Featuring on M.P.R Ambient is Swoop and Cross with the upcoming album release titled 'On the Grounds of Indecency'

Release Date - 11 October 2025 (Perceptual Tapes)
On the Grounds of Indecency is the new album by Copenhagen-based Portuguese artist Swoop and Cross (Ruben do Vale). Merging neoclassical, ambient and drone textures, Ruben crafts intimate and emotional soundscapes blending piano, field recordings, virtual instruments, electronics and effects.
The album is inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go – a book that unsettled Ruben to his core and led him to revisit, reframe, and reimagine his own past. The record unfolds as a deeply personal meditation on memory and fragility, moving from delicate piano performances to dense, layered soundscapes, soaked in reverb and dirtied by tape grit and warble.
The pieces evolve patiently, exploring the fragile lines between beauty and unease, consonance and dissonance, inviting the listener to reflect and linger.
Pre-order from 27th September
https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-grounds-of-indecency
Release Format - Professionally duplicated cassette tape with printed shell and double-sided j-card. Limited to 100 copies.
Artist bio
Swoop and Cross is the alias of Copenhagen-based Portuguese musician Ruben do Vale, whose work merges physical instruments, VSTs, and field recordings into intimate, slow-burning compositions that drift between ambient, drone, and neoclassical.
A lifelong musician, Ruben began studying guitar and music theory at the age of nine, later expanding his palette to other instruments. He debuted as Swoop and Cross in 2015, releasing Stories of Disintegration (Time Released Sound, 2018) and Les Fauves (Piano and Coffee Records, 2022).
His new album, On the Grounds of Indecency (Perceptual Tapes), is inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go—a book that unsettled him to his core and led him to revisit, reframe, and reimagine his own past. Literature has long been central to his practice, with the works of Virginia Woolf, László Krasznahorkai, Gonçalo M. Tavares, and others serving as creative lighthouses.
Trained in medicine and neuroscience, Ruben is driven by a deep curiosity to understand himself and others—an impulse that runs through both his music and his scientific work.
Links:
Swoop and Cross - Website, Instagram
Perceptual Tapes - Website, Bluesky, Instagram
Pre-order from 27th September - Bandcamp