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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 13, 20252 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 12, 20252 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 12, 20251 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 5, 20252 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 4, 20252 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 2, 20253 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 31, 20252 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 31, 20252 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 30, 20252 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 30, 20258 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 30, 20252 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 29, 20252 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 29, 20252 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 28, 20252 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 25, 20252 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 24, 20251 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 23, 20251 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 22, 20252 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 20, 20252 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 18, 20252 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 18, 20252 min read


Anthony Mills - 1st punch (Icons Creating Evil Art)
"The vocal sits in some stylistic confluence of soul rooted spoken word, pre-blues field song and threat - quite the achievement"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 17, 20251 min read


Natural Information Society - Meditation (New Soil)
"the former spending half that time in an ambient trance before communing with the ancestors via an easy Afrocentric groove"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 16, 20252 min read


luvly - Shelele (Self Release)
"It's a broken beat, punky, Afrofuturistic banger that's going to smash the live shows, with a touch of the Bob Vylan or Sleaford Mods righteous anger"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 16, 20251 min read
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