Episodes
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Piano Day 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
International Piano Day is March 29th and, as has been the case for the last five years, I've put together a new mix in celebration of ambient piano tunes. I don't do quite as many piano mixes as I once did but when I create these Piano Day sets I find I really enjoy the vibe.
There are a lot of new tracks in the mix, half of them from 2022 & 2023. But there are a few older tunes as well. I really like how this one turned out. I hope you enjoy the latest Piano Day excursion.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
02:45 Hania Rani - The Beach(From I Never Cry) (Music for Film and Theatre 2021)
05:14 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20211130 (12 2023)
10:02 h hunt - 11e (playing piano for dad 2016)
12:49 Arin Aksberg - In Memory (It Flows Between U 2023)
16:47 Olafur Arnalds - Still, Sound (A Sunrise Session 2021)
20:42 ANNA - Receiving(Jon Hopkins piano version) (2023)
25:15 Hania Rani - Whale's Song (Inner Symphonies 2021)
29:42 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20211201 (12 2023)
34:37 Library Tapes - Safe Haven (Dusk 2021)
36:41 Bing and Ruth - We Are on the Side of Angels (Tomorrow Was The Golden Age 2014)
42:53 Milieu - Antique Sunlight (Smokebuilder's Woodshop 2008)
47:56 Nebel Lang - Past All Unknowing (Directions For Stopping 2022)
52:43 Lorenz Weber - as time goes by (only the wind 2022)
56:10 Purple Decades - Forest (Journey Test 2023)
59:10 end
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Replicant Memories
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Blade Runner is obviously one of the great sci-fi films of all time, with one of the best soundtracks of all time. As a testament to the staying power of Vangelis' work, we still have a artists today that mimic the sound of the Blade Runner score.
The recording that got me started on this mix is brand new from Crows Labyrinth called "Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams". It's a longform generative ambient drone track with a lead synth that has a great Blade Runner vibe. You can find it here... https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
As soon as I heard that track I knew I had to create another Blade Runner mix. This is my fourth one. Here are the links to the others:
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/alternative-blade-runner-2049-soundtrack/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-is-now/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/blade-runner-pop-soundtrack/
One thing that sets this mix apart from the others is that many of the tunes are very purposely trying to replicate the sound of the original soundtrack. Some cuts even use rain, voices and effects to mimic the feel. I added a bit of BR sound fx on a couple of tracks to reinforce the vibe. Most of the time though it's that lead synth sound that transports me right back to 1982.
Some folks may have a problem with current artists so blatantly aping a style and sound(some more than others here). But I don't care, I just love the overall sound and feel of these tracks.
Here links to the music used in this mix:
- https://crowslabyrinth.bandcamp.com/album/neon-scenes-i-granular-dreams
- https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/nova-sonus
- https://andyhagerty.bandcamp.com/album/cadalach-ep
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/pale-fire
- https://silentseason.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-horizon
- https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-harvest
- https://decayingspheres.bandcamp.com/album/terminals
- https://www.amazon.com/Passengers-Original-Soundtracks-Brian-Eno/dp/B000001E8S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11MWUX6Z1AL53&keywords=passengers+original+soundtracks+1&qid=1678645966&sprefix=Passengers+original+soundtracks%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1
- https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/album/folding-space
- https://subheim.bandcamp.com/album/conviction
- https://graintable.bandcamp.com/album/universal-ash
- https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/let-s-emerge
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/neon-lovers
- https://boomkat.com/products/a-forest-c29998d5-512c-465d-ab6a-20cad1eed549
- https://the-rosen-corporation.bandcamp.com/album/pale-fire
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Now That’s What I Call Ambient
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Hmmm, what kind of mix do you think this one might be. I believe the gaudy cover art gives it away. This is essentially a continuation of my "Simply Ambient" series. A nice, straightforward mix of new ambient tunes.
I got tired of coming up with variations of "simply ambient" such as absolutely ambient, purely ambient, totally ambient, etc. So I decided to ripoff the over-the-top "Now That's What I Call Music" series. I'm not sure if, like that series, I'll keep adding numbers to each mix so that I end up with "Now That's What I Call Ambient Vol. 84".
Here are the links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/langd
- https://flexagon.bandcamp.com/album/the-towers-i-inaccessible
- https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/endless-loneliness
- https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-tonalities
- https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/colours-of-air
- https://ab-tomo-nakaguchi.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-night-in-winter-light
- https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/album/journey-test
- https://russyoung.bandcamp.com/album/cloak
- https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/blurr
- https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/face
- https://ajourneyofgiraffesswc.bandcamp.com/album/empress-nouveau
- https://laaps-records.com/album/sinter
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/petrologists-lens
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/verism
- Facture - https://facture.bandcamp.com/music
- Archive - https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/music
- Past Inside the Present - https://pitp.bandcamp.com/music
- Kranky - https://kranky.bandcamp.com/
- Audiobulb - https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/
- Beacon Sound - https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/music
- Krysalisound - https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/music
- Dauw - https://dauw.bandcamp.com/
- Somewherecold Records - https://somewherecoldrecords.bandcamp.com/
- Laaps - https://laaps-records.com/music
- Whitelabrecs - https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/music
- 00:00 Hummingbird - Leuken (Langd 2023)
- 03:53 Flexagon - Ozanne Tower The Folly (The Towers I - Inaccessible 2023)
- 08:30 David Cordero - Sunrise (Endless Lonliness 2023)
- 11:42 Mike Lazarev - Tonality Number Three (Sacred Tonalities 2023)
- 15:45 Loscil/Lawrence English - Yellow (Colours of Air 2023)
- 20:00 Tomo-Nakaguchi - Noto (The Long Night in Winter Light 2023)
- 23:50 Purple Decades - Forest (Journey Test 2023)
- 26:27 Russ Young - Folding Valley (Cloak 2023)
- 29:12 Hummingbird - Leuken (Langd 2023)
- 36:50 blochemy - pone (blurr. 2023)
- 40:00 Jogging House - Floor (Face 2023)
- 43:18 A Journey of Giraffes - Ambient Gold Fudge (Empress Nouveau 2023)
- 45:50 Arovane - Faraday (Sinter 2023)
- 47:55 harry towell & polaroid notes - lepidodendron (petrologist's lens 2023)
- 52:18 glåsbird - lokoteraina (pacifica 2023)
- 54:43 Peter Kvidera - Kostrbatý (Verism 2023)
- 58:00 end
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Ambient Solar System
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Fire up the Epstein Drive, get settled in your crash couch and set forth on a tour of the solar system. We'll travel from the sun past the inner planets and through asteroid belt out to the gas giants, into the kuiper belt and oort cloud, and finally reaching interstellar space.
All the track titles make it clear where we are on this journey.
Incidentally, there is a comet, C/2022 E3, that hopefully will be visible now through the first week of February. It should viewable first with a telescope then binoculars and maybe even with the naked eye around Feb. 1. This mix might make a good soundtrack for viewing.
Link to most of the music used in this mix:
- https://deliaderbyshireappreciationsociety.bandcamp.com/album/wow-and-flutter
- https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B087TDDQS1
- https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BSVCM1M7
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/home-diaries-014
- https://haroldbudd.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-mist
- https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/albums/ad-astra/
- https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B01LVZ1PMQ?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
- https://johantronestam.bandcamp.com/album/space-collection
- https://shop.christopherwillits.com/album/horizon
- https://virtual1.bandcamp.com/album/deep-space-objects
- https://bilvermette.bandcamp.com/album/hunting-for-planet-9
- https://phonsonic.bandcamp.com/album/three-squared
- https://kagerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/kage-vol-one-quiet-dreams
- https://echospacestudio.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-in-space
Enjoy fellow space cadets.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - She Brought the Sun (Wow and Flutter 2018)
- 08:34 Underworld & John Murphy - Mercury (Sunshine OST 2008)
- 10:25 Casino Versus Japan - Names on Maps of Venus pt. 6 (Casino Versus Japan 1998)
- 11:50 Polaroid Notes - The Good Earth (Home Diaries 014 2020)
- 14:58 Harold Budd - Mars and the Artist (In The Mist 2011)
- 16:40 Brian Eno - Asteroid Dawn (Curiosities Volume II 2004)
- 20:42 Erstlaub - Jupiter (Deconstructed Music 1 2004)
- 24:50 Max Richter - The Rings of Saturn (Ad Astra OST 2019)
- 27:35 NASA Voyager Recordings - Rings of Uranus (Symphonies of the Planets 2009)
- 29:30 Johan Tronestam - Neptune (Space Collection 2017)
- 37:25 Christopher Willits - Comet (Horizon 2017)
- 41:50 Ishq - Pluto Shift (Deep Space Objects 2012)
- 47:10 Bil Vermette - Kuiper Belt (Hunting for Planet 9 2021)
- 52:35 Konstruct - Oort Cloud (Three (squared) 2021)
- 55:12 Factory - Interstellar (Kage, Vol. One: Quiet Dreams 2016)
- 57:50 Echospace - Where Are We Now (echospace [detroit] presents echoes in space 2014)
- 60:00 end
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
A Foggy Winter’s Dub
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
This mix is much more straightforward than the Antarctica set. This mix follows my "dubby & dreamy" formula of ethereal ambient dub tracks with a few gentle beats and lots of synth washes.
Here are the links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/album/consumed-in-key
- https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/onwards-system
- https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/isolated
- https://arcticdub.bandcamp.com/album/arctic-dub-sursumcorda-compilation-v5
- https://shop.silentseason.com/album/infinite-horizon
- https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/gneiss-ep
- https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/north-paths
- https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/album/optical-flow
- https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/album/grass-and-trees
- https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/sequenced
- https://driftdeeper.bandcamp.com/album/mr-zu-driftwood-ep-ddr017
- https://echospacedetroit.bandcamp.com/album/starlight
- https://shop.silentseason.com/album/entire
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 PLastikman & Chilly Gonzalez - Ekko(In Key) (Consumed In Key 2022)
- 03:39 CELL - Onwards System - Fugitive Perpetuity (Onwards System 2022)
- 09:00 ASC - Solitude (Ultimae Records - Isolated 2022)
- 12:10 Solar Debris - It's All Dark When You Are Gone (Arctic Dub Compilation 2019)
- 16:50 Owl - Distant Transmission (Infinite Horizon 2021)
- 20:20 EROT - Observer Effect (Gneiss EP 2021)
- 24:50 MYKJA - Vera Á Reiki (North Paths 2017)
- 32:40 Motionfield - Midnight Metro (Optical Flow 2014)
- 38:32 Earthen Sea - Shallow, Shadowless (Grass & Trees 2019)
- 43:20 ASC - Sequence 4 (Sequenced 2017)
- 47:00 Mr Zu - Echova (Driftwood EP 2016)
- 53:00 Model 500 - Starlight(Intrusion dub) (2008)
- 57:45 Daar - Coda (Entire 2021)
- 60:00 end
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
The Frozen Wild: An Antarctic Expedition
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
A couple of years ago I watched and read a ton on Ernest Shackleton, the English Explorer who went to Antarctica 3 times. One of those was a journey that saw his ship, Endurance, get stuck in the ice and then crushed by the ice, leaving the crew of 27 adrift on an ice floe.
After 6 months of drifting they made their way in the ship's boats to Elephant Island. Shackleton and five crewmates set sail in one of the boats to South Georgia island, a journey of 800 miles (1,300 kilometres) through the Southern Ocean.
Launching from Elephant Island |
After a 17-day voyage, the crew and small boat reached the southern coast of South Georgia. Historians regard the voyage of the crew in a 22.5-foot (6.9 m) ship's boat through the "Furious Fifties" as one of the greatest small-boat journeys ever completed.
Shackleton and two others crossed the island's mountains on foot to a whaling station where they organized the rescue of the rest of the crew. Ultimately, the entire Endurance crew returned home, without loss of life.
Welp, I hadn't intended on writing that much about Shackleton but it's such an amazing story. That was two years ago when I learned about Shackleton. Fast forward to today & I'm reading a book called "Antarctica" by Kim Stanley Robinson which has rekindled my fascination with the continent. I have now learned about Amundsen and his trek to the pole. And about Scott's tragic expedition in which he made it to the pole but froze to death on the way back. A surviving member of Scott's crew wrote a book about a part of the trip with a great title - "The Worst Journey in the World."
Oof, that was a long-winded way of saying that I have had Antarctica on the brain lately. Of course, I had to create a mix to go with my obsession. One way to approach this mix would be to use atmospheric dub tracks. A lot of ambient dub music uses environmental themes and cold, arctic imagery. I thought that was the direction I was going to go until I stumbled on a bunch of tracks from William Ryan Fritch. He had a ton of great titles that fit perfectly, such as "On Frozen Ground" & "Ghosts in the Gale". And a couple of new tracks, "Blistering Wind" & "A Fissure Too Wide", are from his new album, Polarity, coming out this week.
After hearing those tracks I decided to go with a more organic sound. It seemed to fit better when thinking of journeys happening between 1905 to 1917. There are some electronics and synths that show up but generally, the mix has a more acoustic, orchestral feel.
The track titles show how the mix will take the listener on a journey that is a composite of many expeditions in Antarctica. The track by Irezumi is called Endurance, the name of Shackleton's ship. He uses some spoken word in the track that I assume is supposed to be Shackleton. The mix finishes with a whispering wind and the beautiful track "Before My Time" with vocals from Scarlett Johansson and lyrics that work well with the theme.
Bundle up and enjoy this excursion to the bottom of the world.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Okomotive, Joel Schoch - Sail, my Friend! (FAR: Lone Sails Soundtrack 2018)
- 03:10 Trigg & Gusset - Sea & Wind (Black Ocean 2021)
- 06:00 Ben McElroy - The Sailor and the Albatross (The Word Cricket Made Her Happy 2018)
- 09:45 Ugasanie - Shores Of Antarctica (Ice Breath of Antartica 2018)
- 10:37 Vangelis - Back To Antarctica (Antarctica 1983)
- 12:10 John Luther Adams - The Farthest Place (The Light that Fills the World 2002)
- 15:10 Seabuckthorn - There Was A Vastness (And Spark And Singe 2021)
- 17:35 William Ryan Fritch - On Frozen Ground (The Old Believers 2017)
- 19:22 Terje Isungset - Ice Beauty (Igloo 2006)
- 22:00 William Ryan Fritch - Ghosts In The Gale (Ill Tides 2016)
- 23:54 Tim Hecker - Left on the Ice (The North Water 2021)
- 27:23 Jóhann Jóhannsson & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Rutger Hoedemaekers - Trapped (Trapped 2019)
- 28:44 From the Mouth of the Sun - Snow Burial(while blue skies gather) (Woven Tide 2012)
- 31:48 John Luther Adams - Dream in White on White (The Far Country 1999)
- 36:00 Staalklang - The White Plains (The Loneliness of a Polar Expedition Pt 2 2021)
- 39:20 Tom Heasley - Adrift (Waves/Adrift)
- 41:40 William Ryan Fritch - Blistering Wind (Polarity 2023)
- 48:08 William Ryan Fritch - A Fissure Too Wide (Polarity 2023)
- 49:15 Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin - Death Bed (Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012)
- 50:20 Irezumi - Endurance IV (Endurance 2008)
- 54:18 William Ryan Fritch - A Sad Whispering Wind II (Her Warmth 2016)
- 57:42 J. Ralph & Scarlett Johansson - Before My Time (Chasing Ice 2012)
- 61:22 end
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Best Ambient 2022 part 3
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
I can't decide which of these Best Ambient mixes I like the most. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to listen all 3 all day, every day until the end of the year. Then the journey starts all over again.
As another year comes to a close, it's hard to believe I've been at this for 17 years. Yikes! I'm not sure how long I'll keep creating these mix but I at least have to make it to 20 years, right? If I ever retire from my day job this seems like the perfect retirement activity. Forget golf, I just want to listen to music and create mixes(and go to movies, concerts and funky restaurants.)
Here's to a hopefully less chaotic 2023.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Seabuckthorn - Of No Such Place (Of No Such Place - Laaps)
- 03:26 Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - Part Two (The Fifth World Recordings - Astral Industries)
- 07:45 Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola - Distant (Open - Hush Hush)
- 12:36 Nils Frahm - Do Dream (Music for Animals - Leiter)
- 19:35 Toàn - Coraline (Phonolite - [Krysalisound)
- 22:35 Gylden - A drink at the stream (Island Friend - Seil)
- 27:00 Oren Ambarchi - IV (Ghosted - Drag City)
- 31:10 Adrian Copeland - No Heat No Light (If This Were My Body - Lost Tribe Sound)
- 36:45 Roméo Poirier - Le case degli altri (Living Room - Faitiche)
- 40:00 't Geruis - Quand Le Bois Chante (Bain D'Étoiles - Laaps)
- 43:20 The Lonely Bell - The Final Light (Kingdoms Of The Deep)
- 49:40 Music For Sleep - L'ansia che cura (L'ansia che cura)
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Best Ambient 2022 part 2
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Not much to say other than here is Best Ambient 2022 part 2.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Snufmumriko - Langt under noll (Radio Mnemosyne - Dronarivm)
- 06:10 Heavenchord - Field Recordings #19(Field Recordings #4 - Secret Domain)
- 12:00 Austin Rockman - Muter (Our Own Unknown - Krysalisound)
- 13:27 Alio Die - Il Lievito Dell'anima (Distillation Of Time - Hic Sunt Leones)
- 18:25 Taylor Deupree - Rythn (Harbor - Laaps)
- 21:15 Jason Kolàr - Magic / Random / Exotism (Liquid Rhythm - Dauw)
- 27:37 Jarguna - Neogene (Neogene - Projekt)
- 28:33 Alio Die & Dirk Serries - Without The Light Of The Sky, Time Is Lost (The Chapters Of The Eclipse - Projekt)
- 34:25 State Azure - Nova Sonus (Nova Sonus)
- 42:40 Deepchord - Drassanes (Functional Designs - Soma)
- 47:20 Louigi Verona - Journeys on Google Earth III (Journeys on Google Earth)
- 54:22 CELL - Auxin (Onwards System - Ultimae)
- 59:50 Calm Whale - Awaken Earth (Handpan Journey)
- 67:37 Ruven Nunez - Untitled No. 51 (Untitled No. 51 - Longform Editions)
- 75:06 end
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Best Ambient of 2022 part 1
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Man, these lists are tough to assemble. So why do I does this? Mostly because I enjoy the exercise of reviewing the tons and tons of music that is released over the year. It's a more active and intentional listening mode that I switch to at this time of year. I love checking out other lists to see what I may have missed. But mostly I'm just a music dork who likes lists. So here it is my favorite ambient music of 2022.
My Top 10 Ambient Albums of 2022
- Ecovillage - The Road Not Taken [Laaps]
- Snufmumriko - Radio Mnemosyne [Dronarivm]
- Man Watching the Stars - The Sextant of a Blind Seafarer
- Gylden - Island Friend [Seil]
- Nils Frahm - Music For Animals [Leiter]
- Glåsbird - Himalaya [Whitelabrecs]
- Alio Die & Dirk Serries - The Chapters Of The Eclipse [Projekt]
- Tapani Rinne & Juha Maki-Patola - Open [Hush Hush Records]
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Ghosted [Drag City]
- Tapes and Topographies - Modalities [Simulacra]
Here's the rest of the list in alphabetical order:
- 't Geruis - Bain D'Étoiles [Laaps]
- 't Geruis - Slow Dance on Moss Beds [Lost Tribe Sound]
- Adrian Copeland - If This Were My Body [Lost Tribe Sound]
- Alio Die - Distillation of Time & Spirals of Light [Hic Sunt Leones]
- Austin Rockman - Our Own Unknown [Krysalisound]
- Calm Whale - Awaken Earth
- CELL - Onwards System [Ultimae]
- Deepchord - Functional Designs [Soma]
- Glåsbird - Cinéma Noir [Whitelabrecs]
- Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Restful Spaces [Polar Seas]
- Heavenchord - Field Recordings #4 [Secret Domain]
- Inhmost - Space & Awareness [Tonight’s Dream Records]
- Jarguna - Neogene [Projekt]
- Jason Kolàr - Liquid Rhythm [Dauw]
- Jens Pauly - 1989 [Whitelabrecs]
- Johann Johannsson - Drone Mass [DG]
- Louigi Verona - Journeys on Google Earth
- Michael Scott Dawson - Music For Listening
- Moss Covered Technology - Brick & Air [Audiobulb]
- Oren Ambarchi - Shebang [Drag City]
- Pan-American - The Patience Folder [Kranky]
- Polaroid Notes - Cloud Anthems [Whitelabrecs]
- Romeo Poirier - Living Room [Faitiche]
- Ruven Nunez - Untitled #51 [Longform Editions]
- S. van der Toorn - vervlogenheden i-xi [Aural Canyon]
- Scattered Light - D.A. #017 A.D. 2022 [Dust Archive]
- Seabuckthorn - Of No Such Place [Laaps]
- Son of Chi & Arthur Fink - The Fifth World Recordings [Astral Industries]
- State Azure - Nova Sonus [2022]
- Steve Tibbetts - Hellbound Train [ecm]
- Tapani Rinne & Juha Maki-Patola - Open [Hush Hush Records]
- Tapes and Topographies - Amplitudes [Whitelabrecs]
- Taylor Deupree - Harbor [Laaps]
- The Lonely Bell - Kingdoms Of The Deep
- Toàn - Phonolite [Krysalisound]
- William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - “ . . . on reflection [Temporary Residence]
I've done three separate mixes to celebrate the best ambient music of 2022 and I will post one a day.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Ecovillage - Silent River(ft. Henrik Meierkord & Ruven Nunez) (The Road Not Taken - Laaps)
- 03:10 Jens Pauly - Vast (1989 - Whitelabrecs)
- 08:40 't Geruis - la petite riviere (Slow Dance on Moss Beds - Lost Tribe Sound)
- 13:00 William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - . . . on reflection(one) (“ . . . on reflection " - Temporary Residence)
- 19:41 Scattered Light - A.D. 2022 - SP#086 (D.A. #017 - A.D. 2022 - Dust Archive)
- 23:36 Man Watching the Stars - Sakkyoku • 55 Cancri (The Sextant of a Blind Seafarer)
- 29:10 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Montague's Creek (Restful Spaces - Polar Seas)
- 36:05 Inhmost - So Far Away (Space & Awareness - Tonight's Dream Records)
- 40:12 Glåsbird - Vansa (Himalaya - Whitelabrecs)
- 44:30 Johann Johannsson - To Fold & Remain Dormant (Drone Mass - DG)
- 47:54 Tapes and Topographies - The First of Many Moons (Modalities - Simulacra)
- 51:54 S. van der Toorn - vervlogenheid i (vervlogenheden i-xi - Aural Canyon)
- 55:08 Michael Scott Dawson - Summerfallow (Music For Listening)
- 57:51 Pan•American - Swimming in a Western Hotel (The Patience Fader - Kranky)
- 60:30 end
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
NUMINOUSTRINGS
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Many times a new mix is inspired by a track or album. In this case it was the new album, The Road Not Taken by Ecovillage.
The album is full of long, deep string vibrations that carry you along from track to track, place to place, and memory to memory. This is one of my favorite albums of the year.
So I went looking for, not just string based tunes, but tracks that had a similar slow, reflective pull. Sometimes a mix with track that are too similar can be stale but in this case the mix becomes one long meditation. As the tracks bleed one into another I experience an almost devotional trance, an ethereal sojourn.
Here are links to all the music used in this mix in the order in which they appear:
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/of-no-such-place
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/floating-world-reflections-on-36-views-of-newland-island
https://kasperbjorke.bandcamp.com/album/mother
https://andrewheath.bandcamp.com/album/a-is-for-autumn
https://annemuller.bandcamp.com/album/heliopause
https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/vast
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/sustain-series-vol-3
https://alderandashmusic.bandcamp.com/album/if-this-were-my-body
https://manwatchingthestars.bandcamp.com/album/the-sextant-of-a-blind-seafarer
https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/restful-spaces
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/cin-ma-noir
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Ecovillage - Ascend(ft. Henrik Meierkord) (The Road Not Taken 2022)
- 04:09 Seabuckthorn - So It Remains (Of No Such Place 2022)
- 07:40 tapes and topographies - the floating world (floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island 2022)
- 12:55 Kasper Bjørke Quartet - Formation (Mother 2022)
- 18:18 Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Tree Shadows (A Is For Autumn 2022)
- 20:36 Anne Mueller - Heliopause (Heliopause 2019)
- 25:12 't Geruis - Tastbare Stilte, Zilver (Vast 2022)
- 30:33 Halftribe & Seabuckthorn - Sway (Ambientologist Sustain Series, Vol. 3 2022)
- 36:20 Adrian Copeland - Stars With No Sky (If This Were My Body 2022)
- 40:55 Man Watching the Stars - Na Leigheasan • UGC 10214 (The Sextant of a Blind Seafarer 2022)
- 46:15 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Sefad (Restful Spaces 2022)
- 50:40 glåsbird - restless progress (cinéma noir 2022)
- 53:40 Henrik Meierkord, Pawel Kobak, Marco Lucchi & Rocco Saviano - Sunshine(Stilla Natt) (Venusia 2022)
- 57:06 Anne Mueller - Nummer 2 (Heliopause 2019)
- 63:00 end