Ocean Echoes

The Ocean is a mighty harmonist.

               - William Wordsworth

This is pretty straight forward - a collection of tunes that will make you feel as if you are drifting along on ocean currents.  Almost all of the ocean sounds in this mix are in the original pieces of music.  I only added a bit of wave sounds around the 39 minute mark.  Enjoy the float.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Alonefold - Wanderer & Stone(Wanderer & Stone 2014)
• 07:31    Riverrun - Conover Beacon(Romer Shoal 2016)
• 11:15    Keenya - Remember Smiles(Moment Invisible 2016)
• 14:35    Helios - Ebb/Flow(Rememberance 2016)
• 18:18    Igneous Flame - North Sea Siren(Ocean Sighs 2016)
• 22:05    Gareth Davis - Filament(Filament 2016)
• 30:40    Brian Eno - The Secret Place(Apollo 1983)
• 33:20    Urenga - Seafloor(Undercurrents 2015)
• 39:15    Billow Observatory - Plum(Plains/Patterns 2017)
• 44:20    Barry Lynn - Alpha Tauri(Taurus Tapes Vol. II 2017)
• 46:36    Dolphins Into The Future - Lone Voyager(On Sea-Faring Isolation 2009)
• 54:15    Riverrun - Dubos Point(Romer Shoal 2016)
• 77:00    end

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Vox Eterna - a worldess hymn to a luminous world

I'm not sure where this mix originated.  It may have started with Johann Johannsson's Kangaru from the Arrival soundtrack, God knows I listened to that a ton over the last 6 months.  Maybe it was Max Richter. 

Whatever it was I found myself collecting vocal tunes.  The kind of tracks that have vocals but many times no words or lyrics.  If there are words it's usually unintelligible or a language like Latin.  Once I gathered enough music then wa-lah here's an ethereal vocal mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Max Richter - Sketch for a Portrait #1(Morgan OST 2016)
• 01:06    Olafur Arnalds - Raddir(Island Songs 2016)
• 05:00    Ashera - Lullaby for Mother Earth(Ambient Selections 1997)
• 08:00    Tim Hecker - Utropics(An Imaginary Country 2009)
• 08:53    Jonsi & Alex - Boy 1904(Riceboy Sleeps 2009)
• 11:30    Jim Cole - Astral(Godspace 2002)
• 15:18    Jim Cole - The Way Beyond #10(The Way Beyond 2003)
• 17:30    Brian Eno - 2-1(Music for Airports 1978)
• 22:30    Melanie Pappenheim and Jocelyn Pook - Blow the Wind/Pie Jesu(Deluge 2009)
• 24:50    Max Richter - Path 5(Sleep 2016)
• 31:00    Johann Jphannsson - Odi Et Amo(Englaborn 2002)
• 33:50    Murcof & Vanessa Wagner - Farewell, O World, O Earth(Statea 2016)
• 41:00    Peter Gabriel - Dressing the Wound(Birdy 1985)
• 44:20    Alio Die & Amelia Cuni - Churning the Ocean(Apsaras 2001)
• 49:20    Johann Johannsson - Kangaru(Arrival 2016)
• 51:50    Jon Anderson - Bless This(Global Communication Remix)(The Deseo Remixes 1995)
• 57:44     Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen - St. Birgitta Hymn(Rimur 2017)
• 61:48    Voces8 - Vasks: The Fruits Of Silence(Winter 2016)
• 66:30    end

The Memory of Trains

I wonder why the sound of trains is so evocative.  Even for folks who have never been on a train there is something about the sound of a train on the tracks that stirs the imagination.  This mix will hopefully have the same effect.

I was surprised to find that I've only done two previous train themed mixes.  It sure seems like I've done more.  Maybe it's the use of train sounds in filed recording mixes that has me confused.  Anyway, here are the two previous mixes...
http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2014/08/leaving-station.html
http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2015/01/points-of-departure.html

This mix began with a recommendation from a follower on Mixcloud, Paul Asbury Seaman. I asked for any other train tunes he could suggest and he came through in a big way.  He did all the hard work and mapped out the whole mix for me.  I had a great time mixing it and discovering new music along the way.

Here's what Paul had to say about the mix...

"Berlin School synth/electronica can be pretty kinetic and thus an obvious source for a train mix, but I was going for a more melancholy sound, the wistful feeling evoked by the sound of Far Away Trains Passing By (the title of the Ulrich Schnauss album represented here). My working title for this mix was "Locomotive Lullaby."

While I was on the subject, I made a list of classic train songs (the sung kind) and came up with more than sixty--about three CDs worth! Here's a great article to start your playlist with: http://harpers.org/blog/2014/06/the-twenty-three-best-train-songs-ever-written-maybe/ Or contact Low Light Mixes for a copy of mine. Thanks, new friend Dave, for putting this together."

Thanks Paul, for all work on this excellent mix!  I still have more tracks to use so the next train mix will be more jazzy.


Cheers!



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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Erik Wollo - Church Mountain(Different Spaces 2017)
• 04:04    Johan Agebjörn - Sleepless On The Kostomuksha-Petrozavodsk Night Train(We Never Came to the White Sea 2017)
• 10:20    Between Interval - On Track(Legacy 2017)
• 13:10    David Parsons - The Himgiri(Yatra 1990)
• 18:40    Ulrich Schnauss - Nothing Happens in June(Far Away Trains Passing By...2001)
• 24:25    Ascendant - Ephemeris(Source Transmission 2014)
• 31:30    Mark Ward - Universal(Universal 2017)
• 40:15    Hollan Holmes - Enduro(The Spirits of Starlight 2014)
• 46:25    Erik Wollo - Rundreise(Different Spaces 2017)
• 51:05    Al Gromer Khan - Stamboul Train(Turya 2006)
• 62:15    end