The Ambient & Drone Playlist

29/05/2022

💫 Just added 💫 "Black Clouds Above the Bows" by Wanderwelle

Wanderwelle · Album · 2022 · 8 songs.

27/03/2022

💫 Just added 💫 "Dwell Times" by T.R. Jordan released by Past Inside the Present.

T. R. Jordan · Album · 2022 · 8 songs.

06/03/2022

Hey everyone! The playlist is now available on Apple Music ➡️ https://music.apple.com/ch/playlist/drone-ambient-dreampunk/pl.u-qxylEN5uXyGEY2?l=en

Playlist · 4548 Songs

06/03/2022

✨ Just added ✨ "The Sails, Pt. 1" by Loscil
https://open.spotify.com/album/47FBKr2np9iuHWmWgLdPie?si=yElEKu1AQA-LY4IHB17kzw

Loscil · Album · 2022 · 9 songs.

31/01/2022

✨ Just added ✨ "Agape" by Zakè & City Of Dawn, released on Azure Vista Records. Enjoy the bliss!

zakè · Album · 2022 · 6 songs.

30/01/2022

Hi everyone! As some of you might currently be switching streaming services, the playlist will be present on other platforms as well. Let's start with Tidal!
Enjoy 🎉
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/106badf7-3d9f-4f63-8fcc-1c7bf18d48aa

Listen to DRONE / AMBIENT / DREAMPUNK on TIDAL

21/12/2021

💫 Just added 💫 "Nobody Knowns" by Pallette.

Pallette · Album · 2021 · 10 songs.

21/12/2021

💫 Just added 💫 "Retrospective (2016-2021)" by Warmth.SVLBRD, released on Archives.

Warmth · Album · 2021 · 20 songs.

05/12/2021

💫 Just added 💫 : "Bloodless" by Benoît Pioulard.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5XKziXrlt06YWmGV98yo61?si=jlkWG3PORJ2tXpbLFvIj9g

Benoît Pioulard · Album · 2021 · 9 songs.

28/11/2021

[New] • "Weltanschauung" by Zakè Drone & City of Dawn.

https://open.spotify.com/album/20SLS07iXAFRtdyWfqUkxN

zakè · Single · 2021 · 6 songs.

27/11/2021

[New] • "Veils" by Hilyard

https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/veils

5 track album

26/11/2021

[New] • "Sunspots" by Celer.

Celer · Album · 2021 · 12 songs.

15/10/2021

[New] • "maritime" by Anthéne, released on Ambientologist.

Anthéne · Album · 2021 · 8 songs.

11/09/2021

🆕 "Begins to Reappear" by Palette.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1usVLSRJAipqhELMEpOKBl?si=aIgPZRfPROKc0FQLJnsQeQ&dl_branch=1

Pallette · Album · 2021 · 12 songs.

10/09/2021

🆕 "Observation of Breath" by Lawrence English, released on Hallow Ground

Lawrence English · Album · 2021 · 4 songs.

06/09/2021

[New] • "In Light Of Blues" by Celer.

Celer · Album · 2021 · 12 songs.

18/08/2021

[Fresh] • "The backrooms OST" by Crossing Bridges & Violet A. Foster, released on Forest Kids Collective. From the Bandcamp page:

"After a long journey. I've returned with my recordings still in one piece. I wish I could say the same for my mentality. The mission was a success, but at what cost.

The maze was so long and taxing I can't remember how I first ended up there. It must have been months because I don't remember it being 2021. Either way I don't remember a lot, it feels like it was all just a very vivid dream. Somehow that has helped me piece together my story. I found some beautiful places hidden within the backrooms as well as some extremely unsavory entities. Part of me yearns to go back yet the I also wish I never went.
In some ways I feel like I am still there. Just aimlessly walking."

Crossing Bridges · Album · 2021 · 12 songs.

01/08/2021

[New] • "Sustain Series, Vol. 2", a compilation by Ambientologist.

"The Sustain Series project continues with its second volume, 24 recycled forms created from old and unused material. Since the release of Volume 1 in November last year, more artists have come together to salvage, repurpose, restore and deconstruct each other’s pieces, or collaborate on a particular idea. What results is a growing variety of approaches and outputs, from subtle embellishments to full disfigurement.

Volume 2 moves thematically, as if in four chapters, from the expressive openers, through enchanting natural-sounding pieces, before opening up to more ethereal expanses, and finally darker and more thoughtful ones. As it does, visions emerge of our natural world - its power, its beauty and its vulnerability.

As before, all Bandcamp proceeds will be used to fund our move towards a sustainable future. After raising more than $500 for Conservation International last year, the project is this time partnering with Julie's Bicycle, a non-profit aimed at mobilising arts and culture to take action on climate change, focusing on high-impact programmes and policy change to make a meaningful impact." (taken from their Bandcamp page)

https://open.spotify.com/album/4N7Hp7JDZmImJXqDDoYokw?si=oNwz-l0VSwq9Pcu-SyVqew&dl_branch=1

Various Artists · Compilation · 2021 · 24 songs.

31/07/2021

[New] • "围" by 夢范例, released on Forgot Imprint. From the record label Bandcamp:

"夢范例 arrives on Forgot Imprint with 围, a 2 track deep drone cassette paying homage to 80's Japanese new age as well as artists like Telepath. Lots of reflection and inner peace when listening to this work."

夢范例 · Album · 2021 · 2 songs.

30/07/2021

[New] • "Paths Are Borders" by Reverberant Evenings, released just today.

Reverberant Evenings · Album · 2021 · 4 songs.

16/07/2021

[New] • "The Right Place at the Right Time" by Pallette, self-released.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0JZMhO9IXun81YH8n0tmD4?si=ElwNqtPMTxqPBoN6_qAQmQ&dl_branch=1

Pallette · Single · 2021 · 1 songs.

02/07/2021

[New] • "beliefsystems" by Zakè Drone & Isaac Helsen, released on Past Inside the Present. From the label Bandcamp page:

"A joint effort long past due, PITP founders zakè and Isaac Helsen team up to bring forth three arrangements that encompass textured ambient washes and drone-laden guitar work titled ‘beliefsystems’.

zakè is known for his dronescapes using field recordings, tape machines, sample extractions and sound manipulations. Repetition and textural ambient drone have been the quintessential characteristics of his audio output.

Isaac is known for his patient approach to the phonic canvas resulting in gentle yet immersive movements; primarily emitting from his masterful processed guitar work.

'beliefsystems' is a pure and natural blend of each artists' musical approach. There is a certain new depth and solemnity felt across the thirty eight minutes of lush ambient movements that could only be realized by their sounds and craft coalescing together into beautiful unknown territories."

zakè · Album · 2021 · 3 songs.

28/06/2021

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6K3QHWlrrsRPWQJ7X5vVUJ?si=c06587a23fa84e87

22/06/2021

[New] • "Malaria" by Celer.

Celer · Album · 2021 · 7 songs.

21/06/2021

[New] • "Herbario" by Federico Durand. From the artist Bandcamp:

"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.

I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.

Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies."

https://open.spotify.com/album/79VYxU86ehcfiaepmraMXY?si=A8Z66nGpTW23vKp0mZdq1w&dl_branch=1

Federico Durand · Album · 2021 · 7 songs.

15/06/2021

[New] • "Conduits" by P.J.S, released on Kudatah. From the artist Bandcamp:

"PJS returns to Kudatah with an extended 2-part lush sound world combo, starting with a simple atmosphere and over the course of each 30 minute runtime, evolving into an oasis of psychedelic sustained chords and deep cerebral reverberated melodies. We encourage you to reflect and meditate to these spacious and immersive compositions, and repeat as necessary.."

https://open.spotify.com/album/63puOikI4d9pXhQqJHEzlW?si=oL0AfaHqTRqKSr2JVA0rYQ&dl_branch=1

PJS · Album · 2020 · 2 songs.

30/05/2021

[New] • "Clara" by Loscil . From the artist Bandcamp page:

"The latest collection by Cascadian resident loscil aka Scott Morgan is a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest. The subsequent recording was lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then “scratched and abused to add texture and color,” from which the entirety of Clara was sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted. Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres.

Although Morgan's compositional premise for Clara was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences. The album's title comes from the Latin for ‘bright': a fitting muse for this masterpiece of celestial electric currents and interstitial ether, where “shadows are amplified and bright spots dimmed.”"

Loscil · Album · 2021 · 10 songs.

16/05/2021

[New] • "Awake Always, No. II" by Pallette.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5UMJ3TL4IvMeqk7fsQFVaf?si=_AChzFofSVqbRsgHa1zBDA

Pallette · Album · 2021 · 4 songs.

13/05/2021

[New] • Lathe Biosas by Reverberant Evenings. A three-album work (more than 2 hours 30 minutes!). From his Bandcamp page:

"Λάθε Βιώσας [Lathe Biosas] "live hidden" is an expression coined by the philosopher Epicurus.
Lathe biosas, this work, is a collection of six long drones, each lasting half an hour, through which you can lose yourself among the harmonics and sound strokes with a muddy mixture."

https://open.spotify.com/album/2duaUYDPG3yiIVMcsYGV4y?si=PTFIGOBlS0Kpj-8NZA5F3g

Reverberant Evenings · Album · 2021 · 6 songs.

22/04/2021

[New] • "slowdance,lowtide" by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki. Hirotaka is currently having a Bandcamp campaign to get the album released on vinyl! Check out the link in the comments.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7xomRNjiLs0yWQ6qemwMMA?si=J-wb4lBERgyiTYK-H0ztXA

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki · Album · 2020 · 6 songs.