Artefacts – Ambient & Drone: Los Angeles Edition

Welcome to Artefacts – your quick guide to recently released ambient and drone records. In this episode we’re focusing on artists and labels connected to Los Angeles.

Featured Releases:

• Magnetic Loops IV – Savvas Metaxas (LINE, Los Angeles)
• Longform tape compositions using a Revox A77, electric guitar and saz. A meditation on repetition, loops and navigating life transitions.
• https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/magnetic-loops-iv
• Forgetting is Violent – Patrick Shiroishi (American Dreams)
• Two suites confronting racism, colonialism, and personal loss. Urgent yet hopeful, grappling with violence past and present.
• https://patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/forgetting-is-violent
• Protostar – Martin Stürtzer (Synphaera)
• Sequencer-driven ambient that blends Berlin School nostalgia with cosmic exploration, a follow-up to 2023’s Cosmic Echo.
• https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/protostar
• Wouldn’t Have to Hurt – Claire Rousay
• Field recordings, drones and fragmented melodies exploring tension, everyday intimacy and mental health.
• https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/wouldnt-have-to-hurt
• Labellum of Porcelain – Chaperone (Jungle Gym Records)
• Seven “sonic still lifes” of distorted repetitions, spectral shifts and expansive reverberant spaces.
• https://junglegymrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jgt133-labellum-of-porcelain

Whether you’re into tape loops, field recordings or sequenced cosmic synths, this episode charts some of the most intriguing ambient and drone releases linked to Los Angeles.

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