"The slow harvest" is a single from the album "Nothing left but silence" by Erik K Skodvin(officially out on 15th September, 2023).

Nothing left but silence

Erik K Skodvin - The slow harvest

This may be the first time that Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea are officially appearing on Headphone Commute, but I assure you, I have been listening all along, starting from their self-titled debut release on Past Inside The Present to the more established Liberamente out on Jonas Munk's (aka Manual) Azure Vista imprint in 2019. Of course, besides the solo works by these monumental ambient composers, Zach Frizzell (aka zakè) and Damien Duque (aka City of Dawn) have previously collaborated together, and their 2023 album on PITP, Ash, was picked as one of my favourites of the year. Here, they are joined by Marc Ertel to round up the project, which appears to spearhead the "dronegaze" genre, this time forward driven by orchestral textures, guitar swells, and bass ("Cadere" is my particular favourite piece). Today, I am sharing the last track from their upcoming new album, Reveries, rounding off three-quarters of an hour spent in tranquil waves, sunny rays, and drifting bliss. It's an overall positive and soothing experience, approaching cathartic and restorative treatment as if pointing something towards your entire being, which releases vital healing energy and something you can drown in, becoming one with everything at once. Maybe "curegaze" or "ambientonic" is a better term for that...

Reveries

Aufero

TRACK PREMIERE : Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea - Aufero

This Retrospective mix is ​​dedicated to the third anniversary of the Chitra Records label and consists of tracks from different releases, starting with the latest and ending with the very first track, released on the Noises of Nature compilation on December 17, 2021.

01. Deep Dive Sound - In the Stillness of Green (Where Shadows Sleep) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-shadows-sleep
02. Dionisaf - Cyclone (Scrapbook) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/scrapbook
03. Dvory & July in January - Diamond Glints (Warm Hands) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/warm-hands
04. Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - The Third Stage (Lieder Ohne Worte) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte
05. Dionisaf - Symbols on the Stones (Memories of the Present) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-present
06. KapTep - NPN-Reel (The Perfect Error) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-error
07. DRGBL5 - The Box (The Wasteland) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wasteland
08. Adrian Lane - Water Wash Away the Waves (Water Wash Away the Waves) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/water-wash-away-the-waves
09. Demetrio Cecchitelli - Environment 2 (Towards the Unknown) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/towards-the-unknown
10. zYklen - 7:45 pm - Warp & Weft (Palace of Chords) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/palace-of-chords
11. Soloi Sounds - Warmth (Currents) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/currents
12. Pagination - Somehow Diminished (Status) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/status
13. Michele Andreotti - False Awakening Loops (Sonoris) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonoris
14. Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Light Passage (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sein
15. Sebby Kowal - Particles (Take This Moment) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/take-this-moment
16. Darren McClure - Mold (Mold) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/mold
17. BinJa - Vishnu Hare (Atmareka) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/atmareka
18. Macrogramma - Mawaru (Pacification) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification
19. Toni Dimitrov - The Road to Revolution (Noises of Nature) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/noises-of-nature

Mixed by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Three Year Retrospective Mix

Chitra Podcast #17 Three Year Retrospective Mix

Tracklist

01.  Dead Bell -  Above The Dappled Sunlight
02.  Katharina Schmidt -  February. all-night donut shop
03.  Alex Bober -  Shielded
04.  Altars Altars - Family's Downstairs
05.  Chronovalve - Breathing Space
06.  Celer - Melancholy Movement III
07.  Christina Vantzou - Doorway
08.  Emmanuel Witzthum - Shy Fowers. Cloud Sighs, Clear Blue Sky. Breeze Turns Warm

405. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Record)

abyss 2

Kaziwa

Porya Hatami & Arovane - Feer

Aphex Twin - Aisatsana (((( Heavenchord Reshape ))))free DL

Track for Slow sketch vol. 1: Reflections of the ambient community, on El Muelle Records.

Warmth - Dögun

Berlin-based composer and sound designer Ben Lukas Boysen is constantly experimenting with techniques and processes, crafting compositions that ease across sonic terrains.

Under his previous alias HECQ, he notched up nine albums that navigated everything from ambient to breakcore, now as a close family member of London's Erased Tapes - the left-of-centre electronic label who've become a home for the likes of Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Rival Consoles - Boysen continues his established scoring abilities that manifested on his acclaimed album Gravity, and then on his follow up, Spells, in 2016. 

Ahead of the release of Mirage, his third album for the label, Boysen takes the reigns for this week's Monday Is OK mix with an hour of soothing soundscapes and crunchy electronica...

Ben Lukas Boysen: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Writen and Produced by Henrik Laugesen
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint017 // FaintCD017
Faint / 2020

Lauge - Oceanography

Track taken from Erik Williamson's upcoming album 'The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud', released through Fluid Audio...

Written & Produced by Erik Williamson at In My Room Studio 
Additional Piano Recorded at Alchemix Recording Studios
Mastered by Marly Lüske at Alchemix Recording Studios
Images by Erik Williamson
Design by Daniel Crossley
Thanks: Craig Tattersall / Cotton Goods

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud

Erik Williamson - Hunters In The Snow

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