This 12-minute single provides two vignettes, one for each side of sleep. With side A, you are on the porch late at night, mindlessly plucking the guitar.  You are not watching the strings, but are staring off into the light rain, thinking about things that will make much more sense in the morning since you’re half asleep. With side B, you are slowly regaining consciousness. Somehow you fell asleep on the floor, directly under the ceiling fan which occasionally sounds your windchimes (why they are indoors, know one knows). Thoughts are all jumbled as you are only half awake. Just as these two mental states are similar yet opposite, I have used the same classical guitar for both pieces, yet one is 100% acoustic while the other is 100% reverb. Both songs were recorded around midnight on 7/30.

This is my (blog owner’s) first ambient release. Please give me your feedback! I hope it helps you sleep…

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Detail page on BumpFoot Netlabel

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Dark yet Fragile drones with thick white noise.

10-minute tracks.

Shinobu Nemoto side project.

Detail page on the Internet Archive

Detail page on Resting Bell Label

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This is a fantastic compilation, sadly the last in the series. Not all the tracks are ambient, and most volumes in this series were primarily post-rock.My favourite ambient tracks on this one are At the Seams, Part II, Kluwekracht IV, and Life Flashes. Even still, I think they are better suited to taking a nap than sleeping, as they are more distorted and “At the Seams” even has a startling piano strike towards the middle.

Check out this release on archive.org or download it directly.

I like to play this 34 track towards the setting of the sun.

It is supposed to “bathe [you] in nostalgic warmth.”

Here is the album on archive.org.

Here is a direct download link.

Here is the artist’s bandcamp if you’d like to support him.

Written for his grandfather… truly peaceful