After the attacks in Paris on November 13th, NPR music did a show about music for healing. You can find it here... http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/11/17/456343231/music-for-healing Two cuts on their playlist are from two of my favorite albums this year, Goldmund - Sometimes and Nils Frahm - Solo. As I listened to those two tracks over & over I started to think about the piano as a healing instrument. The right song & circumstances can make just about any instrument a healing instrument. But somehow the piano seems ideally suited for that role. Most of the tunes used here are new. In addition to the Goldmund & Frahm cuts another 2015 favorite album included in the mix is Chris Walla - Tape Loops. Walla is the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie and he has put together a nice collection that reminds me of Music for Airports & Music for Films. I hope this mix can act as a musical balm, soothing our psyches in these turbulent times. Enjoy. [ s t r e a m ][ d o w n l o a d ][ i t u n e s ] T R A C K L I S T :
00:00Goldmund - Sometimes
02:40Chris Walla - Goodbye
08:00Nils Frahm - Ode
12:10Hior Chronik & Mikael Delta - Everything We Want to Feel
A slowly developing amalgamation of mixed-genre madness, fusing ambient, experimental & jazz soundscapes into a mixture of quiet deconstruction. "Slow Decay" is a collaborative mix from Low Light Mixes & Ambient Landscape. We've each done mixes for each other but we thought it would be cool make a mix in which we both contributed alternating sections. Gene(ambient landscape) came up with the title and I started things off with a couple of cuts. I sent it to Gene, he added a few more, sent it back to me, I added more tracks and so on and so on. Until we had a fascinating 1 hour & 16 minute journey. I love how things turned out. The combination of ecm-style jazz and ambient and experimental music worked perfectly. Don't forget to check out Ambient Landscape here... https://ambientlandscape.wordpress.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/gab_labs/ Enjoy [ s t r e a m ][ d o w n l o a d ][ i t u n e s ] T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 Signal Structure (w/treatments) - Positive Centre
03:12 Upon Contact Reworked - Jorge Haro (Bruno Sanfilippo)
07:10 The Squealing of Rats & the Squeaking of Boards - Marielle V Jakobsons (w/treatments)
08:45 Parallel Realities (excerpt) - Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock
11:40 Dis Loops 1.1 - William Basinski - performed by The Wordless Music Orchestra
21:40 Upon the Break Arch - Benoit Pioulard
26:20 Structural Functions Of Prezens (excerpt) - David Torn, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey
30:25 Sluimer (excerpt) - FANTOOM (René Aquarius, Otto Kokke, Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven)
34:50 Passage D.E. - Jon Hassell
39:10 Solphaer - Alva Noto
44:05 Porch Swings - Cinchel
45:55 Arder De No Sentir Calor - Mauro Beltran
50:27 Night Peculiarities – Johan Troch
53:19 Tunis at Dawn - Anouar Brahem
59:44 Rosemarie - Trio3: Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille w/ Vijay Iyer
66:04 Setting Out - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
67:50 The Wind in High Places: Above Sunset Pass - John Luther Adams
