Chitra Digest: March 2025
- chitrarecordings
- Apr 1
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 30
Discover 10 outstanding ambient albums from the past month.
Paul Beaudoin – Alchemies
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Throughout history, alchemists have captivated our minds with their quests to turn base materials into gold and seek the philosopher's stone. Their work was shrouded in metaphor and mystery, embodying a desire to understand the universe's hidden truths.
BinJa – ShaktiMan
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD, vinyl
ShaktiMan is a man of power. He weaves together three worlds: past, present and future. Field recordings, ethnic instruments and synthesizer layers.
Diogene – The Ocean in Our Minds
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Subtle liminal soundscapes by an ambient philosopher from the south of France. Minimalistic soundscapes capable of immersing you in endless space of sounds.
Alessandro Barbanera - In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Label: Owl Totem Recordings (Netherlands)
Genre, style: #darkambient #drone #noise
Format: digital, CD
An epic imaginary soundtrack for an imaginary film noir. Something happened, titles can suggest a story that the listener can make up... An old unsolved case. A tormented detective on the trail of a missing girl. Someone is in danger.
Interstellar Data Unit – Crossing the Heliopause
Label: Wayfarer Music Group (USA)
Genre, style: #darkambient #drone #noise
Format: digital
IDU melds unique sonic landscapes with the sounds of his explorations in the outer reaches of space and beyond in a way that will transport you far past who you thought you were.
Jogging House - Unrund
Label: Seil Records (Germany)
Format: digital, cassette
The atypical release from this artist. Made with a Modular System, Kalimba, Electric Guitar, Ferrous, Cocoquantus, Mood, Meraki, various types of paper.
Black Swan – From the End of Time
Label: Past Inside the Present (USA)
Genre, style: #ambient #neoclassical #drone #noise #lofi
Format: digital, vinyl
Across the entirety of From the End of Time, the new album by Black Swan, an eerily desolate wind forms the base layer for swells of disembodied choirs, haunting piano, mangled tapes, and scores of other unplaceable, vividly textured sounds.
Blanket Swimming - Even of Life
Label: Florina Cassettes (Canada)
Format: digital, cassette
New sound poetry from the wonderful Nicholas Maloney. These profound meditative soundscapes are so rich in tone that you can't help but be drawn in.
Gallery Six - Kisetsu
Label: Dronarivm (Netherlands)
Format: digital, cassette
In Japan, there are many words for seasons other than spring, summer, fall, and winter. Every day is a season, and at every moment it is changing.
Hiroshi Ebina - It's Always Autumn to Say Goodbye
Label: Mystery Circles (USA)
Format: digital, vinyl
Hiroshi Ebina's third solo album with Mystery Circles is dedicated to his grandparents, with whom Ebina had lived in the same house since he was a child.
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