A varied selection of ambient tracks, with different atmospheres from the brightest to the darkest

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Not so Green Fields

Gairo Vecchio 38°C

Unedited recording of my set at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 2023.

Setlist:
Against A White Cloud
Black Dust
Clouds 
Post-Crisis Remembrance
To Drown Out The Ocean
Bound Universe
The Purpose Of Peace
On A Shattered Shell Beach

Thanks to Magnús Logi Kristinsson for the photo.

Abul Mogard "Live at Savoy Theatre - Helsinki, 17 March 2023"

Artist: BITCHIN BAJAS
Album: Transporteur

Cat #: HITD 024
LP – 600 copies on black vinyl
CS – 100 copies
Release date: 4th May 2015

Cooper Crain, Daniel Quinlivan et Rob Frye : orgue électrique, synthétiseurs analogique, synthétiseur modulaire, basse électrique, flûte, clarinette basse et percussions

Artwork by Nick Ciontea
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

BITCHIN BAJAS - Marimba

Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Mix number 7 in the Æther series comes from Italian sound artist, musician, composer and guitar maker Alessandro Barbanera. 

Over the course of an hour, Alessandro carefully explores the nuances of modern ambient music – often touching on its darker, more mysterious edges, yet never fully descending into shadows or melancholia.

Check out Alessandro's latest album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell', released by Dronarivm's dark vibes division, Owl Totem Recordings ~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

Tracklist:

00.00. Tape Loop Orchestra – I Was Born When She Kissed Me (excerpt) [from “In A Lonely Place”, Fluid Audio]
03.46. Carlo Giustini – A Letizia [from “Custodi”, ROHS! Lontano Series]
07.47. Dionisaf – March [from “Twelve Months”, Chitra Records]
12.18. Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno [from “Jump”, Le Mont Analogue]
16.08. Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertainties [from “City of Tethers”, Owl Totem Recordings]
21.22. Francis Gri – Bruma II [from “Bruma”, self-released]
25.05. Federico Mosconi – At Midnight [from “Nocturnal”, Dronarivm]
29.56. Luca Giuoco – Shantih 3 Times [from “Collettivoinconscio vol.1”, Dissipatio / Toten Schwan Records]
33.03. Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep – If Only Anything Could Change You [from “Endless Vacation”, Fluid Audio]
39.15. meanwhile.in.texas – Almost Blind [from “Heimat”, Secret Press]
42.18. Yugen (Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Konishi) – My Sounds [from “Yugen”, Disasters By Choice]
48.27. Gallery Six – Zansyuu [from “Kisetsu”, Le Mont Analogue]
52.34. Chelidon Frame – In I Reached (feat. A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) (excerpt) [from “Flatline Voyages”, Difficult Art And Music]
58.24. Macrogramma – Catedral [from “Magnetic Series”, ROHS! Lontano Series]

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera

Format: CD, 7"vinyl, Book, DL
Pre-order: 16th May 2025
Release date: 22nd May 2025

Sailing Through Silence è un progetto audio-video che racconta l’esperienza di ricerca di mio padre durante la spedizione Italiantartide del 1998, attraverso materiale video e fotografico registrato durante il viaggio. Sailing through silence è arte performativa, ma anche un occasione di denuncia e riflessione sulla questione del cambiamento climatico e della tutela dell’ambiente. 

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Sailing Through Silence is an audio-visual project that tells the story of my father's research experience during the 1998 Italiantartide expedition, through video and photographic material recorded during the journey. Sailing through Silence is performative art, but also an opportunity for awareness and reflection on climate change and environmental protection.

Copyright © 2025 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Michele Di Martino - Sailing Through Silence | ROHS!

Taken from "Circle in the sense" the new album by People!Place!. Pre orders start 9.05.2025 at Shimmering Moods Records: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com
LimitedCD , hand numbered, hand made sleeves. Edition of 30. 
Release date: 16.05.2025

People!Place! - Slow melting

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - No Walls To Contain These Fervent Spirits
02. Hadley Roe -  When I Look Back...
03. Celer -  Melancholy Movement III
04. Betts(JP) - Yosde 03
05. Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life
06. Lamasz & Thme - Lueurs
07.  Rhucle - In Haze
08. Pruski - Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
09. Aiko Takahashi -  Un Beau Matin D’Été
10.  Dalton Alexander - Modrý (Reprise)

423. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Marsen Jules - Fanes D'Automne

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I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

with @scottg_ailey

live recording @ becky way, salt spring island, bc. 

you're me - lucidity

Taken from his debut album 'Gravity' re-issued by Erased Tapes on June 10.

Order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP084
iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravity
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/onlyinthedark
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravitybc
or any other good record store worldwide

In celebration of their latest signing, Erased Tapes are set to re-issue Ben Lukas Boysen’s compelling debut album ‘Gravity’, alongside new album ‘Spells’ on 10th June 2016.

‘Gravity’ was the first album Ben recorded under his own name, merging programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation.

From ‘Only In The Dark’ to the two movements of ‘Nocturne’, it’s a serious, solemn listen. And yet, with pieces like ‘To The Hills’ and ‘Eos’, ‘Gravity’ is an exploration of heights, cliffs and vertigoes. With piano lines and choir-like drones, this record suits its title in all its meanings, as the magnetic force takes us deeper towards the core. Marking a new beginning, this debut reveals a touching, and more melodic side to Ben’s body of work, which he previously only hinted at as HECQ.

Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered the album. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”.

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim
Färber, additional synthesisers played by Nils, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Gravity’ as well as its successor ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums.

As HECQ Ben has released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and
Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Gravity strips away the cloaked mysteries of electronic music production to expose the tender side of this musician’s mind." — Headphone Commute

TRACKLIST:

01. Only In The Dark
02. Nocturne 1
03. To The Hills
04. You'll Miss Us One Day
05. Gravity
06. Eos
07. Nocturne 2
08. The Behenian Gospel

Gravity

Only In The Dark

Buy LP/CD/DL

Ben Lukas Boysen - Only In The Dark

Sea Island

Holding Pattern

Campfire Stories 19 (Connections) by Chris SSG

~ About The Story ~

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

"This mix was inspired by my friends, the people I am most closely connected to. I wanted to create something calm and beautiful, to offer some brief respite and escape. I might compile a tracklist at some point, but for now please just disconnect, zone out, and enjoy the mix. It was recorded in one take at home in Tokyo, October 2016. Thanks to Marc for the picture, Wata for the mastering, and to Jamie for inviting me to contribute." - @mnml-ssgs

~ Chapters ~

Matthew Barlow - Moon
Jochem Paap - Un-Klkkn
Belarisk - Ruined Rig (Contaminated)
KWC 92 - NR 4
Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV - Subfall (to)
Jens-Uwe Beyer - White ribbed viscose-silk-blend cropped
Laurie Spiegel - Improvisation On A Concerto Generator
Gifted and Blessed - Non Duality
Boards of Canada - White Cyclosa
36 - Nova
Brett Naucke - Up From The Sun
Panabrite - Departing
Fabric - Leaving The House
Ali Wade - Xenophyophore
Byron Westbrook - Prismatic
K. Leimer - Three Forms Of Decay
Circles - Frog Factory Magic
Iori - Voices Of The Sky
Biosphere - Das Subharchord
Conrad Schnitzler - I Believe Part 1
David Morley - Presto
Ishq - Nebula phase
Roswell Return - A Goldbach Vibe
Model Alpha - Signals
Croatian Amor - Reality Summit
Kyle Landstra - Seeking Refuge in Emptiness
Moon Temple - Bay of Dew
Imaginary Softwoods - Entrance Through Selenite Pillars
Haruomi Hosono - Fossil Of Flame - Fifty Bell-Trees

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.


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www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 19 (Connections) by Chris SSG

The Crossing

For the Fallen

~ Deep Breakfast 070 by Lauge ~

Tracklist:
01. Black Brusnwicker - On Matters Of Celestial Movements
02. Eternell - Alcyone
03. Lauge - Portrait Texture
04. City Of Dawn - Lacuna
05. Wings Of An Angel - The Ever-Present Chance For Splendor
06. Unknown Observer - Through The Valley
07. Líom - Through The Sky
08. Hipnotic Earth - Quietdancers
09. Hilyard - Evening Vapors

Have a good listening.

Links: https://linktr.ee/lauge
Photo credit: Eric Muhr

Buy the individual tracks:
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/track/on-matters-of-celestial-movements
https://eternell.net/track/alcyone
https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/track/portrait-texture
https://cityofdawn.bandcamp.com/track/lacuna
https://shop.stereoscenic.com/track/the-ever-present-chance-for-splendor
https://observer4.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-valley
https://liom.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-sky
https://hipnoticearth.bandcamp.com/track/quietdancers
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/track/evening-vapors

Deep Breakfast 070 - Lauge

Campfire Stories 101 (A Forest) by Ryan Blackman (@farfromthesun)

~ About The Story ~

“How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.” ― Jeff Mills

~ Chapters ~

Sublamp / Echolalic / Dragons Eye Recordings
cv313 / Transversewaves / echospace [detroit]
Plant43 / The Countless Stones / Plant43 Recordings
Shelter Ov Shadows / The Abyss / Shelter Ov Shadows
Bea Brennan / Surface / Old Technology Records
Tropic Of Cancer / Plant Lillies At My Head / Blackest Ever Black
Havenaire / Drone 1 / Constellation Tatsu
Jo Johnson & Hilary Robinson / Maze Echoes / Self Released
Puri / Frosten / Self Released
Moss Covered Technology / Once Hallowed / Healing Sound Propagandist
Wanderwelle / An Offering Of Gratitude / Silent Season
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement / These Spirits Version / Hospital Productions
Wolves and Horses / Aphelion / Cryo Chamber
Nine Inch Nails / Together / The Null Corporation
Infinite Medium / Retrograde / Healing Sound Propagandist
Peter Michael Hamel / Colours Of Time (Deepchord’s Carolina Forest Mix) / Astral Industries
r beny / Overgrowth / Dauw
The Future Sound Of London / Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me / Virgin
Proem / It Ends Now / Self Released
Jo Johnson / Marching / Self Released
The Exaltics / Extracted / m_division
Alva Noto / A Forest / Noton
Slownoise / Silent Wilderness / Silent Season
Rafael Anton Irisarri / Vanishing Points / Dais Records
Markus Guenter / Kuria (with Bvdub) / A Strangely Isolated Place
Multicast Dynamics / Ancient Circuits Part 2 / Astral Industries
Soultek / What Dreams Are Made Of / Score Records
Confessor / Cleaning / Healing Sound Propagandist
nthing / Hypnotherapy / Lobster Theramin
X.Y.R. / Polar Night / Constellation Tatsu
The Transcendence Orchestra / Hinge Caterpillar / Editions Mego
Night Sea / HDSB / Silent Season
JASSS / Parental Youth / IDEAL Recordings
Max Wurden / Constituent Elements / A Strangely Isolated Place
Wolves In The Throne Room / Sleeping Golden Storm / Artemisia Recordings
65d Mavericks / Beginnings End / Surface
Sound Synthesis / For Microlith / Fundamental Records
Demdike Stare / A Tale Of Sand / Modern Love
Bvdub / Sparking Legions Turn To Black / Glacial Movements Records

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Daniel Peters

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http://campfirestories.ca

A Forest

Campfire Stories 101 (A Forest) by Ryan Blackman

i make tons of playlists around different themes or musical genres, often confidential in their exposure.  Contact me if you need anything!

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