low light mixes

sunday morning music

I absolutely love NPR music.  The host of their All Songs Considered podcast is Bob Boilen.  I've heard him describe music as "Sunday morning music."  I'm not exactly sure what that is but I think I know when I hear it.

I'd been thinking about doing a Sunday mix for some time and then I heard Wilco's song "One Sunday Morning" & immediately loved it & had to start a mix so I could use that tune in it.

This mix is a collection of both vocal & instrumental tunes, that hopefully will work well with sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee & reading the paper.  Sunday mornings always make me think of jazz so I included a couple of jazz tracks in the mix.

Time to go brew another pot.

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Chandanam - Silk
• 02:00    Bon Iver - Perth (the Polish Ambassador remix)
• 08:23    Wilco - One Sunday Morning
• 16:53    Daniel Lanois & the MDH Band - The First Time(reprise)
• 18:55    Nick Drake - From the Morning
• 21:17    Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJonette - Pastel Morning
• 23:12    Charlie Haden & Hank Jones - Going Home
• 27:12    Gem Club - Twins
• 31:20    Harmonia 76 - When Shade was Born
• 32:35    Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Sunday After the War
• 36:15    Marsen Jules - Lazy Sunday Funerals #3
• 38:12    Dizzy Gillespie - Come Sunday
• 41:00    Leonard Cohen - Going Home
• 44:10    S. Carey - Move
• 46:52    Seu Jorge - Life on Mars(Bowie Cover)
• 50:12    Charlie Haden & Hank Jones - Come Sunday
• 53:43    end

Quintessential Jazz

No pretense of ambience in this mix, just straight forward jazz.  I came across an interesting list here... Quintessential Jazz Songs. The Jazz 100 is a list compiled by listeners of jazz24.org & NPR Music.  It's kinda fun to read some of the comments because the listeners get very passionate about the list.  Much of the list is very recognizable & some of the tracks I'd never heard before, so it was great to dig in & discover music I probably should have known about for a long time. So this mix is just a quick compilation of just a few tracks from the list, with the exception of the Paul Desmond tune(it just worked perfectly following Take 5 with Take Ten). Even though this deviates from from the usual ambient I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Miles Davis - So What
• 09:20    Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana(the song of the tree)
• 13:33    Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - In a Sentmental Mood
• 17:40    Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
• 27:44    Dave Brubeck - Take 5
• 32:57    Paul Desmond - Take Ten
• 36:00    Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema
• 41:05    Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
• 49:32    Wayne Shorter - Footprints
• 54:57    Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie
• 01:53    end

footsteps

One of my favorites albums this year isThe Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra . What first got my attention was Isabella Rossellini reciting the words of the late author Laura Huxley, widow of Aldous Huxley, on the first track - LookListenFeel. I've always had a thing for Isabella Rossellini so I gave the track a listen...and loved it. I've been playing this album a lot and I wanted to feature it in a mix but the music wouldn't fit with my normal ambient mixes so I decided to a beat mix. As with many mixes, this one took twists & turns I hadn't quite expected. It started off sort of psychedelic then quickly veered into something sort of funky, sort of jazzy. I love the detour it took to Dorothy Ashby. I discovered her 1968 album Afro-Harping at NPR music. I had already finished the mix when I heard the song "Soul Vibrations" and just knew I had to use it. It fits in very nicely. Somehow U2 & Dave Brubeck get squeezed in here as well. It finishes off where it began with The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra. I really enjoyed making this mix & even though it's a bit different for normal low light fare, I hope you enjoy it too. T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra - LookListenFeel
• 03:30 DJ Cam - Gantsa Shit
• 07:15 Polyoctopus - One Less Thing
• 10:20 Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations
• 13:25 Conelrad - Charger Paris Mirage
• 16:55 U2 - Numb(gimme some more dignity remix)
• 19:35 The New Mastersounds - Drop It Down(b remix)
• 22:51 Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping
• 25:25 Chronomad - Dore Hindi
• 29:00 Terminal Sound System - Duchamp Falls
• 32:40 Dave Brubeck - Take Five
• 37:40 Hidden Orchestra - Footsteps
• 40"00 Halma - Hektopascal
• 42:35 Eliot Lipp - Real Tragic
• 46:00 The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra - A Beautiful Walk in the Country
• 48:10 end

shadows at midnight

The inspiration for this mix came from the new Jon Hassell album. If you haven't picked it up yet, do so. It's called "Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street". It's already in my best of 2009 folder. It's very moody, very ambient, just a little jazzy. Very much like the wonderful release from Arve Henriksen last year. I wanted this mix to have a moody, melancholy, late-night jazz feel. Although I have used some of these artists in other mixes this is the first jazz mix for Low Light mIxes. I wasn't sure what to expect when I began but it turned out fairly well. It didn't take long to put together because it's not a sound collage like the last mix. But I think the tunes flow nicely together. Sometimes sitting around with a good scotch, you need soemthing with a jazzy flavor & I hope this works for that while remaining true to the Low Light feel. Next up...an all Eno mix. T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Arve Henriksen - Migration 05:21 The Necks - Black 10:35 Mort d'un Pourri - Valerie 13:50 Slowhill - Nikos Dream 17:59 boren & der club of gore - Midnight Walker 24:45 Jon Hassell - Courtais 29:40 Miles Davis - In a Silent Way 33:35 Nick B. Ronin - Modul 42 39:30 Duke Ellington - Melancholia 42:25 Arve Henriksen - Recording Angel 48:20 Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came 58:17 Mort d'un Pourri - tout est tranquille 1:00:00 end