Low Light Mixes: November 2021

Sunday, November 28, 2021

absolutely ambient

Between work and Thanksgiving I didn't have time to put together a new mix this week. But then I remembered I had another in the "simply ambient" series waiting in the wings. So here it is - "absolutely ambient."

Like the the others in this series there is no overall theme other than a nice collection of excellent ambient music. With so much new music being released every week it's difficult to keep up and difficult to get it all into mixes. This series allows me to get some of that new music out there.

Links to all the albums used in this mix in the order that they appear:

Links to some of the excellent record labels this music was released on:

I can't believe we are almost to December and I haven't even thought about year-end lists or mixes. Hopefully over the next few weeks I can sort through all the music I've collected, knowing it barely scratches the surface of everything that is out there.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Tapes & Topographies - Bathed in Color and Light (Monomials 2021)
05:12 Andrew Heath - Melancholia (Drawings from Imagined Cities 2021)
14:55 Fields We Found - Time (Thanks 2021)
19:48 kj - Saturnalia (Saturnalia 2021)
24:51 Dirk Serries - Recloose (Recloose 2021)
34:47 Sonmi451 - Split Second (Seven Signals in the Sky 2021)
39:15 Ultramarine - Signals Into Space (The Sun in the East 2020)
44:55 Sofie Birch - Whisper Fold Brush Side B exerpt (Whisper Fold Brush 2021)
47:40 Maps and Diagrams - Mazinggarbe (Teygja Part B 2021)
50:00 Wodwo - Airlifted (Thistledown 2021)
53:00 Ishmael Cormack - Ōe (Ōe 2021)
56:15 Ian Nyquist - Sanctuary(Epilogue) (Endless, Shapeless 2021)
60:00 end

Sunday, November 21, 2021

A Tender Loneliness: Native American-style Flute - by Paul Asbury Seaman

I kind of overdosed on Native American flute music back in my new age days in the late 80s and 90s. So I don't listen to this style very often. But Paul has pulled me back in with his excellent collection of tracks.

It starts off with new music from Sherry Finzer so I'm in automatically. From there Paul uses a variety of artists and styles to carry us through the hour-long mix. Here's what Paul says about this mix:

“The Native American flute is one of those instruments that instantly has cultural associations. Intertwined with and beyond that, its wistful, haunting tone is a sound that evokes gratitude and reverence. It is with those qualities in mind that I selected tracks for this mix.”

Thanks again Paul for another beautifully curated set.

Links to all the albums used in this mix in the order that they appear:

Cheers!

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T R AC K L I S T :

00:00 Sherry Finzer - Red Hawk Hill (Connections 2022)
03:18 Peter Kater & Michael Brant DeMaria - Heart of Silence (Heart of Silence: Piano and Flute Meditations 2015)
10:09 Ah Nee Mah - Ceremony (Ancient Voices 2001)
15:20 Mary Youngblood - Flute Circle (The Offering 2002)
17:52 Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy - White Buffalo (Whisper 2021)
21:54 Peter Phippen - Returning Home (Summerland)
27:27 Randy Granger - Oh Shenandoah (Cloudwalker 2006)
30:18 Randy Granger - Chaco Moon Meditation (Handpan Music for a Pandemic 2020)
35:12 David & Steve Gordon - Daybreak Appears (Gratitude – Relaxing Native American Flute Music 2010)
40:51 R. Carlos Nakai - Shining Mountains (Sanctuary 2003)
44:22 Johnny Whitehorse - Cougar (Totemic Flute Chants 2007)
47:33 Gary Stroutsos - Adobe Walls (Night Chants: Native American Flute 2018)
50:39 Tony Gerber & Phil Keaggy - Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar) (Red Lunar 2019)
55:48 Dreamhub & Tony Gerber - Welcome Wind (Night Cathedral 2020)
59:12 end

Sunday, November 14, 2021

DUNE - an alternative soundtrack

Anyone who regularly follows this blog and my mixes knows that I am a science fiction dork. So it should come as no surprise that I saw Dune on opening weekend. I loved the film and have been thinking about an alternative soundtrack mix ever since.

There's not much to say other than this mix is a collection of tracks that remind me of the film. Most of the tracks are fairly new but a few older ones sneak in there, such as the one from Robert Rich & Lustmord, which goes back to 1995. The opening cut is the newest as it was written and produced by my son, who records as Just A Human, a couple of days after seeing the film.

If you see the film, see it in a theater. It's big and loud and really needs to be seen on a big screen.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Just A Human - Messages from the Deep
01:00 Ben Chatwin - Nordsjøen (Drone Signals 2018)
05:10 Serena Gabriel & Steve Roach - From The Sea (Seeing Inside 2021)
12:00 Murcof - Ideology Storm (The Alias Sessions 2021)
16:27 A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Thirteenth Century Travelogue (Invisible Cities 2021)
18:22 Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Undulating Terrain (Stalker 1995)
22:12 Hibernis - The Grape Leaves (Middle of the Meds 2018)
27:00 Soriah - Uger-Khan Kargyraa (Gnostic 2019)
28:51 Rapoon - Don't Come Out At Night (Melancholic Songs of the Desert 2009)
32:40 Michel Banabila - Our Alien Voice (Trespassing 2017)
35:12 Brett Janzen - Penumbra (Aphelion 2021)
37:55 Arrowounds - Antarctica's Spherical Anomalies Leave Residual Trails (The Rise and Fall of the Melting World 2021)
41:55 Strië - Test for Ability (Perpetual Journey 2018)
44:44 Loscil - Zephyr with wind and strings
47:25 Tineidae - Epilogue (Exo 2020)
50:55 Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - Hear Earth (Innertones 2006)
52:35 Hanno Leichtmann - Wind (Nuit Du Plomb 2006)
57:00 end

Sunday, November 07, 2021

The Restless Thrum

I have done several train mixes over the years. They basically come about because I hear a tune and think - Hey, that would be great in a train mix. So it was with this one. I heard the track "A.O.E." by Portico Quartet and I knew immediately that I need to build a mix around it.

This mix differs from most of my other train mixes(except one) because it's mostly a jazz influenced mix. Berlin-school sequencers have been replaced by a drum kit and synth washes are now horns. I folded in some recordings of trains and subways but I didn't want to over do it so I kept it to 3 spots in the mix.

Links to all the albums used in order of how they appear in this mix:

The mix has some good energy and I could see it being a great companion for bike riding.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Portico Quartet - A.O.E. (Monument 2021)
05:30 Nick Garbett & Mike Majkowski - Aerial (The Glider 2021)
11:35 Snow Palms - Kojo Yakei (Land Waves 2020)
15:08 Tangents - Terracotta (New Bodies 2018)
21:20 Elskavon & John Hayes - Vermilion (Du Nord 2020)
23:23 Nala Sinephro - Space 6 (Space 1.8 2021)
26:50 Portico Quartet - Terrain: III (Terrain 2021)
36:30 Olafur Arnalds - Undir (re:member 2018)
39:27 Bell Orchestra - Movement (House Music 2021)
45:00 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Shadow Conductor (Mandatory Reality 2019)
52:42 Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something (Eternal Something 2017)
58:45 Alapastel - Transmission (Ceremony 2021)
64:16 end