Welcome to Artefacts – your quick guide to recently released ambient and drone records.

In this episode, we listen to works by artists from Ukraine. Created amid the ongoing war, these releases reflect resilience, reflection, and the search for peace through sound.

Made during a period of illness, Yurii Popov’s Consonance offers a minimal, looping calm intended as a sonic balm against pain and uncertainty — a quiet act of peace in turbulent times.

🔗 https://58918012.bandcamp.com/album/consonance

Using modular synthesis, processed found sounds, and field recordings from across Ukraine, Trees and Roots is an ode to nature’s resilience and a meditation on belonging and renewal.

🔗 https://gamardahfungus.bandcamp.com/album/trees-and-roots

Combining baroque harmonies and ambient guitar, Stupak’s Book of Sorrow offers a brief escape from the exhaustion of war — a moment of beauty and stillness.

🔗 https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-sorrow

Synth-driven and cosmic in tone, Solace evokes both the serenity of space and the quiet tension of returning to Earth — a gentle reflection on escape and home.

🔗 https://unusualcosmicprocess2.bandcamp.com/album/solace

Reinterpreting 12th-century music by Hildegard von Bingen, this collaboration merges Ukrainian folk singing and modular synths to create a spiritual and contemporary act of remembrance.

🔗 https://heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildegard

That’s all for this week’s edition of Artefacts: Ambient & Drone.

Thanks for listening — and check the show notes for links to all featured releases.

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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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This week on Artefacts we dive into five new ambient and drone releases from Japan and Japanese artists. From live improvisations and monumental drones to organ reverberations and experimental rock reissues, discover a cross-section of the country’s most intriguing soundscapes.

Featured Releases:

• 2025.07.29 – Live improvisation by Toshihiro Koike, Terukazu Miyahara, Shuta Hiraki, Akito Tabira
• https://obalto.bandcamp.com/album/20250729
• All Things Align Upon a Single Axis – Kaito (Hiroshi Watanabe)
• https://hiroshiwatanabe.bandcamp.com/album/all-things-align-upon-a-single-axis
• Gems V – Celer
• https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/gems-v
• Live at Epsilon Spires – Fuji Ta
• https://fujita.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-epsilon-spires
• Dronevil – Example (20th Anniversary) – Boris
• https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/dronevil-example

Whether you’re after shimmering textures, restrained improvisations or vast slabs of sound, this episode is your guide to the newest currents in ambient and drone.

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