The best ambient music has two distinct ways of pulling you in. On one hand, the genre’s purpose is to wash over you or to pass you by. The clue is in the name: ambient music is in the ether, it is furniture, made for semi-conscious immersion rather than immediate connection. But it can connect. There are those rare albums that achieve a second way, albums that, despite their slowness or their beatlessness, somehow become utterly engaging or even transcendent.
Eno at his best fits the bill; so too does Inoyamaland’s Danzindan-Pojidon. And so did M. Sage’s 2023 collaboration with Zander Raymond, Parayellowgram, four ten-minute compositions of lush, blissful complexity.
Also in 2023, Sage released a solo album,…

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