Gyoza District - Mochi Planets

Would you listen to this! This is new, fresh, dreamy, it fits perfectly in the Onirique tag...

Haven't felt this good in a while.

This is beautiful, but don't listen to it on the highway.

Auditive Escape - Sonic Numerals

Auditive Escape is the epitome of dreamy music. There's a lightness in the melodies and a airiness in the rhythms that can't really be described. All in all, there's nothing to throw away.

Sonic Numerals is his latest album, hailing from the distant plains of August 2017... Man, one year already ?

It's a pure concentrate of sublime. The tracks are sometimes atmospheric, not to say stratospheric, and sometimes a little bit more down to Earth. But not too much, because they are all so aerial and ethereal...

Once you've enjoyed this musical jewel, go take a listen to his other works. Particularly... all of them.

Have a wonderful night. Let's hope nothing lame happens in the world until next week at least.

Confessor - Liminal Dive

Wow, alright, just let me take five minutes to land...

After a series of albums of an elegiac, nostalgic beauty, focusing on the passing of time, death, storms and rainy days, Confessor reaches for the stars in a rocket fuelled for a one-way trip to meet celestial entities. The final frontier is at hand.

The shuttle takes off softly amid a throng of neon butterflies, the trip is filled with dreams, you sleep, until you finally arrive at the Stellar Cathedral of Creation. You're in for a treat.

Best listened to in a calm atmosphere.

Wearing headphones may heighten the experience.

Aoi - 1

Tapping his inspiration from various sources, Aoi creates each track as an atmosphere in itself. Changing, dream-inducing...

I stumbled randomly on this album, and I'm quite content that I have, because its music left its mark on my mind. Its blend of instrumentals and electronic sonorities immediately transported my thoughts to another dimension, filled with nostalgy and rêveries. As for now, it's Aoi's only album, but who knows what the future holds ?

I hope to hear more in the future, as far as I'm concerned.

Circus Marcus - 16/9

Welcome to the intimist, minimalist musical world of Circus Marcus, Belgian artist based in Sevilla, Spain, whose music is a precise and balanced composition of piano, kalimba and accordion.

Each track will take you to new heights, new atmospheres, sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, soft, tragic... At times dark, at other times full of light. Grand or discreet, it shifts every time you listen to it.

This music is made to be listened during rainy days, or even during a storm or better, a snow storm ! Well I hope you don't live in an area blessed with too much sun...

I highly recommend taking a listen to his whole discography, where everything is free-priced and released on a Creative Commons label, which means you could very well contact Circus Marcus to ask about using one of his tracks in, let's say... a short movie ? Or even a long movie ? Why not ?

To download his albums for free, head for Free Music Archive, but if you're willing to give a little something to help the world of free music flourish, then name your price on Bandcamp.

See also :  
http://www.circusmarcus.net/
His Facebook page
His Twitter
His Youtube channel

See you soon, be safe on the road.

Batou - Adventures in Bitscape

It was a long time since I've been music-struck this way.

Again, an album found by sheer luck, thanks to the new "You might also like" feature on Bandcamp.

In this first EP released in march, Batou takes out his cloud-stringed laser harp and decorates the night sky with thin layers of nostalgic dreams.

Listen, share, and buy if you can. When you have the chance to witness the apparition of a young talentend artist on the music scene, try supporting him/her as much as you can.

See you around very soon for more music.

State Azure - Phantoms

A seed of light turning the web into a firefly-filled dream, during eleven beautiful tracks, showing that psybient does not always mingle with psydub, sometimes it stays on its own, brilliantly.

State Azure is true to his unique style, take us on a nostalgic trip, juggling with lofty and dreamy atmospheres, building palaces in the clouds, where we end up, tiptoeing amid columns of vapour, to sit quietly and enjoy a bit of music.

Still self-published, still free-priced, and still British. An excellent album that is not reserved to eagle-headed connoisseurs.

See you again soon, best regards.

Soulular - Moments in Time, Vol. 2

Amid vapours of hang drum sounds and sitar ticklings, enter the ancient tree in which Soulular has decided to live, and listen.

A swampy atmosphere takes you on gurgling basslines to another world, another dimension, between dream and waking world. Between now, then, and later.

This collection of tracks made between 2015 and 2016 are meant to be warm and intimate, and it's even more evident when listening to them with headphones on.

Enjoy.

Ludd - Dead End Future

Fat cats lost on the moon in small apartments, armies of ants taking over the forest, the planets aligning, digging a hole to the other side of earth, breathing underwater, uncovering hidden crystal cities... Those are the images I get when listening to this album.

It has a pretty weird feeling to it but I like it a lot, especially because it is so hard to categorize. I guess a question mark will do.

In a state between thoughtfulness and dream-inducing, nostalgic music... My favourite from Now Defunc Records.

4mat - Prompt (OST)

4mat is definitely an artist you should know more about.

While I'm not an inconditional fan of everything he produces, I recognize in his music a sense of the 'onirique' category that had been if not forgotten, at least put aside for a while, and that is dreamy music made with chiptunes.

Prompt is a platform game available on Steam that is famous for being really, I mean really difficult. The contrast of this description with 4mat's music is evident when you listen to this small album.

The tracks are all peaceful beings made of bits and pieces of sounds and rhythms. It will engulf you in a sea of bliss and nostalgy.

Well, what's left to do but listen ?

I don't know.

Sabanas - Ascension

J. Sabanas from Flanders, Belgium makes "druggy ambient hypnotic beats", the kind of music that expresses the state you're in when you get engulfed in a sofa in front of the hearth after having a good plate of mashed mushrooms, without sausage and applesauce (oh no ! some will say).

Sabanas will take you to a dream-state with rhythms that are sometimes slow and deep, sometimes broken in little pieces, hypnotic melodies that feel like being alone and barefooted sunday morning on a carless highway and subtle instrumentals.

This album is out at DRLR Records, a belgian label that you need to scrutinize a bit, full of strange and surprising music, and free-priced what is more. So listen, enjoy and share.

Let yourself go.

bioLuMigen - ...ua.ka.r.ak.au...

From the depths of California, bioLuMigen returns (ok, he was already back since may) with, as usual a very small but precious album, with this time a name that's hard to read and pronounce !

Back with his particular style and sonorities which, even with thorough and hard research I could not find anywhere else. It's like a journey at the speed of light between the death valley and medieval China countryside, side to side with Lao-Tseu pleading the cause of bees, trees, whales and snails.

An album from bioLuMigen is something quite rare and beautiful, so do not hesitate to feed him a little donation, to add it to your collection of dream music, to share it with your friends, it's really one of a kind.

If you need more (I know I do), go visit his Soundcloud.

Beatween - The Ocean Between Us

When DLoaw & Co. specially recommends an album, you never get disappointed, and here's another proof with the debut album from Beatween, a duo from "between Québec and Switzerland" made of Raycord's electronic textures and Maël's acoustic instrumentals.

Clarinet, piano, guitar and drums dance and blend in each other on downtempo beats made of flowing liquid sound.

Not a single faux pas on this album that you may well call a love at first time (I've only listened to it once and it's not even finished when I started writing the article. But there's a good chance I'll listen to it again and again in the future).

IG88 - Hiding in My Hands

Hi !
I'm taking a break during the month of august.

See you in september with lots of music !

Lost In Sound - VA Compilation #004

It's quite hard to write a little review on this profuse and rich release of 45 tracks (yes, 45, you read right) in such a variety of styles... There is a bite of everything, glitch, techno, electro, piano, dub, dubstep, psydub, you name it... There are also killer bots with laser sight, but you'll hear them soon enough. I better warn you though, that their unique eye can cut through about any material, so watch out.

This compilation was put into being by the Lost In Sound collective as a means of celebrating the comeback of their website and online musical catalog in 2015 (in spring, as you can guess). After contacting more than a hundred artists, they were sent those fourty-five pearls of musical craftsmanship. And there goes a collection of tracks shifting gracefully between up and down, light and dark, bounce and flow. Trippy, futuristic, strange, shwifty...

And entirely free of charge !

You can spot some names we already talked about some times like Mindex, Pericles, bioLumigen, Erothyme and Kalpataru Tree. So much tracks to add to my playlists I cannot even begin to think about it clearly. Ah, if playlists could talk...

Well I'll leave you on this very interesting thought. See you next time.

Oh and don't forget to take a look at LIS's website, there are many a musical pearl to find there. Not all is free, because they do not specialise in that field, but there are some very good things to find. I've just begun to dig the vein myself...

Kratos Himself - An Imaginarium Remixed

Before going forward and exploring the rest of his discography in articles to come, I suggest we take a close look on this remix album, that is more or less a follow-up to "A Town Called Imaginarium" and the last part of his "Imagination" series, which I shared (and discovered) only recently.

Inside we find strange and mysterious atmospheres, deep layers of dream-woven soundwaves and ghostly voices.

Five of these tracks are new and, I guess, should have been on the original album. The other four are remixes made by artists both obscure and exceptionally gifted in the art of taking musical notes and making them whirl in the air like again and again.

To be listened in complete tranquility.

bioLuMigen - ..:tao:..

Each time I listen to this tiny album, I bite my fingers because there isn't more. These are my four favourite tracks at the moment.

Deep, finely crafted, dedicated to the old Laozi and his universal principle of balance, everywhere and nowhere at once, always invisible, yet always there, the Tao, these four compositions reach the summits of quality in terms of sonority, rhythm and musical science. A blend of psybient and traditional chinese music.

You'll see, when you'll have listened to these four, you'll want more, for sure. Unfortunately right now there is nothing more by bioLuMigen on Bandcamp. That is why I recommend visiting his Souncloud page, where you'll be able to find a couple of beautiful mixes among with some other tracks, most of them are available for free downloads. I just can't get enough of it.

Carl Brown - About Time

It has been a while since that album's been lingering in my "to write about" folder. It's just so intricate and special that for a long time I couldn't really decide what to write.

This is a remix album, remixes from the tracks of Time Release, a previous album which, oddly enough, isn't available for the moment.

Partly dream, partly gloomy wanderings in the darkest hour of night, or in a tramway full of zombies, you choose whichever you'd like this album to be.

If you like weird and/or beautiful music, just press play and enjoy. If you don't, well, what are you doing here in the first place ?

See you around.

By the way, happy new year to all of you and to your music-craving friends !

Kratos Himself - A Town Called Imaginarium

Here we are again in the vast land of dreams with another talented producer who draws inspiration from visions, waking nights and psychedelic experimentations.

While listening to this album, you really feel that you're entering a town called Imaginarium where everything isn't quite what it seems. Where everything is something more. You just have to lift the veil a little to see all things in a different way.

You can also do so by pressing play.

See you in another dimension.

Miori - I Have no Memory of This Place

I regularly have the same waking dream. Waking, because too beautiful to be had while sleeping. In that dream, I find myself staring at a never ending setting sun over a frozen sea. Sometimes I sit on a tree stump, sometimes on a pile of sand, sometimes on a wooden chair, but the atmosphere is still the same, soothing and out of reach.

Some places, some music are able to trigger these dreamy feelings, of a completely soothed soul. Nothing to search for, nothing to worry about. Just bliss. This album from Miori contains this kind of music.

I hope it will make you dream too.