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Traditional Japanese aesthetics in contemporary ambient music
Traditional aesthetic categories of Japanese culture are very unique and subtle. They are less about decoration, and more about perception. Beauty here is often found in something simple and unobvious, in imperfection and naturalness.
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Chitra Digest: January 2025
Here are 10 remarkable ambient albums that we started 2025 year with.
Feb 1
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Chitra Digest: December 2024
Here are 10 remarkable ambient albums from the last month of 2024.
Jan 1
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Chitra Podcast #17 Three Year Retrospective Mix
This Retrospective mix is ​​dedicated to the third anniversary of the Chitra Records label and consists of tracks from different releases...
Dec 18, 2024
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Deep Dive Sound – Where Shadows Sleep [CHITRA041]
Where Shadows Sleep is a meditative sonic diary, born from recent journeys across South America and the Middle East & North Africa.
Dec 6, 2024
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Suseti – At the Edge of the World [CHITRA040]
In Suseti's new album, we listen to beautiful soundscapes produced with long drones and hypnotic sounds...
Nov 15, 2024
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Dionisaf – Scrapbook [CHITRA039]
The composition is based on superimposing different sound layers on top of each other, as in scrapbooking.
Oct 25, 2024
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Chitra Digest: August 2024
Here are 10 significant ambient albums released in August.
Sep 1, 2024
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NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily – Divya Music [CHITRA029]
Divya Music is lo-fi meditative atmospheric textures created by two Ukrainian artists. The deep tranquility of these sound meditations...
Jan 29, 2024
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zYklen – Palace of Chords [CHITRA023]
The ten songs combine the textures of field recordings (captured while walking), voices, reed and string instruments, supported by synth...
Aug 25, 2023
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Ambient Hidden Gems #3 Darren McClure & Joseph Valentino, BÃ¥lsam, Strange Mountain
In this section, we introduce little-known, but remarkable finds from the world of ambient. Many of the releases we're exploring here...
Mar 27, 2023
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