Kowalski Room

Organic Matter

Slow, mysterious, atmospheric soundscapes.

Phasing layers of found sounds, field recordings and recycled motifs.

Watch the video for the track Organic Matter: YouTube

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

High in the Sky

Slow and ethereal phasing ambient music.

The twentieth Kowalski Room album is deeply ambient.
Phasing layers of found sounds, field recordings and recycled motifs.

Postcards from the Future

A slow, atmospheric ambient journey through love and loss.
The music is at times peaceful, dramatic and emotive.

Phasing layers of found sounds, field recordings and recycled motifs.

Watch the video for One Night on Capistrano Beach: YouTube | Vimeo

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

A Beginner's Guide to Psychonautics

Phasing layers of found sounds, field recordings and recycled motifs.

This is probably most psychedelic Kowalski Room album to date.
It is peaceful, swirling and drifting music that gets into your mind.

Drifting and Phasing - an Ambient Introduction to Kowalski Room

An introduction to the experimental ambient music of Kowalski Room.

Over the past few years, I have been exploring minimalism. My music tends to sound expansive. I've been looking at ways to use less ingredients in music and just how little I can use to still create an interesting and pleasing piece of music.

In the summer of 2017, I begin experimenting with phasing, a technique used by Steve Reich in his piece 'It's Gonna Rain'. I don't have access to two reel to reel tapes recorders so my experiments were purely digital and used a range of techniques similar but not quite the same of Steve Reich.

I start with a short clip - music, field recordings or found sounds - and loop it. It is usually something quite simple but with some interesting colours. I play a second loop of the same thing over the top but slightly out of sync. The two layers of the same sound then interact and create new atmospheres, rhythms and motifs. I find it mesmerising. It means that a short clip, sometimes only a few seconds in length, can become a very long piece of experimental ambient music.

At first, I did not reveal who was making this music. I felt my identity might come with a lot of preconceptions about what the music should be. While most of this is ambient, some is much more experimental - looping barely heard conversations, layers of a delivery truck reversing or the sound of water rolling along the side of a lake. I wanted to be free to experiment.

Now that I feel like Kowalski Room has its own identity, I am happy to reveal who is squirreling away, making this music.

I'm really proud of this project. It is the kind of music I need to create. I hope you enjoy it too. There is plenty more to come.

City in the Sky

Our second CD release!

A very slow and chilled atmospheric ambient album.

The music is created by layering phased recordings, deploying a technique similar to the one Steve Reich used in 'It's Gonna Rain'.

The result is a mysteriously organic and ethereal album of largely peaceful music.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

A Walk in the Park

Our first CD release!

Peaceful and serene.

An album of quiet, reflective ambient music.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

The Dance

A somewhat dramatic and atmospheric ambient album inspired by the changing of the seasons from the cold of winter, the hope and new colours of spring and the slow heat of summer.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Modern Urban Starlight

A peaceful and drifting, atmospheric ambient album.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Temple of Light

Slow, ethereal and majestic.
Music given time to breathe.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Watch the video for Breathe

Talking at the Same Time

Layered phasing loops of pianos, baritone guitar and a few thousand residents of northern Arizona feature in this cinematic ambient album.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

The Light Programme

A very peaceful phasing ambient album of found sounds, field recordings and recycled motifs formed into one long, warm song to soothe your soul.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Aberrations

It starts in mono. It spreads and circles around your head.
It is mysterious. It is strangely peaceful and soothing.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

We Are Travelling The Endless Highway

The heartbeat of life pulses through this blissful album.
There are ethereal drones, whispering voice and an epic glittering crescendo.

Layered, phasing ambient and experimental music.

We recently recorded a session of Bing Satellites Mostly Ambient Radio Show which contained different versions of some of the music on this album. You can find those at kowalskiroom.com/albums/versions/

Tales of Winter

Dark day and long nights.
Cold outside viewed from the warmth of a fire.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Versions: A Mostly Ambient Radio Session

A session recorded especially for Bing Satellites Mostly Ambient Radio Show
Details: www.bingsatellites.com/radio/

Track 1: exclusive to this session (at least for now)
Tracks 2 & 3: original versions can be found on the upcoming album We Are Travelling The Endless Highway

Joy

A chilled, mesmerising and sometimes dramatic ambient album.

Lose yourself in the layered sounds.
Find joy in losing yourself.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Two Minutes from Forever

A very chilled ambient album.

Blurred visions of nature.
Blurred sounds of piano and strings.
Phased layers of recycled motifs.

Fading Memories

Layered strings. Distant pianos.
Phasing and drifting.

An album of peaceful and atmospheric ambience.

I Can See Colours

An epic journey of slow, layered ambient soundscapes.

Joy and sadness.
Voices and orchestras.
Sounds of nature and the city.

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

Life in Pictures

Layered minimalist ambient music.
Field recordings, found sounds, recycled motifs.

A peaceful and atmospheric ambient album.

Swansong

Minimalist experimental ambient music.
Layered, repeating motifs. Melodic textures and intriguing sounds.

Dear listener, we have arranged these sounds in a way that we hope will give you pleasure. Of course, for some listeners, this may not be the case. Some of the sounds you hear may not be what your expect from an album of music. Some of you will question whether this is even music at all.

Who knows? We certainly don't have a definitive answer for you.

All we know is we enjoyed making this album and hope you enjoy it too.