#ambient-music

#ambient-music

Once Was Ours Forever isn't much different, except in all the usual ways Made of the Same Stuff albums are: a bit more insular, more stripped-down, more confident and, inevitably, shorter.

Sync opens the EP with stretched and delayed cowbells, creating a pulsing analogue rhythm that welcomes listeners into a deep ambient experience.

"Listening to the track through headphones, I could feel my usually agitated pulse steady itself, mirroring the music's rhythm-calming me even as it sparked me to attention."

The album, Taba, by Satomimagae imagines a world without names or borders, creating an experience without distinctions between self and other.

"For me, it's interesting just to try to create the conditions for people to work together and get music kind of rolling and then pull out things that I think are interesting."