low light mixes

Handpan Meditations

 

Oh man, this is a good one. Well, all the mixes here are good but for some reason this one resonates with me right now. Two years ago I posted a mix called "Walk Softly Upon This Earth" that featured the handpan as the main instrument - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/walk-softly-upon-this-earth/

I love that mix and have always wanted to do a follow up. Then in April a new EP dropped that I immediately fell in love with and it prompter me to create this mix. The EP is called "Kalima" from Lab's Cloud in collaboration with Falvio Salvaje. Check it out here - https://labscloudmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kalima

The rest of the mix is collection of some truly excellent handpan music with my favorite, other than the tracks from "Kalima," being "Passage IV" from Laura Inserra. It combines handpan and electric guitar in a beautiful way. 

Links to all the music used in this mix:

• https://labscloudmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kalima
• https://laurainserra.bandcamp.com/album/musical-incense-vol-2
• https://christineott.bandcamp.com/album/tabu-2
• https://flaviosalvaje.bandcamp.com/album/cruise-slowly
• https://futurerust.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-the-beginning-future-rust-volume-4
• https://www.jameshood.com/pure-ceremony
• https://laurainserra.bandcamp.com/album/altitude
• https://www.amazon.com/Rhythms-Sleep-Music-Deep-Rest/dp/B00S0CU1ZE

I hope this mix brings you all some peace in these insane times.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - I'm your sun (Kalima 2025)
• 05:00   Laura Inserra - Passage IV (Musical Incense - Vol. Two 2009)
• 16:10   Christine Ott - Sorrow / Lover's Dance (Tabu 2016)
• 26:33   Flavio Salvaje & Onanya - Buen Viaje (Cruise Slowly 2023)
• 34:09   Quentin Kayser - Fred(feat. Carola Ortiz) (The End of the Beginning(Future Rust Vol. 4 2023)
• 39:12   Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Sandwhistle (Kalima 2025)
• 43:24   James Hood - Huasca(We Are Not Alone) (Pure Ceremony 2017)
• 48:50   Laura Inserra - Sentiment (Altitude 2019)
• 54:35   Christopher Of The Wolves - Floating (Rhythms Of Sleep 2015)
• 69:40   end

A Violet Sky

 

This is straightforward ambient mix. Nothing fancy, just good music. The one unifying trait of this mix, other than all the tracks being awesome, is that everything is from this year.

I started the set with a track from Alio Die. Every so often I need a reminder why I love an artist I've been listening to forever. And stumbling upon this new album definitely brought back why Alio Die is one of my all-time favs.

LINKS TO ALL THER MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

• https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-vaults
• https://davidtagg.bandcamp.com/album/the-wind-kept-land
• https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gaiaphilia
• https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/stillness
• https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/monochrome
• https://innesti.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-and-circumstance
• https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gossamer-wings-of-illusion
• https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/gems-iv
• https://variantsonics.bandcamp.com/album/sequential-sleep-series-collection

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Arborescence & Alio Die;  - Kindling Leaves (The Inner Vaults 2025)
• 08:05   David Tagg - The King of Songs performs the prelude to Cruciform Heart
• (The Wind Kept Land 2025)
• 13:15   Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo - O-KA-GU-RA (Gaiaphilia 2025)
• 15:35   State Azure - Stillness (Stillness 2025)
• 22:55   SVLBRD - Indigo Light (Monochrome 2025)
• 28:35   Innesti - Crosscurrents Through Nuances (Fragility and Circumstance 2025)
• 34:16   Loneward - Temporal Dunes (Gossamer Wings of Illusion 2025)
• 41:41   Celer - IV.VI (Gems IV 2025)
• 47:55   variant - sequential sleep(unreleased modular-scape)
• (sequential sleep series collection 2025)
• 60:00   end

The Open Blue

 

 

Seascape mixes are some of my favorite ambient mixes. The genre seems to perfectly suited to floating and drifting on an endless sea. Two of my favorite ambient tracks of all time are "sea" ambient - 

https://marsenjules.bandcamp.com/track/submarine-poetry

https://infraction.bandcamp.com/track/the-most-beautiful-blue

I absolutely love those two tracks! 

I'm always up for a new seascape mix and that's what we have here - a new collection of tracks mostly from 2023 & 2024, with one from 2020 and one from all the way back in 2008. Put the oars back in the boat, kick your feet up and drift away.

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00  Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram, Stephen Spera - The World Was Turning Before (The World Was Turning Before 2023)
• 07:00  Philippe Deschamps - What The Sea Promises - In a Silent Sea (Bahrambient Rework) (What The Sea Promises 2024)
• 09:20  Old Amica - Sommaren 96 (För alltid 2024)
• 14:06  Model 500 - Starlight(Intrusion dub) (Starlight 2008)
• 20:35  Jeff Greinke - Northern Reaches (Oceanic 2024)
• 29:00  Masayoshi Fujita - Ocean Flow (Migratory 2024)
• 31:54  Faux Tapes - Dive. Pt.4 (Dive 2024)
• 33:25  First Snow of The Year - Noir (Norwegian White 2025)
• 38:10  Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram, Stephen Spera - Far Away (The World Was Turning Before 2023)
• 43:00  Sanjib - Aquatic Sphere (Underwater 2020)
• 47:23  Daou - Sanctum (Reverie 2023)
• 51:12  Faux Tapes - Dive. Pt.7 (Dive 2024)
• 54:30  end

Metallic Memories

 

 

Another stellar guest mix comes our way with this excellent set from longtime listener, Daniel Hawkins. He reached with an idea for a mix and once I heard the theme I was all in. Daniel curated a playlist of tracks & I put them together to create this new mix.

Here's what Daniel has to say about Metallic Memories:

"So I've loved world music since before that term existed, and always had an inordinate fondness for the metallophones - gamelan, vibraphone, glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls - should we include tubular bells? Of course! I don't know if the kalimba and marimba are technically in the category, but they are in my mind. Wind chimes, tingshas, koshis, steel drum, handpan, gongs, avant-garde stuff done with trash cans and pipes - it's all good. This playlist leaves out a ton of music that Dave has covered over the years that is near and dear to me - but I wanted to do what he does so well - bring new artists to everyone's attention and still make a killer playlist. I'd thought for a looooong time about putting something together for Low Light Mixes and was so pleased with Dave's gracious response."

Thanks, Daniel, for this excellent collection of metallophone music!

Links to all the music used in this mix:

Tom Green - Music for Tai Chi

T. Raumschmiere

Peter Bark - Astral Ecotone

Ethereal Planes - Moonlit Passage

Willebrant - The Pilgrim

Snufmumriko - Havstrakt

Daniel Lentz - Lascaux

Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Tom Green - Centre of your Circle (Music for Tai Chi 2012)
• 09:45   T. Raumschmiere - Grotznogg (T.Raumschmiere 2015)
• 13:45   Peter Bark - Bonfire (Astral Ecotone 2020)
• 18:12   Ethereal Planes - Moonlit Passage (Moonlit Passage single 2022)
• 25:55   Willebrant - Plateau(Into the Valley) (The Pilgrim 2021)
• 32:30   Snufmumriko - Skogar av tang (Havstrakt 2023)
• 39:45   Daniel Lentz - Lascaux (Missa Umbrarum 1991)
• 47:27   Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings 1 (77 Million Paintings 2023)
• 53:08   end

Fresh Ambient March 2025

 

This is one of those mixes without a theme. It's just a way to highlight some new ambient tracks from the first two months of the year, although I cheated and used two from the end of 2024. 

 

I ended up using three tracks from the wonderful new label - Driftworks - https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/  I hadn't set out to highlight their new releases, but I'm glad I did because they are worth checking out. They are a sub-label from Whitelabrecs, a label whose artists I have featured in a lot of mixes over the years.

 

Here are the links to all the music used in this mix:

• https://logicmoon.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-film-vol-1
• https://sine-music.bandcamp.com/album/dreamscapes
• https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/album/glacial-drift
• https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/theme
• https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-space
• https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/album/remember-the-clouds
• https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/album/another-kind-of-earth
• https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/album/signals-and-codes
• https://flynst.bandcamp.com/album/washed-out-pastel
• https://francisgri.bandcamp.com/album/bruma
• https://ab-odnumlaut.bandcamp.com/album/mitochondria-johatsu
• https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pictures
• https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-of-stars-streams-of-consciousness
• https://h-mo.bandcamp.com/album/bark-up-the-spirit-tree
• https://daveluxton.bandcamp.com/album/collected-ambient-works-iii

As long as we are talking about record labels, here are links to some of the labels used in this mix:

• Sine Music - https://sine-music.bandcamp.com/music
• Driftworks - https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/
• Dronarivm - https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/music
• Moolakii Club Audio Interface - https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/
• Audiobulb - https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/
• Chitra Records - https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/
• Projekt - https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/
• Ingrown Records - https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/music

 

Cheers!

 

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Logic Moon - Meld (Music For Film Vol.1 2024)
• 02:58   Thomas Lemmer - In The Arms Of Night (Dreamscapes 2025)
• 05:50   Glasbird - 2016 (Glacial Drift 2025)
• 09:00   Bartosz Dziadosz - Harmony (Theme 2025)
• 13:27   Pete Kvidera - Scribble (Breathing Space 2025)
• 16:45   Philippe Deschamps - Remember The Clouds (Remember the Clouds 2025)
• 20:25   The Lonely Bell - Another Kind of Earth Pt. 2 (Another Kind of Earth 2025)
• 23:45   Andrew Heath - Documenting Observations (Signals and Codes 2025)
• 29:30   Flynst - Sea Of Fog (Washed Out Pastel 2025)
• 31:12   Francis Gri - Bruma II (Bruma 2025)
• 34:45   OdNu + Ümlaut - Mitochondria (Mitochondria Johatsu 2025)
• 38:25   Soloi Sounds - Draft (Pictures 2025)
• 42:22   Dirk Serries - Soft Rain (Treasure Of Stars 2025)
• 52:40   H-M O - Soul Laundry Day (Bark up the Spirit Tree 2024)
• 55:18   Dave Luxton - Of The Mist (Collected Ambient Works III 2024)
• 59:53   end

this lonely path

 

 

I like it when a mix discovers itself. I started grabbing a few tracks for a new ambient mix and two of the tunes I pulled had the word "lonely" in the title. That got me thinking about making the entire mix a "lonely" mix. And this is the result.

It was fairly simple - I just searched for tracks with the word "lonely." and in no time at all I had enough for a mix. That's all there really is to say about it.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Anthéne - this lonely path (the slow wave 2021)
• 03:35   Kevin Paczesny - Lonely River (Lost Horizons 2025)
• 09:52   The Howard Hughes Suite - The Lonely Shore (Through the Ether 2021)
• 13:48   Stars Of The Lid - The Lonely People(Are Getting Lonlier) (The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid)
• 20:30   Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Wind In Lonely Fences (Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror 1979)
• 24:10   Sonmi451 - The Distant Sound Of A Lonely Tree (Hummingbird 2013)
• 29:12   Juliet Walkingtom & Jim Howard - Lonely Road (Beyond The Treeline 2025)
• 34:21   Klaus Schulze - The Lonely Dead of Midnight (Timbres Of Ice 2019)
• 41:40   derrickderrick - A pack of gauloises to fill the lonely nights (Happiest in illusion 2024)
• 44:30   David Parsons - Meditation on a Lonely Pool (Tibetan Plateau / Sounds of the Mothership 1991)
• 48:30   SUSS - Road Trip Part 3(The Lonely Path) (High Line 2019)
• 51:20   Hammock - Lonely, Some Quietly Wander in the Hall of Stars (Longest Year 2010)
• 57:10   Building a Building - Galactic Static & Lonely Pings (Notebook of Strange Dreams & Nightmares 2021)
• 60:00   end

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 24 - Dream State

 

 

I did not do a Sunday Morning Music mix at all last year 😮 That's probably the first year since the series started in 2011 that I didn't post a Sunday mix. The Sunday Morning series is one of the reasons that Low Light Mixes blew up on Mixcloud. So you'd think I would be posting more of these mixes to feed the algorithm. But, no, there is no plan for curating these mixes, they just happen when they happen.

 

With all that preamble, I'm excited to finally get a Sunday mix up & running. This follows the classic format of some laid back jazz, some ambient & some quiet vocal tunes. My favorite track in the mix is "Amber Waves" by Ethel Cain. It's from her new album, "Perverts", which is an interesting collection of tunes that range from noisy, dark ambient to beautiful vocal tracks like "Amber Waves."

 

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

• https://apollorecords.bandcamp.com/album/hana
• https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/album/recollection
• https://af13.bandcamp.com/album/milan
• https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shoe-factory
• https://samwilkes.bandcamp.com/album/iiyo-iiyo-iiyo
• https://shop.aroojaftabmusic.com/products/night-reign-lp
• https://fayewebster.bandcamp.com/album/underdressed-at-the-symphony
• https://gsschray.bandcamp.com/album/whispered-something-good
• https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0DNZQ58QQ
• https://kamasiwashington.bandcamp.com/album/fearless-movement
• https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CZ4B4M61
• https://www.amazon.com/Album-Eiko-Talia-Spar-Ishibashi/dp/B0D9ZY1DXW/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.acUyTDm7L3-aUoCkmcVA9A5LtOhLs5TQ1v0CU74c7jU.6snIHYORMuWGNW-aOAv2puQ62pmjqPHCTaK6j1GBd1E&dib_tag=se&qid=1737331033&refinements=p_32%3A+Eiko+%2F+Talia%5Cc+Joe%5CcVon+Spar+%2F+Ishibashi&s=music&sr=1-1
  

Cheers!

 

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Andert Tysma - Dalmally (Hana 2024)
• 05:35   Earthen Sea - Present Day (Recollection 2024)
• 09:35   Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz - Night Bunny (Milan   2021)
• 15:48   Oliver Patrice Weder - Breathe In (The Shoe Factory 2024)
• 19:03   Sam Wilkes - Descending(Frue) (iiyo iiyo iiyo 2024)
• 23:19   Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Night Reign 2024)
• 28:22   Faye Webster - Wanna Quit All the Time (Underdressed at the  Symphony 2024)
• 31:27   G.S. Schray - Another Haunted Mirror (Whispered Something Good  2024)
• 35:25   Ethel Cain - Amber Waves (Perverts 2025)
• 42:40   Kamasi Washington - Dream State (Fearless Movement 2024)
• 50:45   This Is The Kit - Careful of Your Keepers (Live at The Minack Theatre  2024)
• 53:45   Von Spar & Eiko Ishibashi - I (Album I 2024)
• 60:00   end

 

Gossamer by Robert Farrugia

 

 

I've said many times that I love guest mixes. And I especially love getting mixes from artists that I've been listening to for years. Such is the case with this new set from Robert Farrugia.

I have several of Robert's albums and I always look forward to checking out his new material. Well, now he's got some new material definitely worth checking out. His new album is called "Natura Maltija - Official Soundtrack" and it just came out last week. You can find it here - https://robertfarrugia.bandcamp.com/album/natura-maltija-official-soundtrack

To celebrate the release of this new album Robert put together a wonderful ambient mix for us. Here is what he says about it:

"This mix features a selection of tracks from recent Ambient, Neoclassical, and Electronica releases, curated by Robert Farrugia. Centered around my latest album, 'Natura Maltija - Official Soundtrack,' the mix also includes tracks from friends and collaborators."

Links to all the music used in this mix:

• https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/certain-path
• https://alily.bandcamp.com/album/saru-l-qamar
• https://robertfarrugia.bandcamp.com/album/natura-maltija-official-soundtrack
• https://alily.bandcamp.com/album/psalm018-virgin-stoner-works-2001-2004
• https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/softie
• https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/op-448-adagio-hallucination-archive-2
• https://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/ether-hymns
• https://rhubiqs.bandcamp.com/album/aegis-of-silence

 

Thanks to Robert for curating this excellent collection of tunes that fits perfectly into the Low Light Mixes vibe.

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Joachim Spieth & Warmth - Spectral (Fragments 2025)
• 06:34   zakè, From Overseas, City of Dawn - Certain Path (Certain Path 2024)
• 11:03   A Lily - Kemn Nixtieq Li Qed (Saru l-Qamar 2024)
• 14:41   Robert Farrugia - Bufula (Natura Maltija 2025)
• 16:50   A Lily - Solar Systems (Virgin Stoner: Works 2001-2004 2024)
• 20:29   Robert Farrugia - Qabru (Natura Maltija 2025)
• 26:39   Robert Farrugia - Qarnita (Natura Maltija 2025)
• 31:38   Jogging House - State (Softie 2024)
• 37:57   Benoît Pioulard - Op. 448, Adagio (Hallucination Archive 2024)
• 44:12   The Green Kingdom - Sunsetgradient (Ether Hymns 2024)
• 48:05   rhubiqs - Hope’s Canvas (Aegis of Silence 2024)

Morning Sun in Winter

 

This is one of those mixes where there's not much to say about it because there is no theme. It's just a nice collection of wonderful ambient tunes. Most of the tracks are fairly slow and drifty. A few of these I just discovered at the end of 2024 by browsing end-of-the-year lists. 

 

One of those is Gems III by Celer which as an absolutely beautiful record. Another one that was new to me is the closing track - "Il Mare Cancella, Di Notte(II)," a long, slow cut that I wish could go on forever.

 

Here's to the start of 2025 and looking ahead to a year filled with excellent music.

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   James Murray - Feverfew (Weeds 2024)
• 06:40   Yoyu - The Indigo Space Around Us (It's All Gonna Be Ok Somehow 2024)
• 10:33   Lantscap - Fragile Peaks (Fragile Peaks 2025)
• 15:55   Celer - Gems III.I (Gems III 2024)
• 20:27   Last Days of Living - Where The Bay Becomes The Sea (. 2024)
• 25:30   Calm Whale & Mik Kosma - Ocean Calling (TwoGather 2024)
• 31:15   David Cordero - Alquézar (Postales 2024)
• 35:03   Andrew Heath & Halftribe (feat. Anne Chris Bakker) - Garden Leave (Illuminations III 2024)
• 42:06   Alaskan Tapes - Random Sequence (Something Ephemeral 2024)
• 45:08   Marine Eyes - In The Spaces (To Belong 2024)
• 48:18   Lamasz & come le onde - Il Mare Cancella, Di Notte(II) (Il Mare Cancella, Di Notte 2024)
• 66:00   end

2024 Favorite Ambient Albums Part 2

 

I like making these favorites mixes because it reminds me of why I liked certain albums in the first place. The perfect example is Abandoned Spaces by OdNu & Ümlaut. It's so good and I'm glad I can share with folks via these mixes.

This mix, Part 2, has a little different vibe than Part 1. More sequencer driven tracks, some percussion here and there, generally a bit more active than the first mix. At least the first half is more active, then we slow down & space out. I hope you enjoy this one as much I do.

You can find the full list of favorite ambient albums of 2024, and links to each album, in the post with Part 1 - https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024-favorite-ambient-albums-part-1.html

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00   Martin Stürtzer - The Last Oupost (Lander Modules)
• 06:50   Extraworld - Axial Precession (Perihelion)
• 13:40   Civilistjävel! - VI(feat. Thommy Wahlström) (Br​ö​df​ö​da)
• 17:00   OdNu + Ümlaut - Unforseen Scenes (Abandoned Spaces)
• 23:00   2fel - Stranger Flow (Stranger Flow)
• 27:25   Altus - Origin Extract (Ultraviolet)
• 32:27   The Green Kingdom - New Constellations (Horizons)
• 37:10   Michael A. Muller - Mirror 2 (Mirror Music)
• 41:50   Heavenchord - Atmospheres & Soundscapes 1 (Atmospheres & Soundscapes)
• 49:55   v e n n - Long Farewell Pt. 1(v e n n & Brannan Lane) (XIII)
• 54:06   Ulla & Ultrafog - Jesses Car (It Means A Lot)
• 59:13   end