Press Kit – Blue Currents EP

Biography

Stephen Caulfield is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist crafting immersive ambient soundscapes shaped by nature, memory, and movement. Combining piano, electronics, and field recordings, his music invites deep listening and emotional connection. Based in Reading, UK, his work explores the slow, subtle dynamics of landscape and time. His music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 3’s The Sleeping Forecast, and BBC Introducing. He has also composed for several documentary films including From Bedrooms to Billions, The Amiga Years, and The PlayStation Revolution.

Stephen is currently working on Blue Water, a four-part ambient series tracing the journey of water through imagined glacial and post-glacial environments. Blending acoustic textures with synthetic tones, the project evokes vast, shifting spaces with a focus on transformation and flow.

Latest Release: Blue Currents (Sept 5, 2025)

Blue Currents is the second chapter in Blue Water, a four-part ambient series that follows the journey of a single drop of glacial meltwater from ice to ocean.

Building on Blue Vessels, which explored the meltwater’s path across, through and beneath the glacier, Blue Currents continues the story as the drop emerges into the open Icelandic landscape. It travels through glacial highland streams, across still lakes both natural and artificial, travelling beneath the surface of the water, exploring drowned landscapes, and toward a vast hydroelectric dam where human intervention meets the flow of the natural world.

Composed, performed and produced entirely by Stephen Caulfield, the music blends ambient, cinematic and contemporary classical elements to create a soundworld inspired by Iceland’s stark beauty and complex environmental history.

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Blue Currents – Track By Track

1. Kryal
The journey begins as meltwater leaves the glacier, first trickling across melting ice before gathering into channels that merge into stronger streams, descending through the thawing terrain. Shepard tones, piano, celesta, and electric piano evoke the sensation of continuous downward movement, as the water flows toward hidden channels.

2. Drowned Land
The water spreads across submerged terrain, revealing landscapes transformed. Gentle synth pads, floating textures, and distant field recordings create a sense of immersion and weightlessness, highlighting both the beauty and quiet melancholy of the flooded land.

3. Flood Damage
Here the music reflects the slow reshaping of the land by water. Repeating motifs on electric piano build, combining with echoing pads and subtle tape effects, tracing the tension between natural beauty and human alteration, revealing the quiet imprint of flooding.

4. Drowned Lake
The water gathers into a still, deep basin. Upright piano with delicate synth accents portrays the reflective surface of a newly formed artificial lake, balancing calm and subtle melancholy, hinting at the cost of the lake’s creation to the landscape and environment.

5. Blue Currents
The water floats across the surface of the vast lake, sparkling in the sunlight, before deep pulses far beneath the surface signal an intake drawing the water downward. Piano, ambient synths, and shimmering textures trace the drop’s journey downwards through the hidden currents, before it rises and drifts again toward the surface, reflecting the ebb and flow of the lake’s unseen movement.

6. The Spillway
Having returned to the surface, the lake reaches capacity and the spillway opens. Shepard tones, piano, phasing synths, and layered textures trace the water as it flows gently down the ramp, spinning and turning, before finally entering free-fall.

Previous Projects

Before the Blue Water series, Stephen released five full-length albums: Circuits (2020), To The Lighthouse (2019), Falling Dust (2016), Parkview (2015), and Celluloid (2014), multiple film soundtracks and several singles. These works combine elements of ambient, contemporary classical, and cinematic music, often weaving together piano, electronics, and field recordings. His past projects established his distinctive sound and laid the groundwork for the immersive, concept-driven approach he continues to develop today.

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