Brand new album from Sunbeam42

Part of the American ambient music sphere, Sunbeam42 brings her own ethereal sound and artistic vision to the instrumental scene. Since first unveiling her sonic vision in 2020 with the debut release called Journey – EP, the producer and visual artist has been building a body of work based in ambient and new age traditions filtered through her experimental lens.

Her music is a mystic channel that balances reflective calm with adventurous textures, offering mesmeric musical moments to get completely lost in. As well as providing atmospheric listening, her compositions act as portals; meditations of her spiritual inner world and the collective soul we all share. Profoundly inspired by nature, fantasy and mysticism, she crafts soundscapes that are at once soothing and richly imaginative and playfully inquisitive.

Every piece is offered as a gesture toward connection with ourselves, with others and with the living Earth beneath our feet. With nine albums and a second EP forming her extensive catalogue, Sunbeam42 now unveils her latest offering with the brand new seven-track record titled Land After Rain, Pt. 2. As the title suggests, it’s a sequel to an earlier project and continues her exploration of nature as a spiritual force that both nurtures and speaks.

Like much of her work, the album is born from her belief in Earth’s intelligence and her own reverence for its rhythms. It’s a meditative reflection on the world after renewal, the silence after storms, the shimmer of wet leaves and the fertile stillness that follows release.

Set up by the soft swell of airy textures on title track “Land After Rain, Pt. 2,” rain clouds gather as the quiet rumble of thunder and distant chirps of birds form a transportive soundscape. Gradually developing with the muted bubble of chiming tones, the opening piece delivers an absorbing listening experience that perfectly introduces the calming intentions of the album.

“Elemental Stillness” brings a blissful wash of sweeping, stretched tones while “Seeing the World Clearly” adds a sense of motion in its delicate rise and fall of drifting instrumentation. With “Terrestrial Seas,” Sunbeam42 offers an expansive seven minute outing of soporific ambient elements that slips the listener into a state of pensive reflection.

On “Drifts of Life,” the sustained texture of floating notes is gently brushed with shifting elements to create a sound that hangs in the air and fully immerses you. “Grasslands, Pt. 2” follows, leaning into a subtly moody scene with the hazy drone of bass met with the resonant shine of glistening textures. Closing the album with “Remembering What You Knew Before You Were Born,” Sunbeam42 brings the release full circle, adding atmospheric touches of nature samples to craft a graceful and satisfying finale to her superb new record.

Listen to Land After Rain, Pt. 2 below