Here are 10 remarkable ambient albums that we started 2025 year with.
Michael D. Tidwell & Piscean Daydreams – Ghost
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Genre, style: #darkambient #noise
Format: digital
Dark atmospheric EP Ghost is the result of collaboration between cinematic ambient composer Michael D. Tidwell and experimental dreamscape artist Piscean Daydreams. Each track explores the delicate balance between light and shadow, leaving listeners captivated by its haunting beauty.
Soloi Sounds – Pictures
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD
The third album released on Chitra by the unique Tokyo artist Yosuke Goto. Like a picturesque photo, each track tells a small story of important and unimportant things.
bvdub – 13
Label: Past Inside the Present (USA)
Format: digital, CD
According to Van Wey – a long time scholar of Eastern ideas and literature – every section represents one edict or idea from chapter 13 of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoist doctrine, which promotes humility and freedom from desire as the core elements of a peaceful existence.
Ian Hawgood - Savage Modern Structures
Label: Home Normal (UK)
Format: digital, CD
This is a landmark album for an artist who has gone through a difficult period of post-traumatic stress disorder and its consequences. However, the music is very calm and meditative from beginning to end.
Chihei Hatakeyama – Lucid Dreams
Label: First Terrace Records (UK)
Genre, style: #ambient
Format: digital, vinyl
Known for his deep atmospheric textures and minimalist approach to sound, Hatakeyama’s new project expands on his signature style and with the help of collaborators Cucina Povera and LA based multi-instrumentalist Nailah Hunter charts new emotional territories.
Ghostloop & Henrik Meierkord - Archipélagos
Label: Atlantea Records (Colombia)
Format: digital
An unexpectedly successful combination of styles of these two prolific artists. Captivating soundscapes of Germany and Sweden.
fshs – Sedative
Label: Simphonic Silence Inside (Russia)
Format: digital
In the album Sedative fshs explore ways to achieve peace of mind in the modern world. The search for timbres that allow the mind to come into balance, the comprehension of synthesis in its diverse forms — from analog oscillators to spectrum analysis and resynthesis.
Winter Silhouette & Christian Alsemgeest - Salento
Label: Mare Nostrum Label (France)
Format: digital
Perfect relaxing music for an evening by the sea. Perhaps this kind of music should sound on paradise islands. Another successful collaboration of this month.
Paolino Canzoneri - Pittura liquida e gocce di lacrime
Label: Lontano Series (Italy)
Format: digital, CD
Abstract forms of thought and sensations manifest and come to life, like shades of colors, sometimes imperceptible, that characterize precise moments of life, destined to remain imprinted in the mind.
猫 シ Corp. - Blueberries on Mars
Label: Hiraeth Records (Netherlands)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #noise #darkambient #vaporvawe
Format: digital, CD, vinyl, cassette
Through a confluence of hardware synths, digital synths and field recordings, an otherworldly vista materialises in the mind’s eye. 猫 シ Corp. builds a detailed world beyond this theme of new life in distant lands.
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