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For the single “Pathways,” Eric Angelo Bessel offers different setting of inspiration than perhaps the most cosmic outer reaches of his previous album Mirror at Night (2025). The lead track from the forthcoming Illusion of an Inland Ocean is paired with a music video of a scene from the near deep ocean with air bubbles and swimming sea creatures drifting by and embodying the motes of harmonic tone and shifting drones conveying both distance and a tactile intimacy of mood. If you’ve ever taken the time to sit in bodies of water and listened you’ll become aware of a different dynamic of existence and a new level of sensory experience which is part of the reason for how sensory deprivation tanks affect various people and their headspace and state of consciousness. The title “Pathways” suggests a journey into another place and another frame of mind but with a calm spirit and sense of being guided by intuition and trust in larger forces beyond standard human cognition. Its sounds shimmer and phase and coax the listener into the next realm Bessel has to offer on the rest of the album. Fans of Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983) will be mesmerized by the forthcoming album Illusion of an Inland Ocean out on October 30, 2026 for digital download, streaming and double LP. Watch the video for “Pathways” on YouTube and follow Eric Angelo Bessel at the links provided.

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Eric Angelo Bessel’s enigmatic ambient track “Secret Lake” from his newly released album Visitation (April 21, 2023 via Lore City Music on LP and digital) hits like memories of waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with a strange TV show on called The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits and catching only a section with beautifully evocative music and a black and white scene of an alien landscape or a walking on a strange landscape no earth and having no narrative framing to place what you’re seeing, just the emotional resonance where your brain is mixing dreams with the conscious mind before you get back to sleep. The sound of bell tones and background drones as the slow and tactile melody runs its course in hypnotic patterns and echoing ever so slightly like the theme music to Days of Our Lives but far too off into psychedelic dreamspace to tap into the mundanity of a daytime drama. Yet the song in its evolving repetitions feels like something intimately familiar with fond associations yet tantalizing and paradoxically comforting. It’s a unique composition in the realm of ambient music which can often utilize the same sound sources and same-y arrangements. It’s like the soundtrack to a lost episode of The Twilight Zone which we all wish we could see or from the buried fifth season of Channel Zero. Listen to “Secret Lake” on YouTube and follow Lore City Music, Bessel’s label with his wife Laura Mariposa Williams, at the links below.