"Kouhei naturally uses a more acoustic, percussive sound palette of mini-rattles, quick shakes and one hit wonders, the compositions are equally as far-out"

"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 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. "

"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."

"unidentified samples and odd machine noises pepper the recording, making the mildly dissonant piano sound positively melodic."

"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)"

"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 new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"

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

insistent acoustic motifs twist in on themselves, hypnotising all those within earshot before fading out to let the drone have its moment in the sun and show off it's lysergic charm.

the EP opening track's mimnimal piano is blended with a field recording of what sounds like an evangelical sermon and reversed sounds, so keep an open mind.

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

his selfless approach leaves the focus on Åsbakk, whose voice rings pure and true from the instrumental gloom, deftly traversing centuries and breathing new life into these songs

Scene set the kick drum arrives to get the crowd swaying and heads nodding, welcome Bzhezhinska's spiritual approach and cheer the less holy, dubbed out electronics.

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 is a hell of an audio visual production that only really makes sense when it's seen and heard. It looks like Adam Curtis might just have some competition from this family in Colorado.

a stunningly constructed blend of field recordings, minimal piano and ambient textures that will keep the attentive headphone clad listener busy

The album is a start to finish meditative joy, a welcome return from Guidry and an auspicious start to her label.

It’s a pleasingly off-kilter collection of darker ambient hues and quirky songs that inhabit a distinctly underground bunker, but which sit together very nicely as a cohesive listen.

but man and machine soon start to swirl and synergise, weaving cosmic patterns that slowly unlock your doors of perception so you too can see the light

Just as you think he might be laying his hat in more folky terrain he's off on an electroacoustic, voyage full of precision placed and played micro-sounds that gives folktronica a cosmic Americana injection

Fuubutsushi were born in the lockdowns during the age of virus and were an instant TSMM fave, setting the bar for remote recording projects during the period.

her music is restless and hard to pin down, veering from minimal piano to club ready beats and all sorts of ambient experiments.

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.