https://soundcloud.com/maartenvos: cello.
Michel Banabila: sine tones.
Artwork: Tatiana Kranz .
Marlon Wolterink: mastering.
https://maartenvos.bandcamp.com/track/still

Composed & performed by Maarten Vos & Michel Banabila

Still

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with Maarten Vos: Still

Out now: https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-shadows

“A wake in shadows” is a funerary dirge for the lost and an implement of catharsis for the here and now. A warm embrace for cold nights when loneliness scrapes at the frozen windowpanes and shadows of ourselves dance on the periphery of the firelight. In the darkness of a hushed forest and a quiet mind, the leaves fall from whispering trees, their limbs shed bare in the frigid moonlight. In the spring the roots will feed on the past and sing bittersweet life into the canopy with a long sigh of ephemeral recompense.

a wake in shadows

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“Inner Light” is a gentle instrumental collection designed to bring calm, clarity, and warmth into any moment of your day. Like a soft beam of light entering a quiet cave, the music slowly fills the heart with peace—settling the mind and restoring the spirit.

These tracks are crafted for rest, relaxation, and deep focus, making them perfect for office work, study sessions, meditation, or a peaceful evening wind-down. With soft textures, spacious melodies, and a serene, glowing atmosphere, the album encourages slow breathing, inner stillness, and emotional grounding.

Whether you are working at your desk, reading quietly, or seeking a calming background for prayer or reflection, “Inner Light” creates a sanctuary of sound—gentle, warm, and beautifully peaceful. This is music that invites you to pause, breathe deeply, and let your inner world be illuminated with calm.

River Whisper

浮遊の立体

Two of Us

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

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)

Forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Lucia Adam + Alex Smalley
April 2017 - February 2019
Weimar, Germany

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Tides

Ilm - Tides

Evening Rain Gardens

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

Darren McClure