This episode is all about abstractions and their evolution through the artists’ ideas. Starting with something tiny and humble, we can end up with complex things with their own space and ambience.

1. Conrad Praetzel – Adventures Into Somethingness (2022)

🇺🇸 Welcome to sunny Santa Rosa where Conrad Praetzel has been designing sonic environments for decades. This album is the first to publish under the athor’s name for more than 20 years. During this period, Conrad has been devoting himself to other projects. Most of them included traditional instruments while “Adventures Into Somethingness” differs in the approach to creation of music. This time, we are going to explore completely new world full of hidden signs and gradually appearing directions. It’s kind of power ambient, if such a thing only exists.

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2. Ecovillage – The Road Not Taken (2022)

🇸🇪 Let’s dive deeper into endless ambient and light drone. Swedish duo made by Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström presents their meditative opus. Several musicians collaborated with them to record such vast and touching music. Thus, in various compositions you’ll hear Henrik Meierkord’s cello, Masayoshi Fujita’s vibraphone and Nailah Hunter’s harp. Aaron Martina and Ruven Nunez also took part in the session, bringing additional voices into this charming world. The album is indeed a path that you can imagine and walk along, following wondrous soundscapes.

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3. Kmru – Epoch (2022)

🇰🇪 Now we find ourselves in Nairobi, Kenya. The local sound genius KMRU melts natural and synthetic voices into patterns and makes stories out of them. In his process, he uses field recordings, something like rustles and scratches. Sounds from various broken instruments and items that are normally not instruments at all, are appropriate as well. Adding firm drones and noises makes the sketches complete, and you can start listening from any point you desire. The elements are linked to each other in this universe of sound.

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4. Amnios Astra – Configuraciones Para Estar y Para Desaparecer (2023)

🇦🇷 The next piece comes from Argentina. The Aminos Astra project is run by Juan Cruz Del Cerro, an artist from a beautiful place called San Martín De Los Andes. It seems this music is descending from the mountain peaks and slopes. It glides down and plunges into springs nearby. Finally, it reaches us the listeners and bestows brilliant mood and powers of natural forces. What could be better and nicer to obtain? Just spend some minutes with this amazing release and you’ll get your own serving of joy and pleasure.

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5. Loris S Sarid – A Tiny Reminder (2023)

🇬🇧 🇮🇹 Loris S Sarid was born in Rome and currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland. His latest record has a few of things to untangle. Dipping into fantasy, Loris takes time to transmit all details of these places for the audience to join the trip. He uses field recordings, voice samples as well as guitar and clarinet phrases while going deeper into imaginary volumes. The album is all about inspiration and its power to give and to gift. It’s something that brings a humble smile, an admiring glance, and possibly goosebumps from time to time.

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