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Stephen Gallagher

Film composer, synth enthusiast, keyboardist in atmospheric rock bands, music editor who has received enthusiastic praise from Brian Eno… Stephen’s adventurous scores will likely often appeal to people looking for ambient music.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Drones, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 21/12/2023

Skud Gambosi

One curious little ambient pop EP features acoustic guitar and psychedelic atmospheres. Perhaps not all the most typical ambient gestures here, but still in the zone.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Glitches, Synths, Voices Decades active: 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 17/09/2023

Gang Violins

A duo creating a mix of dramatic downbeat electronica and electronic washes (perhaps a fancy way of saying “sometimes there are drums, sometimes definitely not”).

Has heaps of: Beats, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Unknown Entry last updated: 17/09/2023

Lower Bar Collective

An Auckland group of improvisers that has been around for more than a decade. Expect shimmering drifts of guitars and a bit of synth on the side.

Has heaps of: Drones, Guitars Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 17/09/2023

RST

RST’s “garden shed psychedelic space drone” is another link between NZ indie and ambient music: before RST, Andrew Moon may have been best known from drumming for The Goblin Mix (Flying Nun) in the 80s. Early RST releases showed up on Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)’s label Ecstatic Peace! and NZ noise label Corpus Hermeticum.

Has heaps of: Drones, Guitars Decades active: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s Location: Christchurch Entry last updated: 17/09/2023

George Johnston

George has self-released a bunch of ambient music in recent years, from the glitchy piano loops of In Perpetuity (2019) to the more smooth and spacious Interpolation (2020).

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Drones, Glitches Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 01/09/2023

Vōtiv

“Improvised soundscapes and dreamscapes”, Ava Althia’s project Vōtiv is sometimes fairly dark ambient, often built around looping voice and field recordings.

Has heaps of: Drones, Voices Decades active: 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 20/08/2023

Peter Hobbs

Peter Hobbs

Auckland soundtrack composer Peter Hobbs has also released solo albums in recent years based around thick synth improvisations and sounds of the natural world, often recorded simultaneously.

Has heaps of: Field recordings, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 14/08/2023

Distance

While they’re a post-rock trio, this Christchurch band sometimes go completely beatless and did a whole album of drifting guitar-led drones recently.

Has heaps of: Drones, Guitars Decades active: 2020s Location: Christchurch Entry last updated: 18/06/2023

Whet Knife

Deep and heavy drones mixed with field recordings of South Island environs. A soundtrack for a Super 8 film that screened in the NZ International Film Festival.

Has heaps of: Drones, Field recordings Decades active: 2010s Location: Invercargill Entry last updated: 18/06/2023

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