00:00 — Sleep

Tepore

Gentle warmth — the kind that stays after the fire has gone out and the room is still warm.

01 Releases

Releases

Until Morning cover
Until Morning
Album 001 · Out now — released June 12, 2026

The debut. Twelve tracks, fifty minutes — a looping bath of warmth designed so you only consciously hear the first track before sleep takes over.

Listen on Spotify → All platforms — Apple Music, YouTube Music, and more at the smart link.
  1. coal in the grate
  2. north window
  3. the kettle just off
  4. the standing lamp
  5. dust on the keys
  6. wool socks
  7. the eaves in wind
  8. between hours
  9. the curtain pulled
  10. long held
  11. the heater ticks
  12. the porch in late november

02 The Artist

The artist

Tepore is the sleep-music project from 480Studios — the name is Italian for gentle warmth. Instrumental ambient for the last hour of the day. AI-assisted, mastered for streaming.

The music's job is to lower the listener's nervous system and then disappear. The warmth that lingers after the fire has gone out. The radiator clicks. Somewhere downstream a river isn't trying.

Three hours in, the listener can't remember what the last track was — only that they're warm.

This is music for being alone. Tepore is one of the four 480Studios artists made for the hours you spend by yourself — here, the wind-down, the slow descent into sleep after a day spent building something. Rest is part of the work; the people who go the distance know how to put the day down. This is for that hour. (Last Pour is the label's one social record; everything else, including this, is for the solitary hours.)

03 The Sound

The sound

Five sub-styles. All slow. All warm. All designed to disappear.

lullwave

Slow synth pads breathing in 8-bar swells. No melodic top instrument. The deepest part of a sleep playlist.

duskwalk

Felt piano playing one slow phrase per minute, with a pad underneath. Best for the entry point of a sleep playlist.

roomtone

Almost no foreground. A field recording — rain on a roof, a kettle just off the boil — bedded under a single sustained note.

blanket

String drone — cello and viola, no vibrato — with bowed-glass shimmer up high. Warmest sub-style.

river-song

Water field recording as the foreground. A single sustained tone as the harmonic anchor. Best as an album closer.

04 Aesthetic Touchstones

Aesthetic touchstones

Reference points for listeners and curators. The artist sounds like itself, but these are the pole stars.

Nils Frahm — Felt Stars of the Lid William Basinski — Disintegration Loops Hiroshi Yoshimura — Music for Nine Post Cards Aphex Twin — Selected Ambient Works II