Evening Embers Rise
Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor.
Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Evening Embers Rise is based on the track Rise by The Peace Race, from the album Shelter, which comes out on July 1 via the fantastic Mortality Tables label. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe.
So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help.
Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 haruka nakamura – 彼方
A tender, shimmering piano-led piece from the Twilight era. Delicate melodies drift like distant memories across a soft, glowing haze—intimate, melancholic, and quietly luminous Japanese ambient at its most poetic.
00:03:00 NOT WAVING – Emotion 1.7 Cleanse
Cool, immersive electronic ambient from the Futuro project. Clean, spacious synth layers and subtle rhythmic undercurrents create a detached, cleansing atmosphere—minimal yet emotionally resonant.
00:08:52 Hollie Kenniff – Embers
Warm, glowing ambient with soft, flickering textures and gentle melodic fragments. Like the last light of a dying fire, it feels comforting, introspective, and healing—perfectly suited to its compilation’s mental health theme.
00:11:18 Rhucle & morimoto naoki – Kubomi
Subtle, layered ambient with intimate field recordings and warm tonal washes. “Kubomi” (hollow/depression) evokes quiet introspection and nostalgic reminiscence through delicate, overlapping soundscapes.
00:13:35 Tom Leclerc – Ker Diary #3
Gentle, diary-like ambient improvisation. Soft synths and organic textures unfold with a personal, reflective quality—peaceful and slightly wistful.
00:15:41 Slow Dancing Society – Do You Remember Me Like I Remember You
Nostalgic, emotionally charged ambient/post-rock drift. Swelling drones and distant melodic echoes explore memory, longing, and the bittersweet ache of recollection.
00:20:53 theAdelaidean – Deep Dreams at the End of the Earth
Vast, cinematic ambient that feels isolated and dreamlike. Deep, resonant tones and airy textures paint a picture of remote, otherworldly solitude.
00:45:14 JICS – monsoon evening
Humid, atmospheric ambient capturing the quiet tension and relief of a monsoon night. Warm drones, subtle rain-like textures, and gentle nostalgia blend into a reflective mood.
00:46:28 Oora – Un Giorno
Flowing, windswept ambient from Vento (“Wind”). Light, breathy textures and organic movement evoke a single day carried on gentle breezes—ethereal and meditative.
00:51:15 Omni Gardens & Zen Monk Jogen – Lifestyle Slow Motion
Laid-back, meditative ambient with slow-evolving tones and a peaceful, almost playful serenity. Perfect “meditation tonality” that invites deep relaxation.
01:10:26 The Peace Race – Rise
Uplifting yet restrained ambient/drone work. Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
01:13:17 Stray Wool – Skins
Textural, intimate ambient focused on organic layers and subtle shifts. Feels raw and vulnerable, like shedding old layers in sound form.
01:15:46 Volker Rapp – Out of my Mind
Synth-driven, cinematic ambient with a futuristic, slightly dystopian edge (from a Blade Runner 2099 tribute). Immersive and atmospheric.
01:16:25 Richard Norris – Grains Of Light
Delicate, shimmering ambient from the Deep Listening series. Tiny grains of glowing sound accumulate into a beautiful, meditative whole—precise and luminous.
01:18:36 Émérance – Dans une telle immobilité
Still, contemplative ambient exploring deep immobility. Sparse, resonant tones create a profound sense of presence and quiet suspension.
01:26:59 Loopatronica – Helen Of Four Gates part 1
Long-form, evolving drone/ambient with hypnotic, looping structures. Mythic and immersive, it slowly unfolds like an ancient, unfolding ritual.
01:56:25 Luke Sanger – Snow In Spring
https://lukesanger.bandcamp.com/track/snow-in-spring
Delicate, wintry ambient with soft melodic touches. Evokes the surprise and beauty of unexpected snow during warmer days—gentle and bittersweet.
01:59:38 Minimal_drone grl – At the Edge
Sparse, edge-of-perception drone work. Minimal textures hover at the boundary of sound and silence, creating tension and deep focus.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 151
6 December 2025
“Hello all. Episode one-five-one of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Lands Lonely Uniform. That’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious.
I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes, two virtual sides, fifteen tracks each. In this episode you’ll hear awakened souls, The Green Kingdom, Slow Dancing Society, and Ogle. The Cromagnon Band brings echoes of Hadley’s Hope, while Jason Singh and Dreamlake Mists drift into experimental soundscapes. On the B side, Prefaces, David Boulter, and my own track Cult Foam Cardiac appear alongside autumna and Sababa 5 with Canay Doğan.
Labels like Neotantra, whitelabrecs, and Imaginary North are part of the orbit, carrying ambient, drone, and ethereal textures. Sounds move from shoegaze and dreampop to kosmische electronics and improvisational jazz. From London to Melbourne, Toronto to Beirut, these transmissions stretch across places and moods, shaping a library of resonance.
The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
awakened souls – remember when – 01:54
Willebrant – Galaxiidae – 04:22
Mosaicist – Lifted Aloft In Mist – 07:07
E J R M – Crab Apples – 10:44
The Green Kingdom – Mirror Realm – 12:39
Scholars of the Peak – A Breath Held – 15:36
Slow Dancing Society – Retrograde – 18:05
Ogle – Dream 2 – 22:53
The Cromagnon Band – Hadley’s Hope – 25:25
Eliot Krimsky – Through The Feeling – 28:32
Clone Rainbow – Elster – 31:38
Jason Singh – Money Plant – 33:35
Dreamlake Mists – Mist-Infested Fallacies – 37:09
Jogging House – Noodles – 42:05
Mike Casey – Space Chill (WPAA TV Session) – 42:57
B Side – 46:54
Prefaces – Jaro – 47:25
David Boulter – The Abbey at Dusk – 50:18
Trevlad – Cult Foam Cardiac – 53:16
Silence & The Unwinking Minds – Emanate – 55:39
Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz – Moon – 58:14
The Tin Box – Moving Bliss (Movement IV) – 1:01:36
autumna – promethean – 1:04:47
Alex Ringess – NYAD (Not Yet Another Drone) – 1:07:53
Brian Jackson – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Instrumental) – 1:11:02
Andrew Brenza / alka – Chapter 1 – 1:14:05
odd person – sunken gardens, sunken thoughts – 1:17:24
Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan – Gaip – 1:19:55
shn shn – one after another – 1:23:12
Omni Gardens – Salt Lamp – 1:26:04
x.y.r. – all i want is calm – 1:29:00
Outro – 1:32:40
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