The Ambient Hour

The Ambient Hour, December 2025

For the final Ambient Hour of the year I bring you ten tracks of beautiful, introspective ambience. Please have a read of the track notes to learn more about the artists and their music. And why not share this show with a friend, it’s like a free Christmas Present. 🎁 TRACK LIST 1. Solar Phasing, Gaia Pulse [https://solarphasing.bandcamp.com/track/gaia-pulse] Taken from: Mother Earth (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Gaia Pulse is a Berlin School music for Mother Earth Project album. Solar Phasing is a French composer and sound designer specializing in ambient, experimental electronic, and modular synthesis. His music is crafted for immersive experiences across TV, documentaries, video games, and art installations, offering listeners a journey through sonic landscapes that are both meditative and exploratory. His compositions often evoke space, introspection, and emotional resonance. Slow-evolving textures, minimalistic rhythms, and atmospheric depth. Rich in modular synthesis, tuned frequencies (notably 432 Hz), and sonic experimentation. 2. Arrival In Eden, Meet Me in My Dreams [https://arrivalineden.bandcamp.com/album/field-of-memories] Taken from: Field of Memories (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Field of Memories is a deeply personal journey through time, capturing the essence of childhood innocence, life’s transitions, and the emotions woven into growing up. Each composition drifts like a warm breeze over an open field at dusk—calm, reflective, and filled with nostalgia. With delicate melodies and atmospheric soundscapes, this album invites you to sit in the stillness of the evening, letting memories unfold like distant echoes in the wind. 3. Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 1) [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-weekend-the-lost-weekend-fragmented-version] Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Lost Weekend is a 70-minute piece in two parts. The piece utilises a collection of field recordings made by Mortality Tables co-founder Mat Smith during a three-month separation from his family in 2020. These recordings were handed to Audio Obscura (Neil Stringfellow) almost five years later, in an effort to provide him with inspiration to work through a period of creative burn-out. The result is presented as a mixtape comprising memory and catharsis, often mournful but also hopeful, built from the original field recordings, strings and sensitive electronics. It stands as a poignant journey through its creators' mental unrest. 4. Lürgid, Grow a Brain [https://lurgid.bandcamp.com/album/zoolology] Taken from: Zoolology (Burnt Seed Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "I’ve been quietly making tracks for a while, each born at a different time, in a different mood, on a different rig. I realised that if I wanted to release them, the album would be a look across genres - a snapshot of the variety that inhabits the medium of sound. So, I settled on the title Zoology. I think of it as a broad study of an ecosystem, with inspiration arriving like animals at the edge of a clearing. Zoology is my study of sonic species and aural organisms. Genre maps to genus, and each piece is a creature of composition collected and curated to show their wild differences and hidden kinships." 5. Wahn, Pale Lake [https://linktr.ee/only_wahn] Taken from: Drifted Vol. 4 (FORM@ RECORDS) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Wahn is an electronic music producer based in Rennes, France, crafting immersive soundscapes where ambient textures, deep bass, and subtle rhythms collide. After a long hiatus, he returned with the Drifted series — a sequence of albums released across different labels and countries, exploring rhythmless, slow-motion atmospheres shaped by despair, fragile hope, and heavy sub-bass. Released on After Affects (France), Mahorka (Bulgaria), Adventurous Music (Germany), and most recently FORM@ RECORDS (Japan), the series has gained recognition for its emotional weight, organic textures, and cinematic depth. While each volume expands its emotional spectrum, Drifted Vol. 4 marks a turning point — less shrouded in darkness, quietly opening toward light. Wahn’s music feels like a film unfolding in sound — deeply introspective, physical, and hauntingly human. 6. Special Effects Department, Uneven ground [https://specialeffectsdept.bandcamp.com/album/undetected-elements] Taken from: Undetected Elements (Endless Geometry) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "For these tracks, I've been experimenting with blending orchestral instruments with field recordings, with influences from ambient jazz, meditative drone and psych." 7. Cristóbal Ochoa Gurrzt, Surreal foundry [https://cog-0.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-from-a-trip] Taken from: Landscapes of a trip (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "Landscapes of a trip (July 2020) is a concept album about an imaginary trip to the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) so each piece of this album is a landscape of the journey.' 8. Take Me There, Murre (a reflection on trauma) ft. David Aimone [https://takemethere.bandcamp.com/album/nine-reflections-music-for-cats] Taken from: Nine Reflections: Music For Cats (Passed Recordings) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "If there is something that has always been consistent in my life, its the love for cats and animals in general. Over my life I have had many different cats as pets, and this album is for them. Each track is named after one of my cats, and is a reflection over a theme relevant to that period of my life that I shared with that cat. This album, released through Passed Recordings, has a limited tape release available to buy on ampwall or bandcamp. The music has been created through synths, keyboard, field recordings and samples. Artwork and vocals by Evelina Elfving, my beloved. Also big thanks to Leafblighter and David Aimone for featuring on a track each." 9. Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 3) [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-weekend-the-lost-weekend-fragmented-version] Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Mat Smith: "On Sunday 6 September, in the epicentre of a breakdown, I packed up my shitty Ford Fiesta with some clothes, a few books, a bottle of whisky, a laptop and a speaker, moved out from my wife and daughters, and drove down to Penzance to move in with my parents. Penzance became my home for the three months that I called my ‘lost weekend’. It turned out to be more than just a home: it became a place of healing. During the first week, a close friend and someone I would regard as the true architect of the Mortality Tables project, the anonymous Creative Consultant, suggested that I buy a portable recording device and document the separation. His idea was to channel my energies into something creative while also trying to figure out the mess that my head had become. The process of recording these field recordings gave me focus and purpose, mundane, uneventful, naïve and badly-recorded though they largely were. The sounds that appear underneath Neil Stringfellow’s music are from a large archive that built up over that period." 10. Dave Clarkson, Reflections On Stained Glass [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghosts-of-christmas-past-and-the-effects-on-mental-health] Taken from: The Ghosts Of Christmas Past And The Effects On Mental Health (Mortality Tables) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Frequent Mortality Tables collaborator Dave Clarkson (Scissorgun) returns with a follow-up to his 2023 feative album. Whereas the first album was playful, using the sounds of forgotten toys, ‘Ghosts Of Christmas Past & The Effect On Mental Health’ reflects pensively on the passage of time. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website [https://www.audiointerface.org/submit-music/]. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio [https://www.audiointerface.org/radio/] which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@audiointerface] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/audiointerface.bsky.social] Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org].

The Ambient Hour (Halloween Special)

I had so many spooky sounding tracks I decided I had to bring you an extra Ambient Hour this month. This is the kind of music I listen to when the nights are that bit darker than usual. I listen while I walk… sometimes I think I see shapes moving in the shadows but maybe it’s just my imagination. Thanks as always to everyone who sends me their music to play, I love receiving it and being able to bring you these mixes. And thanks for listening, it means a lot. If you have a moment to share this show with someone you think will enjoy it I’d be in your debt. Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we’ve made a mistake and that your music shouldn’t have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org]. TRACK LIST 1. Drew Mulholland, Weird Happenings [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-portmanteau-of-horrors] Taken from: A Portmanteau of Horrors (Subexotic Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Drew Mulholland works his soundcraftian magic on the realm of classic cinematic horror. A series of wonderfullly evocative, gently unsettling tableaux conjure vivid tales from the dark side. 2. Asher Levitas, It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-like-last-time-but-this-time-you-ve-got-a-gun] Taken from: It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun (Mortality Tables) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. ‘It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun’ steadily intensifies, surging toward an abrupt crescendo. A dreamlike haze spirals into storm clouds of noise and distortion, then collapses suddenly into silence. 3. Eric Angelo Bessel, Recombinant [https://lorecity.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-at-night] Taken from: Mirror at Night (LORE CITY MUSIC) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Mirror at Night is the second solo album from Portland, Oregon artist, Eric Angelo Bessel, releasing October 31 (LP/Digital). Composed of twelve instrumental songs, Mirror at Night paints an ambient landscape of dispersed artificial clouds and bioluminescent waters. Reimagining the nostalgic sounds of the Mellotron and the early aughts multitimbrality of Alesis synths, Bessel glimpses an in-between realm where the past, present, and future merge into a still, obsidian surface. 4. Jessica Tomlinson, A Spooky Soundscape [https://jessicatomlinson.bandcamp.com/] © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Ever since I was a tween, I have loved experimenting with audio. One of my favorite times to experiment has been spooky season! Back then, I would record large groups of classmates in the halls, in the gym, or in the bleachers, and then change the speed while playing them back on my tape deck. This often painted a picture in the listener's mind of monsters growing restless! Now that I have fallen deeply in love with creating sounds using synthesizers, I have a much broader sonic pallet to work with! I am becoming more comfortable with less traditional and more experimental styles of musical composition, and this is the latest outgrowth. You may wish to play it for trick or treaters as they troop to your door. 5. The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Even Though It Was The Blink Of An Eye, I’m Sorry For What We Have Become [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/even-though-it-was-the-blink-of-an-eye-i-m-sorry-for-what-we-have-become] Taken from: Even Though It Was The Blink Of An Eye, I’m Sorry For What We Have Become (Mortality Tables) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "The next instalment in The Impermanence Project comes from The Music Liberation Front Sweden. 6. Cristóbal Ochoa Gurrzt, Surreal foundry [https://cog-0.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-from-a-trip] Taken from: Landscapes of a trip (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "Landscapes of a trip (July 2020) is a concept album about an imaginary trip to the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) so each piece of this album is a landscape of the journey.' 7. Onepointwo, Eerie Silence [https://onepointwo.bandcamp.com] Taken from: Melodies (Subexotic Records) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Subexotic Records is proud to present Melodies, the latest work from Onepointwo, a reflective journey through shifting states of memory, emotion, and perception. Following the haunting introspection of Rec.collapse, Melodies moves toward fragile light — a collection that balances between melancholy and renewal. Melodies will be released on 28th November 2025 via Bandcamp digital and limited edition pressed vinyl 8. Felix Machtelinckx, Funerale [https://felixmachtelinckx.bandcamp.com/] Taken from: Deep South (Subexotic Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Deep South is an array of experimental improvised songs, manifesting drought and nature’s organic textures, with vocals moving from bitter-sweet to harrowing, accompanied by alternate ear jazz drums. This provides an ambient landscape amidst fragments of songs, lullabies and poems in an unknown language. Deep South will be released on 14th November 2025 via Bandcamp digital and limited edition pressed vinyl. 9. Rich Wh, The Pigs Have Left the Sty [https://rich-white.bandcamp.com/album/a-degree-of-disorder] Taken from: A Degree of Disorder (Burnt Seed Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Exploring modular synthesis for a rhythm, an environment... layering and manipulating analogue voltage, noise and collected field recordings in attempts to convey a subconscious sensitivity, to reflect an unfolding of time. 10. Synthbiont & Anassimandrus, Attraverso Il Vuoto (Sacred Seeds Rework) [https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-silence] Taken from: Fragments of Silence (Chitra Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Ambient minimalism is gaining momentum. Some would argue that evoking atmosphere is harder than sequencing beats, and Fragments of Silence is proof. Laden with lush textures and ambient leanings, the album invites deep listening. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website [https://www.audiointerface.org/submit-music/]. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio [https://www.audiointerface.org/radio/] which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@audiointerface] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/audiointerface.bsky.social] Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org].

The Ambient Hour, October 2025

TRACK LIST 1. Talkdemonic, Book of High Mountains [https://talkdemonic.bandcamp.com/album/very-cool-yesterday] Taken from: Very Cool Yesterday (Bathysphere Records) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Brooklyn-based composer Talkdemonic returns with his sixth studio album, Very Cool Yesterday—a deeply evocative and transportive instrumental record, out now on Bathysphere Records on limited edition vinyl and cassette. The synth-driven album unfolds with moody restraint before erupting into radiant, emotional color. Pulsing with vivid melody and raw texture, it creates a cinematic sonic landscape where ambient and experimental elements converge. Very Cool Yesterday is a collection of exposed emotion and sonic imperfection, channeling a journey through connection, disintegration, and the quiet transformation that follows, where longing, memory, and renewal dissolve into sound. 2. Paul Beaudoin, Aurora’s Awakening [https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/alchemies] Taken from: Alchemies (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. In Alchemies, Paul Beaudoin blends orchestral textures with glitch and noise elements, creating a sonic alchemy that mirrors the ancient quest for transformation. These contrasting sound worlds—organic and synthetic, refined and raw—come together in a seamless dialogue, embodying the fusion of disparate materials that the alchemists sought. 3. TrainDeer, Cyan [https://traindeer.bandcamp.com/album/lenses-01] Taken from: Lenses_01 (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Lenses_01 The overgrown memory-lanes of our hometowns and villages, the warmth of morning hellos, the clamour of open air market stalls, the tang of industry in the air and the beloved pubs and gathering places now, long shuttered and silenced by time. 4. Paul Griffin, Dotted Potts [https://paulgriffin.bandcamp.com] Taken from: Dotted Potts (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. This started as an experiment with dotted note rhythms and eventually turned into a chill Sunday afternoon jam. 5. Dionisaf, Street Lights (Reworked) [https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lost-rarities] Taken from: Lost Rarities (Chitra Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. All tracks on Lost Rarities were created using analogue media, tape loops, and non-musical noises. Tape and vinyl defects become elements of the composition here. In the modern digital era, people are losing touch with tangible reality and living nature, plunging into an artificial, synthetic, and virtual environment. The naturalness and uniqueness of simple things are becoming rarities. 6. Samantha Jane Smith, The Storm Cometh [https://samantha-j-smith.kit.com/landing] Taken from: The Storm Cometh (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The inspiration for this track is the rising up of all downtrodden people in the world against the rich and powerful. Those that kill, those that hate. The storm will come for them all... 7. Trem 77, The Fifth Compass Point [https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-compass-point] Taken from: The Fifth Compass Point (Grape Mod Recs) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Inspired by the concept of the fifth compass point, an idea beyond directional coordinates. Through the center point of the compass rose runs an axis that can be imagined as an array of transecting lines running through that point. More than a center point, it is an intersection that could include time running forward and backward in all directions away from the two dimensional compass plane. In this sense, it might be the truest symbol of the here and now. Is it the heart center, a jumping off point for experiencing all that there is, or both simultaneously? 8. James Hastings, A River Beneath [https://music.strangetextures.com/everyoneelsewhere/] Taken from: Everyone Elsewhere (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The tracks that make up Everyone Elsewhere are highlights from James' podcast, essentially trimmed down versions of long improvisations recorded live. 9. Talkdemonic, Sister [https://talkdemonic.bandcamp.com/album/very-cool-yesterday] Taken from: Very Cool Yesterday (Bathysphere Records) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Talkdemonic is the long-running instrumental project of Brooklyn-based composer Kevin Timothy O’Connor, known for his cinematic blend of analog synths, live drums, and ambient textures. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2004 as a solo exploration of percussion and atmospheric sound design, Talkdemonic quickly gained acclaim for albums like Mutiny Sunshine and Beat Romantic, and has toured with The National, The Flaming Lips, and Modest Mouse. 10. Radio Free London, The Fall of MMXX [https://radiofreelondon.bandcamp.com/album/amble] Taken from: Amble (Radio Free London) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Radio Free London is a collective of pirate radio enthusiasts working in our London neighborhood over the last 5 years. The three tracks that make up the Amble EP were recorded in what we like to call sMash up sessions over the last 5 years. You can hear tributes in the sounds to those we love and those we love to put in a new context. The EP is free to download and share. 11. Rob Dobson, Ganymede [https://linktr.ee/dobrobson] Taken from: Galilean Moons (Flying Man Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Each track from Galilean Moons is a 15-minute piece inspired by the four primary moons of Jupiter. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website [https://www.audiointerface.org/submit-music/]. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio [https://www.audiointerface.org/radio/] which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@audiointerface] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/audiointerface.bsky.social] Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org].

The Ambient Hour, July 2025

Life has felt very busy lately for me. In times like this I find it useful to have some appropriately relaxing music I can put on to distract myself from the day-to-day hustle and bustle. The mix I have for you here has been stress-tested (quite literally) and should provide you with some relief if that’s something you need. If you’re interested in finding out more about the releases included please follow the links and let the artists know you heard them here. TRACK LIST 1. KapTep & Christian Alsemgeest, The Day the Internet Went Away [https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/exhale] Taken from: Exhale (Chitra Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Day the Internet Went Away. Inspired by a power outage. What did we used to do before the internet? 2. VOLTIJ, The Violets Are Blue [https://voltij.bandcamp.com/album/the-violets-are-blue] Taken from: The Violets Are Blue (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. VOLTIJ continues his exploration of the wonders of nature, but this time with an eye to the storm clouds on the horizon. A famous Robert Bateman painting shows a majestic tundra swan flying over a marsh with a barely visible airplane vapour trail at the edge of the frame. The sky doesn’t belong only to the birds anymore. In a similar way, the eight songs of The Violets Are Blue explore man’s relentless and often corrosive effect on the natural world on which we all depend. The ever present spectre of man’s destructive influence is sprinkled throughout the album, in every glitch and pop, every dissonant note, every distortion, and every feeling that maybe something isn’t quite right. 3. Felicity Mangan, Cello Figures [https://felicitymangan.bandcamp.com/album/string-figures] Taken from: String Figures (Elevator Bath) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The six pieces on "String Figures" sample and combine the resonant timbres of strings and electromagnetic textural fields with field recordings from wetlands. These elements were shaped through digital processing into polyphonic, angular assemblages, ranging from austere minimalism to sumptuous drones and elegiac ambience. 4. Alan Graves, Sauvie Haze [https://alangraves.bandcamp.com/album/a-possible-wind] Taken from: A Possible Wind (Bathysphere Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Alan Graves (Los Angeles-based producer and audio engineer Justin Longerbeam) explores change in his latest album. A sonic odyssey of transformation, 'A Possible Wind' offers a rich auditory experience through a collection of field recordings of wind captured over a decade, spanning the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, the bamboo forests of Hawaii, the rolling hills of Northern California, and the sandy shores of SoCal. The album reimagines these natural spaces, filtered and processed through an otherworldly prism of hardware effects, charting a personal migration southward along the west coast of the United States. 5. David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, Cavernous Heart [https://spottedpeccary.com/shop/the-precious-dark/] Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Precious Dark is the newest collaboration by Ambient Electronic artists David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor. These seven pieces revel in the exploration of the unknown, and launch both artists into uncharted creative territory. Taylor’s fervent analog synthesizers, Helpling’s ethereal guitar and cinematic vistas are here, but The Precious Dark is more wistful and moody than their previous efforts. Sparse expanses stretch, making emotive climaxes all the more sweeping 6. E J R M & Unusual Cosmic Process, Incandescence [https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/incandescence] Taken from: Incandescence (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Delicate piano melodies and deep enveloping pads weave together to create a dreamlike atmosphere. Perfect for introspection, relaxation, or drifting into a tranquil state of mind. 7. Richard J. Birkin, Hiddenness [https://li.sten.to/rjbirkin] Taken from: Hiddenness (The Atomanaut's Almanac) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. With a title taken from a passage in Jon Fosse's Septology, Hiddenness has more romance to it than Birkin is typically known for. The left hand stays constant, while the right hand dances towards and away from their meeting point on the keys. "My partner picked up on the piece when I was playing it, saying that it conjured images of stolen glances in a hallway, forbidden love and a missed connection. In fact, every friend I shared it with had a different visual come to mind." Birkin spent hours and hours trawling The Internet Archive to find some old footage to provide the visual, before stumbling on a silent black and white home movie of a girl dancing on a lawn, the expressive, improvised dance working eerily in time with the music. 8. Adrian Lane, Watching the Water Rise [https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/desire-paths] Taken from: Desire Paths (Chitra Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. In this album, Adrian continues his exploration of tape-saturated sounds combined with piano and vintage synthesizers. The micro-cassette Dictaphone is used to create sounds evoking nostalgia and melancholy. Although using similar starting points to his last album on Chitra Records this album is darker in mood reflecting certain situations in the world today. 9. BinJa, Shakti [https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/shaktiman] Taken from: ShaktiMan (Chitra Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. ShaktiMan is a man of power. He weaves together three worlds: past, present and future. Field recordings, ethnic instruments and synthesizer layers. 10. Eulipion Corps, Strange Suns [https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/portals] Taken from: Portals (Wormhole World) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Strange Suns is a theme for an imaginary film. I tend to see stories and characters first and then provide a musical context for them to inhabit. The track is quite wistful in tone and capture the protagonist's longing for home. 11. David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, The Ice Has Dreams [https://spottedpeccary.com/shop/the-precious-dark/] Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week © All rights reserved. Used with permission. “The Ice Has Dreams” begins swirling and ominous, its subterranean snarl unspooling like a deadly fractal, before sparse piano lifts the piece into a dimensional serenity. Throughout this work, introspectiveness gives way to monumental eclipses that yet again dissolve into spacious resolve. Like our universe in the Big Bang: once nowhere, then everywhere, the fast sudden pervasiveness of AI technology impacted the approach to The Precious Dark. Helpling and Taylor, in response, created an album bereft of inorganic beings, expressed with wood & wire instruments and vintage analog synthesizers. Electric guitars, electrified pianos and analog synthesizers were treated with a barrage of effect pedals and recorded through an analog mixing console. While there is no shortage of endless reverb tails and modulating echoes, this is a work of hands-on experimentation and “in the moment” creation. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website [https://www.audiointerface.org/submit-music/]. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio [https://www.audiointerface.org/radio/] which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@audiointerface] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/audiointerface.bsky.social] Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org].

The Ambient Hour, June 2025

In this month’s Ambient Hour we take in views of Hyrule through the evocative and immersive lens of Blood Moon by Imprints [https://data-discs.com/collections/records/products/blood-moon], a concept album that reimagines the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s our Release of the Week and two tracks are featured in this mix. The album is available digitally and on beautiful frosted green vinyl. There are also wonderful new pieces from Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Swansither, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Stereo Minus One, Markus Guentner, Diogene, Sketching Venus, Paul Beaudoin and Trem 77. As always there’s no talking in the mix but the full track listing is below along with links to all the releases. I hope you enjoy this mix and find it soothing to your soul. Be well my friends. TRACK LIST 1. Imprints, Theme [https://data-discs.com/collections/records/products/blood-moon] Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 2. Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Hooks [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ulla] Taken from: Ulla (Subexotic Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 3. Swansither, Ronsack [https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/ronsack] Taken from: Ronsack (Subexotic Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 4. Colin Andrew Sheffield, Progression [https://colinandrewsheffield.bandcamp.com/album/serenade] Taken from: Serenade (Elevator Bath) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 5. Stereo Minus One, The Seed At One End [https://stereominusone.bandcamp.com/album/dead-petals-at-the-other] Taken from: Dead Petals At The Other (Machine Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 6. Markus Guentner, Humanity’s Shadow [https://markus-guentner.bandcamp.com/album/black-dahlia] Taken from: Black Dahlia (Affin) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 7. Diogene, Dream Factory [https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-in-our-minds] Taken from: The Ocean in Our Minds (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 8. Sketching Venus, lvu (Edvard Graham Lewis Venursion) [https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/lvu] Taken from: lvu (Mortality Tables) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 9. Imprints, Trial [https://data-discs.com/collections/records/products/blood-moon] Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 10. Paul Beaudoin, Prima Materia [https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/alchemies] Taken from: Alchemies (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. 11. Trem 77, Over These Dark Ages [https://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/blacklight-sunset] Taken from: Blacklight Sunset (Grape Mod Recs) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website [https://www.audiointerface.org/submit-music/]. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio [https://www.audiointerface.org/radio/] which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@audiointerface] and Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/audiointerface.bsky.social] Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know [copyright@audiointerface.org].