This work by Suzanne Ciani is beautiful and amazing. I would love to hear it live or in an ambisonic environment. It's available for listening on Bandcamp.

I absolutely love this new album “Spirit on the train” from Kafka Escobar. It’s brilliant and gorgeous and so emotional to me.

https://kafkaescobar.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-on-the-train-ep

What are some smaller/newer ambient musicians that you love?

Just picked up Jon Hassell’s Pentimento Trilogy, a 3CD set released earlier this month. It collects his final two studio albums, Listening to Pictures (2018) and Seeing Through Sound (2020), along with the newly released Music Is Invisible, completed posthumously from recordings of his final concert in 2015.
A beautiful final chapter to Hassell’s Fourth World music.

I really love the packaging too, with a 28-page booklet and artwork throughout.

under-water-ish but darker

i’ve been obsessed with deux filles and need some recommendations that are similar… i know they aren’t entirely ambient, but i didn’t know where else to ask ( and get a good answer lol ). oh, and i have listened to durutti column and woo! i love them but they don’t necessarily scratch the itch as much as i want them to

I would really like to make ambient music, ideally working without a computer (just use computers for too much already) Is this even possible ? I have little to no training in how to make music, how would I get started in this direction ?

Bandcamp linkfor the posted audio : https://asurarevolver.bandcamp.com/album/rainforest-hill-i-ii

The artist it seems passed away in 2021

Another example : https://hushtones.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-storms

Does anyone have any recs for ambient music that has a decent amount of Rhythm to it?

I'm travelling across different countries tomorrow and would love some recs.

Any recommendations? Specifically similar to this record of theirs which I feel strikes the best balance of their discography between spacious ambient and more metered, Sprague-esque e-piano and synth tracks.

Hello, I’ve discovered this song recently (Brian Enos - Signals) and fell in love with it. I was wondering if there are any songs within the same soundscape?

Hello! So I really like this style of ambient music that combines a subtle meditative quality with soundscapes and sound effects. A perfect example of what I'm looking for is this track "Walk to Sri Pada" by Faru. I've some recommendations along these lines! I already know and really like KMRU who has many tracks like this, too.

https://kuan.bandcamp.com/album/myrce

KUAN · MYRCE

Doombient / Stonergaze

Heavy, slow and deeply immersive.

Myrce by Kuan moves somewhere between the crushing weight of doom, the haze of shoegaze and the vast, hypnotic spaces of ambient music. A dense, psychedelic journey built for getting lost in.

If you haven't heard it yet, now is a good time to dive in.

And if you want to experience Myrce the way it deserves, the cassette edition is available now.

Put it on. Turn the lights down. Let it take over.

Support the artist and grab a physical copy of MYRCE on cassette.

Such a great project, always that drifting and soothing atmosphere i like so much.

Apologies for the crappy combined photos and annoying order of the albums (Brian Eno especially).
Slowly have been accruing these over the years, excepting the Brian Eno and Jean-Michel Jarre which are from my dad's collection and handed down to me.

1: Grouper - Ruins
2: Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
3: The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
4: The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
5: Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
6: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
7: Wilson Tanner - Legends
8: Wilson Tanner - II
9: Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
10: Stars of the Lid - Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life
11: Biosphere - Substrata
12: Fennesz - Endless Summer
13: Steve Hauschildt - Where all is Fled
14: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
15: Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
16: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
17: Benoit Pioulard - Sylva
18: Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green

I recently posted here and asked for recommendations on sample based ambient music. And I'm still listening to all the great recommendations and found amazing stuff so far!

Now I'm also looking for ambient music with little to no reverb. Can be weird, strange and experimental but doesn't have to.

Again I will use one of my favorite experimental/ambient albums so far as an example:
- Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism by Jon Hassell
Also I found "Sti.ll" by Taylor Deupree another great match for the description.

I like it when I can "hear" the room in an ambient track or if there is little to no room at all.

Thanks already! It's so fun listening to new music.

Haven't seen many people talk about this fine piece of work.

Helen is a very private person who has abandoned this period of her life and now focuses on visual art. She was said to have been surrounded by musicians in Sydney during the 80s. Also in a new wave band called "D Face" but I can't find them anywhere.

I usually prefer ambient when it's just the synthesizers but the mix of other instruments blends well, in my opinion.

Thanks for the music, Helen! Hope you are well.

Caught these guys live last night at a local electronic music night, it was really special and I felt like sharing their music with the ambient crew here - peaceful and evocative mix of koto with a bed of warm synth and samples. Some tracks more looping and pulsing, others far more sparse and ambient. The last two definitely lean more traditionally ambient. The track Tabidori (migrating bird) (29:10) on this album is particularly beautiful. The last track features a drone made by the coastal wind vibrating the koto strings!

They were releasing a few new tracks too on tapes yesterday, which sold out on the night. One of them, Kokedera, featured a 'bass koto' which was enormous and sounded so deep. Can listen to them on the labels bc page https://margate-electronics.bandcamp.com/album/koke-no-ne

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Hello everyone!

So this album was made via an ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe and a Prophet Rev2.

This series of music I had made actually with images, or ideas and things in mind. I would find a painting (or footage) by real people, usually on Artvee, and try to make sound and music that evokes what is already there,, and tries to do so in a way that is live, organic, flaws and all.

If you want, you can check my Youtube channel, and each music in the album which you will find in the bandcamp page, will show indeed the music corresponding to a painting, or footage as in the Auora example.

As a short hand of what I tried to do with each musical piece just to give a few examples:

1. For Blues of Shadows, I had actually used imagery from a game called Shadows of doubt, to try and transcribe the feelings there, which sounded I realized much like Blade Runner blues :)

2. For Caravane Dans Le Desert, you can see hopefully on this reddit post and to the bandcamp, the music is based on the painting as shown here. I used the Prophet Rev2 to generate the long droning sound of wind and something harsh underneath, using the flute like sound as a beacon shining through the harshness.

3. For Aurora Australis, this one I used footage for it after making the music, not before, and it was a more drone type sound/music. Playing with the texture. I actually did not know what I would do, I was just playing around with my prophet Rev2, when I had found this sound. As I finished, the one word that came to mind was space, and there it was.

At the moment I think I am more happy with the music I am making, or at least, the way I am performing music. I had first discovered Blade Runner (1982) and fell in love with the movie, and since I already loved synthesizers, I fell in love with Vangelis' music and just wanted to understand more about it, the mindset. There are other synthesists I like a lot like Wendy Carlos (if I had discovered her first I probably would have imprinted on her, she is just as good as Vangelis for me but for different reasons), Gershon Kingsley, Jean Jacque Perrey, Éliane Radigue, and so on.

I realized early on, back when I was using computers and daws I...hated it actually lol. The whole process of making music was a pain and despite owning amazing synths in the form of a Hydrasynth Deluxe and a Prophet Rev2, I felt no motivation to play. I hated how I felt less like a musician and more like an engineer.

That was until I went dawless, and I felt so much better. As a result, all of my music is always dawless, no computers, one take, live, no edits, any mistakes left in, and trying to invoke the imagery and meaning that is already there via sound. I don't use sequencers or drum machines all that much, I don't even use arpeggiators. Like whenever I play music like this I never "plan" anything. It's like a radio, it just comes out of me. Because I do not compose music beforehand, or try to think in classic music theory, every note, every breath, every pause, and every mistake, is present. It makes the music feel...alive. It is all spontaneous for me. And I think I prefer it that way, for myself.

A lot of how I play is based on how Vangelis played, since his music always sounded so nice to me, because the music was played live to scenes. It made the music feel alive, like another person witnessing what was happening. Any mistakes I do make, I try to ride the wave of that and just seeing where it takes me.

Anyways, thank you all, and I hope you have a good one :)

I am on spotify and apple music and stuff if you wish to hear it there too.

“Imminence” is the first album in a five-part project I’ve called “The Fractal Arc.” It's six movements of about ten minutes each, all at 30 BPM. The album is meant to be listened to as a complete work, as each movement transitions into the next.

The Arc explores the journey of Awareness and this opening album is an expression of the first step of that journey: the awareness of consciousness, the realization of self-awareness, the first steps, the connection to a Presence beyond the Self, the curiosity and desire to seek that Presence, that Presence making itself known, and the invitation to remain in relationship with that Presence. While these are the themes of the journey that inspired the album, what they mean is left to the listener.

I composed, recorded, mixed and mastered the album in Ableton using stock Ableton devices, primarily voiced with Omnisphere 3 using two Novation Launchpad Pro mk3s and a Novation Launch Control XL 3. I was inspired by the phased loop technique of Steve Roach and my lifelong love of Vangelis. Movements flow with long drones and drifting melodic fragments, seldom repeating and often creating unique harmonies that only occur once. The visuals are the counterpart and meant to evoke majesty, intimacy and mystery — shorelines, mountains, cairns, storm plains, forest, moors — the hope being that the listener will find that the most profound journeys often take place in the most familiar of places.

As a Philosophy major with a graduate degree in Theology, these themes are fertile ground for me, and my hope is that the listener will make the journey their own.

The Journey rewards patience. Listen with headphones and in a quiet space, if you can.

Thank you for taking the time to listen.

Peace,
Heavens Spin Gray

Hi everyone — I built Masters Vault, an independent Apple Digital Masters discovery site, and I’d love feedback from people who listen in Dolby Atmos.

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See title. I like the atmosphere and soundfont of Wintery dungeon synth, but a lot of it winds up feeling bland and same-y compositionally. There's something really special about these two in particular that I can't find anywhere else. If nothing else, looking for some "cold," mysterious ambient music with a similar tone to these artists, even if the genre doesn't exactly match. Thanks!

Only posting because I couldn't see anything related to them for years on this sub, and home ground loyalty being Australian. Where jazz meets drone and ambient. Their last album (linked) is one of their best imho. Also 'Open'.

https://thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/disquiet

Have a great day.

These are two recordings I made on April 29, 2025. Both of them are somewhat minimalist, lofi keyboard improvisations. Incidental noises provided by my then 3-month-old baby, a breast pump, my cat, and the clicking of keys on my digital piano.

I’ve been working on assembling an album that’s shaping up to be a kind of personal retrospective of mono recordings made over the last four years, from 2023 through the beginnning of this year- none of which were originally intended for public release. In going through my recordings folder, these are two tracks I came across that I don’t think I will include on the upcoming album, but that I do kind of like anyways, so I’m putting them together here as an EP. In a sense they are outtakes or companion tracks for that larger project I hope to be sharing toward the end of the month.

My playing style is more on the naïve, instinctual side- kind of random, sometimes erring on the side of aimless noodling, but I also think I have my moments when I get into it and I think a certain subset of ambient listeners might enjoy. A few ambient/ambient adjacent artists who've had some impact on me are Joanna Brouk, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley. Besides that I am sure I have been influenced by a range of composers and artists from western classical music, Hindustani, and jazz. In a more ideological sense some artists who provided me with inspiration very early on are Thelonious Monk, Crass, and Henry Flynt.

The photo of the luna moth was taken one year after these recordings were made- April 29, 2026. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes a listen! 

https://soteriologyreport.bandcamp.com/album/interruptions