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Calisto Rising

Variants of the Form

A Slow Light

2025.09.14 Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters near my Tent at Dawn. Ngarkat. Early Spring.

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

Warmth in Silence (Synthbiont & Anassimandrus 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

merycherryhexeclipse

Last call for the end of time

Awakening

release date Mar 23rd 2021 / photo by Ina Oertelt

Wisdom Of Sacred Writings | FLASHBACK FRIDAY Album 'WANDERER IN THE COLORFUL FIELDS'

L'amour est toujours là. On reprend son autonomie, on se reconstruit chacun-e de son côté, mais on ne s’éloigne pas. On évolue en parallèle, mais sans se perdre de vue. On s’est débarrassé des entraves, mais pas du lien. La liberté, ce n'est pas juste un mot, c'est un mouvement. La liberté c'est un mouvement.

https://www.radiocampus.be/emissions/melancolie-douce

Illustration: "Robinson Crusoe On His Island" (artiste inconnu)

00:00:00 Les Antonymes - Mélancolie douce jingle
00:00:35 Anja Garbarek - It Seems We Talk
00:04:15 Shlohmo - Remains
00:07:35 Triad God - I Luv U Freestyle + La Dispute - Rose Quartz (intro)
00:08:35 Broadcast - Minus 3
00:09:20 Vincent Gallo - Was
00:12:17 King Midas Sound - Sumtime
00:13:26 Boy & The Echo Choir - A Great Sorrow
00:15:46 Cranes - Diorama
00:17:20 La Dispute - Fulton Street I
00:21:27 Lloyd Miller - Gol-E Gandom
00:25:29 Cranes - Golden
00:29:03 Sami Ateba, Nana Vasconcelos, Tomas Gubitsch - J.S. Bach_ St. John Passion - Ruht Wohl, Ihr Heiligen Gebeine; Bombé, Cérémonie Bouiti ApinDJi
00:32:33 Anja Garbarek - Her Room
00:34:06 Diabologum - Blank Generation
00:37:42 Shlohmo - Beams
00:42:03 Shannon Wright - Seemingly
00:44:45 Cranes - Wonderful Things
00:48:46 La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
00:52:36 Boy & The Echo Choir - Nina Jane
00:56:13 Koreless - Last Remnants
01:00:18 Henryk Mikolaj Górecki - Kleines Requiem Fur Ein Polka - Iv. Adagio - Cantabile
01:04:51 Olafur Arnalds - RGB
01:08:42 Cranes - Collecting Stones
01:11:40 Circuit des yeux - Philo
01:15:57 Olafur Arnalds - Say My Name (Destiny's Child cover)
01:21:23 Anja Garbarek - And Then
01:25:18 Triad God - Hay Wan
01:27:12 Vincent Gallo - Bad

Mélancolie douce V

from Urban Expiration, the KENOPSIA OST, featured in Clearing, my fifteenth full length album. Coming soon.

dying light

Minimal Experimental Recordings
FLASHBACK FRIDAY Album 'WANDERER IN THE COLORFUL FIELDS' available Oct 3rd - 17th

Wisdom Of Sacred Writings | FLASHBACK FRIDAY Album 'WANDERER IN THE COLORFUL FIELDS'

Jeannine Schulz