Ambient & Neoclassical

The Nialler9 ambient playlist for calm & quiet times

I spend most of my day listening to music of all tempos and styles, so…

Matter is the debut solo album from The Line, moniker of Meltybrains? member Brian Dillon (premiere)

The Meltybrains? member comes through with a solo project bathed in light of the Irish songwriting tradition.

Diatribe Records are releasing 7 albums during New Music Dublin Festival; listen to a percussive track by Lina Andonovska which explores the “Junglist massive circa ‘95”

The contemporary music festival New Music Dublin returns next week Thursday February 27th to Sunday…

Jon Hopkins releases piano-led single ‘Scene Suspended’

The producer and composer performs in Dublin this March.

Sufjan and his stepfather Lowell are releasing a new age album together

Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams (whose name you will recognise from Sufjan’s Carrie…

Halloween song series: The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

What’s scarier than losing your mind? Nearly 40,000 people in Ireland suffer from Alzheimer’s, a…

J Colleran launches new label Oyae with EP01

The Irish ambient producer is back.

Boards Of Canada drop previously unreleased ‘XYZ’ from their 1998 Peel Session

Cult electronic group Boards Of Candana have treated fans to some previously unreleased material. ‘XYZ’…

Angel Olsen releases dreamy 80s synth anthem ‘All Mirrors’ & details of new album

All Mirrors will be released on October 3rd.

Premiere: Diffusion Lab artist Emiji debuts with futurist electronica on ‘Mystical Thoughts’

The Dublin-based producer is blending the cutting edge of electronica with the most stirring of cinematic.

Irish producer Neil O’Connor releases collaborative full-length Relative Phase as Ordnance Survey

The Irish artist has previously worked under the name of Somadrone.

Tycho’s new single ‘Pink & Blue’ features lead vocals for the first time ever

We’re not sure how we feel about it.

Brian Eno’s ambient classic Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks to be reissued with a second disc of new material

The release ties in with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing.

Deaf Joe returns with Love Stories, an album of ambient love-soaked bliss

The album is inspired by “chasing memories of special places with lovers and loved ones he’ll never forget.”

Kevin Corcoran of Glasshouse Ensemble and Saso collaborate on new Thresholds LP

The contemporary classical LP aims to “create a sonic landscape that would reflect the cycle of life and the journey to death”.

Premiere: Cork improvisers Fixity explore their limits further with ‘Becoming an Earthworm’

Taken from their forthcoming No Man Can Tell LP.

Elma Orkestra & Ryan Vail collaborate on Borders album, hear a song with Moya Brennan

Stephen James Smith also features on the albun due on Quiet Arch on June 14th.

‘Shambala’ marks a triumphant introduction to Fat Pablo, formerly Dublin band Beach

The band were formerly known as Beach and have been redefining their sound as of late.

Watch the late Conor Walsh talk about his favourite piano in new video

The Swinford composer’s posthumous album The Lucid is out March 11th.

Michael O’Shea was an experimental Irish 70s musician who made his own instrument; his debut album has been given a new lease of life

Allchival have reissued his debut which features his unique instrument, a combination of dulcimer, zelochord and sitar.