Sydney-based producer and composer Danny Barwick invites us into his heartfelt, textural, and vividly ambient world through his latest album, Solace. 

Solace is a slow-moving instrumental ambient album for deep listening, reflection, and emotional release. Moving through peace, stillness, grief, joy, and quiet gratitude, it creates a spacious environment for deep rest and internal care. 

His work focuses on texture, emotional depth, and immersive listening environments. Written following the end of a 14-year relationship, Solace began as a personal space to process grief, loss, and emotional upheaval, while also creating a place of peace and safety in which to retreat. Danny now hopes to share that environment with others. 

1. Heat 6:48 

2. Sunlight 2:20 

3. Figs Falling 6:53 

4. Rain 9:06

5. Steam 13:11 

6. Coalesce 11:24

7. Back Again 15:32 

8. Home 11:23

All tracks composed, arranged, produced, and mixed by Danny Barwick

Piano improvisations by Colin Hopkins

Piano in ‘Home’ composed by Matthew Steele

Piano recorded by Luke Howard

Mastered by Gareth Thomson (Stereo and Atmos)

Released by Amica Records
Cover art by Honoré Daumier

Home (Fragment)

Piano - Matthew Steele

Ollie Thorpe - Pedal Steel Guitar

Jonas Petersen - Violin, Viola, Cello

Danny Barwick - electronics

Album Art: Honoré Daumier, Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso), 1865, Courtesy of The Met Collection. 

Rain (Fragment)

Stephen Magnusson - Guitar 

Colin Hopkins - Piano

Julien Wilson - Tenor Saxophone 

Danny Barwick - electronics

Album Art: Honoré Daumier, Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso), 1865, Courtesy of The Met Collection. 

Coalesce (Fragment)

Colin Hopkins - Piano

Stephen Magnusson - Guitar 

Julien Wilson - Bass Clarinet 

Jonas Petersen - Violin, Viola, Cello

Danny Barwick - electronics

Album Art: Honoré Daumier, Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso), 1865, Courtesy of The Met Collection. 

Full Album Credits

Danny Barwick - electronics (all)

Colin Hopkins - Piano (Heat, Sunlight, Figs Falling, Rain, Coalesce, Back again)
Julien Wilson - Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone (Heat, Sunlight, Figs Falling, Rain, Coalesce, Back Again, Home)

Stephen Magnusson - Guitar (Heat, Sunlight, Figs Falling, Rain, Coalesce, Steam, Back Again, 

Jonas Petersen - Violin, Viola, Cello (Heat,Coalesce, Back Again, Incense, Home)

Steve Grant - Accordion (Sunlight, Home)

Kiara Fox - Voice (Sunlight, Home) 

Luke Shields - Guitar, Electronics (Figs Falling, Steam)

Emma Kelly/Happyaxe - Violin (Steam)

Timbre Cierpke: Harp (Coalesce, Back Again)

Matthew Steele - Piano (Home)

Ollie Thorpe - Pedal Steel Guitar (Home)

Martin Cappi - Flute (Home) 

Alan Fagan - Euphonium (Home)

Maddie Stephenson - Field recording

Album art: Honoré Daumier, ‘A Man Reading in a Garden (recto)’, 1865, Courtesy of The Met Collection.

digital streaming release on amica via IDOL