A dark ambient journey composed of slowly evolving and interwoven feedback drones that submerge into the unconsciousness.
Recommended listening: asleep (if you like unsettling nightmares)
This work is meant to be a single piece: track 8 “Stream of Unconsciousness” is the continuous mix
Recorded at Home Office Studios in 2025
+/-0: Modular Synth
Cover photography: +/-0
The original soundtrack we made for Ioana Nicoară & Sergiu Negulici (Reniform) and Cinty Ionescu (Asociația Narative)’s “Ne/Re-văzut Muscel” project.
These are not songs, but background sonic illustrations, meant to play along with AR 3D animations and people telling their stories. Normally, they are designed to play continuously: there are 3 looped audio tracks, of different length, for each “song” – when played together, the overall sense of repetition is less obvious.
Here you can listen to short, ~3m rendered demos. We strongly advise you to download the album, find the 3 images included in the archive, install the Reniform app on your smartphone and use it to see the whole thing. The texts / vocal tracks are Romanian only.
–ͫ̔͂̐̅-̗͙̦̯̙͈̻̐ͫ͋͂͌͌̌–̻̱̦̯̈̃ͭͫ-̪ͥ-̱̗̼͔–ͫͧ̇ͨͯ-͇́-̥-̰̻̰͚̃͗͛̂̌̃ͅͅ-̞-̣͛-͓͕̦͙͒̀̓̂-̼͇ͤ́-̦̪̘̮̝͚̄͌͌̆̑ͪ-̻̟͚͎͙̈ͣ̔́̚-̆̊-͌̿ͤͤͥ̊̚-͓̮̤̥͖–̲̟͙̞͕͙-͓̤͙̫͒͑̈́ͪ-̈́̽ͮ̾̐ͦ-̗̥̼̣͖̳-ͬͨ̎̉–̪̗̙̙̜̮̓͐ͥ͒̐ͦ̋ͅ-̭̘̈́̍-̘ͦ-͑-̳̱̓̿-͚̈́̚ͅ-̤͓̯ͅ–̩͉̠̟̯̘-̟̹͓̥̠͎̘̾͑͐͛̃͐ͮ–͖̙̀͆̚ͅ-̪͕̒ͭ-ͅ—-̯͇̟̙ͯ͛̈́͆-͕͔͕̬͔̙ͅ-̥̦͉̓́̇-̾ͦ-̦̼̱̞̘̬̆̆͂ͨͦͬ-̖̻̟̯̮̫̘̎͌ͪ̆ͮ̒̊-͑ͥͭ̓ͦ-̩̯͙ͣͪ̓-͖̯̣̹-̻̠̼͕̻̬̥ͬ̈́͐ͣͬͦ̅–̦̳-̜͉͚̺͇̠̥-̥̗͈̮͚̝-̫̞-͈̭̤͓ͨ͆ͫ͒̋ͅ-͙͖͚̥̻̘̩͛͒ͮͧ͛͒̎-̪̖͕̣̻ͥ̊͊́̀—̩͍̹͌̋̈́–̈́ͨ̏ͭ̽̚̚-͇̳̜̒̔̈́-̬̰̙̠–̰̭͈͖̹͈ͩ̿̽̀͂̐-ͧ-̩͊–̱̙̹͔͑̑ͦ̋-̬̫̳-̬͌–̫̥̦̗͎̦̄͐̀̍̓̇–͖-͍̭̫͕̬̽ͬ̋̒͌-̱̠̼-͖͓̅̅-͎̜̺̊ͦ͐-͙̻͕̼̬̜ͧ͂ͧ͛̓ͤ-̻̮̅ͯ-̑ͪ͆-ͧ͋͒-
Nouă instalații AR inserate în spațiul urban transformă orașul într-o arhivă vie. Fiecare punct de intervenție devine o poartă către povești personale și memorie colectivă. Cu ajutorul tehnologiei, aceste lucrări nu doar adaugă un strat vizual, ci deschid un altfel de dialog cu orașul în care privirea încetinește, iar memoria se reactivează pornind de la teme actuale identitarului colectiv. Cele 9 lucrări AR se construiesc pornind de la povești ale orașului, reprezentative pentru identitarul colectiv, atent selecționate și desprinse din arhiva artistei multimedia Cinty Ionescu. Aceste istorii sunt recontextualizate de artiștii vizuali Ioana Nicoară și Sergiu Negulici prin animații 3D și sunt incorporate în compoziții audio originale realizate de artiștii de sunet Makunouchi Bento, Sorin Păun și Alex Bălă. Lucrările AR au fost disponibile locuitorilor și vizitatorilor orașului prin folosirea unei aplicații gratuite instalate pe telefonul propriu. Amplasarea lucrărilor în spații publice sau neconvenționale ale orașului a fost însoțită de evenimente, activări și este inclusă pe o hartă fizică și digitală în catalogul interactiv NE/RE-VĂZUT: Muscel.
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Nine AR installations embedded in the urban space transform the city into a living archive. Each intervention point becomes a gateway to personal stories and collective memory. Through the use of technology, these works do more than add a visual layer—they open up a different kind of dialogue with the city, one in which the gaze slows down and memory is reactivated through themes that resonate with contemporary collective identity.
The nine AR works are built around stories of the city that are representative of its collective identity, carefully selected and drawn from the archive of multimedia artist Cinty Ionescu. These stories are recontextualized by visual artists Ioana Nicoară and Sergiu Negulici through 3D animations and are embedded within original audio compositions created by sound artists Makunouchi Bento, Sorin Păun, and Alex Bălă.
The AR works were made available to residents and visitors through a free application installed on their personal smartphones. Their placement in public or unconventional urban spaces was accompanied by events and activations and is documented on both a physical and digital map included in the interactive catalogue NE/RE-VĂZUT: Muscel.
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www.narative.ro/ne-re-vazut-muscel/
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Felix Petrescu and Valentin Toma (Makunouchi Bento)
makunouchibento.org
Following the publication of a series of split releases French creatives Sobria Ebrietas and Iliaque have combined to create Dormance.
sobriaebrietas.bandcamp.com
iliaque.bandcamp.com
Rhythm tracks used on Dormance 13:
Suonho – Zajo_Loop22_02_commander-rwrk.wav CC-BY freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58619/
Suonho – Zajo_Loop22_02_lowbit&rephat-rwrk.wav CC-BY freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58620/
Artwork by Iliaque, based on photo by Derek Σωκράτης Finch: www.flickr.com/photos/sagesolar/53625252875/in/explore-2024-04-02/ CC-BY
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The first Dormance album, I, was released on The Committee for Sonic Research and is available here:
tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/i
released February 1, 2026
A. Stefan Christoff – Demand the Impossible
01. A sky entrance
02. Arc
03. Turning in the Bosphorus
04. Demand the Impossible
An album recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria one late evening in October 2023
Recorded and mixed by Yoncho Pavlov at AD 57, Sofia, Bulgaria
All piano compositions are original improvisations by Stefan Christoff
B. Open to the Sea – The Sofia Intuition
1. Please stop loving me
2. I will not wake you up
3. I recognise you
4. Bodies in contact
Reworks of Stefan Christoff’s original piano recordings with:
Saverio Rosi – OP-1 with wind instruments, double bass, synths
Matteo Uggeri – laptop, samples, random drumming
Enrico Coniglio – guitars
Mastered by Ryan Morey
Original artwork by Catalina Villegas-Burgos
Layout by Angel Draganov
Síntesis boreal
Esta pieza surgió como una experimentación con la idea de los triángulos, sus búsquedas de balance y de síntesis. Me sentía atraída por la energía del sol y los eventos cósmicos como eclipses y auroras boreales, así que los puse a danzar y a atravesarse. Cuando escuché el álbum de Stefan ‘’Demand the Impossible’’ sentí que mi experimentación le venía perfectamente por el juego de voces entre el bajo y las notas un poco más agudas e insistentes de esta obra. De algún modo, veía también los triángulos en su música y los tonos ‘boreales’ sobre fondo oscuro. En ambas obras: la musical y la visual, percibo desplazamientos y formas que se cruzan. Cuando ambos triángulos se encuentran, ¿es el sol un testigo de aquel eclipse o es acaso una fuerza oculta?
– Catalina Villegas-Burgos. (album artwork artist)
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It felt unlikely that this recording session would actually happen in Sofia, Bulgaria, but I am really happy that it did and I can share this moment in time. I had played a concert in Sofia that same evening hosted by Tsvetan Tsvetanov of the experimental Bulgarian National Radio program Alarma Punk Jazz. After the show finished I rushed over to the basement studio, AD 57, just before midnight. Sound engineer Yoncho Pavlov generously agreed to record this session super late and we recorded until just before 2 am in the morning. After the session I ran back to the apartment where I was staying with Canadian activist scholar Ezra Winton, packed my bags and rushed to the airport for a flight to Berlin that was set to depart at around 6am.
Despite all the rushing around this recording, the mood and feeling of the sound reminds me of the stars. In certain parts of Sofia there aren’t a lot of street lights and the sky feels close to touch. The mountains that shape the Bulgarian landscape also hold a presence and vibe in the capital city. While playing piano I was thinking of the sky above, the stars and the lands around Sofia and the Balkan region. This project is important to me because of my Bulgarian roots, my father is Macedonian Bulgarian. It was a long road from growing up in Canada to finally making it back to Bulgaria and to finding a path to work on this recording and music in Sofia. I hope that you can feel the emotional resonance in the piano tones.
Another layer to this recording is the fact that recording took place in the context of the Israeli state’s military attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza. The recording took place in November and the horrifying news coming out of Gaza spanked an intense need to take action around the world. In the week before this recording I had been with friends at protests and events to mobilize for Palestine in Montréal, Amsterdam and London. I was often thinking about Palestine during this recording session and the critical importance of sustaining an involvement and finding ways to support Palestine throughout my lifetime. Walking with and supporting the Palestinian struggle for freedom and against colonialism is one of the essential progressive causes of our time, we must never be silent and always find ways to stand up when Palestine is in the headlines and critically when it is not. I certainly was thinking of my Palestinian friends and comrades around the world who have played such an important role in my life over the last decades throughout this recording, that is the honest truth. I hope that you can hear the sense of commitment and urgency around supporting Palestine that I have carried and acted upon my entire adult life.
Thank you for listening to this solo piano recording from Sofia, it means a lot to me, sending love from Montreal.
– Stefan Christoff.
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Guitars, electronic devices – Guillaume Blache
I, II & IV- Guillaume Blache
III – Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738)
Mastering – Diego Gaucho, Caracol musicalestudio
Art cover – Marcos Viso, all rights reserved
released January 29, 2026
Philosopher Jane Bennett’s concept of “microvisioning” describes Henry David Thoreau’s devotional practice of keenly observing and focusing on small details of the natural world. She explores this idea in her book, Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild. She writes that microvisioning transforms nature into something “beautiful, sublime, and Wild.”
Every summer I leave my home in New York City to return to my roots in the Midwest, where I am able to practice my own version of microvisioning. Armed with an array of microphones and different listening devices, summertime in the Midwest has allowed me to sonically engage different environments in a deep, meaningful, and wild way.
All of the recordings contained in this album were recorded across the Midwest during the summer of 2025.
Atomai constructs a bridge between the hiss of the past and the synthesis of the future.
SIGNALAI 3 continues ambient journeys through old tape recordings and new inventive adaptations of audio technology.
An exploration of signal processing by manipulating found footage, tape artifacts and integrating harps, strings and flutes.
all tracks by Humanfobia.
track 5 in collaboration with Innocent Darkness.
track 6 in collaboration with noxpox
Humanfobia is an experimental, vaporgoth duo from Rancagua, Chile.
EP version of V/A ᐁ Living in a Haunted House ᐁ.-
Koen Daigaku opens MiMi Records’ 2026 catalog with this EP that explores atmosphere, patience, and emotional scale.
Across expansive compositions, Daigaku blends sustained tones, gentle harmonics, and slow-moving melodies into immersive soundscapes that feel both intimate and vast.
Eureka invites listeners to pause, breathe, and drift, capturing a sense of elevation and calm that resonates long after the final note fades, with quiet confidence and refined compositional restraint throughout.
A must listen!!!
Released December 21, 2025, Fallen’s brand new album “Our Endless Waltz between Wonder and Mud”, coming out in beautiful digipak CD edition, is the artist’s second with Mahorka after his debut on the label “Soft Skin Eternal Verses”, released in 2022 on cassette.
Fallen’s notes about the album:
“Our Endless Waltz..” came to light in a very delicate and intense period in my life, with great changes from many angles.
Musically, this very precious to me new album of mine, keeps going in the direction established by my very first Móatún 7 release in 2023 and after my most recent releases on Intellitronic Bubble, Neotantra, Shimmering Moods Recs and ROHS!, where my ways and approaches to electronic ambient music have started to become much more dynamic, whilst never losing (instead, enhancing it, in my opinion) my will/aim to sound as spontaneous as possible, without forcing anything, as usual.
This album is about Love and Resilience and how much this messed up world, keeps going ahead with his crazy race, losing grip day after day, in a cruel way we aren’t able to discuss with open heart, without the will of hurting each other. This is Our Endless Waltz.
I could say the album is pretty connected and tied up to the Victorian Era, in terms of literature and poetry before all. I grew up with that Era in my heart and this time I have done a concious tribute, including with graphic ides – references to the XIX century.
Written, Composed, Performed, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Fallen between January and March 2025
Instruments performed, recorded, processed:
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers, Voice, Field Recordings
Artwork by Angel Draganov
“Thank You So Much to the Dearest Ivo, Angel and to my family”
thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com
as if music would not be a message – We are very sure you know that and will listen. Music, no matter what musical genre you prefer, is always a message – and a language, spoken and understood by all.
Dear music lovers, Smooth Genestar did it again. Nearly 6 years passed since the release of his last album, and so he felt it has become time to cook some new, delicious groove snacks for you.
Within the last 18 months, he worked on a lot of tracks, all of them handcrafted for you with love. He worked obsessed on every little detail and every little feature, of course always with a subtle portion of humor, as you may notice on the one or other title of the tracks.
What can you expect from this brandnew release? Well, a handpicked choice of 22 tracks out of 30 tracks he has produced within the last 18 months. So, get ready for 4 hours and 3 minutes of deep, groovy, melancholic and tasty flavoured Downbeat, Lounge, NuHazz, TripHop and Chillout tunes – spiced with a good portion of retro flavours and deepness.
For that, he did some serious musical research and work to create authentic beatz, deep and rolling basslines and, of course, jazzy chords and dusty, livind pads and background atmospheres. Most of the musical spices is played and recorded live to keep the human touch.
Overall, you can say, his goal was to serve great tracks for your perfect or even unperfect moments. These 22 tracks will fit nearly all of your moods. May it be as background music while sitting with people you love, for doing your studies, for your way home after a hard day on work, for driving at night, for dreaming or just for your new years day chill out session.
Have a nice christmas and a happy new year!
And now… get into the tunez and enjoy the music!
With best wishes from germany,
CYAN
Smooth Genestar dedicates this music in love to Zeynep.
In addition, he pays tribute to Mr. Paul Hardcastle, a man and musician who influenced him absolutely most with his musically smoothness. Thank you for this kind of gentle smoothness!
Originally released by Psicadense in June 2025
Now, for the first time, it’s available in physical format
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