Low Light Mixes: November 2022

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Seabuckthorn - Transcendental Freq.

A couple of weeks ago I posted the Numinoustrings mix which featured a track by Seabuckthorn. I like the vibe of that mix and how the Seabuckthorn cut fit in. So I reached out to the man behind Seabuckthorn, Andy Cartwright, to see about him creating a guest mix and I was psyched when he said yes!

I am happy to present Transcendental Freq. Similar to Numinoustrings, it falls into the ambient/modern classical category. This set does exactly what I love about guest mixes - it combines familiar artists with new discoveries and tosses in a surprise or two. Andy saves the best surprise for last - an unreleased Seabuckthorn song recorded last year.

Here a link to Seabuckthorn music on Bandcamp - https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/music

And here are links to all the music used in this mix in the order in which they appear:

Thanks to Andy Cartwright for creating this fine mix. Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00.00 Seabuckthorn – Fell Into Journey (Laaps 2022)
01:40 Ben Bondy – I Thought You'd Look Away (Good Morning Tapes 2022)
05:30 Richard Skelton – Undertow (Sustain Release 2009)
08:55 Mystic AM – The Dervish (Astral Industries 2022)
11:25 High Aura'd – All The Spirits That Dance (Debacle Records 2017)
13:47 Set Fire To Flames – Your Guts Are Like Mine (Alien8/Fat Cat 2003)
15:30 Low – Whitetail (Kranky 2001)
19:50 Ennio Morricone - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri (Ennio Morricone 1968)
22:38 Seabuckthorn – Jagged Horizon (Laaps 2022)
25:20 Andy Cartwright – A Diary Of Sorts (Fluid Audio 2021)
28:12 Nathan Moody – Cobalt (Studio Obsidian 2017)
29:25 Johann Johannsson - Mandy Love Theme (Lakeshore Records 2018)
31:16 Toán -Inland (Eilean Rec 2017)
34:44 Voice Of The Seven Woods – Breaking Moonlight (Kning Disk 2008)
36:00 A Broken Consort – Like Rain (Aeolian 2011)
38:28 Ian William Craig – Its A Sound, Not An Ocean (Fatcat 2022)
42:50 William Ryan Fritch - At Once, There Was No Horizon (Lost Tribe Sound 2020)
45:05 William Tyler – Slow Nights Static (Merge Records 2020)
48:02 Ben Frost - Leo Needs A New Pair Of Shoes (Bedroom Community 2009)
51:30 Seabuckthorn - Phthalo (Unreleased Song)
54:08 end

Sunday, November 20, 2022

A Little Louder

I was going to say - "...and now for something completely different" because this mix is louder than normal. But having recently posted a Robert Fripp mix I guess this isn't "completely different." However, this mix is, as the title says, a little louder than a normal Low Light ambient mix.

As per usual the mix started with one album in particular - Mox by Mox from 1998. I absolutely loved it when it came out in '98. I stumbled upon it a couple weeks back and decided to build a mix around non-ambient instrumentals. Some of the tunes have a kraut rock vibe, some are jazzy, some have a retro feel, and others are just cool. More than half the tracks are from 2022 with one of the old ones going all the way back to 1973.

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

I hope you enjoy this diversion. We'll be back to ambient soon. Oof, I just realized that I should start thinking about best of the year lists. Any suggestions?

Cheers!

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T R A CK L I S T :

00:00 MOX - Wig (MOX 1998)
04:40 Project Gemini - Scorpios Waltz (The Children Of Scorpio 2022)
07:52 Surprise Chef - New Ferrari (Daylight Savings 2022)
12:05 Ghost Power - Asteroid Witch (Ghost Power 2022)
15:33 Pneumatic Tubes - Saw Teeth (A Letter from TreeTops 2022)
19:25 Cathode Ray Tube - Invisibility (The Burning Century 2022)
24:50 Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin - I (Ghosted 2022)
32:32 The Comet Is Coming Lucid Dreamer (Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam 2022)
35:57 Passengers - One Minute Warning (Original Soundtracks 1 1995)
39:10 Dungen - Trollkarlen och fageldrakten version 2 (Haxan Versions 2017)
44:20 Can - Spray (Future Days 1973)
49:23 AI Lover - Stereoscopic View (Cosmic Joke 2022)
54:10 Polyoctopus - Ill Patience (Central Standards, A Strange Melodic Shape 2004)
57:43 Rain Tree Crow - Big Wheels In Shanty Town (Rain Tree Crow 1991)
63:59 end

Sunday, November 13, 2022

NUMINOUSTRINGS

Many times a new mix is inspired by a track or album. In this case it was the new album, The Road Not Taken by Ecovillage.

The album is full of long, deep string vibrations that carry you along from track to track, place to place, and memory to memory. This is one of my favorite albums of the year.

So I went looking for, not just string based tunes, but tracks that had a similar slow, reflective pull. Sometimes a mix with track that are too similar can be stale but in this case the mix becomes one long meditation. As the tracks bleed one into another I experience an almost devotional trance, an ethereal sojourn.

Here are links to all the music used in this mix in the order in which they appear:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ecovillage - Ascend(ft. Henrik Meierkord) (The Road Not Taken 2022)
04:09 Seabuckthorn - So It Remains (Of No Such Place 2022)
07:40 tapes and topographies - the floating world (floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island 2022)
12:55 Kasper Bjørke Quartet - Formation (Mother 2022)
18:18 Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Tree Shadows (A Is For Autumn 2022)
20:36 Anne Mueller - Heliopause (Heliopause 2019)
25:12 't Geruis - Tastbare Stilte, Zilver (Vast 2022)
30:33 Halftribe & Seabuckthorn - Sway (Ambientologist Sustain Series, Vol. 3 2022)
36:20 Adrian Copeland - Stars With No Sky (If This Were My Body 2022)
40:55 Man Watching the Stars - Na Leigheasan • UGC 10214 (The Sextant of a Blind Seafarer 2022)
46:15 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Sefad (Restful Spaces 2022)
50:40 glåsbird - restless progress (cinéma noir 2022)
53:40 Henrik Meierkord, Pawel Kobak, Marco Lucchi & Rocco Saviano - Sunshine(Stilla Natt) (Venusia 2022)
57:06 Anne Mueller - Nummer 2 (Heliopause 2019)
63:00 end

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Music for Recovery(from the midterm elections)

Well, christ on a bicycle, this midterm election season was a shit show. So here is a mix of beautiful ambient tracks to help us all heal and recover.

Here are links to all the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Uther Moads - Future Waves (Uther Moads 2011)
03:53 Brian Eno - Making Gardens Out Of Silence (FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE 2022)
11:30 Katharina Schmidt - Particles (Particles 2022)
19:00 Taylor Deupree & Arovane - Sill Lili (Skal_Ghost 2022)
22:45 Ruven Nunez - Untitled No. 51 (Untitled No. 51 2022)
30:00 Nils Frahm - Stepping Stone (Music For Animals 2022)
35:30 Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - Side A excerpt (AI-25: The Transition Recordings 2022)
43:15 From Overseas & City of Dawn - Silent Friends (Misty Memories 2022)
47:40 V. Kristoff - Creek II (Nocturne 2022)
54:25 Jason Letkiewicz - Emergent Ray I (Emergent Rays 2022)
58:00 Monogoto - Komorebi(deletion 47) (Partial Deletion of Everything Vol. 2 2022)
61:55 Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry - Rain (A is for Autumn 2022)
65:05 end