This episode is all about feeling the music. It’s like gliding over the surface with its texture mostly resembling some sorts of silk, plain and soft.

1. Minua – Irradiance (2023)

🇨🇭 🇩🇪 🇮🇸 The Minua project is the one we should recognize as truly cosmopolitan. Each its participant has a long artistic way and physical route between Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Australia and finally Switzerland as its Basel is indicated as hometown for Minua. This album is like a stream which combines the voices of the winds, the strings, the drums and special electronics, letting each sound firmly treat the surface.

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2. Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Light and Space (2023)

🇺🇸 This ensemble is specialized in making sonic structures by involving acoustic parties into really ambient domains. That’s not what ambient is usually expected to be. It’s rather a harmony between the instruments like piano, guitar, pedal steel or violin, and synths. Together they create unique world which you are invited to visit.

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3. Naïssam Jalal – Healing Rituals (2023)

🇸🇾 🇫🇷 This collection of rituals is intended to treat your soul, ginger it up and pour it with a great music. Naïssam Jalal, born in originally Syrian family, is Paris based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Her fellows take part in this ceremony, making it so touching and universal.

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4. Tom Prayne – Between the Stillness (2023)

🇩🇪 Tom Prayne’s soundscapes seem silky as well. Appearing as a result of sheer experimentation, they evolve from calm state to saturated and even pretty loud ones. Some of the compositions have distinct electronic sonority while others tend to convert to post-rock and ambient with a noise coating.

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