Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

Marty Hicks & Gallery Six - When Even The Trees Sleep

I think the collaborative project by Zach Frizzell (zakè) and Damien Duque (City Of Dawn) first saw the light of day back in 2020 when these two ambient artists got together to release Wander on Frizzell's own Zakè Drone Recordings. The duo have also released music as Frizzell & Duque, appearing on these pages numerous times in the last few years, including the addition of Ossa, for the album I picked as one of the best of the year. Last year, Jonas Munk, aka Manual, picked up Agape for his Azure Vista Records, and I have subsequently highlighted the album in my Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time for Best of 2022. All of these opening words, with a brief journey through history, are only here to demonstrate how excited I am about their follow-up release on Azure (co-distributed by Frizzell's Past Inside The Present imprint for the US friends and followers). The title track, "Ash", which I am premiering for you today, is a perfect example of the unhurried, unfurling, and unpretentious ambience that blankets the senses when you need these sounds most. "Their focus offers up the steady ebb and flow of sound, cultivating a profound sense of meditative stasis and explorations of high-fidelity sound." This is the type of slow-evolving minimal music that you want to turn all the way up in volume so that each frequency permeates, saturates, and eradicates all the wrinkles and spikes in your jittery mind. Lovely textures on this one, folks, carefully curated by the mastering touch of James Bernard.

"The music the two create together reflects the expansive landscapes of their native Texas and Indiana. Slowly unfolding melodies that seem to rise like the sun from a Texas horizon and drones that resonate like leaves in an endless Indiana woodland. It's a sound that's both beautiful and slightly haunting – a sound that encompasses the listener and demands attention. This is music to get lost in."

TRACK PREMIERE : zakè & City of Dawn - Ash

Enjoy the comforting sounds of Journey Beyond's Harvesting Thoughts EP

Journey Beyond - Harvesting Thoughts

nothing left

night sky

Longest Year

Lonely, Some Quietly Wander in the Hall of Stars

Preview clips from Merging The Infinite, the third album of atmospheric cinematic space music and deep listening soundscapes from ambient musician and composer for film & documentaries Simon Wilkinson. 

Album available from Bandcamp:

https://thebluemask.bandcamp.com/album/merging-the-infinite

The full 10 tracks span an ethereal journey of over 1 hour 40 minutes of deep space drones, lush layers of sound textures and sparse delicate synthesizer swirls. 

Watch the promo video for the track Spindrift on YouTube: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_CiZTYVvk0 

All tracks are also available to license for use in films, documentaries, games etc. Contact me on my official website for more info: 

www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/merging-the-infinite/

Merging The Infinite

Merging The Infinite (album preview clips)

Collected Dust

Span

This album is dedicated to Brian Young, known to many of us as Losing Today, who died earlier this year. Brian was a brilliant photographer whose work was used for many album covers. He was a real fan who supported our music, a friend to many in the scene and a lovely guy. He is already missed. 

All proceeds from this album will go directly to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 

Special thanks to Porya Hatami for his time and the great mastering job.

Losing Today

Warmth - Shape And Shadow (In memory of Brian Young)

Ex Confusion - I Owe The Earth A Body. Feat Benoit Pioulard

Dunes

Making music as Warmth and SVLBRD.
Label owner of Archives and Faint.

12" Vinyl, CD and Digital on Archives.
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com

Warmth - Shape And Shadow (In memory of Brian Young)

Warmth | SVLBRD