Chitra Digest: May 2025
- chitrarecordings
- Jun 1
- 2 min read
Discover 10 outstanding ambient albums released in the past month.
Tides – Where Her Flowers Still Bloom
Label: Whitelabrecs (UK)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #noise #neoclassical #lofi
Format: digital, CD
The album’s sound design is built on a fluid creative process that blends traditional recording techniques with experimental methods. Intricate textures were sculpted which blur the boundaries between composition and sound manipulation.
Dionisaf – Lost Rarities
Label: Chitra Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD, vinyl
All tracks on this album were created using analogue media, tape loops, and non-musical noises. Tape and vinyl defects become elements of the composition here.
Andrew Lozano – Voyager
Label: Ambient Cat (USA)
Format: digital
Andrew Lozano's new release is a heartfelt invitation to pause, breathe, and embrace the beauty of the present moment. Embark on a cozy journey through the waves of tranquility.
Sons of Melancholia - Hyperliquid
Label: Perceptual Tapes (Australia)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #noise #darkambient
Format: digital, cassette
The album takes the listener through varied sonic environments, from the light, airy and expansive to the submerged, hypnotic and contemplative. The compositions display a level of refinement and restraint, balanced with an ever-present emotional undercurrent, underscoring artists experience and dedication to his craft.
Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee – Re: Case Studies
Label: Dauw (Belgium)
Format: digital, vinyl
Work on this album was started a few years ago, when Taylor Deupree created a series of compositions entirely based on feedback loops,
but it needed something additional before it could be released. The Humble Bee accomplished it.
Kilometre Club - Music For Airport Delays
Label: Imaginary North (Canada)
Format: digital, cassette
Calming collection of slowly evolving ambient drone pieces built to ease the tension when the pilot gets stuck in traffic and one of the crew then has to stop working.
Kid Smpl - Finding the Sky
Label: Hush Hush Records (USA)
Format: digital, cassette, vinyl
Finding the Sky examines themes of awe, wonder, exploration, and, journey, and showcases Kid Smpl’s latest evolution in his atmospheric, drifting, hypnotic ambient world, distinguished by his intricate sound design and progressive, panoramic vision.
Purl - A Quiet Awakening II
Label: Stereoscenic Records (USA)
Format: digital, CD, vinyl
Ethereal soundscapes that surprisingly evoke calm and lightness, even though they were crafted in various, sometimes challenging, states.
Nobuhiro Okahashi - With Flowers
Label: Lontano Series (Italy)
Genre, style: #ambient
Format: digital
The album consists of four tracks, each dedicated to one of Japan’s seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Spectrical - Among Lunar Glaciers
Label: Perceptual Tapes (Australia)
Genre, style: #ambient #drone #noise #darkambient
Format: digital, cassette
Among Lunar Glaciers is an experimental ambient drone work, conceived as an imaginary soundtrack to an exploration of glaciers on an icy moon and the varied environments within the glacier’s depths.
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