"A meticulously crafted ambient tale, steeped in intricate layers and profound symbolism. It weaves intricate patterns that, upon closing your eyes, transport you into the depths of a lush, verdant expanse. Babbling brooks and swaying trees. Birds harmonizing and spirits dancing. A distant gong echoing through the silhouette of a temple on the horizon. Peace, serenity, a state of transcendental tranquility.”

Based in Potsdam, Germany, Aleks aka Echo and Rauschen (@echo-and-rauschen) and also Bamboo Temple Garden (@bamboo-temple-garden) is a German Musical enthusiast  and  cassette collector with estonian roots. Rauschen is a own name in Germany. It is not only noise . It means maybe rustling , rushing and some other warm sounds. He has been using the name for many years, when the digital was still analog. He tumbled through his youth with synth-pop and new wave and John Peel. Then Acid, Ambient House, Dub & Electronica came quickly and on these pillars he was able to get involved in many musical styles, some only briefly, like instrumental HipHop, but also Jazz, Pop, New Age & fourth world stuff. A few years ago he came across the LoFi Tropical Ambient fabric by Dolphins into the future, Wave Temples, X.Y.R and others and couldn’t get away from it. The tropics and their mysteries, their sounds, the birds, rivers, wild animals can be terrifying as well as mesmerizing and beautiful & is the biggest musical influence of recent years. He has done mixes for Nature Tales, Deep Breakfast Series, Amateur Exotic, Dug up the Bongo, LYL Radio, Ambient Memory,  EMC Series & Ingrown Records.

Author's note:

"Looking back on the previous parts of the tropical mysteries, one quickly notices that the jungle journeys have become longer and longer. Ambient has always been a pleasant companion in my life. The yearning and the desire for deep relaxation has grown in recent years and especially in recent months and therefore probably the urge to immerse deeper and deeper into the rain forest with its secrets, and delay the return.“

HOCast #164 - Echo and Rauschen

The opening track from usof's forthcoming tape on Theory Therapy. Out Jan 31 2025.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/stay-longer

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Unplugged and connected.

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Orb Podcast 091: Perila

Chicago formed experimental outfit blends atmospheric ambient, pulsing percussion, and deep dub flourishes to create thoughtful rhythms and immersive music

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Purelink @ The Lot Radio 04-15-2025

A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

Campana Sonans

Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Exploring the deeper and more abstract end of the ECM catalogue.

Lot Radio 4/27/25 ECM Special #2

Guest mix for sferic's Kiosk Radio show. Mostly recent releases and used CD grabs. 

Kiosk Radio: Outsiders - sferic guest mix 5/28

Flowing harmonic pulses.

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Orb Podcast 095: Fluxion

In rain we trust

Accretion Disk

Yes i play the piano. Gigi Masin if you read this a big hug and Dimitar if you read this also a big big hug. And thanks to all the listeners all around the globe and the bots lol you keep me going. I am gonna make only timeless tunes. One love worldwide you know who you are at least i hope so. Freedom for all humans!

The sea

Ambient producer who has been sculpting sound since the early 2000's. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences he has managed to form his matured musical style rich with texture, depth and excitement. He has released a handful of albums solo as well as with his Post Global Trio, Moss Garden, Niskogradba, Dérive Dub and Private Mountain projects.

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