Sam Rosenthal releases solo ambient album ‘The Width of Shadows’ on Projekt
Sam Rosenthal releases “The Width of Shadows”, his first solo ambient-drone album since 2015, out now as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp.
Sam Rosenthal, founder of Projekt Records and the band Black Tape For A Blue Girl, has released “The Width of Shadows”, a solo album of electronic-ambient-drone music. The record is out now as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp and runs eight tracks across about 49 minutes. It is Rosenthal’s first solo ambient-drone album since 2015’s “As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Monolith.”
“The Width of Shadows” collects eight tracks: “Sunflow,” “Flare Equilibrium,” “The Visitor,” “Solar Silent Sound,” “Filament,” “Angular Momentum, Vaulted Sky,” “The Width of Shadows” and the seventeen-minute closer “Orbital Equilibrium.” It is anchored by two older pieces – the opener “Sunflow” from 2024 and the title track, which dates to 2002 – with the rest built from unfinished recordings made over the previous five years and reworked with new synth textures. Rosenthal described his method in terms drawn from painting, saying the music combines “the spontaneity and gestural brushwork of Action, and the contemplative yet emotional drone of Color Field.”
The album returns Rosenthal to solo ambient work after several years tied to Black Tape For A Blue Girl. Projekt reissued that band’s “Mesmerized by the Sirens” on vinyl and double CD, prepared a 30th-anniversary edition of “Remnants of a deeper purity” in 2026, and revisited his ambient past on the remastered 1992 collaboration “Terrace of Memories” with vidnaObmana.
About Sam Rosenthal
Sam Rosenthal is an American musician and the founder of Projekt Records, which he started in 1983 as a cassette label in South Florida. In 1986 he formed Black Tape For A Blue Girl, a darkwave and ethereal project whose debut album “The Rope” appeared on Projekt the same year; the band has continued for four decades through albums including “Remnants of a Deeper Purity” (1996), “As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire” (1999) and “The Cleft Serpent” (2021).
Rosenthal moved the label from Florida to Chicago, New York and, in 2013, to Portland, Oregon, where he is now based. Alongside the band he has released solo ambient and drone music, among it “As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Monolith” (2015); “The Width of Shadows” is his first solo album of new ambient-drone material since.
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