On his latest transmission for Whitelabrecs, Andrew Heath transcends his reality tunnel filters, turns his head & peers beyond his bespectacled ambient world view to a time of wide eyed, childhood innocence when all that mattered was chasing the shadows of clouds & your favourite cartoon, comfortingly entering new age of new age territory as he does.

Introspective soundscapes glide through the speaks & hang in the air, peppered with the slightest of piano lines that glisten in the ambient twilight, as recordings of life's surface noise are repurposed to calming & curious sonic ends in this detached, but by no means unsympathetic, ambient LP from Anton Friisgaad on Vaagner. A perfect Sunday morning soundtrack.

South East London soul boys Jonny Drop & Andrew Ashong light one up & dream of 60s Californian counter culture & sunnier studio locations. Propelled by unhurried beats & hammock swinging grooves, layer on layer of THC soaked atmospherics shine through the speakers carrying Ashong's good natured brand of celestial soul that should turn even the most reluctant spring day into summer.

I do like it when new artists comes along & blow my socks off. The latest one to do so is Isabel Pine, a classical trained violist, composer & producer who dropped out of music school. The unguided creative endeavours, free from educational norms & her fondness for soundtracking her natural surroundings in British Columbia are coming together nicely, as she melts stately classical sounds into refined ambient electronica to delight the bucolically challenged.

Deep downtempo vibes are the order of the day courtesy of Rejoicer's new transmission via the Circus Company space station. Get comfortable as he melts all sorts of chillout waywardness, langorous beat science, cosmic soundtracks, futuristic exotica, sleepy psychedelia & technoid probing into an adventurous armchair listen.

Tompkins Square are one of the best old time folk labels around, but they've got their eyes firmly on the road with futuristic singer songwriter Elsa Hewitt, who doesn't even know what a rear view mirror is. Looping multi-instrumental jams she then cranks up the sonic density with layer on layer of accessible avant-electronica, disorientating upending effects & far out field recordings which sweep her cathartic dream pop vocals through the speakers.

Still something of an ambient enigma, Pete Kvidera's new release on Shimmering Moods displays a rare improvisational prowess in a genre characterised by painstaking studio layering. The lightly stoned & carefree synths shimmer & sway in cosmic breezes as stargazing, instrumental minimalism further loosens any tenuous grip on reality. Just the ticket for some Sunday daydreaming.

Nice to hear Bruno Berle back on Far Out Records, with another meandering expression of what Brazilian muisc was, is & could be, albeit with a more organic lean this time round. So jump on the bus as his folk rooted sound expands to fill the possiblilites afforded to him; careering through bedroom bossa, jazz & psyche licked samba, autotuned MPB, lo-fi instrumentals, piano led crooning & sweet, heart on sleeve ballads.

If well disposed ambient music is the order of your Sunday, then tune into new Japanese label teinei, who've just announced themselves to the world with two wonderful releases. Tanaka's contribution is a smooth, blissful, lightly shimmering lullaby; whereas Nakumura opts for enchanted minimalism, rich in precision placed instrumental snippets & a more lean forward, yet equally serene & sedentary aesthetic.

If well disposed ambient music is the order of your Sunday, then tune into new Japanese label teinei, who've just announced themselves to the world with two wonderful releases. Tanaka's contribution is a smooth, blissful, lightly shimmering lullaby; whereas Nakumura opts for enchanted minimalism, rich in precision placed instrumental snippets & a more lean forward, yet equally serene & sedentary aesthetic.

Dream teams don't always deliver, but TSMM faves Shabason, Krgovich & Sage have created something greater than the sum of their parts after convening at Sage's new Colorado barn studio. The talent & respect is palpable as Shabason & Sage playfully & succinctly weave new age noodles into oddball ethereal tapestries that elevate Krgovich's wry, twinkled eyed observations & reminiscences into an ambient sloth-pop masterpiece.

Spring is springing, & with its warm West African rooted sound the new LP from Jembaa Groove via Agogo is hitting the seasonal change sweet spot . The laid back, good natured grooves are variously given some Afrobeat bump, smooth soul infusions & all sorts of jazz licks by the multi-cultural Berlin crew. If you need some warm, laid back grooves this weekend then look no further.

Home Normal is undoubtedly one of the finest ambient labels on the planet, & Ian Hawgood has added the sonic sparkle to most of The Slow Music Movement catalogue. Reaching 15 years is an amazing achievement, so huge congratulations.
Tune in, turn on & chill out.