A few ambient tracks that I’ve loved in 2025. Will be expanded upon.

Selected ambient works 2025

What Dreams May Come

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (SLT-008)

Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)

CLSTRFCK by Mic Spencer (2014) for organ, voice, and live electronics.
Performed at Automatronic, 12th October 2014, by Lauren Redhead (organ and voice) and Alistair Zaldua (electronics).


Mic Spencer CLSTRFCK

This Is Not For You

'Gurglefirst?' Album released 20th July 2015

Vinyl LP, CD, Download

'Gurglefirst?' is the first Long Player from Bradford brother and sister Progpoppsych band 'Gurgles'. Possibly containing elements or fusions of Cardiacs, Jim O'Rourke, Steely Dan, Prefab Sprout, Robert Wyatt, Chicago, Pink Floyd and Van der Graaf Generator and Holst

Side A
You're Madder Than Me
A bitter spacey waltz
Eccleshill
Chirpy hymn to Bradford 2 with the feel of Steely Dan's 'Soul Ram'
Weakdays
Half English- half French moan at PO privatisation and its consequence for saucy penpal letters
How Could I Tell
Acidised 90s workout on fancying a person you despise 

Side B
Summer in the Sun
Space travel around a cruel, burning sun.
You Send Me Up
Tribute to Charity Shop LP – 'Hot City Nights'
Over the Valley
Huge wave breaks over Staithes and sweeps all the way into West Yorkshire
J.G. Mallard*
Grappling with society and technology  as the sleek ghost of the Mallard train draws alongside. The driver has a disturbing message!


Augustin - Singing, Fender Rhodes, Oxford Synthesiser Company OSCar, Piano, Monotron
Nanette - Singing, 'Nan of the North' Precision Fretless, Bass Guitar
Bradley - Self-crafted drum kit

*Bouzouki by Chris Hladowski

Recorded by MJ at Suburban Home Studios
except * by Augustin at Saltaire Recordings
Mastered by Joe Osborne at www.joesmastering.co.uk
Art by Kenn Goodall
www.bykenn.com
Gurgles Logo by Drew Millward
www.drewmillward.com/
Saltaire Records Logo by Bob Priestley
Saltaire Recordings 004 ©2015 all rights reserved

Eccleshill

If We Reach Rialto

Overlooking Vashon

The Third Broadcast (Empty Words Ambient Mix)

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Mining - 040617

Taken from Nightports w/Matthew Bourne (2018)
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Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - Exit

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PREMIERE: Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - Fragile Years (The Leaf Label)

Intensive ambient explorations and other stories.

This is the SoundCloud page of pianist and composer Matthew Bourne - frequently mistaken for the choreographer of the same name. You are most welcome...

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