Here are 10 significant ambient albums of October.
Sebby Kowal – Fusion
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Deep immersion into the forest of sounds. The perfect combination of soft drone, nature sounds and light noises.
Dionisaf – Scrapbook
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD with unique cover art, cassette, digital gallery
The Scrapbook album consists of 24 thematic sound sketches. The composition is based on superimposing different sound layers on top of each other, as in scrapbooking. The author used various samples from old new-age cassettes and vinyl records, tape loops, field recordings, various noises, guitars, and piano.
Ancient Astronaut – Ethereal Dreams
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Each track transports you to a serene, ethereal realm, inviting introspection and tranquility. Perfect for those moments when you need to drift away and let your mind wander through the clouds.
Tsarewitch – Prayerful Silence
Label: Reflection Nebula (Russia)
Format: digital, cassette
Minimalistic, deep and enveloping, this ambient drone was conceived as a refuge, as a companion with which to plunge into a doze. Prayerful Silence is dedicated to all those who were left homeless because of the war: forcibly or at the call of conscience.
Ashot Danielyan – Source
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Genre, style: #ambient #neoclassical
Format: digital, CD
The album Source is thoughtful, atmospheric and introspective music with deep ambient soundscapes. In the album you can hear sad, but at the same time dreamy musical structures.
Steve Roach – One Day of Forever
Label: Project Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD
Steve Roach's new purely atmospheric statement hovers within a warm and embracing expression of etheric ambience.
Christian Alsemgeest – Ocean
Label: Mare Nostrum Label (France)
Genre, style: #ambient #postrock #neoclassical
Format: digital
Ocean is a beautiful and very sensual album with a water theme, as always on this wonderful label.
Innesti – Diaphanous
Label: Past Inside the Present (USA)
Format: digital, CD
Minimal in layers, and complemented by carefully selected field recordings, each of its fourteen pieces is crafted to be, according to the artist, “weightless and fragile, with a subtle slant toward the nostalgic.”
Owl – Celestial Echoes
Label: Muzan Editions (Japan)
Genre, style: #ambient #darkambient #drone #noise #lofi
Format: digital, cassette
The tracks are allowed to breathe and unfold slowly, providing the listener with ample space to absorb the subtle shifts in tone and texture.
r beny – Discerned in the Fugue of Streams
Label: Quiet Details (UK)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #noise #neoclassical
Format: digital, CD
r beny’s music has always been typified by elegant and stirring melody, coupled with exceptionally sculpted textures - here we see him expanding on what has gone before, beautifully portraying the profound nature of his creativity.
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