Sunday, December 04, 2022

Bells and Flutes for Sleep & Meditation by Paul Asbury Seaman


photo by Paul Asbury Seaman

This is the perfect mix to offset the hustle & bustle of the holiday season. Skip the shopping and make some tea and chill the f*** out to this wonderful meditation mix from Paul Asbury Seaman.

Here's what Paul says:

"Native American flutes. A bit of Ireland, a bit of acoustic guitar (with echoes of India), interspersed with Tibetan bells, wind chimes, and a recent track by Steve Roach that is his most sublime composition since “Structures From Silence.” So, a bit of variety, but all with a consistent tone of serenity—my most soothing mix yet.”

Here links to all the music used in this mix:

Thanks Paul for another great mix!

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00    Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy - Sounding the Bell (Shimmer 2022)

05:25    Michael Stearns - Monk with Bell (Baraka 1993)

07:42    Sherry Finzer - Obsidian Shadows (Synesthesia 2022)

10:55    Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning - Shepherding the Wind (Coming, Going 2022)

13:55    Jarguna - Garden of the Mantras (Prospective Animiche 2019)

21:35    Stevin McNamara - Aubade (Om Guitar 2020)

29:00    Forrest Fang - Song of the Wanderer (The Bok of Wanderers 2020)

34:15    Manrose - Tengpoche Monastery (Dhyana Aman 2010)

40:43    Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy - Mother and Child (Shimmer 2022)

45:55    Steve Roach - What Remains(excerpt) (Projekt2022 2022)

53:01    Calm Whale - Blue Moon Wind (Blue Moon Meditation 2017)

60:00    end


3 comments:

  1. Splendid mix. Thanks a lot.

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  2. We welcome another in a series of bell tone with ambient mixes from Seaman; bell effects with ambient are hypnotic and mesmerizing. In this outing he has perhaps inadvertently taken my advice to broaden the title so as not to constrict the diversity of tracks. I must also commend Seaman on his transitions which are at times perfectly seamless.

    Good things being said, Seaman, Michuda, and especially Tonepoet in an arguably adjacent blog, do have trouble with track length proportionality in their mixes. Here we have a prime example with the Jurguna repeating its short motive for 9 very agonizing minutes. This track, in a mix, should only be used to fade it out at the coda, and not prominently dominate the center. Van Cooten in contrast is a mixer very conscious of not overexposing any single track, especially not a motif track.

    I believe the Roach begins at 46:55 rather than 45:55.

    Thank you for this enchanting mix, I am looking forward to seeing more in this series.

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