Episodes
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Morning Music Vol. 23 - A Sunday Kind of Love
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
A couple of tunes were the inspiration for cranking out another Sunday Morning mix. First is the lead-off track - A Sunday Kind of Love from Etta James. It's simply a great tune that I'm surprised I haven't used before. Next is an track from 1971 that I'd never heard of until a few weeks ago. I stumbled on an Instagram reel that talked about the gentle beauty of "Curry Rice" by Kenji Endo. I immediately fell in love with it and the rest of the album.
That's where the mix started and from there it follows the usual formula - some jazz, some ambient, some folk - all flowing together in a sweet Sunday mix.
Here the links to all the music used in this mix:
- https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/album/fuubutsushi
- https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-energy-fields-current
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JYZ6134/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16PNFVZUB9J3W&keywords=Manzoku+Dekirukana&marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&qid=1676729358&sprefix=manzoku+dekirukana%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1&trackAsin=B07JYZ6134
- https://www.amazon.com/Such-Winters-Memory-John-Surman/dp/B00000AU3Q
- https://facture.bandcamp.com/album/duets
- https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-energy-fields-current
- https://nyokabikariuki.bandcamp.com/album/peace-places-kenyan-memories
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG0pT5iInFI
- https://www.dunealtar.com/
- https://hiorchronik.bandcamp.com/album/haze
- https://eccodek.bandcamp.com/album/ventrilokissed
- https://colepulice.bandcamp.com/album/scry
- https://joanshelley.bandcamp.com/album/the-spur
- https://store.bluenote.com/products/bill-frisell-four
- https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-in-an-empty-room
- https://aspotonthehill.bandcamp.com/album/everything-was-different-yesterday
- 00:00 Etta James - A Sunday Kind of Love (At Last! 1960)
- 03:15 Fuubutsushi - Cicada Season (Fuubutsushi 2020)
- 05:46 Kenji Endo - Curry Rice (Manzoku Dekirukana 1971)
- 08:42 John Surman - Sunday Morning (Such Winters Of Memory 1983)
- 15:30 Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Ray (Duets 2022)
- 18:52 Carlos Niño & Friends - Ripples Reflection Loop (More Energy Fields, Current 2021)
- 21:17 Nyokabi Kariuki - Home Piano (Peace Places Kenyan Memories 2022)
- 23:48 Foreign Body Sensation & Justin Maranga - In the Lair of the 5-Sided Serpent (Subterranean Environments 2023)
- 30:30 Hior Chronik - Cloud Peels (Haze 2022)
- 33:17 Peppermoth - Sun Dreamer (Ventrilokissed 2021)
- 37:28 Cole Pulice - Scry (Scry 2022)
- 44:39 Joan Shelley - Amberlit Morning (The Spur 2022)
- 49:44 Los Indios Tabajaras - Wide Horizon (Always in My Heart 1964)
- 52:28 Bill Frisell - Waltz for Hal Willner (Four 2022)
- 55:04 Zolton Fecso - Morning's Theme (Daylight in an Empty Room 2020)
- 58:07 Ben McElroy & A Spot on the Hill - A New Light (Everything Was Different Yesterday 2023)
- 60:10 end
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Morning Music Vol. 22 - Warm Waves
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
It was a little more than ten years ago that I posted my first Sunday Morning Music mix. I had not intended on making it a regular series but the mix did very well on Mixcloud and is partially responsible for starting the explosion of followers the Low Light Mixes feed got in the following years. So I've been creating roughly two per years for 10 years. Yikes! It's kind of crazy to think about how long I've been making these mixes.
This one follows the same formula - some ambient cuts, some jazzy tracks, a few vocal tunes, all resulting in a mellow vibe perfect for sipping coffee on a Sunday morning.
Here are links to all the music used in this mix in the order in which they appear:
- https://timerival.bandcamp.com/album/fell
- https://turnonthesunlight.bandcamp.com/album/warm-waves
- https://damiandallatorre.bandcamp.com/album/happy-floating
- https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/strawberry-roan
- https://idra.bandcamp.com/album/duet
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07987C2PK/ref=dm_rwp_pur_lnd_albm_pm
- https://eccodek.bandcamp.com/album/ventrilokissed
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PRLRSX1/ref=dm_rwp_pur_lnd_albm_pm
- https://shearwater.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-awakening-2022
- https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/album/a-light-for-attracting-attention
- https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/of-context
- https://ryleywalker.bandcamp.com/album/little-common-twist
- https://bjornmeyer.bandcamp.com/album/provenance-2
- https://sip-groop.bandcamp.com/album/leos-naturals
- https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-tomato-plants
- https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-psychedelic-therapy
- 00:00 Time Rival - Breakfast with Birdsong (Fell 2020)
- 02:40 Turn On The Sunlight - Warm Waves (Warm Waves 2020)
- 08:33 Damian Dalla Torre - Where to Go (Happy Floating 2022)
- 12:27 Cole Pulice & Nat Harvie - Dream Days (Strawberry Roan 2022)
- 16:27 IDRA - Air and Salt (Duet 2022)
- 19:03 Peter Banks - No Place Like Home (Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky 2018)
- 20:34 Peppermoth - Sun Dreamer (Ventrilokissed 2021)
- 24:45 David Byrne And Yo La Tengo - Who Has Seen The Wind (2022)
- 27:20 Shearwater - Wind Is Love (The Great Awakening 2022)
- 31:33 The Smile - Open The Floodgates (A Light For Attracting Attention 2022)
- 35:35 Kittylung - Garden Abandoned (Of Context 2021)
- 38:07 Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker - Self Blind Sun (Little Common Twist 2019)
- 42:13 Björn Meyer - Provenance (Provenance 2017)
- 48:04 SiP - Alice (Leos Naturals 2020)
- 54:00 Loris S. Sarid - Tano (Music for Tomato Plants 2020)
- 56:40 Jon Hopkins - Ascending, Dawn Sky (Music For Psychedelic Therapy 2021)
- 65:03 end
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Morning Music Vol. 21 - Dreamland
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
One of my favorite new indie albums of 2021 is An Overview on Phenomenal Nature by Cassandra Jenkins. It's a mostly fairly quiet, folky album. Except for the last cut which is instrumental with a kind of jazzy/ambient vibe. I knew immediately that I wanted to use it in a Sunday morning mix. Then I realized that it had been more than a year since I'd done a Sunday mix.
So here it is - Sunday Morning Music Vol. 21 - Dreamland. It sounds just like the Cassandra Jenkins I described above - jazzy/ambient with a sunny feel. There are two vocal tunes - one by Sam Gendel and the wonderful Dreamland by Joni Mitchell.
There's not much else to say other than grab the Sunday paper, a cup of coffee and hang out with this mix.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Time Rival - Breakfast with Birdsong (Fell 2020)
- 02:40 Casandra Jenkins - The Ramble (An Overview on Phenomenal Nature 2021)
- 09:05 Sam Gendel - Shells, Tube, and Guitar (Fresh Bread 2021)
- 15:09 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills - Just Wrong (Notes with Attachments 2021)
- 19:30 Turn On The Sunlight - Looking For A Waterfall (Warm Waves 2020)
- 24:50 Joseph Shabason - 15-19 (The Fellowship 2021)
- 31:33 Green-House - Peace Piece (2021)
- 35:31 Sam Gendel - Sometimes I Feel So Good (Fresh Bread 2021)
- 40:00 Joni Mitchell - Dreamland (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 1977)
- 44:06 SiP - Malabar (Leos Naturals 2020)
- 52:10 Blake Mills - Mirror Box (Mutable Set 2020)
- 57:00 Chocolate Hills - Relax (A Pail of Air 2019)
- 60:19 end
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday Morning Music vo. 20 - Exhale
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
I haven't posted a Sunday Morning mix since January and with how much things have changed since then I figured we could all use a mix with that Sunday morning vibe.
So here it is #20 in the Sunday Morning Music series. It's mostly new music, with 13 tracks from 2019 & 2020. One of the oddball old cuts is from 1980, John Martyn's "Sweet Little Mystery." I've always liked the tune but I hadn't heard it in a long time until it made an unlikely appearance in the show DEVS. As soon as I heard it I knew I need to include it in a mix.
A couple of vocal tracks in the middle seem to fit perfectly with the Sunday vibe but also fit with the messed up times we are living through. The Shards tune has this appropriate lyric -
"We know not yet what the future brings
But a bird's still a bird without its wings
Each day, each day is a curious thing
If I can't take flight then inside I'll sing"
And then there's Jonsi reminding us to breathe in and breathe out in "Exhale."
I've been drinking a ton of coffee as I work from home so maybe I'll say go grab a nice cup of Jasmine tea, a good book, play this mix, and...exhale.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 morning walk
- 00:30 Mute Forest - Morning Guitar (2020)
- 03:40 Mountain Man - slow wake up sunday morning (2019)
- 07:23 Opitope - A Quiet Morning Arriving to the Valley (2007)
- 09:23 Zachary Hay - untitled 7 (2019)
- 13:10 Mute Forest - Atoms Falling (2020)
- 17:22 The Heart Is Awake - Full of Stars pt II (2020)
- 21:30 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Tides IX (2019)
- 23:34 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Your Own Spell (2011)
- 26:09 Shards & Isolation Choir - Inside I'll Sing (2020)
- 30:16 Jonsi - Exhale (2020)
- 34:10 Ecovillage - She Walks In Beauty (2020)
- 37:03 Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Spring Frost (2020)
- 40:34 John Martyn - Sweet Little Mystery (1980)
- 45:45 Lounge Lizards - Bob the Bob (1989)
- 47:48 Alabaster DePlume - I Hope (2020)
- 53:08 log(m) & Laraaji - Pear Strings (2019)
- 59:34 Albrecht La'Brooy - Healesville (2019)
- 65:36 end
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
Sunday Morning Music Vol. 19 - Rhodes to the 70s
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
This mix started with an interesting album I came across this past weekend, Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods. It was originally released in 1975 but was recently rediscovered and rereleased. It's a curious combination of field recordings and early ambient noodling. The result is captivating.
https://freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/neighborhoods
I picked the track "Saturday Morning Doze" as the starting point for a new Sunday morning mix. I noticed it had Fender Rhodes piano type of sound going on. I'm not sure if there is a Fender Rhodes playing or not but it definitely reminded me of the Rhodes sound from the 70s that I love so much.
So then the mix changed from a normal Sunday morning mix to a Fender Rhodes 1970s mix. Each track is from the 70s(duh) and has the sound of Fender Rhodes piano in it. While digging up tunes I realized that all the electric piano sounds in this mix might not all be a Fender Rhodes. They could very well be some other vintage electric piano. But I don't care, it's the sound and feel that's important.
Longtime listeners will notice a few tunes that I've used before from Steve Hillage, Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and Daryl Hall(yes, that Daryl Hall). I generally try to stay away from using songs in multiple mixes but these cuts fit so perfectly that I couldn't resist. The other odd thing about this mix is the first 45 minutes are instrumental then we go to vocal tunes for the final 17 minutes. It wasn't planned, it just sort of worked out that way.
Enjoy this trip back to the 70s.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze (1975)
- 07:05 Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise (1979)
- 10:43 Camel - Rhayader Alone (1975)
- 12:28 Gilgamesh - Lady And Friend (1975)
- 15:45 Harold Budd - Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim (1978)
- 21:05 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Sound of Someone You Love (1976)
- 28:28 Soft Machine - E.P.V. (1973)
- 30:57 Lilienthal - Gebremster Schaum (1979)
- 36:32 Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen - Waltz For Nobby (1979)
- 45:22 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1975)
- 48:15 John Martyn - One World alt. version (1977)
- 51:51 Brian Eno - By This River (1977)
- 54:35 Roxy Music - Spin Me Round (1979)
- 59:10 Daryl Hall - The Farther Away I Am (1979)
- 61:50 end
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
Sunday Morning Music vol. 18 - Sun Room
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
The 18th installment in the Sunday Morning Music series is here. It starts with one of my favorite albums of the year - Spirit by Rhye. It's so beautiful and intimate. From there we get some more pretty tunes because that's what I want on Sunday morning - no dark ambient drones here, just pretty and calm.
All the tracks are fairly new - the oldest being from 2016, while most are from this year.
Sunday morning musings - the cover pic of a cup of coffee reminded me of something. I've noticed in a lot of the science fiction I read that coffee is very important to a lot of characters in sci-fi stories. Many times it's in a post-apocalyptic world and coffee has become rare, a character finds a stash of coffee and it's like striking gold. Or a character is in space and has been traveling for a long time and finally gets to a location that has coffee and again it's like they have found the holy grail. This type of thing happens more often than I would have expected. I wonder if it's because writers drink lots of coffee as they write and they know that coffee is the world's most wonderful liquid(right behind beer).
Grab some coffee, interstellar or not, and take a listen to this latest mix.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Rhye - Awake(Spirit 2019)
- 03:39 Marty Hicks - Alnum Hymn 56(Olreilion 2019)
- 06:55 Lullatone - Waking Up On A Picnic Blanket(Music For Museum Gift Shops 2019)
- 09:29 Ann Annie - Wander Into(wander into 2019)
- 15:00 Wilson Tanner - Sun Room(69 2016)
- 19:30 Joseph Shabason - 1517(Anne EP 2019)
- 25:05 High Tides - Tidal Movement(Paradise Daze 2019)
- 28:36 Kryshe - Meditation(Hauch 2019)
- 31:31 Meitei - Nami(Komachi 2019)
- 35:00 Andrew Heath - Headland(Soundings 2017)
- 36:31 Nicholas Britell - The Children of Our Age(If Beale Street Could Talk 2018)
- 37:47 Corey Fuller - Lamentation(Break 2019)
- 40:22 Wilson Tanner - Odd Low(69 2016)
- 43:22 Rhye - Green Eyes(Spirit 2019)
- 45:37 The Phonometrician - Poppy Meadows(Mnemosyne 2019)
- 50:48 The Hardy Tree - After The Rain(Stagale EP 2019)
- 56:30 Lullatone - Morning Coffee(Music For Museum Gift Shops 2019)
- 59:30 end
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Sunday Morning Music vol. 17 - Sparkling Early Mornings
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
I haven't posted a Sunday morning mix in a long time. So here is the first Sunday morning collection of 2019.
There's not much to say - it's the typical Sunday morning mix. A little jazz, some ambient, some instrumental, etc. Most of the tunes are fairly new with three exceptions.
The cover pic is my backyard, but not from this year as we haven't had much snow at all. Of course I just jinxed it so next week we'll probably get 3 feet.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Johann Johannsson - Mandy Love Theme(2018)
- 01:30 Ben Rath - A Quiet Morning(2019)
- 06:25 Luis Miehlich - Spring Haiku 2(2018)
- 10:19 Andrey Kiritchenko - Sparkling Early Mornings(2008)
- 13:55 Joseph Shabason - Treat It Like A Wine Bar(2018)
- 19:43 Alice Coltrane - Radhe-Shyam(1977)
- 23:32 Peppermoth - Claude(2018)
- 27:34 Gigi Masin - Kite(2018)
- 31:45 Dean Mcphee - The Devil's Knell(2018)
- 36:00 Hampshire & Foat - End Song(2017)
- 37:46 Eli Keszler - Fifty Four To Madrid(2018)
- 40:58 The Necks - The World At War(1990)
- 56:00 Endurance - Measurements of Light(2017)
- 61:24 end
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Sunday Morning Music vol. 16 - Daybreak
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Here's the first Sunday Morning Music mix of 2018.
Most of the music is new. All of the tracks were released in 2018 with the exception of "To Earth" by Ariwo from 2017 and "Jade Visions" by Bill Evans from 1961. There are no vocal tunes in this mix, which wasn't on purpose, it just sort of works out that way sometimes.
Many thanks to the artists and labels for the excellent music that appears in this mix. To name just a few...
Thanks to Bob Duskis at Six Degrees Records and Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society for the Cloudface Remixes:
https://deliaderbyshireappreciationsociety.bandcamp.com/album/cloudface-remixes
https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/
Thanks to Michael Cottone, aka The Green Kingdom, for the heads up on the new ep "Depths."
https://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/depths-ep
Thanks to Ryan at Lost Tribe Sound for the sneak peaks of two fantastic albums being released soon,
"Sleep Stations" by From The Mouth Of The Sun and "Black Box Animals" by Luton.
https://ftmots.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-stations
https://luton.bandcamp.com/album/black-box-animals-2
Thanks also to Harry Towell over at Whitelabrecs for pointing me in the direction of the new Paper Relics album, "The Road Home."
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-home
And finally thanks to my online friend Thomas Lindsey, aka Tonepoet, for another fine album, "Ocean of Infinity."
https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-of-infinity
I love all the connections, online and in the real world, brought about by our mutual love for music. Thanks for all the great tunes over the years!
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T I N G :
- 00:00 Albrecht La'Brooy - Daybreak
- 04:55 Gigi Masin - Morning Light
- 09:24 Anenon - Open
- 12:15 Henri Texier - Quand tout s'arrete
- 17:48 Joachim Staudt - Mother Earth
- 19:05 Ariwo - To Earth
- 27:40 Christian Kleine - Sun Star
- 30:52 Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Cloudface
- 34:42 The Green Kingdom - Velvet Wavescape
- 37:03 Luton - Archipelago
- 41:00 Paper Relics - Stoke's Hall
- 45:05 From The Mouth Of The Sun - About the Birth of Stars
- 46:30 Tonepoet - The Birth of Gravity
- 49:00 Christina Vantzou - At Dawn
- 51:25 Ian Hawgood & Danny Norbury - V
- 56:30 Bill Evans - Jade Visions
- 59:51 end
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Morning Music vol. 15 - October Sky
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
For this Sunday Morning Music installment I used almost all brand new music. 16 of the 19 tracks are from 2017 & most of those are from the last two months. Two cuts are from 2016.
One outlier is from all the way back in 1999. That track is October Sky by Mark Isham. As I was putting the mix together I came up with the title of vol. 15 - October Sky(cuz it's October) and thought that it sounded familiar. I searched my hard drive and sure enough I found October Sky is a soundtrack by Mark Isham from 1999. BTW, it's an excellent movie. So I had to include that one old track in with all the new ones.
Also sorry for this not being uploaded on a Sunday morning. Brunch with the kids took priority, then football, the nap. So here it is on Sunday evening.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Joseph Shabason - Tite Cycle(Aytche 2017)
- 05:12 Kasami Washington - Desire(Harmony Of Difference 2017)
- 08:25 Clint Mansell - The Night Cafe(Loving Vincent 2017)
- 10:40 Arovane & Hior Chronik - Morning Fog(Into My Own 2017)
- 13:50 Four Tet - 10 midi(New Energy 2017)
- 14:52 Hannu Karjalainen - Love Unconditional(A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert 2017)
- 17:14 Lav & Purl - The Presnt Moment(still version)(The Present Moment 2016)
- 21:33 Jakob Lindhagen - i parken(Skorheten 2016)
- 22:30 Igneous Flame - Eevi(Sylvi 2017)
- 26:45 Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Photo w/ grey sky white clouds(Passive Agressive 2017)
- 33:33 Balmorhea - First Light(Clear Language 2017)
- 34:54 Hans Zimmer - Rain(Blade Runner 2049 OST 2017)
- 36:10 Kelly Lee Owens - Bird(Kelly Lee Owens 2017)
- 40:27 Kiasmos - Blurred(Blurred ep 2017)
- 45:27 Marl Isham - October Sky(October Sky 1999)
- 49:56 Joseph Shabason - Long Swim(Aytche 2017)
- 54:05 Ludmila - Day 4(1 day 1 track 2017)
- 55:44 Bonobo - Second Sun(Migration 2017)
- 59:09 Bjorn Meyer - Pulse(Provenance 2017)
- 61:48 end
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Sunday Morning Music vol. 14 - Early Bird
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
I haven't done a Sunday morning mix in quite a while so volume 14 solves that problem.
This follows the usual Sunday morning mix template of a few vocal tunes, some ambient tunes and a bit of jazz. I was happy to finally use Shenandoah in a mix. More than a year ago I was at a local high school spring concert and fell in love with the concert band version of this tune. I know it may sound out of place in a Low Light mix but I think it's beauty fits well with the Sunday morning series.
In addition to Shenandoah there is new music from Hite, Grails, The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Clocolan and fairly new music from Radiohead & Olafur Arnalds. And a nice old classic from Max Roach & Clifford Brown.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Olafur Arnalds - Particles
- 03:48 Grails - Rebecca
- 07:10 Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson - And still they move
- 09:56 Frank Ticheli - Shenandoah
- 16:20 Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin - Once there was a hushpuppy
- 22:48 Fripp & Eno - Evening Star(The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society interpretation)
- 28:57 Clocolan - Obsolete Advancement
- 34:25 Orchestre National de Jazz - Révolution
- 43:20 Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Delilah
- 51:02 The Still - The Early Bird
- 58:42 Hite - Old Crow
- 62:15 Radiohead - True Love Waits
- 66:52 end