Vintage synths swirl, sometimes in epic fashion, loosening your grip on reality to help achieve a positive outcome.

The ambient universe is vast, but Samson has done an admirable job of mapping the warmer, solar blessed end of it in just six tracks.

The original ethereal vocals are then melted down into machine pads for extra ambiguity

impeccable ambient electronics that provide the synthetic thermals to elevate their acoustic colleagues

The recording is a textural feat with notes appearing in glorious isolation, or exquisite refrains repeated to perfection

both artists head intuitively into hazy, warm and blissful territory, their contributions melting into, then unhurriedly infusing

Whitelabrecs is a great ambient label. Run by Harry Towell, himself a respected ambient artist

a fine slice of patiently building, gently hypnotic, dub tickled ambient downtempo that will sound good for after the after party

The track is a hypnotic minimal ambient treat; ideal for shining some light on the darker months and easing tired minds.

This is not just any old ambient folk LP, this is one of those by which others are judged.

"Wings of the Setting Sun" eases its way into your consciousness with Stockman's usual patient approach to building composition.

It’s a magical place where electronic music not only imitates but synergises with nature

Simplicity, gentleness and purity are the order of the day here, and I couldn’t think of a better Sunday soundtrack

"soothing tones laying the ground work for the unhurried introduction of a simple but soporific guitar refrain"

The piano is gentle, the park's fauna play their part as do some defrosted chimes, there are some piano creaks captured by the close micing

She slides the atmospheric synth pads under his delicate keys, sending them spiralling through the speakers on the warm currents

a drifting, deeply calming, subtly repetitive and hence hypnotic, hour long electroacoustic work

deep space evoking, shape shifting slice of ambient drift

"but seems to have decided light grey cloud shrouded, classical nodding ambient compositions are the way forward"

The sounds on the whole are warm but somewhat dull, not as in boring, but an opiated dullness that somehow just dissipates energy and stress

Undulating pads, or perhaps old tape loops, distant guitar caresses and probably a few other sound sources I've still to identify come and go

a nice line in somewhat, if not quite full on Scandinavian melancholy, then somewhat subdued, short and sweet, pleasantly hazy ambient.

sink into his soft edged beats and ambient drift, where even the club constructs are designed for the start of night or after the after party

Most tracks float effortlessly through the speakers and hang in the air like your wayward uncle’s cigarette smoke,