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Friday Dec 26, 2025

Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 2

Friday Dec 26, 2025

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Not much to say in this post other than here is part two of my favorite ambient albums of 2025. I'll also repost the full list here with links.

Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight
Almost An Island - Almost An Island
Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes
Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan
Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange
Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
Dictaphone - Unstable
Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time
Erik M - Soft Wish
Florian TM Zeisig - A New Life
Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima
Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky
M. Sage - Tender / Wading
Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6
offthesky - form.radio
offthesky - Nocturnas
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson
Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms
Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path
Six Missing - Without Mind
Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky
Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations
Xu - Murmurs of the Machine
Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky
zakè - Silentium

Here's to more excellent ambient music in 2026.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Sandwhistle (Kalima)
04:12 Byron Metcalf - Voices Of Vision (Spiral Exchange)
09:25 Seabuckthorn - Shadow Of The Land (A Path Within A Path)
12:15 Steve Roach - The Nuturing Ground (The Reverent Sky)
20:10 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie (Dreaming In Gamelan)
23:35 Almost An Island - Perfume Gloves (Almost An Island)
27:40 Andrew Heath - Delegate 24 (Signals and Codes)
33:00 Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Summer's Glow (Wellspring)
37:20 Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Deviation V (Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations)
42:55 Xu - Echoes from the Ether (Murmurs of the Machine)
45:50 offthesky - form.radio 3 (form.radio)
50:12 zakè - Pax Animi [ft. Tyresta] (Silentium)
53:20 Loneward - Shrouded Sighs (Musings of a Painted Sky)
59:48 end

Friday Dec 26, 2025

Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 1

Friday Dec 26, 2025

When end-of-the-year list season began I wasn't sure if I was going to do a favorite ambient albums list. I wasn't as locked into ambient as much this year as in the past. I spent most of my listening time in indie, jazz, and berlin-school. I had several ambient albums that would for sure make my list so I started with those and the next thing I knew - I had a list of 26 albums that are my 2025 favorites.

Here are my favorite ambient albums of 2025, in alphabetical order:

Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight
Almost An Island - Almost An Island
Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes
Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan
Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange
Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
Dictaphone - Unstable
Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time
Erik M - Soft Wish
Florian T M Zeisig - A New Life
Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima
Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky
M. Sage - Tender Wading
Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6
offthesky - form.radio
offthesky - Nocturnas
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson
Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms
Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path
Six Missing - Without Mind
Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky
Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations
Xu - Murmurs of the Machine
Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky
zakè - Silentium

I made two mixes so it will be a little easier to digest. This post is for part one. I hope you enjoy this look back at 2025.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Erik M. - Tall as Grass (Soft Wish)
03:55 Offthesky - Poised Above A Place (Nocturnas)
08:06 Rod Modell - Snowstorm In Munising (Snowstorm In Munising)
13:40 Emily A. Sprague - Osaka (Cloud Time)
19:23 Florian T M Zeisig - Earth Loop (A New Life)
21:00 M. Sage - Fracking Starlight (Tender / Wading)
26:18 Dictaphone - 122 (Unstable)
29:50 Six Missing - Sit Down and Play (Without Mind)
35:38 Peter Gregson - Prism (Peter Gregson)
38:37 Clarice Jensen - From A to B (In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness)
44:05 Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight: Stanza XXIII-XXXII (Chapter Eight)
49:15 Martin Sturtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6)
55:30 Yorkshire Modular Society - Beneath the Hanging Sky (Beneath the Hanging Sky)
01:09:28 end

Thursday Dec 18, 2025

First Snow

Thursday Dec 18, 2025

This is a mix I originally created back in December of 2006, during my first year of posting mixes online. This one never made its way to Mixcloud so I figured, with all the cold and snow I'm getting in my neck of the woods, now would be a good time to resurrect this set. The original post here on the blog has a bad link to the mp3 so I wanted to post it her as well.

It's interesting to see the artists that I was listening to at the time. Such as Freescha, Svalastog, Yellow 6, Klimek, and the track by Clint Mansell from the soundtrack to The Fountain, which I was absolutely obsessed with for a few years.

Every tune has one of these words...snow, winter, cold, frozen, ice, or freezing, in the title. Btw, the pic is my mom, taken in the mid 1970s. :-)

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Scott Solter - The Great Cold
04:20 Klimek - Snowfall 1
13:15 Greg Haines - Snow Airport
14:20 Corker & Conboy - Colder
17:20 Clint Mansell - First Snow
18:20 Library Tapes - It was a cold day in February...
20:15 Loren Connors - Falling Snow
24:40 Yellow 6 - (The First) Of Winter
30:00 Svalastog - Snow Tracer
35:20 Taylor Deupree - Snow Sand
39:00 Last Days - Snowing
42:30 Outputmessage - Snow
47:20 Trentemoller - While the cold winter waiting
49:20 Brian Eno - Cold
50:40 Freescha - Frozen Stiff
54:15 Hammock - Winter Light
56:45 Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Freezing Days
60:10 Boc Scadet - Ice Shelves & Glaciers
65:20 Stuart Busby - Snow Fall

Thursday Dec 11, 2025

Dreaming In Gamelan by Andy McNeill

Thursday Dec 11, 2025

I have a special treat for everyone with this new mix. It's a guest mix from friend of Low Light Mixes, Andy McNeill. Andy records as Maple Mountain Sunburst and has created two previous mixes for LLM and they are both excellent. You can find them here:

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-moon-full-of-stars-and-astral-cars-by.html

https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2025/01/we-did-it-again-by-andy-mcneillmaple.html

Andy has a new album out, under his own name, that is a little different from his other recordings. That new album is the inspiration for this new mix which is really something special. I'll let Andy tell you about it:

"Mallets, gongs, tintinnabulations, things that go ping. Here we have a mix of percolating exotica to float away on for an hour. I’ve included three tracks from a recent collaboration with percussionist and fellow composer Bill Brennan. Our album Dreaming In Gamelan blends West Javanese gamelan traditions with contemporary ambient electronics. Recorded with traditional hand-forged bronze instruments, the tracks were then augmented and treated in the studio. Also joining us was the brilliant electric violinist and sonic explorer Hugh Marsh. The album was mixed for immersive Dolby Atmos by Ron Searles (Atmos version available on Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon)."

https://lnk.to/dreamingingamelan

https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan

Thanks to Andy for curating and mixing this great collection tracks. And thanks for the excellent new album.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Tunnels of Light (Dreaming In Gamelan 2025)

02:35 another fine day - Child’s Play (a good place to be 2015)

07:03 Peter Gabriel - Slow Marimbas (Birdy soundtrack 1985)

10:01 Thomas Newman - Bullet (White Oleander soundtrack 2002)

10:31 Genesis - The Waiting Room excerpt (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 1974)

11:15 Wanderwelle - Her Name is Vairumati (Gathering of the Ancient Spirits 2018)

16:13 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Morning Beams (Dreaming In Gamelan 2025)

19:07 Thomas Stronen - Confronting Silence (Relations 2024)

19:23 Michael Brook - Distant Village (Hybrid 1985)

23:15 Connecta Quartet - Madeira River (P. Glass) (Pulse And Echoes 2024)

28:10 another fine day - green thought (in green shade) (life before land 1994)

34:18 Bartosz Kruczyński - Dream 1 (Dreams & Whispers 2024)

37:20 Shuta Yasukochi - Sakura (Harmonies of Flowers 2024)

39:47 Marilyn Masur - Bell-Painting (Elixir 2008)

40:19 Four Tet - Lush (New Energy 2017)

43:40 Jon Hassell - Time and Place (Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

2009)

47:17 Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Suite for Violin with American Gamelan - III. Air (Lou Harrison) (La Koro Sutro 2014)

50:37 Pierre Favre Ensemble - Frog Songs excerpt (Singing Drums 1984) overlayed with Marilyn Masur - Spirit Of Air excerpt (Elixir 2008)

52:02 Four Tet - You Were There With Me excerpt (Everything Ecstatic 2005)

55:22 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Reverie (Dreaming in Gamelan 2025)

1:05:29 end

Wednesday Nov 19, 2025

Floatation Tank

Wednesday Nov 19, 2025

This is a perfect mix for floating in a floatation tank, drifting off to sleep, or viewing the northern lights(which we've had several nights of this year). All the music is from this year, much of it from the last few months. There's not much else to say other than kick your feet up, relax and float away.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/musings-of-a-painted-sky

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/partial-holograms

https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gray

https://brianweza.bandcamp.com/album/fizzles-2

https://purl.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-awakening-ii

https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/water-planets

https://brannanlane.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-moonlight-collaborations-vol-1

https://theliftedindex.bandcamp.com/album/agonist

https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnas

https://buriedmarie.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-you-will-be

https://laaps.bandcamp.com/album/anti-atlas

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-life

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Loneward - Dream Palette (Musings of a Painted Sky 2025)
07:20 Tapes and Topographies - Partials (Partial Holograms 2025)
10:33 Submersion - Field IV (Gray 2025)
12:49 Brian Weza - The Way Out Is In (Fizzles 2025)
18:05 Purl - What The Ocean Promised (A Quiet Awakening II 2025)
26:40 deepspace - Descent Into The Mollusc(5000 metres) (Water Planets 2025)
31:12 Brannan Lane & Stephen Weber - Music To Which One Levitates (Under The Moonlight Collaborations, Vol. 1 2025)
34:15 The Lifted Index - Morning Paralytic (Agonist 2025)
37:40 Offthesky - Somnambulance On The Shore (Nocturnas 2025)
41:00 Buried Marie - The Ghost You Will Be X (The Ghost You Will Be 2025)
45:15 Thme - Ombre (Anti Atlas 2025)
50:00 Florian T M Zeisig - Eternal Shore (A New Life 2025)
60:42 end

Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

Evocation - A Rhythmic Ambient Headspace

Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

My love for tribal ambient music, of course, starts with Steve Roach. Going back to Dreamtime Return, Desert Solitaire, Western Spaces, Origins, Strata, On This Planet, and The Dream Circle, just to name a few. I go through phases where I may tire of the style but I always come back to it, usually when a new record reminds me of how much I love the genre.

In this case that new album is "A Path Within A Path" by Seabuckthorn. I always enjoy Seabuckthorn music so I dove into the new album and discovered a few tracks with an excellent, organic percussion sound that I love. The entire album is great. Once I latched onto those rhythmic tracks I knew I had to compile a few more for a new tribal ambient mix.

Surprisingly there are no Steve Roach tracks in the mix. Although there's a great track from one of his frequent collaborators, Byron Metcalf, from his lates album - Spiral Exchange. I've created several tribal mixes over the years and I hope you enjoy this and the others as much as I do.

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/a-path-within-a-path

https://byronmetcalf.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-exchange

https://rainforestspiritualenslavement.bandcamp.com/album/killer-whale-atmospheres

https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis

https://hubertdupont.bandcamp.com/album/trio-kosmos-3

https://laurencepike.bandcamp.com/album/the-undreamt-of-centre

https://frore-shanemorris.bandcamp.com/album/ochre

https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/kind-regards

https://craigleon.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-2-the-canon

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/theme

https://jfoersternkramer.bandcamp.com/album/habitat

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Seabuckthorn - Thunder Without A Sound (A Path Within A Path 2025)
03:20 Byron Metcalf - Cycles Of Ascension (Spiral Exchange 2025)
09:27 Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Orca Skull Memories(Bering Strait)
(Killer Whale Atmospheres 2023)
16:44 Marco Shuttle - Winds Of Cydonia (Cobalt Desert Oasis 2021)
21:20 Hubert Dupont - Bathyscaphe (Trio Kosmos 2020)
24:27 Laurence Pike - Universal Forces (The Undreamt-of Centre 2024)
29:44 Frore & Shane Morris - Into Dust (Ochre 2023)
37:47 Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans - Kind Regards(Begining) (Kind Regards 2025)
43:18 Craig Leon - The Gates Made Plain (Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2 2019)
48:39 Seabuckthorn - White Boar (A Path Within A Path 2025)
50:30 Bartosz Dziadosz - Fragments (Theme 2025)
55:10 J Foerster & N Kramer - Levitation Room (Habitat 2021)
59:09 end

Thursday Oct 30, 2025

Late Night with Yorgos Dousos

Thursday Oct 30, 2025

Yorgos Dousos is a multi-instrumentalist and composer located in Athens. He plays flute and clarinet to combine Greek music tradition, European jazz, and ambient electronic into an inspired musical experience. I got to hear an advance copy of his latest album - LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering - I knew immediately that I had to reach out to Yorgos about a guest mix. And here it is!

Here's what Yorgos has to say about this set:

“Late Night” is a small map of where my head has been living while finishing my new record. It’s the hour when things get quieter, when the room feels bigger than it is and every sound has more weight. I wanted this mix to sit in that space where breath, memory, and repetition start to blur.

It opens with my own pieces (“Marisha” and “Breath” from "LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering") because that’s the emotional ground I’m working from lately. All of the tracks orbit the same questions I’m dealing with on the album: what it means for sound to feel physical and intimate but also distant and ghosted; how much you can say emotionally with or without melody; and where the human breath sits inside electronics and processing.

Thanks, Yorgos, for this excellent mix!

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://yorgosdousos.bandcamp.com/album/lupus-love-under-pain-upon-suffering

https://johnalsobennett.bandcamp.com/album/ston-elai-na

https://mastrokristo.bandcamp.com/album/passage

https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacrificial-code-2019-edition

https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/all-this-i-do-for-glory

https://christinavantzou.bandcamp.com/album/no-1

https://haniarani.bandcamp.com/album/on-giacometti

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care-because-you-do

https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/shards

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/original-spirit

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Yorgos Dousos - Marisha (LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering)
04:53 John Also Bennett - Ston Elaiona (Ston Elaiona)
09:15 mastroKristo - The Dream (Passage)
12:53 Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code (The sacrificial code)
18:18 Yorgos Dousos - Breath (LUPUS, Love Under Pain, Upon Suffering)
24:00 Colin Stetson - Spindrift (All this I do for glory)
30:24 Christina Vantzou - 11: 11 (No1)
34:23 Hania Rani - Dreamy (On Giacometti)
37:11 Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (…I care because you do)
42:22 Tim Hecker - Heaven will come (Shards)
47:02 Les Halles - Angels of Venice (Original Spirit)
51:33 end

Wednesday Oct 15, 2025

Amiably Ambient by Daniel Hawkins

Wednesday Oct 15, 2025

We've had a nice run of guest mixes lately here at Low Light Mixes world headquarters. And that streak continues will a wonderful new set from Daniel Hawkins. Here his two previous guest mixes:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/dark-woods-by-daniel-hawkins/

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/

This mix has a perfect fall vibe. Here's what Daniel says about this collection of tracks:

"As I was saving some of the songs that I liked over the past few weeks, I noticed a bunch of them were guitar pieces - so I figured that was as good a reason as any to do a themed mix. For me the hardest part of doing the mixes is I end up with a lot of good music and have to make tough choices about what to cut from the final mix. There are just so many great musicians out there now doing superb work. So I just go slow and make changes - I think this is a cohesive mix with a nice flow - you be the judge."

Thanks, Daniel, for another excellent mix.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Chris Coco - Portmerion Tide Flow(Jonny Nash Remix) (Portmerion Tide Flow - Single)
06:10 kwajbasket - The Gentleman, Pt. 9 (The Gentleman)
11:22 The Album Leaf - Last Time Here (One Day I'll Be On Time)
15:18 Animat - Thermostellar (Mirador: Selected Works 2005-2015)
18:32 Kaya Project - Drift (...& So It Goes)
21:20 Jonny Nash - October Song (Point of Entry 2024)
25:20 Michael Scott Dawson - Where There Is Happiness There Is Happiness(feat. M. Sage) (The Tinnitus Chorus 2024)
28:45 Maps and Diagrams - Spawn (Streams - EP)
33:16 Peter Broderick - Pause (SMM: Context)
37:45 William Gregg - Ur-Th (Epiphenomenon 2013)
43:45 Lawrence English - Watching It Unfold (A Colour for Autumn)
48:42 Tomotsugu Nakamura - Monologue (Monologue)
50:45 Divine Electronics - The Truth We Dare Not Face (Endomorphine)
55:21 end

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

The Lonely Bell's Autumnal Ether Mix

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

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I always like to create a mix for autumn but this year I got bust and never got around to it. Thankfully The Lonely Bell has that covered.

The Lonely Bell is Ali Murray who hails from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He has been producing for ten years and I have been a fan since 2022's "Kingdom of the Deep." The Lonely Bell has a new album out so to celebrate we have this new mix.

Here what Ali says about this mix:

"As the seasons begin to change, and late summer gradually fades into the dark, cold, wet, blustery days of early autumn here on the Isle of Lewis (Scotland) - I wanted to create a guest mix of ambient tracks that aurally reflect the quiet sadness and barren beauty that fills the air (and the heart) at this time of year. These tracks have been soundtracking my days during this seasonal shift, and I find that each individual track is dense with this strange and mysterious form of autumnal melancholy that is simultaneously haunting and comforting....

The mix also coincides with the release of my latest album 'Time Beyond The Edges' - an album of collaboration pieces with fellow ambient artists and experimental composers from around the globe, which came out on Shady Ridge Records on Sept 26th. The mix is bookended by two of the tracks from this release..."

The Lonely Bell

www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com

Time Beyond The Edges

www.thelonelybell.bandcamp.com/album/time-beyond-the-edges

Thanks, Ali, for the excellent autumnal vibes.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 The Lonely Bell - Time Beyond The Edges (ft. Claire Deak)
04:30 Sangam Dream - Open Wound
08:25 Ben Frost - Permcat, Ки́їв
12:00 Birds of Passage - Between The Hours
15:00 Sarah Novi - Winter Whispers
19:34 Kara-Lis Coverdale - Cumulative Resolution
20:54 Ali Murray - Denizen
23:40 Lyndsie Alguire - the colour of angel's wings
30:10 Alex Bober - Betray Me, Crush Me
35:40 Slow Blink - The Heart's Docent (excerpt)
38:45 Evgeny Bylina - Something of Mind Alone (excerpt)
43:06 Sangam Dream - Open Wound
47:40 Hadley Roe - The Inner Garden
52:12 The Lonely Bell - The Fading World (ft. Joachim Spieth)
57:23 end

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

in slow time

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

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This mix is pretty straightforward - all ambient, all new. It can be hard to keep up with new releases so I decided to put together a nice collection of new 2025 tracks. Turned out pretty darn good if I do say so.

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Aiko Takahashi - Collage On Paper Laid On A Cardboard (Monologue 2025)
02:12 Of Mountains And Seas - Cygnus (Of Mountains And Seas 2025)
05:10 Rick Sanders - Nautical Dawn (The Arrow of Time 2025)
11:20 Seth Thorn - necarney creek (a curious doubling of terms 2025)
14:40 Akmuo - Language Of The Clouds (Grace Of God 2025)
24:25 SPIRIT RADIO - A Sighting 4 (Dew Point 2025)
26:00 Pye Corner Audio - Volcanic Rock (Lake Deep Memory 2025)
31:40 Niklas Paschburg Moos (Mexican Alps 2025)
34:10 ILUITEQ & Eraldo Bernocchi - Remain, Alone (Fade, Remain 2025)
38:06 Photosphere & Unusual Cosmic Process - Fields of Gold (Enlightenment 2025)
40:30 Almost An Island - An Ode To Nothing (Almost An Island2025)
45:40 02:12 Of Mountains And Seas - Home (Of Mountains And Seas 2025)
50:55 Field Lines Cartographer - Irradiance (Solar Maximum 2025)
56:33 Philippe Deschamps, Relief - The Night Timbre (Shifting Horizons 2025)
59:31 end