Next Shows

Wed, 10/28 – CARRBORO, NC – All Day Records – 919Noise, curated by Bryce Eiman – with my dark ambient duo Clouds Without Water

Sat, 11/14 – ASHEVILLE, NC – Warren Wilson College – Swannatopia presents Boom Boom Barns, an ambient farm stroll and light show

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Angela Winter is a musical artist who creates ambient, experimental, and ritual music for thresholds, where synths, keys, and strings meet otherworldly vocals, hypnotic drones, and shimmering overtones. Her music has been described as “beautifully haunting” (Bandcamp Daily) and featured in First Floor by Shawn Reynaldo, zensounds by Stephan Kunze, and The Moderns by Kevin Press. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and in addition to her own shows and festival performances, she has shared stages with Norman Westberg (Swans) and John Cale (The Velvet Underground).

ambient • experimental • ritual • drone • ethereal • noise

Anti-Authoritarian ASMR

Sounds to set you free

I produce a monthly show on CAMP Radio called Anti-Authoritarian ASMR—sounds to set you free. Expect a mesmerizing mix of ambiance, whispers, and spells for liberation from tyrants without and within. Musical selections include a blend of experimental ambient, drone, deep listening, and atmospheric soundscapes from artists across the globe. Listen to show archives and submit music here.

Next airdate

Sunday, November 8, 2026

8-9 p.m. CEST (in France) / 2-3 p.m. ET (in the U.S.)

Listen

At airtime: listen on CAMP Radio

Afterward: listen on Mixcloud’

Learn

Inspiration & Works Cited for each episode are posted in this archive.

Forbidden Questions In Space (PITP, 2025)

Forbidden Questions In Space is a haunting, koan-inspired journey of ambient, vocal, and drone improvisations. Born from Zen riddles and cosmic wonder, Angela Winter transforms existential dread into spacious, contemplative soundscapes. It asks: How do we meet the world as it is? The result is meditative and stirring, an invitation to let go of certainty and awaken to beauty in the unknown.

Forbidden Questions In Space was featured by Shawn Reynaldo in First Floor; selected by Stephan Kunze for his Best New Ambient (September 2025) round-up in zensounds; and played on The Moderns by Kevin Press. Headphone Commute premiered the track “Saturn, lightly.” More press lifts and kind words are here.

Released 8/27/25 on Past Inside the Present:

Record/Vinyl LP + Digital Album [Limited Edition] in Galactic Petal Pink and Interstellar Night Black
FQIS Mystery Disk + Digital Album [Limited Edition]
Digital Album

Also available at:

🇬🇧 Juno Records
🇬🇧 Norman Records
🇮🇹 Soundohm Records
🇯🇵 Tobira Records
🇺🇸 PITP.US

“Through eight meditative soundscapes, Winter creates a mesmerizing, shimmering web of synths, drones, static noise and ethereal, ritualistic wordless vocalizations. This is not the type of ambient that will dissolve easily into the background – the music invites active listening and rewards open minds with a breath-taking journey into a rich and awe-eliciting sound world.” —Stephan Kunze, zensounds

“Delving into a drone-heavy strain of ambient, the North Carolina-based artist will inevitably draw comparisons to Enya, but Winter’s music is both darker and more introspective, most notably during the mesmerizing eight-plus minutes of slow-brewing LP opener “erthe.” Elegantly gliding atop the low rumble of the song’s underlying thunderclouds, her voice takes on an almost ceremonial quality, as though she’s summoning an ancient force that’s better suited to help her make sense of the universe.” —Shawn Reynaldo, First Floor

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MID SKY
by zakè & Angela Winter

“Though many artists are inspired by nature, few have painted its greatest wonder the way zakè and Angela Winter have. I hope we keep on seeing collaborations of this scale: ambient music is at its best when dealing with themes and landscapes so deep it takes hours to reach the bottom.” —Cyclic Defrost

Released 8/1/24 by Past Inside the Present

Numbered Digipak CD + Digital
“Mid Sky” + “Tenebris” EP CD [exclusive mix]
Paper Booklet + Digital

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