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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