For the final Ambient Hour of the year I bring you ten tracks of beautiful, introspective ambience. Please have a read of the track notes to learn more about the artists and their music. And why not share this show with a friend, it’s like a free Christmas Present. 🎁 Track listSolar Phasing, Gaia Pulse Taken from: Mother Earth (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Gaia Pulse is a Berlin School music for Mother Earth Project album. Solar Phasing is a French composer and sound designer specializing in ambient, experimental electronic, and modular synthesis. His music is crafted for immersive experiences across TV, documentaries, video games, and art installations, offering listeners a journey through sonic landscapes that are both meditative and exploratory. His compositions often evoke space, introspection, and emotional resonance. Slow-evolving textures, minimalistic rhythms, and atmospheric depth. Rich in modular synthesis, tuned frequencies (notably 432 Hz), and sonic experimentation. Arrival In Eden, Meet Me in My Dreams Taken from: Field of Memories (Ambient Cat) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Field of Memories is a deeply personal journey through time, capturing the essence of childhood innocence, life’s transitions, and the emotions woven into growing up. Each composition drifts like a warm breeze over an open field at dusk—calm, reflective, and filled with nostalgia. With delicate melodies and atmospheric soundscapes, this album invites you to sit in the stillness of the evening, letting memories unfold like distant echoes in the wind. Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 1) Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Lost Weekend is a 70-minute piece in two parts. The piece utilises a collection of field recordings made by Mortality Tables co-founder Mat Smith during a three-month separation from his family in 2020. These recordings were handed to Audio Obscura (Neil Stringfellow) almost five years later, in an effort to provide him with inspiration to work through a period of creative burn-out. The result is presented as a mixtape comprising memory and catharsis, often mournful but also hopeful, built from the original field recordings, strings and sensitive electronics. It stands as a poignant journey through its creators' mental unrest. Lürgid, Grow a Brain Taken from: Zoolology (Burnt Seed Records) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "I’ve been quietly making tracks for a while, each born at a different time, in a different mood, on a different rig. I realised that if I wanted to release them, the album would be a look across genres - a snapshot of the variety that inhabits the medium of sound. So, I settled on the title Zoology. I think of it as a broad study of an ecosystem, with inspiration arriving like animals at the edge of a clearing. Zoology is my study of sonic species and aural organisms. Genre maps to genus, and each piece is a creature of composition collected and curated to show their wild differences and hidden kinships." Wahn, Pale Lake Taken from: Drifted Vol. 4 (FORM@ RECORDS) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Wahn is an electronic music producer based in Rennes, France, crafting immersive soundscapes where ambient textures, deep bass, and subtle rhythms collide. After a long hiatus, he returned with the Drifted series — a sequence of albums released across different labels and countries, exploring rhythmless, slow-motion atmospheres shaped by despair, fragile hope, and heavy sub-bass. Released on After Affects (France), Mahorka (Bulgaria), Adventurous Music (Germany), and most recently FORM@ RECORDS (Japan), the series has gained recognition for its emotional weight, organic textures, and cinematic depth. While each volume expands its emotional spectrum, Drifted Vol. 4 marks a turning point — less shrouded in darkness, quietly opening toward light. Wahn’s music feels like a film unfolding in sound — deeply introspective, physical, and hauntingly human. Special Effects Department, Uneven ground Taken from: Undetected Elements (Endless Geometry) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "For these tracks, I've been experimenting with blending orchestral instruments with field recordings, with influences from ambient jazz, meditative drone and psych." Cristóbal Ochoa Gurrzt, Surreal foundry Taken from: Landscapes of a trip (Self released) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "Landscapes of a trip (July 2020) is a concept album about an imaginary trip to the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) so each piece of this album is a landscape of the journey.' Take Me There, Murre (a reflection on trauma) ft. David Aimone Taken from: Nine Reflections: Music For Cats (Passed Recordings) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. "If there is something that has always been consistent in my life, its the love for cats and animals in general. Over my life I have had many different cats as pets, and this album is for them. Each track is named after one of my cats, and is a reflection over a theme relevant to that period of my life that I shared with that cat. This album, released through Passed Recordings, has a limited tape release available to buy on ampwall or bandcamp. The music has been created through synths, keyboard, field recordings and samples. Artwork and vocals by Evelina Elfving, my beloved. Also big thanks to Leafblighter and David Aimone for featuring on a track each." Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 3) Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Mat Smith: "On Sunday 6 September, in the epicentre of a breakdown, I packed up my shitty Ford Fiesta with some clothes, a few books, a bottle of whisky, a laptop and a speaker, moved out from my wife and daughters, and drove down to Penzance to move in with my parents. Penzance became my home for the three months that I called my ‘lost weekend’. It turned out to be more than just a home: it became a place of healing. During the first week, a close friend and someone I would regard as the true architect of the Mortality Tables project, the anonymous Creative Consultant, suggested that I buy a portable recording device and document the separation. His idea was to channel my energies into something creative while also trying to figure out the mess that my head had become. The process of recording these field recordings gave me focus and purpose, mundane, uneventful, naïve and badly-recorded though they largely were. The sounds that appear underneath Neil Stringfellow’s music are from a large archive that built up over that period." Dave Clarkson, Reflections On Stained Glass Taken from: The Ghosts Of Christmas Past And The Effects On Mental Health (Mortality Tables) © All rights reserved. Used with permission. Frequent Mortality Tables collaborator Dave Clarkson (Scissorgun) returns with a follow-up to his 2023 feative album. Whereas the first album was playful, using the sounds of forgotten toys, ‘Ghosts Of Christmas Past & The Effect On Mental Health’ reflects pensively on the passage of time. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. 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