Chitra Digest: June 2025
- chitrarecordings
- Jul 1
- 3 min read
Explore 10 remarkable ambient albums that were released in the last month.
Dionisaf – Participation Mystique
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
In artistic terms, participation mystique can be thought of as a dissolving boundary between the self and the image. In this perspective, any manifestation of art can be perceived not just as an external object, but as an extension of the viewer’s unconscious.
Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak – The Book of Dreams
Label: Whitelabrecs (UK)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #neoclassical
Format: digital, CD
The Book of Dreams explores themes of sleep and dreams. This music lives between the conscious and the unconscious, where layered strings, gentle drones, and evolving Ambient passages unfold slowly like distant memories.
E J R M & Unusual Cosmic Process – Incandescence
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Genre, style: #ambient #neoclassical
Format: digital
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.
Blanket Swimming - Soul Light
Label: Atlantea Records (Colombia)
Format: digital
Nicholas Maloney's new textural sonic journey is an exploration of the human spirit through its reflection in nature.
Ghost and Tape – Pardinyas
Label: Dauw (Belgium)
Format: digital, cassette
With this new work, Heine Christensen continues his explorations into the world of Eurorack. This ever-changing instrument has had a profound impact on his practice, pushing the boundaries of his (re)sampling and sound construction techniques.
Tim Six - Alpine Valley
Label: Dronarivm (Netherlands)
Format: digital, CD
Alpine Valley came into existence as a continuation of nature sounds captured in the French Alps in autumn and spring. But even though it's probably purely impressionist music, anxious thoughts about the environment are inseparable from it for the artist.
Aiko Takahashi - The Grass Harp
Label: Laaps (France)
Format: digital, CD, vinyl
This album is a delicate, meditative collection recorded between March and November 2024 in Aiko's former studio, a secluded spot near the River Isonzo, between Gorizia and Nova Gorica in Slovenia.
Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI
Label: Room40 (Australia)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #minimalism
Format: digital
As the title suggests, this album uses a harmonium — roughly 100 years old — as the only sound source. The air is moved manually, the pressure controlled with the feet, which directly influences the sound. The keys respond to the slightest change in touch.
Monogoto - Partial Deletion of Everything, Vol. 3
Label: Home Normal (UK)
Format: digital, CD
Monogoto is the collaborative project of ambient stalwarts David Newman, Porya Hatami, and Home Normal curator Ian Hawgood. Their Partial Deletion of Everything series has been released on 12k and Polar Seas previously.
Jolanda Moletta & Karen Vogt - Sea-swallowed Wands
Label: Quiet Details (UK)
Format: digital, CD
Two musicians with the ability to conjure transcendent sound-worlds through the use of their incredibly expressive vocal talents - together they’ve created something that takes all their individual creativity and makes a new and deeply ethereal universe.
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