"an admirable attempt to map the gentler paths that snake through the ambient, new age and modern classical multiverses"

Alyas is an ambient hobbiest from Sweden, and for a part-timer he's been transmitting an impressive stream of calming etherealism for an...

"inspired by mid-1980s Japanese new age and ambient music, otherwise known as kankyō ongaku (environmental music), and less directly by vintage Italian experimental music"

"New Age music was spawned, alongside so many other things, in the fertile, primordial  creative soup of the 60s."

"the former spending half that time in an ambient trance before communing with the ancestors via an easy Afrocentric groove"

!This album is perfect start of the day music, just as well really as I’m writing about it at 5.45am."

The album flirts shamelessly with multiple ambient adjacent genres, exploring a shadow world where belief system energy ripples collide and swirl.

he’s also got a fondness for fusing pan-Latin sounds with star gazing electronica, and for this new LP on the reliable Shika Shika label he’s marshalled quite the ensemble, made them some sandwiches and packed them off on a cosmic cruise.

This new LP sees him descend from the new age stratosphere for a somewhat more grounded release, his usual wispy, well meaning electronica part exchanged for the more gravity beholden autoharp, upright piano and vintage Yamaha keyboard

Mycelial bioluminescence takes just what’s needed from real world instruments and distributes the micro-samples where required, and so it continues, track after blissful track

If that wasn't enough Gollden digs out her guitar and peppers the remaining elixir with the faintest of notes to help ease any remaining tension.

Hooky refrains and nu-disco basslines eschewed for precision sound design, higher sonic purpose and an altogether more astral approach

The guitars lay down a good natured folk vibe which slowly gets consumed by the cosmic electronica on it's quest to reach a higher plain

adding some smooth jazz horn emotion to the shimmering ambience and undulating synth pads that chart unhurried course

becalmed ambient or new age music to sooth your mind and spirit

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

the intersection of ambient, classical and cinematic worlds, a perfect combination with which to soundtrack his meditation on human self di

It's a sublime slice of electroacoustic engineering & I highly suggest tuning into it and his other well crafted, ethereally minded music

an inward or outward, depending on your mood, voyage into higher states of consciousness. Ideal for the wakers & bakers, wokers & tokers.

replaced by more of a spiritual sound tapestry woven from improvisations

enabled by the trio’s telepathy and considerate, minimal approach, culminating in as serene an LP as you’ll hear this year.

blissful spiritual jazz, anchored by a deeply soulful, almost horizontal grooviness and soaked in new age radiance for good measure.

pastoral tones get comfortable on some classic chill out synth pads and have no intention of going back to the office anytime soon

New age ritualism with a Hari Krishna smile is next, closely followed by more sunset serenading sounds