"Your Shadow A Pale Glow" by KAGAMI Smile

KAGAMI Smile (American-born Ryan Hill now living in China) has released several songs this year so far and this dense, hypnotizing track, "Your Shadow A Pale Glow" is a standout for me.

https://kagamismile.bandcamp.com/

"Retrogg" by Callecat

"Retrogg" by Dutch DJ and musician duo Callecat (Koen and Gijs from Utrecht)...compelling, driving, hypnotic electronic sounds...swirling and pulsing, taking you to another plane...

https://www.callecatmusic.com/

"Innerlight" by Elderbrook with Bob Moses

I am hypnotized by this video for "Innerlight" by Elderbrook with Bob Moses...the spinning monotone of the sound, the spinning of the dais, the spinning of the dancers...everything is a circle and we all move within it...

http://www.elderbrookofficial.com/
https://bobmosesmusic.com/

"Icarus" by Shimmer

I share a lot of different kinds of music and regular readers of "Oh, By The Way..." may know that one of the genres I love is Ambient. True ambient music. And Drone music. Both of these genres can create magical states for me--and any listener--by driving Alpha brain waves to feel a light, relaxing trance.

So I am delighted to share this track "Icarus" by Shimmer, a project of musician Matthew Wigton.

"Rest" by Motionfield

Hypnotizing, dark ambient from Motionfield: "Rest."

https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/

Sigur Rós presents "Liminal Sleep"

From one of my favorite bands, the Icelandic geniuses Sigur Rós, here is "Liminal Sleep," a nearly three-hour music composition of dreamy, spacey, floaty ambient music for falling asleep to. This is the fourth part of a multimedia project called "Liminal," which they describe as an "endless mixtape" of ambient music which will be continuously added to over time.

“We like the fact that sleep remains defiantly mysterious; something we all do - all need to do - but can’t ever get fully inside. This playlist is a modest attempt to mirror the journey of a sleep cycle, with its curves, steady states and natural transitions."
— Jónsi, Paul Corley & Alex Somers

Here are the first three parts...

https://sigurros.com/

"The Water" by RY X

New from RY X (previously here and here): "The Water" from his soon-to-be released album "Unfurl" available February 15, 2019.

The New York Times said of RY X, "His voice is a pearly, androgynous tenor, a vessel for liquid melancholy that blurs words at the edges. He stretches pop structures with repetition that grows devotional, obsessive, hypnotic".
Yes.

https://www.ry-x.com/

"Untold" by RY X

"Untold."
A new song by RY X (previously here, here, and here).

He writes to us:
"Dearest community. I come for you again, heart open.

To bare new makings and pour what i have made for you out on stages .

And to share what i caught onto tape and vinyl for your ears and hearts to hear.

The sounds have grown, the shows and its world have grown, in concept and beauty both, and i can’t wait to share each opening of it all with you.

On tour, in music, in visuals, in heart.

A new song for you."

https://www.ry-x.com/

RY X

Now it's time for you to meet Ry X.

Ry X is Ry Cuming, Australian singer-songwriter. The New York Times says, "His voice is a pearly, androgynous tenor, a vessel for liquid melancholy that blurs words at the edges. He stretches pop structures with repetition that grows devotional, obsessive, hypnotic".

Yes.

http://ry-x.com/

Currently listening to...

...the hypnotic, somnolent "Cradle" by Heidi Berry from her 1991 album "Love" for the legendary 4AD label. I've been on a kick with this song recently, putting it on "repeat" for an hour or so...it is haunting and delicate...a dark lullaby from a dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Berry
http://4ad.com/artists/heidiberry

"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...

"When You Sing" by School of Seven Bells

Ever since my post a few days ago about the new School of Seven Bells release, I have been on a School of Seven Bells kick. And I have been returning again and again to their amazing song "When You Sing" from their album "Ghostory." It starts in a dreamy, ambient space but launches into a driving, powerful trajectory while still retaining a gauzy drone--and the contrast between the dynamic rhythm and Alejandra Dehaza's floating, smooth, long tones is delicious.

http://www.sviib.com/