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Brandon De La Cruz - New Signs (Self Release)
"slightly more urgent acoustic guitar work threads its way through the impeccably detailed psychoactive electronica that melts just above the song and then drips through every note and word."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 162 min read


nik tee - cerulean blue (Self Release)
" the crew have attained quite the spiritual/psychedelic (delete as applicable or choose both) soulful jazz-funk state."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 141 min read


Brendon Moeller - Echo Ltd 012 (Echo Ltd)
"a back to the future synth stab, vinyl crackle, easy on the hips riddim, sounds echoing for eternity and some Nyabinghi style drum cuts all perfectly fused to soundtrack the after the after party"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 142 min read


Bonuru - Thin Places (Blue Adventure)
"the horns in sweet unity repeating a pleasingly restrained refrain that synergises with the repeated minimal guitar motif that acts as the tracks ever present driving force"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 132 min read


Almost An Island - Almost An Island (PITP)
"The album is a collaborative triumph that blurs the lines between song and soundscape, and might even be that rare thing, an ambient project that looks, as well as sounds good on a stage."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 122 min read


Tetuan & Laura Agnusdei - Tessalonica (Bloody Sunday)
"This is maximum density krautrock, the winding psychedelic path laid at the start then suddenly straightens up and heads directly for the heart of the sun"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 121 min read


Roshko Brothers - Interregnum (Self Release)
Jan then augments the repetition with some mournful yet graceful bowing, which paves the way for the subtlest of ambient electronic augmentation that bubbles beneath his brother's slowly building violin lament
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 52 min read


Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero - Aunque llegue la mañana (Noray)
" the album fittingly weaves its way along dusty, rosemary strewn, electroacoustic Andalusian paths, planting the seed of a new genre that we can only hope germinates in the region’s sun baked landscape. "
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 42 min read


prepare thyself - void jazz (Reptilian Snack)
"the jam session meets soothing psyche rock meets shoegaze meets space rock of “orbital decay” as the boys once again lull you into a false sense of psychedelic security before testing your lysergic limits"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 23 min read


Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Ghazel (Ruptured)
"this album, recorded between the Tunefork studio in Beirut and Tohme's home in the Lebanese mountains, is a perfect melting pot of rural, urban, traditional and innovative."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 312 min read


Markus Mehr - form (Hidden Shoal)
"unidentified samples and odd machine noises pepper the recording, making the mildly dissonant piano sound positively melodic."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 312 min read


Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar and Sary Moussa - Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day (Ruptured)
"This is a heavy album, but what would you expect from a recording utilising Tunefork Studios in Beirut as a conduit to remotely unite these artists during the Israeli aggression/response (delete as applicable)"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 302 min read


What Is New Age Music?
"New Age music was spawned, alongside so many other things, in the fertile, primordial creative soup of the 60s."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 308 min read


Anna Tivel - White Goose (Fluff and Gravy)
"The song has an easy going charm, as it suggests that time in nature, good friends and community might just be the part of life's puzzle missing for so many in these days of digital isolation and urban jungles."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 302 min read


Ben Varian & Sarah Safaie - Ark's Joy (Self Release)
"Far-out funkiness and some cosmic bump is the order of the day with "scampi strut" with Varian setting the keyboard controls for the heart of the sun"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 292 min read


Joseph Decosimo - Billy Button (Dear Life)
"It's a peculiar tale where perfectly delivered tongue twisting moments melt into pleasant, childlike simplicity, and country life blurs into toad licked surrealism"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 292 min read


Eeyun & The Co-Operators - Dub Over Yonder (Waggle)
“Last Night’s Dub” sees another heavy riddim test your speakers, and trust me this album won’t be kind to lower quality hi-fi gear
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 282 min read


Nate Smith, Lionel Loueke, Michael League - Magic Dance (NAÏVE)
"It's a warm slice of cosmic Afrobeat which should be all over global and open minded dance floors this summer and well beyond."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 252 min read


Waz-u - Vermillion: G major feat G9 LUV and Lilyg (Biodiversity Studios)
"Lilyg's vocal which immediately weaves its way through the soundscape, gently swirling the ambient electronica in its tailwinds"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 241 min read


ghost and tape - Pardinyas (Dauw)
"despite my natural inclination towards the nonabrasive, palliative end of the ambient spectrum this is something of a Thai massage, a mildly unsettling but ultimately relaxing affair, and I like it a lot."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 231 min read


KapTep, Sebby Kowal - Switch (Ambient Cat)
"They kick things off with the shimmering, lower frequency quivering, field recording hinting, gently cascading tones of the well named, "404 Error Page Not Found" - something I'm sure we can all relate to"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 222 min read


Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms (International Anthem)
"The new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 202 min read


Hamid Reza Behzadian - Blues for Leila (Self Release)
"artfully fusing the sounds of his harmonica, both Indian and Western slide guitars and Iranian folk music."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 182 min read


Shrunken Elvis - An Old Outlet (Western Vinyl)
"Languid percussion provides an unhurried tempo for this ambient voyage of exploration as toad licked guitar refrains guide these cosmic musketeers to higher plains"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 182 min read
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