Ambient minimalism is gaining momentum. Some would argue that evoking atmosphere is harder than sequencing beats, and Fragments of Silence is proof. Laden with lush textures and ambient leanings, the album invites deep listening.

This 8-track LP marks the debut collaboration between Synthbiont, Anassimandrus, and Sacred Seeds: three artists with distinct sensibilities, united by a shared affinity for ambient, experimental, and dub techno sounds. Their convergence sets the tone for a singular, immersive experience.

Fragments of Silence is not background music. It’s a serious body of work that commands attention. It’s an hour-long descent into a vacuum chamber. An environment that evolves, coils, shifts, and builds toward dissonance and stillness.

Each track is grounded in a strong atmospheric character, unfolding with deliberate progression. The album leans heavily into experimental minimalism, imagine dark tunnels, ominous energy fields, and brooding landscapes.

Fragments of Silence is one of those albums that explores the intersection of distinct creative temperaments, marked by structure, mood, and experimentation. The result is an album that flows with intention and feeling, creating a space that listeners can fully sink into.

Description by SreeLakshmy 

Sacred Seeds is an ambient electronic music project by Wasim, founded in 2014 in Calicut, Kerala (India). Blending synthesis, field recordings, and experimental sound design, Sacred Seeds’ music explores the interplay between organic and electronic textures.

Sacred Seeds has performed at renowned festivals such as Magnetic Fields, Hilltop Festival, and Bloom in Green, sharing the stage with influential artists like Gaudi, OTT, Suduaya, and Symbolico, and many more.

Synthbiont & Anassimandrus is the ambient/experimental/dub techno project born at the end of 2018 by the collaboration between Nicolò Faggiani and Tommaso Gobbo. Their musical background comes from different musical experiences as DJs, vinyl collectors, and founders of EMC series. Their performances and music are composed through the elaboration of different digital and analog sources, processed field recordings, and sampling to create unique soundscapes.

Produced and mixed by Nicolò Faggiani and Tommaso Gobbo (Synthbiont & Anassimandrus) (1,2,5,6) and Wasim Raja (Sacred Seeds) (3,4,7,8)
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Krishnan (Kiss in Silence, Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400, Nikon F100 / 2019, Karnataka)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev

Fragments of Silence

Nel Silenzio (Sacred Seeds Rework)

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Tracklist

01. Blochemy - Nove
02. Dalton Alexander - Spring Doesn't Remember Me
03. Richard Ginns - Far From Home
04. Norihito Suda -  Mist Valley
05. Twincities - Evenings wait; the morning’s break
06. The Humble Bee - 11 14 jan 2010
07. Sokkyo - Balcones de gracia
08. Federico Durand - La edad del bosque
09. América Analógica - Anochece
10. Ian Hawgood -  And you were gone

435. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Catherine Tang - Nebo
02. Bowing - Dry Lake
03. Orfin - Drifts Away, Skin Gleaming
04. The Volume Settings Folder - Cottage Industry
05. Akira Film Script - M 
06. Adrian Lane - Swallowed by the World
07. Tapes and Topographies - When i dreamed i dreamed of you 
08. Tides - Fragile
09. Glacis and Polaroid Notes - Reflections
10. Andy Cartwright - Journeying

438. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Æther #010 by o[rlawren]
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Our latest simultaneous double release comes from the vaults of Scottish sound artist Tui, aka o[rlawren], who was also kind enough to provide a complimentary mixtape. And not a usual one, but a self-contained work of its own – featuring overlapping layers of tracks and modular synthesizer improvisations performed by Tui in the intermissions.

Explore his beautifully organic electronics in these two albums:

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/poiesis
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-intimate-overlap

Tracklist:

Bibio - Lynn Peris (0.00 - 04.03)
Oliver Coates - Please Be Normal (02.15 - 05.40)
Ursula Bogner - Pulsation (02.28 - 05.54)
Park Jihah - Faded (03.48 - 05.25)
Oisin Leech - One Hill Further (05.43 - 08.43)
Steve Reich - Tehillim III (08.29 - 10.55)
Ursula Bogner - Testlauf (09.37 - 11.02)
Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove I (10.20 - 17.08)
Big Brave - I Felt A Funeral (13.35 - 16.54)
CH-BB - Mau Mau (16.37 - 17.37)
Big Brave - Vital (17.07 - 19.39)
Peter Gabriel - Lead A Normal Life (19.00 - 23.14)
CH-BB - Nobody Is Perfect (22.20 - 23.40)
Stephan Micus - Midnight Sea (23.17 - 29.25)
Ursula Bogner - Soloresonanzen (30.06)
Soap & Skin - The Mystery Of Love (29.55 - 32.40)
Ursula Bogner - Momentaufnahme (32.14 - 33.33)
Natalia Baylis & Eimer Reidy - Pour Upon The Sky (32.41 - 34.04)
Lucy Sissy Miller - Autopilot (32.43 - 35.10)
Tolerance - Tiez Rekcuz (34.03 - 35.07)
Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain (35.09 - 38.28)
Stephan Micus - The Flame (38.14 - 41.51)
Stephan Micus - The Flame - Orla Wren rework (38.34 - 42.32)(44.01 - 44.51)
Ursula Bogner - Für Ulrich (39.26 - 41.20)
Bill Nelson - Portrait Of Jan With Flowers (42.03 - 44.27)
Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1 (44.10 - 50.14))
Mayssa Jallad - Etel (45.51 - 49.27)
Tolerance - Pulse Static (49.07 - 50.57)
Stephan Micus - Nordic Night (49.41 - 52.42)
Stephan Micus - The Veil (51.04 - 52.40)
Julie Byrne - Moonless (52.22 - 56.04)
Arvo Pärt - Pari Intervallo (55.38 - 1.00.00)
Ursula Bogner - Modes (57.14 - 59.07)
Soap & Skin - The End (59.34 - 59.51)

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Æther #010 by o[rlawren]

It has been about 53 months since the last solo Purl album was released. 'Renovatio' marked the end of an emotional process related to music-making that I felt had become too heavy for me to continue, and the title signified the rebirth I felt was necessary. I thought at the time that perhaps this would be the last Purl album.

Since then there have been 17 singles, EPs and collaborative albums released that in different ways opened my mind and heart beyond anything that came before. There has also been solo releases planned that did not happen (yet), for different reasons.

'Himmelsandar' isn't really something new. Then again, I wonder if there ever has been or will be anything new from this stream of awareness and emotion that I call Purl. It somehow seems to me like everything essential was present from the beginning, and I'm not sure if anything has been added to it since. I dream of starting new projects; painting on a blank canvas again. But nothing here was painted on such a canvas. Everything was painted and repainted, so many times that the original idea may no longer be distinguished other than as the faintest wisp of something... ethereal.

released November 22, 2024

• all sounds and visuals shaped and arranged by Ludvig Cimbrelius
• the artwork contains photographs by Mohammad Alizade and drawings by Alexander Lux

released by LILA लीला



Himmelsandar

Observatory ('Himmelsandar')

Tracklist

01. Old Amica - Signal
02. Observatories (Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall) - Frost Laced Fields
03. Thme - Nocens 
04. Wil Bolton - Yellow Morning
05. 't Geruis - Quand Le Bois Chante
06. Ambalek - Sunken Stars Appear
07. Alex Bober - Alice Blue
08. Altars Altars - Balu
09. Grotta Veterano -Slumbers (Part 4)

439. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Federica Deiana - Aurora
02. Orfin - In an Instant, Grows Up
03. Jordan Christoff -  Veil 2
04. Jason van Wyk - Weightless
05. Mosaicist - The snow is melting
06. Aiko Takahashi -  Soap and glass beads
07. Maps and Diagrams - Clearwater
08. No Memory - The Place You Were Before There Was Light
09. Pruski -  Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
10. Lake Mary & Daniel Wyche - Standing By Peaceful Waters

440. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Återfinna Vår Vilja ('Himmelsandar')

a song for the birth of a love with no conditions
uncovering purl in a vast bustling city
moments of quiet wonder
lost and found in the constancy of motion
♡


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'livet vänder inte åter' was composed in the city of İstanbul during the past moon of December. It contains fragments from vastly different parts of my life, blended with recordings made while wandering among these continual streams of people, animals, vehicles of all kinds, passing street musicians on the way down to the calming waves of the strait, the seagulls circling above. Everything somehow falling together, in me, and I, a part of everything.
credits
released December 26, 2022
composition, sound recording and processing by Ludvig Cimbrelius
artwork by George Korunov – www.instagram.com/georgekorunov/

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𝓕oundational to LILA लीला is the view that we are all in this adventure of eternal life together. As a reflection of this, a part of the income from music releases is forwarded to trusted organizations who are working on bringing better conditions of Life to all inhabitants of this beautiful Earth, our home in the Universe. When LILA लीला grows, all aspects grow.

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livet vänder inte åter

– Ambient music for the recognition of Wholeness –

Self

We may sometimes feel lost in the world, but we are always at home in the Self. And the Self is also the world.

Everything that exists is an expression of the Self.
Therefore, what we perceive to be our individual self is not the full extent of our identity.

Infinity alone can encompass the vastness of what we are.


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released May 6, 2022

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius in 2014

Remastered by Andrew J. Klimek

Artwork by Russell Stephenson

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𝓕oundational to LILA लीला is the view that we are all in this adventure of eternal life together. As a reflection of this, a part of the income from music releases is forwarded to trusted organizations who are working on bringing better conditions of Life to all inhabitants of this beautiful Earth, our home in the Universe. When LILA लीला grows, all aspects grow.

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