MANARADIO

Ambient radio is a crowded field, and most of it sounds like a washing machine on a long cycle. MANARADIO aims higher. The playlist leans on the real stuff: Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon, Stars of the Lid, Hiroshi Yoshimura's environmental records, the quieter end of Grouper. Nothing here demands attention. That's the point. It's not all drift. Some stretches push into darker territory, the Tim Hecker and Biosphere end of things, where drones turn grainy and the calm starts to feel slightly uneasy. Then it pulls back to piano, tape hiss, field recordings. As ambient radio in France goes, the…