In this program, we’ll be representing two very experiential expressions of ambient music with our two featured artists. Spanish ambient artist David Cordero illuminates the first half of the program with his meditatively slow blooms of warm sound from his new release “Numen”, and the dynamic duo that is CoH and Wladimir Schall take us to deeply experimental territory with their amalgamation of neoclassical music and avant-garde sound design with their homage to Erik Satie and John Everall from their album “COVERS”.
Plus new music from Silence & The Unwinking Minds, Aries Mond, øjeRum, Mr Kit and more. Strap in and make yourself comfortable. Join us for the next hour for global ambient music, on The Relay Station.
Artist information
David Cordero
David Cordero is an an ambient musician hailing from Cádiz, Spain, situated in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, and is busy as they come with his time split between his musical ambitions as a prolific ambient musician with roughly 50 releases to his name, and is the driving force behind the ambient music label No Ray Records. He’s the sort of artist that devotes much patience and dedication to his work, as is reflected in his newest release, “Numen”. In Cordero’s own words, “’Numen’ is built upon silence, textures, and suspended atmospheres. Inspired by minimalism, the album explores delicacy and transience... each piece inviting a serene listening experience, opening a contemplative space where the invisible resonates between notes.” And that’s no exaggeration — “Numen” is in absolutely no hurry to express itself, with meditatively slow atmospheric blooms of warm sound, introspective field recordings that help one settle in for the listening experience, and minimalist modular synthesis. In some respects the album bears all the hallmarks of Japanese minimalist ambient music, where the pace of the music’s evolution is like watching a flower unfold to greet the day — and the beauty is well worth the wait. From his album “Numen”, here’s David Cordero with the track “Suspensión”, here on The Relay Station.
https://davidcordero.bandcamp.com/https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/
CoH & Wladimir Schall
Electronic music polymath Ivan Pavlov (who operates under the project name CoH) and composer, orchestrator, and Musique Concretist Wladimir Schall have teamed up to create a truly unique listening escapade through their Hallow Ground release, “COVERS”. Although an homage to John Everall and Erik Satie, these two multi-faceted artists were not content to merely reinterpret the works of Everall and Satie, but made it their goal to re-imagine their works. This seven-song album was conceived as a series of maneuvers with an ambition to expose the machinery of music in detail and with utter honesty, without making up for the faults of its traditional instruments or of the compositions themselves. The pieces are more than just musical compositions, they are Pavlov’s and Schall’s free-spirited exploration of the relationship between composed sound, abrasive textures, sonic spatial relationships, and the ephemeral space between each musical choice they make. It’s an imaginative amalgamation of neoclassical sensibilities with experimental and avant-garde sound design. Their use of soft noise, minimalist piano motifs, gritty 8-bit like textures, and the wide stereoscopic range makes for a listening experience that I’m certain would captivate the attention of both Everall and Satie — and certainly has left me enamored with their level of imagination and freedom to explore without inhibition. From their album “COVERS”, here’s CoH and Wladimir Schall with the track “Merry Xmas Mr Erik”, here on The Relay Station.
https://cohemego.bandcamp.com/https://wladimir.bandcamp.com/https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/
Playlist
* [0:00] INTRODUCTION
* [01:32] "Orator" by Silence & The Unwinking Minds from "Emulsion" (Soundghost, 2025)
* [05:28] "Edge Angles" by Aries Mond from "Edge Angles" (Whitelabrecs, 2025)
* [09:37] "Født Af Ukendt Sol" by øjeRum from "Ensomheden Vi Deler" (IIKKI, 2025)
* [13:24] Featured Artist Segment
* [15:17] "Suspensión" by David Cordero from "Numen" (No Ray Records, 2025)
* [18:25] "Visits From The Shadow" by Mr Kit from "Glimmers" (Heart Dance Records, 2025)
* [20:13] "I'll Stay With You Tonight" by Diogene & Le Code from "Back Together" (Mare Nostrum, 2025)
* [23:46] "Mirach" by Christian Wittman from "Andromeda" (Independent, 2026)
* [29:34] Featured Artist Segment
* [31:38] "MERRY XMAS MR ERIK" by CoH & Wladimir Schall from "COVERS" (Hallow Ground, 2025)
* [36:56] "Chapter V – Discipline" by Michael D. Tidwell and Piscean Daydreams from "Natura" (Independent / Identity Music, 2025)
* [41:47] "Cascades (Horizon)" by Jason van Wyk from "Horizon" (n5MD, 2025)
* [46:22] "Oneiric" by Offthesky from "Nocturnas" (Laaps Records, 2025)
* [54:08] "Modus Operandi" by Sun Rain from "Solar Return: Gollden Hour Mix" (Imaginary North Records, 2025)
Addressing the issue of Carbon emissions and global climate change
Global CO₂ emissions reached a record high of 37.8 billion metric tons (Gt CO₂) in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), driven primarily by rising use of natural gas (up 2.5%) and coal (up 0.9%), particularly in China, India, and the United States.
Emissions from fossil fuel combustion grew by 1% in 2024, while industrial process emissions declined slightly. Despite progress in clean energy deployment, emissions continue to outpace natural carbon sinks, with about half of human-caused CO₂ emissions absorbed by oceans and land ecosystems, leaving the rest to accumulate in the atmosphere.
Atmospheric CO₂ levels hit a new record high of 422.7 parts per million (ppm) in 2024, up 3.75 ppm from 2023—the largest annual increase ever recorded.
This reflects a 50% rise since pre-industrial times (1750), with carbon dioxide now 150% higher than in 1750, far exceeding natural increases seen during the end of the last ice age.
Top contributors to atmospheric CO₂:
* China: Largest annual emitter, with emissions growing 0.4% in 2024, driven by heatwaves, industrial growth, and energy demand.
* United States: Second-largest emitter, with emissions down 0.5% in 2024 due to declining coal use, but natural gas emissions rose.
* India: Fastest-growing emitter among major economies, with a 5.3% increase in 2024, driven by economic expansion and extreme heat.
Join me in supporting these and other highly effective, highly rated organizations that are tackling climate change-related issues. You can also learn more about how you can take practical steps in reducing your own emissions — beyond using reusable grocery bags and energy-efficient lightbulbs. Those are good things, but not nearly enough. Learn more at stolace.com/sustainability.
Other happenings in ambient music
Have you seen Abul Mogard’s collaboration with Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin at Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin? Amazing. Simply amazing. I only wish that it was longer than three minutes and the entirety of the performance.
Related to Abul Mogard, he’s issuing his first physical edition of In a Few Places Along the River as a limited run of 500 vinyl copies. Originally released digitally in 2022, the album now appears in its intended form.
Three long pieces, composed between 2019 and 2022, emerged from Mogard’s meticulous experimentation with analogue and digital instruments. Slowly evolving harmonic fields of layered drones and spectral textures drift across the record, enhanced by reverb from Scotland’s Inchindown oil tanks, which hold the longest reverberation of any man-made structure, giving the music a haunting resonance and a sense of suspended space.
If you were a fan of his album “Quiet Pieces” but failed to get one of the 500 physical copies on vinyl, you can find more copies here at Forced Exposure.
Hammock releases new Blood Moon track
If you’re at all actively following Hammock, this is old news by now. But this past week they released a new single entitled Blood Moon 03.03.26 and released it along with previous Blood Moon tracks.
Steve Roach’s “Sentient Being”
Another great album that’s passed through my feed recently is the new Steve Roach album “Sentient Being”, rich with slow swells and mid/low-range drone goodness.
Isabel Pine’s “Fables” is divine!
If you love string instrument-based ambient and neoclassical music, you’re going to love this one — “Fables” from Isabel Pine. This album crossed my desk and am absolutely loving it — so much so, that I had to own the vinyl!
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