Mirror at Night (2025 Eric Angelo Bessel album)

Eric Angelo Bessel’s Textural Ambient “Pathways” is an Illuminated Journey Through Dark Spaces

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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 “Double Helix” is a Cosmic Ambient Journey Into Deep Inner Space

Eric Angelo Bessel will release Mirror at Night B-Sides on March 27, 2026 (7” vinyl, digital download, streaming), a companion EP to the fantastic 2025 full-length ambient record Mirror at Night. The lead single from the EP is “Double Helix.” The song shimmers and roils with bright tones suggestive of the image conjured by the title. It feels like a constantly shifting iteration of sounds like a cycle drawn from the mechanics of the life and the universe itself and expressed in sound. A deep listen reveals that Bessel has put into the track actual movements and shifts in tone that ensure it has a fresh resonance the next time the more amplified sound swirls back into the foreground. Fans of Robert Rich and Steven Roach will appreciate how Bessel imbues his tonal composition with a textural element that anchors the music in a tactile aspect of sound. Listen to “Double Helix” on YouTube and follow Eric Angelo Bessel at the links below.

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Eric Angelo Bessel’s Ethereal Ambient Single “Non-digetic Sound” Evokes a Sense of Mystery and Connection

Eric Angelo Bessel’s latest album Mirror at Night just released on October 31, 2025. For an album filled with elegantly and carefully crafted harmonic drones and flowing, resonating, abstract textures the track “Non-digetic Sound” both embodies and identifies the character of the entire album. The title refers to the incidental music in a film that the viewers but not the characters can hear. It provides emotional content that helps to enhance and sometimes establish the mood of the film in a non-verbal way that isn’t always obvious with the plot. The aforementioned song by Bessel is in a constant state of unfolding with a sustained sense of illuminated memories that come into the mind in peak moments that seem to parallel what’s happening before you. It’s a sense of wonder and connection that feels ethereal, mysterious and special. Bessel seems to have tapped into these often unspoken experiences that we comprehend but can’t always put into words, especially not in short. The music works on a similar level that Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks does by capturing the moment and the feelings precisely without the need for verbal explanation. Listen to “Non-digetic Sound” on YouTube and follow Eric Angelo Bessel along with his other project Lore City at the links below.

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Eric Angelo Bessel’s Ambient Single “Scavengers” is an Enigmatic and Haunted Evocation of the Mysteries of Hidden Depths

Eric Angelo Bessel is half of Portland, Oregon-based, ambient post-punk experimenters Lore City. With solo work the sound palette is more abstract and ahead of the October 31, 2025 release of his second solo album Mirror at Night, Bessel offers the single “Scavengers.” All the sound sources have a quality as though having passed through the ocean before reaching your ears so that the tonal lines don’t doppler so much as they might with the wind but resonate in a linger and trailing manner. Like an impossible piano being played at the bottom of the ocean with its notes intact, a Phantom of the Opera of the depths, a piece for the lost episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau in which the crew discovers the entrance to the ruins of Atlantis or at least their showcasing the wonders of the underwater constructions of Nan Madol. There is something of a spirit of wonder to the track as much as it is enigmatic and when it’s over all too soon it leaves you yearning for more of the mysterious side of our world not yet completely mundaned by overexposure. Listen to “Scavengers” on YouTube and follow Eric Angelo Bessel at the links below. Mirror at Night will be available on limited edition 12” vinyl, digital download and streaming.