Chitra Digest: August 2025
- chitrarecordings
- Aug 31
- 2 min read
These 10 ambient releases from last month deserve your attention.
Toni Dimitrov & Dionisaf – Pastoral
Label: Mahorka (Bulgaria)
Format: digital, cassette
Two mystical, almost religious long drone meditations: Pastoral and Orthodoxy - the first full-fledged collaborative work of two truly authentic artists.
Sebby Kowal – A Brand New Day
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Minimal, textural drones — emotionally resonant yet contemplative — capture the fragile beauty of morning light and the quiet promise of renewal.
Ghostloop - Almost Autumn
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Format: digital, vinyl and CD
Gentle textural soundscapes trace the quiet shift in season, evoking warmth, stillness, and the beauty of impermanence. A sonic reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the subtle charm of change.
Drift - Fragments of a Distant Now
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Genre, style: #ambient #neoclassical #noise
Format: digital
In Fragments of a Distant Now, the artist explored time and memories, unfolding slow rhythms and digital manipulation to create textured atmospheres, which, like memories, can convey either relaxation or tension.
Wil Bolton - Rusted in the Salt Air
Label: Home Normal (UK)
Format: digital, CD
Rusted in the Salt Air takes its title from a description of Orford Ness in W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn and features environmental sounds, radio waves and found objects recorded and collected on the Suffolk coast in August 2022 and July 2023.
Offthesky - Nocturnas
Label: Laaps (France)
Genre, style: #ambient #darkambient #drone #noise #lofi
Format: digital, vinyl, CD
Inspired by the films of Georges Méliès, Salvador Dali's sleep techniques to create surrealist images, Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and The Dreams by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire.
Grassman - The Search for Grassman
Label: Atlantea Records (Colombia)
Format: digital
The music goes from nature infused dreamlike passages to beats to mysterious journeys through the ancient past and present.
Federico Mosconi & Barbara De Dominicis - Frammenti
Label: Dronarivm (Netherlands)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #neoclassical #noise
Format: digital, CD
The six Fragments of this album are stages of a personal journey, stories, events or moments that marked us and stay inside us like shards, foreign objects we learned to embrace.
Basic House - Non Canon
Label: Opal (UK)
Format: digital
Lingering synthesized drones, sometimes piercingly direct and intense, sometimes surprisingly textured and deep.
NoRinTon - Leviathan
Label: Cryo Chamber (USA)
Genre, style: #darkambient #drone #postrock
Format: digital, CD
A deep atmospheric post-rock dark ambient journey filled with ever growing and flowing soundscapes that wave in out of electronic textures.
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