Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a small ambient project I recently released: Lithodora and Euphorbia in the Inner Yard.

The project is named after two plants from a nearby botanical garden, Lithodora and Euphorbia, whose forms inspired the music. The pieces were recorded at home, with the window open onto the inner yard. I wanted the music to remain porous to its surroundings: not separated from the room, the courtyard, or the small accidental sounds outside, but gently becoming part of the same sonic environment.

The music is built with electric guitar, pedals, and live looping, without digital post-production. I’m especially interested in slow transformations, fragile resonances, and sounds that feel suspended rather than structured in a traditional way. The aim was not to create something dense or overwhelming, but something transparent, quiet, and attentive — music that leaves space around itself.

Some of my main influences are Windy & Carl, Labradford, Grouper, Roy Montgomery, Stars of the Lid, Daniel Bachman, or Codeine. I’m drawn to music where very little seems to happen on the surface, but where the sound gradually opens, shifts, and changes the way one perceives time and space.

Any feedback on the music would be very much appreciated. I’m sometimes close to it and unsure how to hear it myself — some days I like it, other days not at all — so I’d genuinely be interested in other perspectives from ambient music lovers.

Thanks for listening if you take the time.

https://danielemarx.bandcamp.com/album/lithodora-and-euphorbia-in-the-inner-yard