and slightly empty. And as the city’s waking up, I’ve got this beauty of a track to share and get us ready for another round. I hope that you have recognized this American [and Brussels-based] composer from his name alone. If not, let me remind you of his work with Brian McBride as Stars Of The Lid; with Christina Vantzou as The Dead Texan; and of course, with Dustin O’Halloran as A Winged Victory For The Sullen. And I’m not even diving into details of his film-scoring credits, which include Jóhann Jóhannsson and his Golden Globe-winning soundtrack for The Theory of Everything. Adam Wiltzie‘s most recent collaborative work, with its absolutely gorgeous contemporary classical and cinematic ambient treatments, and stunning live performances, has even got the monumental Ninja Tune to join on the party. For this single piece, Wiltzie revisits an earlier recording, a slow-burner of an orchestral immersion, reworked to the perfect intersection of where the neoclassical and ambient sounds reside.


‘How To Disappear Inside A Thirty Piece Orchestra’, was recorded in Budapest in 2014. It is an excerpt from the first recording of the Stars of the Lid follow up to ‘And Their Refinement of the Decline’. Subsequently, this piece was abandoned and left in the lurch as time elapsed. After some contemplation, Adam is letting the world have a taste of what could have never been, and what is possibly yet to come.


The compilation is already available for pre-order, and from the tracklisting alone, you can see that it’s an impressive roster of artists coming together to showcase the genre. Among the featured artists on the release, my favorites include Ryan Teague, Tilman Robinson, Robert Lippok, Michel Banabila & Machinefabriek, Pjusk, and Midori Hirano, and plenty others to discover along the way. This could be a beautiful opener for those just getting into all that is ‘ambient’ or a wonderful treat for those in the know at the end of this year. Oh, and I think I’ll be back [rather shortly] with yet another surprise!

Strange Slip In Time

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