Rhythm of the Rails

This mix is a sort of follow up to the train mix of a couple of months ago.  I had a song or two that I hadn't used and then I stumbled upon the album "Simultonality" by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society. The track, Sideways Fall, has this great repetitive train-like feel to it.  I knew immediately that I needed to make another train mix to fit with that tune.

That Joshua Abrams track is more jazz than ambient so I decided to keep that vibe throughout the mix. A few cuts, Steve Reich, Dan Deacon & Fieldhead, wander off the jazz track a bit but they keep the sense of forward motion.

The three 2017 releases in this mix are a few of my favorite discoveries this year.  Check them out.

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality
Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something
Quatuor Ebene & Michel Portal - Eternal Stories


Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Chris Watson - Veracruz(El Tren Fantasma 2011)
• 00:35    Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Sideways Fall(Simultonality 2017)
• 08:00    Daniel Brandt - FSG(Eternal Something 2017)
• 11:30    The Winter Consort - The Little Train of Caipira(The Winter Consort 1968)
• 13:54    Ludovico Einaudi - Elements(Elements 2015)
• 19:35    Steve Reich - Different Trains-America Before the War(Works 1997)
• 25:30    Chris Watson - El Divisadero(El Tren Fantasma 2011)
• 27:35    Daniel Brandt - Kale Me(Eternal Something 2017)
• 32:35    Quatuor Ebene & Michel Portal - City Birds(Eternal Stories 2017)
• 38:25    Fieldhead - This Train is a Rainbow(They Shook Hands For Hours 2009)
• 41:42    Gerry Mulligan - K4 Pacific(The Age Of Steam 1971)
• 46:45    Alexandre Desplat - Night Train to Nebelsbad(Grand Budapest Hotel 2014)
• 48:25    Dan Deacon - USA Suite(America 2012)
• 58:23    end

Floating Through Moonlight

My musical friend, Paul Asbury Seaman, has given us another gift in this beautiful collection.  Paul picked out the tunes and the order & I stitched them together to form the mix.  It was a joy to assemble.

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

"This is another bedtime, dreaming, unwinding, floating-away-on-an-interior-journey mix. The starting inspiration came from Michael DeMaria’s piece, “Moonlight” from his 2004 album The River.  I was so struck by how precisely the music evoked the image of moonlight on water. I have always been drawn to rivers and from the early days of ambient/electronic music more than forty years ago, with the likes of Kitaro and Tangerine Dream, I have described this genre as “journey music”—Silk Road journeys, interstellar journeys and journeys down a moonlit river."

Thanks to Paul for another Stellar collection of tunes.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Byron Metcalf - As Clouds Dance(Inner Rhythm Meditations
• 07:40    Erik Wollo - Sepia(Blue Radiance)
• 10:45    Meg Bowles - Between, Shadows and Prayers(From the Dark Earth)
• 14:20    Michel Banabila - Sana's(Float)
• 18:55    Michel Banabila - Fragments of Memory(Float)
• 25:40    Michael DeMaria - Moonlight(The River)
• 35:20    Michael DeMaria - Moonlit Sea(In the Flow)
• 37:35    Erik Wollo - Revealed in Time(Ble Radiance)
• 41:30    Darshan Ambient - Tears to Rain(Songs From The Deep Field)
• 43:45    Meg Bowles - Undulant Sea(The Shimmering Land)
• 48:15    Erik Wollo - Blue Radiance(Blue Radiance)
• 52:13    end