The Long Polar Night

 

As I type this we are getting pounded with another 9" of snow, the second pounding in less than a week. Combine that with semi-lockdown we are still under and it sort of feels like I'm in a research station outpost about to hunker down for The Long Polar Night.

Most of the titles fit the theme as well as the feel of the tunes.. I added some weather radio recordings throughout the mix which I think worked out pretty well.

One happy accident that happened while putting this together is I accidently left two tracks by two different artists in the same spot. I didn't even notice at first. They were playing simultaneously and it sounded like it was meant to be that way. This happens at 51:21 of the mix.

Cheers and stay warm!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Wind & Weather Radio
• 00:55    Owl - Moonshine Haze (Infinite Horizon 2021)
• 04:16    Esther Kokmeijer & Rutger Zuydervelt - Stillness #5 (Stillness 2013)
• 08:20    SineRider - Four Below Zero (Four Years Away 2018)
• 11:42    offthesky - cold front (studies of form in transit 2003)
• 14:40    John Butcher - wind piece (Resonant Spaces)
• 15:47    Hanno Leichtmann - wind (Nuit Du Plomb 2006)
• 19:00    Lauge - Icebound (Nothingness 2020)
• 25:30    Gailes - Surface Variations in The Snowfall (Seventeen Words 2017)
• 32:05    Marcus Fischer - Antarctic 3 (Arctic / Antarctic(version) 2020)
• 34:45    Polaroid Notes - Don't Be Afraid Of Darkness (Home Diaries 014 2020)
• 38:00    Rosalina Teche - Slightly Affected (Music for Another Sky 2021)
• 40:23    stormloop - in the frozen morning light (arctic conditions 2013)
• 48:25    Moss Covered Technology - Distant Station(Nocturne) (Once Hallowed 2019)
• 51:21    Sinderider & Polaroid Notes - Frost & Into The Black played simultaneously
• 55:35    Axs - Frozen Signpost (Arctic Circle 2011)
• 65:20    end