Our Artists

Dionisaf aka Dionis Afonichev, is an American multi-instrumentalist, ambient sound and visual artist, composer and producer. Founder and general manager of Chitra Records and its divisions. In his music, Dionisaf combines modular and granular synthesizers, electric and acoustic guitars and other instruments, field recordings, non-musical sounds and noises.
From the Silence [CHITRA002], Clusters [CHITRA008], Dreamland [CHITRA014], Twelve Months [CHITRA018], Memories of the Present [CHITRA031], Shibui [CHITRA036] Scrapbook [CHITRA039], Lost Rarities [CHITRA046]

KapTep is the ambient\drone project from US-based producer Derek Carter. (Sullivan, Illinois). His compositions are a blend of synth layers, loops, effects, and field recordings with the intent of creating an ever-evolving soundscape. Rain, static hiss, pops, and crackles are often the foundation layered under melancholy, dreamy compositions.
Overcast [CHITRA022], The Perfect Error [CHITRA030], Exhale [CHITRA043]

Christoph Vogel, known as Ghostloop (Germany), weaves immersive soundscapes shaped by the serene rhythms of nature. Drawing from the ambient textures of field recordings and grounding them with deep, fluid basslines, his compositions echo the quiet moods of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea coast.
Almost Autumn [CHITRA048]

Tobias Lorsbach is a Mainz, Germany-based artist known as Logic Moon. Tobias' musical experience is diverse, having played guitar in a death metal band, started a DJ career, and later transitioned into ambient music. His varied experiences have only served to give rise to a variety of concepts, as evidenced by his most recent albums, which also include experimental and neoclassical influences.
Ashes [CHITRA047]

Sacred Seeds is an ambient electronic music project by Wasim, founded in 2014 in Calicut, Kerala (India). Blending synthesis, field recordings, and experimental sound design, Sacred Seeds’ music explores the interplay between organic and electronic textures. He has performed at renowned festivals such as Magnetic Fields, Hilltop Festival, and Bloom in Green.
Fragments of Silence [CHITRA049]

Synthbiont & Anassimandrus is the ambient/experimental/dub techno project born at the end of 2018 by the collaboration between Nicolò Faggiani and Tommaso Gobbo (Netherlands). Their musical background comes from different musical experiences as DJs, vinyl collectors, and founders of EMC series. Their music are composed through the elaboration of digital and analog sources and field recordings.
Fragments of Silence [CHITRA049]

Rafael Diogo, known as Deep Dive Sound, is a Portuguese field recordist and ambient composer based in London. He draws inspiration from the stories of diverse cultures, objects, and places, transforming them into soundscapes that resonate with immediacy and depth. His work captures a delicate nostalgia, reconnecting us to the sensory essence of time and memory.

Toni Dimitrov is a Macedonian multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, communicologist, organizer, curator, label owner (Élan Vital Recordings), mountain/rock climber, and nature lover. He connects all those with a love for music, sound art, and field recordings. Currently, he is the director of the Cultural Information Center in Skopje.
The Story of Utopias [CHITRA003], Walden Two [CHITRA006],
The Myth of the Machine [CHITRA020]

Darren McClure is a sound artist living in Matsumoto, Japan. His music folds together electronics, drones and processed field recordings to create pieces of minimal, abstract ambience. Darren McClure’s work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere.
Walden Two [CHITRA006]

Boban Ristevski working as a librarian at the local city library in Skopje (Macedonia). He’s also writing essays and translating from English to Macedonian. Music projects of Boban Ristevski are concentrated and based on exploring mostly the ambient/drone and industrial/noise-related kinds of sound with elements of minimalism and improvisation.
Walden Two [CHITRA006]

Soloi Sounds, aka Yosuke Goto, is a musician and graphic designer based in Tokyo. His music conveys the spirit of ancient Japanese aesthetics of imperfect beauty through asynchronous rhythmic structures, polytonal harmony, and various noises. At the same time, the music of Soloi Sounds is deeply meditative and contemplative.

Sebby Kowal is a Polish ambient producer based in USA. Sebby would describe his music as minimal ambient with delicate textures and field recordings. Sebby believes when you create ambient music, the possibilities are endless.

Blanket Swimming, aka Thea (ex Nicholas) Maloney, is an American musician and sound artist. Since 2015, he has recorded ambient music under the moniker Blanket Swimming and since 2019 has released sound art and environmental recording works under his given name. He also curates the labels Warm Milk Recordings and Asonu.

Demetrio Cecchitelli is an Italian composer and musician mainly active in the field of electronic and electroacoustic music. Released on Healing Sound Propagandist, Whitelabrecs, Sounds Against Humanity, among others. He has collaborated with theatre company Motus and the director Cecilia Lentini.

Tsarewitch is a dark ambient/folk musical project created by the poet and sound artist Alexander Yordaki (Moldova) using ethnic instruments: Russian harp named Gusli, Scandinavian bowed lyre talharpa, shamanic drum, etc. Project based on a ritualistic approach inspired by the aesthetics of Slavic antiquity: a search for light, a journey of self-discovery through deep simplicity.

Adrian Lane produces quiet, intimate neo-classical music that explores sounds from acoustic sources, mixed with electronic but organic sounding ones. Adrian likes to tread the line between the real and the synthetic so that it is difficult for the listener to discern which is which.

光淵 (Pool of Light) – the psychedelic and improvisational drone solo project by Anton Bogdanov, based in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Slow Clinic – ambient, drone, and experimental sounds by James Edward Armstrong, based in Farnham, UK. The project began during sleepless nights while living near Cardiff Bay.

Merkaida is an artist based in Saint-Petersburg. A wide range of instruments used to create musical compositions (electronic synthesis, field recordings, traditional and folk instruments) allows Merkaida to confidently put into action her creative energy in a whole range of areas, from ambient and noise to techno and dub.

Pagination is Tom Schmidlin, who makes ambient, drone, and experimental instrumental music in Bentonville, Arkansas. With guitars, synthesizers, and an armada of effects, Tom creates billowing tone loops which can morph from lo-fi harmonic wash to drifting sonic lace. He is also a member of the experimental duos Home Learning and Go Find Water.

zYklen, aka Simon Ferris, grew up by the coast in West Cornwall and currently resides on the edge of the Tamar River. The coastline of South West England provides endless inspiration and has always played a huge part in his life.

DRGBL5, aka Kirill Mikheev, is a DJ and producer from Moscow. Works in different genres of underground music. A rich collection of music on physical and digital media, and collaborations with other artists, characterize him as a worthy adherent of music and master of his craft. Member of Tech Cycle is an International underground label, podcast, and event community.
The Wasteland [CHITRA027]

Orchestra Eclettica Sincretista. Seven artists from three countries: Marco Lucchi, Marco Billi aka Jarguna, Dario Derek Lucchi, Ilaria Boffa and Massimo Amato from Italy; Henrik Meierkord from Sweden, and Wilfried Hanrath from Germany.

NK x is an indie ambient artist from Ukraine. The [Üvás Gøød It] project was created as a search for self in the world of electronic ambient music and field recordings, with a priority on minimal drone. The project includes intuitive improvisation and experiments with digital presets, creating drone music from any melodic source files.

Evgeny Bolily is an advocate of Eastern practices. He engages in playing the metallophone (divya), conducting sound therapies, sound healings, and meditations. His goal is to transmit a sense of tranquility and harmony to people, immersing them in the world of sound and nature.

Marco Lucchi is an Italian neo-classical and electronic ambient producer and multi-instrumentalist from Moderna.
“I have always believed in the evocative and Orphic power of music, in its ability to take us back to worlds that are truer, fairer and more beautiful than those we usually live in,” says Marco.

Henrik Meierkord is a Swedish musician based in Stockholm, experimenting with different genres. With the cello as his main instrument, he also masters viola, double bass, guitar and numerous other instruments. As a composer, Henrik creates vivid, full-bodied pieces that draw as much from ambient music's meditative qualities as they do from humanity's rich history of classical styles.

Paul Beaudoin is an modern musical nomad and intellectual. He is a dedicated, innovative, interdisciplinary artist who creates immersive ambient soundscapes. With a strong music composition and theory foundation, Paul’s work blends elements of magic, nostalgia, and futurism to produce unique and evocative listening experiences.

July in January is a warm drone ambient project by Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky from Moscow. Smooth melodic elements, textures and field recordings, rare rustles, and quiet rhythms. This music is for dreamers. Time freezes, leaving only calm and concentration for the consciousness.

Dvory is a collective of Antip Suratov and Vladimir Sapunov, originally based in the city of Tver for a long time. The project's music is a subtle combination of guitar, effects, and trumpet, which creates a mood of some melancholy like dark jazz.

Suseti (Sunset) project of new-age and ambient music created by Indian producer Sunil Sharma. He started his musical journey in 2010 and found inspiration and deep transformation in the beauty of nature and meditational practices.

Ashot Danielyan's compositions are distinguished by their depth, which turns listening to his music into meditative practices in which a person can touch his own soul. Ashot is passionate about observing nature and exploring issues of the universe, all of which is reflected in his music.