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Aidan Baker "Pithovi…

Album premiere @ INVERTED AUDIO Soundscapes with an elegiac tone and engulfing atmospheric somberness. IGLOO MAG more reviews Glacial Movements is...

Massimo Pupillo "Our…

Album featured @ A CLOSER LISTEN MASSIMO PUPILLO’S PRAYER FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE NORTH IS A HAUNTING AMBIENT MASTERPIECE POP MATTERS more reviews...

Aware "Requiem For A…

In outer space, music does not exist. Only in a thin layer of atmosphere, wrapped around the planet earth, humans can live and breathe. With all their...

Stefan Węgłowski "Sm…

Glacial Movements celebrates the fiftieth record release with "Smooth Inertia", the new album by Polish artist Stefan Węgłowski. He's a composer, prod...

bvdub & Netherworld …

Glacial Movements brings bvdub and Netherworld together for their first official collaboration... but more importantly, a testament to a friendship th...

Netherworld "Vanishi…

Immerse yourself in the great north, lost in the darkness of winter nights. There is a green glow that slowly dances above you, it is that of the Nort...

Amphior "Another Pre…

The new Amphior album, Another Presence, is a longing echo of alienation. Amphior, aka. Mathias Hammerstrøm makes his return with a new collection of...

Charles Richard " So…

Charles Richard is a Royal College of Art Alumni exploring multidisiplary theams. Founding Sonic Earth in 2017, the platform incorporates archival pro...

John Sellekaers " Ob…

A journey in the unknown is a deeply transforming experience. How are we affected by the world around us and how do we alter it just by being there, b...

Erik Levander " Jöke…

It’s the kind of work for which words do not suffice. BANDCLOUD more reviews Swedish musician Erik Levander gained attention as part of the new wave...

Aria Rostami & Daniel…

As deep as the ocean, and as slow as a huge ship in icy water. ARCANA FM more reviews Five years have passed since Glacial Movements published the w...

CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA & D…

Formado por cuatro nuevas piezas, el "ambient nórdico" que promueven desde el sello romano. CLUBBING SPAIN more reviews Four years after their initi...

bvdub " Ten Times th…

This is his first album without vocals, but that makes for a superb soundscape which gradually closes in, like clouds preparing to rain. NORMANN RECOR...

MACHINEFABRIEK " Sti…

A cold wind blows through the middle piece, a reminder of the harshness of conditions at either pole. A CLOSER LISTEN more reviews The friendship an...

NETHERWORLD " Algida…

This is a record of muffled and sombre drones, one that conjures up mental images that are as icy as its cover artwork. BLEEP To say that this is sou...

LINE SPECTRUM " Brum…

Line Spectrum – “Fabric Merge” video premiere @ FREQ MAG An absolute must-hear for any fans of field recording-based compositionTONESHIFT more revie...

EQUAL STONES " Below…

Schaap creates an impressive, tangible sense of forbidden place that is desolate and ominous..TONESHIFT more reviews From the perennial layers of th...

FRAME " The Journey …

....both artists have created a masterpiece of atmospheres.MAGAZINE SIXTY more reviews FRAME is a project started on 1992 from Eugenio Vatta and And...

MURCOF " Lost in Tim…

Releasing on the aptly-named Glacial Movements, the music is pretty darn cold – cold enough for a thick coat.FLUID RADIO more reviews Murcof is the ...

Tropic of Coldness "…

Imagining a ‘tropic of coldness’ is like observing the overly exaggerated shifts in our own nature.TONESHIFT more reviews “Tropic of Coldness” is a ...

Paul Schütze " The S…

It revolves around an inspiring raison d’etre that goes beyond the mere distinction of its acoustic physiognomy.TOUCHING EXTREMES more reviews Paul ...

Northaunt " Istid II…

Recordings of water, ice and the struggle to stay warm, Langås brings the Ice Age to life.A CLOSER LISTEN more reviews Northaunt is the ambient proj...

Havenaire " Rabot …

Rabot is a vibrant example of how electronic music can tap into sheer emotion. ELECTRONIC SOUND #36 more reviews Havenaire is John Roger Olsson, a c...

Scanner " The Great …

This album isn’t simply about mood creation but pushes further at the edges of existence. MAGAZINE SIXTY For The Great Crater, Rimbaud has taken the ...

bvdub " Epilogues fo…

he just makes very effective use of subtle melodies that evoke longing or melancholy. CD HOTLIST bvdub creates some wondrously beautiful scenes throu...

AWARE " The Book of …

Aware presents this startlingly impressive collection of music. MAGAZINE 60 more reviews Aware is the alias of Alexander Glück, born 1983, who studi...

JOHANNES MALFATTI " …

Endlessly evolving in a non-too specific way but which fires up your senses. MAGAZINE 60 You can almost hear the sounds of icebergs colliding, bounci...

ARIA ROSTAMI & DANIEL…

It’s no coincidence that the label releasing this San Francisco-based ambient duo’s album is called Glacial Movements. That name is also a perfect des...

PHILIPPE PETIT " You…

like you drifted off to somewhere from where you can’t get back.AMBIENT BLOG an atmospheric journey into a brooding, dream like soundscape, frozen in...

RAPOON " Song from t…

Songs From The End Of The World is a fascinating album for reasons disconnected from a mere sheen factor. TOUCHING EXTREMES more reviews Robin Store...

CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA & D…

A warm embrace lulling to a semiconscious oblivion, the whole might go on for hours in this quietly worried evening. TOUCHING EXTREMES Serries and Ha...

MACHINEFABRIEK "Stil…

...if you give it the right amount of room and listen closely it really does take you to a different state of mind through its sheer musical beauty. D...

YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN …

...like these sounds have been forged in the overcast wilds of nature away from human influence, particularly effective when he drifts between concord...

VV.AA. "Cryosphere…

Essential for the drone inclines among you as well as fans of all things dark and ambient AQUARIUS RECORDS The music is quietly epic while exquisi...

Rapoon "Time Frost…

Certainly the best thing this relatively new label has released thus far & one of the ambient highlights of this year MUSIQUE MACHINE highly hi...

Oophoi "An aerial vi…

This is shatteringly beautiful, scintillatingly frozen, and stunningly magnificent ambience BRAINWASHED the artist attempts to capture the “abyssal...

Lull "Like a slow ri…

It’s the aural equivalent of standing on a hill, listening to the sound of the wind, looking out across a bleak, barren landscape CYCLIC DEFROST Ha...

SKARE "Solstice City…

It makes some great nocturnal scary listening session VITAL WEEKLY 669 ...for fans of minimalist ambient music it's a trip worth taking REGEN MAG...

AQUA DORSA "Cloudlan…

Powerful stuff, rife with ingenuity and constantly interesting—more please, fellas SIGNAL TO NOISE 55 ...cloud lands nearer to Köner country and Ro...

Francisco Lòpez "Ama…

It’s about building into an intensity of sound then allowing it to dissipate CYCLIC DEFROST Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redun...

BVDUB "The Art Of Dy…

Really beautiful stuff & highly recommended NORMAN RECORDS It's all essential material from one of the few artists working in this milieu that ...

LOSCIL "coast/range/…

coast/range/arc represents a solid and compelling expansion of Loscil’s sound DUSTED MAGAZINE “Coast/ Range/ Arc” refers to the coastal mountains of...

BVDUB "I Remember (t…

bvdubs' tracks effectively conjure feelings of, alternately, frigid isolation and quietly blissful/wistful reverie PITCHFORK Essential listening ...

STORMLOOP "Snowbound…

...perfect listening for long, dark winter nights RESIDENT MUSIC The ten vivid tracks combine acoustic approximations of melting ice, crackling cam...

Pjusk "Tele"

You can hear the ice cracking as the glacial plates shift in the sudden juddering crashes NORMAN RECORDS The album emerges gently – opening with th...

RETINA.IT "Descendin…

‘Descending Into Crevasse’ moves with icy awareness through landscapes of elegant classical orchestration BLEEP Although they have never shied away...

CELER "Without Retro…

The result is a collection of cold, mournful drones that drag you in and almost trick you into a false sense of security BOOMKAT Without Retrospect...

Yuya Ota "Arctic Apr…

The sequence of tracks is well-balanced and not only presents 'arctic desolation' but 'warm comfort' as well AMBIENT BLOG Yuya Ota delivers an alb...

NETHERWORLD "Alchem…

Alchemy of Ice is a feast of benumbing sonic textures unfolding at the pace of an advancing glacier. EXCLAIM These sonic impressions avoid the har...

AIDAN BAKER "Aneira…

The mood is, naturally, wintry: bleak and introspective, the material conjures the image of someone taking shelter from the sub-zero temperature outsi...

Frozen Thoughts "Cal…

...this is music that hews closely to the Brian Eno School of rhythm-free, melody-free ambient environmental audio experiences. INK19 Biosphere’s ...

BVDUB & LOSCIL "…

Brock van Wey and Scott Morgan aka Bvdub and Loscil coax the best out of each other on this epic, romantic dedication to the darkness of night... B...

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