Chitra Digest: December 2025
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Ten selected ambient releases from the last month of the year.
Dean Kalenjin – The Seven Sages
Label:Â Secret Domain (Russia)
Format:Â digital
Seven demigods, sometimes described as part man and part fish or bird, associated with human wisdom; these creatures are often referred to in scholarly literature as the Seven Sages.
Atmøsphäre & Dionisaf – Northern Dreamscapes
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Genre, style:Â #drone #noise #darkambient
Format:Â digital, vinyl and CD
Immersive collaborative album, steeped in cold textures, shadowy resonance, and layers of abrasive noise, conjures a bleak sonic tundra — where icy drones, distorted sounds, and shadowy pulses stretch across vast, unforgiving landscapes.
Dellasollounge - Minimal Meditation
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format:Â digital
Ambient mini-album built on sparse textures and steady tones, designed to create a calm, focused atmosphere for relaxation, meditation, or quiet reflection.
Various Artists - New Sincerity
Label:Â Chitra Records (USA)
Format:Â digital, cassette
New Sincerity rejects postmodern irony, detachment, and cynicism, instead pursuing direct expression, vulnerability, and emotional resonance. This concept embodies a return to seriously and openly exploring one's emotions and the fundamental nature of things, without unnecessary, contrived meanings.
David Cordero - Numen
Label: Noray Records (Spain)
Genre, style:Â #ambient #drone #neoclassical
Format:Â digital, cassette
Numen is built on silence, textures, and suspended atmospheres. Inspired by minimalism, the album explores what is delicate and ephemeral. Composed with modular synthesizers, each piece invites calm listening, opening a contemplative space where the invisible resonates between the notes.
Hari Maia - Fragments
Label:Â Room40Â (Australia)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #neoclassical
Format:Â digital
The idea of Fragments, was to create four songs where each one drifts gently, never demanding the spotlight.
Lamasz - Parcelles, suite
Label: Florina Cassettes (Canada)
Genre, style:Â #ambient #drone #neoclassical
Format:Â digital, cassette
Each piece is a live manipulation of one pitched-down classical sample with no post-editing, except for the addition of EQs and field recordings.
Diogene & Le Code - Back Together
Label:Â Mare Nostrum Label (France)
Format:Â digital
Deep, atmospheric, and highly captivating drone tapestries created as a result of the collaboration between two French ambient artists.
zakè - Low Harmonics
Label: Affin (Germany)
Format:Â digital, CD
The low frequencies are shaped to be calm and grounding, almost like a quiet balm for the long, heavy winter days ahead. The season moves at its own pace, and Low Harmonics is meant to move with it, a companion to the slow burn of winter.
Heavenchord & Infinity Dots - Forever Today
Label: Secret Domain (Russia)
Format:Â digital
A calm and peaceful merging with nature. Music that brings us back to our natural state of the present moment.
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