Marcus Fischer - willamette River (Flaming Pines, 2011)

This is very much like the other releases by Marcus Fischer, bright but austere, not for the headlights but dedicated to semi-shade areas

As part of the 10 three inch CD series "Rivers Home", it is dedicated and inspired by " the path of the Willamette river through Portland, where it passes under a series of bridges, homes and industry before the two rivers meet."

Gareth Dickson - quiet a way a way (12k, 2012)

When folk music meets introspective intimate ambient music you find "Quiet a way a way". With the guitar still playing the first role, so it's mostly a stripped down collection of folk songs complemented with sparse ambient elements in the background, and with some reverb adding a constant foggy blur.

Foreign Fields - anywhere but where i am (2012)

If you miss the disappearance or the lack of new records by The Middle East, Art of Fighting, Firekites or The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digsby Sellers, you may decide to move your eyes towards Nashville, TN, where two transplanted musicians from Wisconsin, Eric Hillman and Brian Holl, record, write and perform the same type of exquisite songs under the alias of Foreign Fields. 

Ben Barrett - sleep might make waiting horses (Absence of Wax, 2012)

Ben Barrett is a London based guitarist from New Zealand, “Sleep Might Make Waiting Horses” is a 14 minutes long ambient drone composition released on the Absent of Wax netlabel.

Wastelanders - cosmic despair (Basses Frequences / Calls and Correspondance / He Who Corrupts, 2012))

"Cosmic Despair" is the second release of Wastelanders, a project of Dean Costello who, apparently is also active as Harpoon or  Diatribes.

We are inside the ambient / drone world, and as the artwork suggests it, with a cosmic atmosphere but luckily not too psychedelic or instrumental, much more abstract, contemplative and introspective.