With Horizon, South African composer Jason van Wyk returns to his Inherent material in a new light. Three tracks, Inner, Shine, and Cascades, are transformed through an ambient lens, trading rhythmic momentum for expansiveness and contemplation. The result is a companion piece that spotlights the latent tranquility and emotional resonance of the originals, reframing familiar melodies as immersive sonic landscapes. Horizon confirms van Wyk’s evolving artistry and his uncanny ability to deconstruct and reassemble his work into something renewed, introspective, and deeply felt.

Inner (Horizon)

On her fourth full-length album as Shedir, Sardinian sound artist Martina Betti offers a profound meditation on what it means to be human on the threshold of uncertainty. We Are All Strangers is a series of ambient tapestries shaped by duality and introspection, where sound becomes a space to explore the tension between identity and ambiguity, presence and disappearance, connection and solitude. Inspired by the idea that we are all strangers, however, first and foremost to ourselves, Betti crafts seven fluid, slow-burn compositions that inhabit a sociological liminal zone—what she comments as an “inner elsewhere.” These aren’t songs in the traditional sense, but evolving sonic environments that feel like emotional states made audible. Environmental textures, submerged electronics, and deep low-end pulses coalesce into a dreamlike architecture of sound: immersive, fragile, and quietly transformative.

Rather than offering answers or closure, the album invites us to live in radical openness—to stop trying to define everything we see and feel, and instead bathe in what remains unnamed. In this sense, We Are All Strangers is an invitation: to sit with uncertainty, to embrace the unfinished, and to find resonance even in our collective disconnection.

For listeners drawn to the introspective frequencies of Rafael Anton Irisarri, Félicia Atkinson, or Lawrence English, Betti’s music offers a similarly haunting and immersive experience—one where strangeness is not a flaw, but a starting point. In her hands, ambient music becomes a kind of reflective shelter: a place to brush against each other in the dark and begin to learn, as she puts it, “the difficult art of closeness.”

Starveflight

From the new album Moments of Vertical
Buy: https://scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/moments-of-vertical
Stream: https://share.amuse.io/OQC1u9QAs9v7

Moments of Vertical

Taken from my new album 'Kintsugi'.
Available on vinyl, CD and digital on Bandcamp: fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/kintsugi
Listen on Spotify: tinyurl.com/kintsugi-spo

Written by Matthieu Roche
Composed and produced by Matthieu Roche and Sophia Hamadi @sdiamah
Mixed by Dorian Bauléry
Mastered by Emily Magpie

Graphic design by Atelier Belle Lurette

Gone, Vanished

Eternalism

Deep calm meditative ambient mix from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

0:00 Dionisaf - Sea Angel (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
5:00 Ghostloop - Midsummer (Almost Autumn) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-autumn
8:39 Brannan Lane - Peaceful Painted Sky (Northern Lights) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/northern-lights
10:50 KapTep - Congruence (Overcast) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/overcast
17:31 Blanket Swimming - Closer to the Sky (Seeing the Circles Above) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-the-circles-above
25:07 Le Code - Opal Reflection (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
27:57 Dionisaf - Macropinna Microstoma (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
32:20 Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Prelude (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sein
35:39 Ancient Astronaut - Stellar Streams (Ethereal Dreams) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-dreams
39:00 Philippe Deschamps - Birth of a Moonstone (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
41:36 Le Code - Looking to the Sky (Early Morning) https://le-code.bandcamp.com/album/early-morning
46:00 Sebby Kowal - Take This Moment (Take This Moment) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/take-this-moment
49:08 KapTep - Pictures Never Taken [Blanket Swimming Remix] (Latitude Longitude) https://kaptep.bandcamp.com/album/latitude-longitude
53:54 NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily - Täkamneta (Divya Music) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/divya-music
58:00 Le Code - Don't Go Beyond the Edge of the World [Metric System 1981 Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:00:50 Ghostloop - Stillwaters (Almost Autumn) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-autumn
1:04:22 Dionisaf - Flamingo Tongue Snail (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
1:08:02 Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - 5:15 pm - Meadow Reach (Lieder Ohne Worte) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte
1:19:10 Ancient Astronaut - Ethereal Dreams [Dionisaf Tape Rework] (Ethereal Dreams) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-dreams
1:21:36 Atmøsphäre - Silver Obsidian (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
1:23:49 Philippe Deschamps - The Silence of Pallas [Ancient Astronaut Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:26:46 Henrik Meierkord - Quiescis [.cut Mare Tranquillitatis Remix] (Chitra Ambient Remixes) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chitra-ambient-remixes 
1:28:55 Piscean Daydreams - The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Piercing the Veil) https://pisceandaydreams.bandcamp.com/album/piercing-the-veil
1:33:43 NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily - Atämta (Divya Music) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/divya-music
1:42:35 Dionisaf - Glass Octopus (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
1:45:36 Sebby Kowal - We Are One (We Are One) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-one
1:50:08 Le Code - Looking to the Sky [Ancient Astronaut Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:55:05 Michael D. Tidwell - Labradorite (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
1:57:17 Diogene - Particles (The Ocean in Our Minds) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-in-our-minds

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Ethereal Projector #3 Transcendental Meditation by Dionisaf | Deep Calm Meditative Mix

Cogitations 1 is part of Cogitations EP. This 5 track drone ambient EP is designed to draw listeners inward, inviting quiet introspection. The subtle ambience encourages space to pause and reflect on life’s shifting emotions. 


Cogitations 1

Chihei Hatakeyama, one of the most preeminent artists of the early drone ambient scene, has paired up with the progressive ambient star Jupi/ter, to create a lush, slow burn, two-part single.

Chihei’s mastery in the art of peace is met with Jupi/ter’s spaced-out breadth of production, widening the stereo field and introducing some of his trademark subtle synth-work.

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