"Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins

It's May...

Here is "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins (previously here).

https://cocteautwins.com/

"your milk is cold now" by Neon Genesis

OH.MY.GOD. I am in love with this floaty, dreamy, ethereal track "your milk is cold now" by L.A. duo Neon Genesis.

https://www.instagram.com/_neongenesis_/
https://neoncatalog.bandcamp.com/

"Seraphim II" by How To Disappear Completely

I am thrilled that How To Disappear Completely (previously here) has released another collection of incredible ambient drone music, "Seraphim II" which is a follow up to the equally stunning "Seraphim." Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream...

https://htdc.bandcamp.com/

"Ephemera" by How To Disappear Completely

"Ephemera" is a new three-song collection just released by How To Disappear Completely. It's dreamy, ethereal, melancholy...described by the artist as:

Flowing in a state of deafening solitude. Visions of sadness murmured in dreams. We know how the end always is.

https://htdc.bandcamp.com/

"Golden Air" by Sun's Signature

And speaking of Cocteau Twins (yesterday's post here), ex-CT lead singer/angel Elizabeth Fraser and her life/musical partner Damon Reece have begun a musical project called Sun's Signature. They have released their first single, a stunning journey called "Golden Air"...and it is as heavenly and ethereal and psychedelic and floaty as we would hope for. Just gorgeous! They have an EP coming out on June 18th, 2022! I am so excited to hear her again after all these years...

Their label, Partisan records, says:

Sun’s Signature is the current project from vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and percussionist Damon Reece. Life and musical partners, their eponymous debut EP will be released in 2022 through Partisan Records. Highly evolved, yet simultaneously primal - it’s an utterly original, compelling and genre-defying collection of songs that has developed through an Alice in Wonderland journey through life and music.

Elizabeth and Damon’s early careers in some of the UK’s most heralded musical groups are well documented. Since those days, along with raising their (now grown and independent) family, they have been involved in a multitude of artistically varied projects.

The band has no website but Elizabeth and Damon each have their own Instagram pages.

https://www.instagram.com/elizabethfraserofficial/
https://www.instagram.com/damonreeceofficial/

"Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins

It's May...

Here is "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins (previously here).

https://cocteautwins.com/

"Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins

It's May...

Here is "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May" by Cocteau Twins (previously here).

https://cocteautwins.com/

"Lake" by The Monk By The Sea

Croatian guitarist Ivan Ujevic goes by the nom de musique The Monk By The Sea, a name which conjures up serene, Zen-like images. And his music is exactly what you would want from such images. Using only an electric guitar and complex signal processing, his ethereal, ambient sounds are soundtracks to dreams or other mystical journeys. This track, "Lake," from his release "Soundscapes V" is one of my favorites.

https://themonkbythesea.bandcamp.com/

Currently listening to...

...the ethereal, otherworldy "Waves Become Wings" by This Mortal Coil from the classic debut album "It'll End In Tears" released in 1984. TMC was a kind of "super group" comprising members from many different bands who were all signed to the 4AD label. This song features Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance (previously here, here, and here) on vocals and treated accordion.

http://www.4ad.com/artists/thismortalcoil
http://www.lisagerrard.com/
http://www.deadcandance.com/main/

"Pandora" by How To Disappear Completely

I am floating in a delicious, transcendent Alpha state listening to this phenomenal ambient/drone track called "Pandora" by How To Disappear Completely, a live collective based in Poland. The song is part of a new release called "Mer de Revs II," intended to aid in relaxation.

Their release notes say:
"Mer de Revs II - Music For Insomniacs

A study in deliberately soothing textures designed to give the listener space to find stillness and collapse into rest - late night lullabies.

How To Disappear Completely presents Mer de Revs II, second installment of our experimental sleep music project. Almost eighty minutes of new music composed and recorded over twelve month period (a song per month), 2016/2017. Recording this album we wanted to keep the same aesthetics - simple as possible, minimal amount of gear as possible. We hope you enjoy our latest release as much as we did recording it and we can't thank you all enough for your support. As always, thanks for listening.

Mer de Revs Sessions (Recorded in 2016/2017)

NOTE: The sound contained on this release is intended and specially designed to fit the headphones. All perceived silence and audio deformations were intended."

https://www.facebook.com/HTDC-319195858174808/

Currently listening to...

..."Great Spangled Fritillary," a genre-defying classic track by the legendary, sublime, enigmatic, and thoroughly magical Cocteau Twins from their "Echoes In a Shallow Bay" EP from 1985.

http://www.cocteautwins.com/

"Matilda's Dream" by Demdike Stare

I have always been a huge fan of ambient music (I heard Eno's "Music For Airports" in the late 70s and have been hooked ever since)..."Matilda's Dream" by Demdike Stare (DJ Sean Canty and producer Miles Whittaker) is completely hypnotizing. I can feel myself slipping into alpha brain waves as I listen...

"Ivo" by Cocteau Twins

It's hard to believe that this track is 30 years old. I remember when this came out...a friend of mine had a seaside cabin in the Northern California coastal area of Mendocino, and we went up to spend a weekend. We left the Bay Area rather late at night, and as we drove through the redwoods, I lay in the backseat, watching the towering trees pass us in the spray of lights from the front of the car. She put in a cassette of "Treasure" by Cocteau Twins, and of course the album starts with this incredibly unique, shimmering, breathtaking track called "Ivo." Rocking from side to side on the twisting road in my half-dream of darkness and trees, the song washed over me. Where did this miraculous sound come from, we all wondered then--not pop, not rock, not anything familiar.

And I think we still wonder...

Their former label 4AD says, "When they first emerged in the early 80s, the Cocteau Twins were compared most often to Siouxsie & The Banshees, but in truth they never sounded like anyone – or anything – else. Taken together, their nine albums, and sixteen EPs/singles, sound less like a band and more like an element of nature."

Yes, an element of nature... yes.

http://www.cocteautwins.com/
http://4ad.com/artists/cocteautwins