Low Light Mixes: October 2021

Sunday, October 31, 2021

always ambient

This is mix #3 in the "simply ambient" series. It started with "simply ambient" then "purely ambient" and now "always ambient."

I listen to a ton of new music every month and this series gives me a chance to get some of that new music into mixes without having to wait for an appropriate theme. It's just straightforward ambient tracks, no theme, no big concept, no story to tell - just excellent ambient music, always.

Music used in the mix:

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-night-ends

https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/still-life

https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/maritime

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/stanotte

https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/slow-morning

https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/album/cycle

https://innesti.bandcamp.com/album/in-letters

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/siberia

https://asc77.bandcamp.com/album/the-moons-of-saturn

https://devendrabanhart.bandcamp.com/album/refuge

https://keepsleep.bandcamp.com/album/past-life-memories

And here the record labels that put out this great music:

Whitelabrecs - https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/music

Polar Seas - https://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Ambientologist - https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/

Lontano - https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/music

Archives - https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/

Aural Canyon - https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/music

Auxiliary - https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/

Shimmering Moods - https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jens Pauly & Stijn Hüwels - The Leaves Will Fade (When The Night Ends 2021)
11:00 Igor Yalivec - Viola (Still Life 2021)
15:35 anthéne - juniper (maritime 2021)
19:10 Michele Andreotti - Ovunque (Stanotte 2021)
25:10 Robert Farrugia - Coastal (Slow Morning 2017)
32:00 Rhucle - Distance (Cycle 2021)
35:15 Rhucle - Tone (Cycle 2021)
38:40 Innesti - Narrative Forms (In Letters 2021)
42:40 Glåsbird - Thermokarsts (Siberia 2021)
46:40 ASC & Inhmost - Sunrise On Titan (The Moons Of Saturn 2021)
53:20 Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson - A Cat (Refuge 2021)
57:30 KeepSleep - 上次会议 Farewell (Past Life Memories 2021)
62:00 end

Friday, October 29, 2021

Out Past Dark

I'm getting this mix up & running just in time for Halloween. This one, while it does have a bit of a nighttime feel to it, is a little less creepy than some past Halloween mixes.

For this collection I looked for titles that fit the theme of night to day. The mix moves chronologically from sunset to night to moonrise and set to darkness to dreaming and finally to light and dawn.

Grab a pumpkin spice beer and...UGH, no don't do that! Grab a normal beer, like a refreshing Hamm's, and sit on the porch, in the dark, listening to this mix. Happy Halloween.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Eli Keszler - Civil Sunset (Icons 2021)
03:55 Seabuckthorn - It Will Be Dark By Then (Other Other 2020)
06:49 Zoe Keating - Hello Night (Into The Trees (2010)
10:21 A-Sun Amissa - Outr Past Dark (Black Rain 2020)
14:53 Wodwo - that full-mooned night (Filey Bay 1978 2018)
18:06 Loren Connors - Moon Gone Down (Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 2003)
19:45 Observatories - Visible Darkness (Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come 2021)
22:42 Robert Davies - Nocturnal Reverie (Shadow Dreams 2009)
29:20 Ki Oni - Dream World (A Little Night Music Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North 2020)
33:35 Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Other Dreamers (Black Mirror: Men Against Fire 2016)
34:18 ASC & Sam KDC - Another Evasive Dream (A Restless Mind 2020)
39:00 Andrew Heath - There’s a Ghost in My House (The Alchemist’s Muse 2020)
40:00 Olga Wojciechowska - Nothing To Be Afraid Of (Salaam For Yemen 2018)
43:38 Windy & Carl - Will I See the Dawn (Allegiance and Conviction 2020)
48:40 Adrian Lane - The Dawn Seems Reluctant To Come (Ennio's Muse 2021)
51:15 Hipnotic Earth - Where Night Sky Meets Day (HomeWorld 2021)
56:00 Observatories - I Knew I Was Close When I Saw The Bloom Of Your Light (Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come 2021)
59:35 Ecovillage - Break Of Dawn ft. Gallery Six (Clouds And Waves 2020)
62:45 end

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Quiet Indie Songs #3 - Autumn 2021

WORLDS COLLIDE! In this mix I combine my love for new indie music with my love for all things quiet. The third installment of the Quiet Indie Songs series is here.

All tracks are from 2021 and it features artists like Jose Gonzalez, Billy Bragg, Matt Maltese, Cassandra Jenkins, Big Red Machine, Big Thief and more.

Go for a nice walk in the woods while listening to some quiet indie songs.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jose Gonzalez - Swing
03:25 Chorusing - Watching the Beams
06:43 Art School Girlfriend - Eyes on You
11:10 Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm Snorri Hallgrímsson Rework
15:39 Sandrayati Fay, JFDR, Damien Rice - Song for Berta
18:53 Cassandra Jenkins - New Bikini
23:00 Big Red Machine - New Auburn feat. Anaïs Mitchell
26:14 Big Thief - Change
31:00 Matt Maltese - Oldest Trick in the Book feat. Bedouine
34:15 Cande y Paulo - Treaty
38:44 Allison Russell - Montreal
42:11 Billy Bragg - I Will Be Your Shield
45:36 Big Red Machine - Hoping Then
49:24 Avocet - Callina
51:28 Sun June - Colors
54:11 Jose Gonzalez - En Stund På Jorden
56:48 end

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Music for Covered Airports

Eight years ago I did a mix with covers of Eno tunes - UNDER ENO'S COVERS

Since then I've collected a few more that I was planning to use for a follow up. I found the most covered Eno album is Music for Airports. So I decided to recreate the album with covers. Hence the title of the mix - Music for Covered airports.

The tracks follow the same order as the original album - 1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 2/2. I made the first track with two covers because each was relatively short so I just combined them into one.

I found a great cover of Airports by Psychic Temple but it's a very loose version. One can hear parts of 1/1 in it, but like I said it's very loose and improvisational. It didn't really fit with the flow of recreating the album so I tacked it onto the end. It actually seems like a nice way to end this experiment.

Some of the covers came from YouTube and haven't been formally released.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Alexander Elliott Miller - Music for Airports 1/1 guitar
03:19 Dan Piccolo - Music for Airports 1/1 percussion
08:03 Sean O'Neill, Ben Witt & Daniel Fragomeni - Music for Airports 2/1
16:30 Kai Schumacher - Music for Airports 1/2
26:30 Ambientorg - Music for Airports 2/2 pipe organ with electronics
35:18 Psychic Temple - Plays Music for Airports
48:33 end

Sunday, October 03, 2021

The wind blows, just off-kilter

This mix started with one album - Goats & Distortions 5 by Dictaphone. It's one of my 2021 favorites. I began a new mix project with one song from that album as the starter, not knowing where it would go but the vibe was off-kilter. Then I heard a new album on Lost Tribe Sound, Departures by mastroKristo, and I knew where the mix would go.

This mix features a lot of wind instruments, although I'm not sure exactly what any of them are - clarinet, sax, soprano sax, oboe? A lot of the tracks are a bit askew, this is not smooth jazz. The music is atmospheric, moody, odd but the tracks all work perfectly together.

All the music is from 2021 and a few tracks are from some of my favorite albums of the year. I've already mentioned Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5. Another fav is Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments. And then there are two albums from Lost Tribe Sound that haven't been released yet but they will both be on my year-end favorites list. They are mastroKristo - Departures and Alapastel - Ceremony. They are both part of Lost Tribe Sound's Salt & Gravity series, which is fantastic.

Here's what LTS says about the series - "The Salt and Gravity Series is by far our most classical / ambient / drone adjacent collection yet. This series showcases some the most texturally pungent music we've ever released. A life long fascination with low end, blurred, battered and subterranean type sound has led us to this point... sound that you can feel rumbling up through the earth... the good stuff that makes your whole body hum versus just rattling around inside your head."

Go here to check it out... https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/salt-and-gravity-series

Links to all the albums in this mix:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Dictaphone - O. (Goats & Distortions 5 2021)
04:00 mastroKristo - Gionis (Departures 2021)
08:02 Frieder Nagel - Para live version (The Arrival 2021)
11:15 Josiah Steinbrick - Mouthfeel 5 (Mouthfeel 2021)
14:24 Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments (Notes with Attachments 2021)
15:57 William Ryan Fritch - Cited (Freeland 2021)
17:34 William Ryan Fritch - Dropped (Freeland 2021)
20:06 Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Cold Pocket (Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs 2021)
23:15 Eli Keszler - All the Mornings in the World (Icons 2021)
28:27 Masayoshi Fujita - Cumulonimbus Dream (Bird Ambience 2021)
32:00 Knower - As the Night Climbed, a Band of Raccoons Started Hastily to Perform their Nocturnal Jam (Curiosity Is Not Dead 2021)
36:05 Soft Generator - Asclepeion Process (A Carefully Controlled Space 2021)
39:22 Simon McCorry - Ocean Song (All Creatures 2021)
42:57 Hawsepiper - Air Stones (Red Knot Returns 2021)
47:00 Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 2 (Goats & Distortions 5 2021)
49:11 Alapastel - New World Healing Centre (Ceremony 2021)
58:58 end