Ambient, drone and new age are all genres that are hard for the uninitiated to wrap their heads around. But these formerly inaccessible genres have been raising their profiles to a remarkable degree ...

With a heavy heart, I tuned into a Brexit debate on the BBC one recent evening. A mix of old Japanese ambient music I had stumbled across online was playing quietly in the background. Originally ...

Coming in the wake of a stunning series of essential Haruomi Hosono reissues, Light in the Attic is continuing with its Japan Archival Series, announcing the new electronic-geared compilation Kankyō ...

Without question, we live in a reissue age. From eccentric soul to spiritual jazz and Italian library, Afrobeat, abstract minimalism and far beyond, few rocks have been left unturned in music's vast ...

Light In The Attic has announced details of a compilation collecting music from a number of the finest Japanese composers of ambient and new age music. Co-compiled by Visible Cloaks’ Spencer Doran, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Erik Satie premiered what he called “Furniture Music”, he was shocked at his audience’s attentiveness, and ...

One of the big complaints of the Spotify era is that music is everywhere, and not in a good way. We all live against an endless wallpaper backdrop of music; there’s a nagging undercoat of sound that ...

A conversation with Michelle Zauner on making the game’s music A conversation with Michelle Zauner on making the game’s music is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...