Delving fully into the ambient world, here are four tracks free to download.

Memory Fen evokes quiet mediation with looping, improvisational guitar recorded on a rainy day in Spring. Life in the Pacific Northwest is full of rainy days and the odd sun break. We often take late afternoon walks through a serene landscape of cedar and vine maple, birch and lavender, ferns and fens, and tall reeds on the beaver pond in the temperate rainforest we call home.

Tourmaline wanders between winding soundscapes, discovering common ground in cascading echoes, billowing crescendos, and indicolite flourishes - searching for sunlight and fresh air, emerging from the fecund coils of shadow and moss, still covered in fungus and frost.

Arezzo started out as a bit of a lark - using the so-called “solfeggio frequencies” to see if I could make something musical. Ultimately, I found them interesting and useful - and I hope you do as well. Named for the 11th century Benedictine monk, Guido D’Arezzo who dreamed up staff notation (among other musical innovations). The specific frequencies the synth pulses in this track are tuned to have nothing to do with him, but I’ll leave you discover their origin for yourself if you choose to pursue that rabbit hole.

Sorrow descends like fog in the night - a plaintive, mournful melody over a muted drone, falling deeper and deeper into the darkness. This one might get away from “ambient” music in the strictest sense, revealing its kinship with postrock and alternative, but finds a comfortable home in the forest undergrowth.