Low Light Mixes: February 2023

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 23 - A Sunday Kind of Love

A couple of tunes were the inspiration for cranking out another Sunday Morning mix. First is the lead-off track - A Sunday Kind of Love by Etta James. It's simply a great tune that I'm surprised I haven't used before. Next is an track from 1971 that I'd never heard of until a few weeks ago. I stumbled on an Instagram reel that talked about the gentle beauty of "Curry Rice" by Kenji Endo. I immediately fell in love with it and the rest of the album.

That's where the mix started and from there it follows the usual formula - some jazz, some ambient, some folk - all flowing together in a sweet Sunday mix.

Here the links to all the music used in this mix:

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Etta James - A Sunday Kind of Love (At Last! 1960)
03:15 Fuubutsushi - Cicada Season (Fuubutsushi 2020)
05:46 Kenji Endo - Curry Rice (Manzoku Dekirukana 1971)
08:42 John Surman - Sunday Morning (Such Winters Of Memory 1983)
15:30 Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Ray (Duets 2022)
18:52 Carlos Niño & Friends - Ripples Reflection Loop (More Energy Fields, Current 2021)
21:17 Nyokabi Kariuki - Home Piano (Peace Places Kenyan Memories 2022)
23:48 Foreign Body Sensation & Justin Maranga - In the Lair of the 5-Sided Serpent (Subterranean Environments 2023)
30:30 Hior Chronik - Cloud Peels (Haze 2022)
33:17 Peppermoth - Sun Dreamer (Ventrilokissed 2021)
37:28 Cole Pulice - Scry (Scry 2022)
44:39 Joan Shelley - Amberlit Morning (The Spur 2022)
49:44 Los Indios Tabajaras - Wide Horizon (Always in My Heart 1964)
52:28 Bill Frisell - Waltz for Hal Willner (Four 2022)
55:04 Zolton Fecso - Morning's Theme (Daylight in an Empty Room 2020)
58:07 Ben McElroy & A Spot on the Hill - A New Light (Everything Was Different Yesterday 2023)
60:10 end

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Now That's What I Call Ambient

Hmmm, what kind of mix do you think this one might be? I believe the gaudy cover art gives it away. This is essentially a continuation of my "Simply Ambient" series. A straightforward mix of new ambient tunes.

I got tired of coming up with variations of "simply ambient" such as absolutely ambient, purely ambient, totally ambient, etc. So I decided to ripoff the over-the-top "Now That's What I Call Music" series. I'm not sure if, like that series, I'll keep adding numbers to each mix so that I end up with "Now That's What I Call Ambient Vol. 84".

Here are the links to all the music used in this mix:

These are the labels all this wonderful music was released on:

Facture - https://facture.bandcamp.com/music
Archive - https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/music
Past Inside the Present - https://pitp.bandcamp.com/music
Kranky - https://kranky.bandcamp.com/
Audiobulb - https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/
Beacon Sound - https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/music
Krysalisound - https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/music
Dauw - https://dauw.bandcamp.com/
Somewherecold Records - https://somewherecoldrecords.bandcamp.com/
Laaps - https://laaps-records.com/music
Whitelabrecs - https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/music

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Hummingbird - Leuken (Langd 2023)
03:53 Flexagon - Ozanne Tower The Folly (The Towers I - Inaccessible 2023)
08:30 David Cordero - Sunrise (Endless Lonliness 2023)
11:42 Mike Lazarev - Tonality Number Three (Sacred Tonalities 2023)
15:45 Loscil/Lawrence English - Yellow (Colours of Air 2023)
20:00 Tomo-Nakaguchi - Noto (The Long Night in Winter Light 2023)
23:50 Purple Decades - Forest (Journey Test 2023)
26:27 Russ Young - Folding Valley (Cloak 2023)
29:12 Hummingbird - Leuken (Langd 2023)
36:50 blochemy - pone (blurr. 2023)
40:00 Jogging House - Floor (Face 2023)
43:18 A Journey of Giraffes - Ambient Gold Fudge (Empress Nouveau 2023)
45:50 Arovane - Faraday (Sinter 2023)
47:55 harry towell & polaroid notes - lepidodendron (petrologist's lens 2023)
52:18 glåsbird - lokoteraina (pacifica 2023)
54:43 Peter Kvidera - Kostrbatý (Verism 2023)
58:00 end

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Artificial Harmonies - A Hymn to the Vocoder

This mix started with the track "Light & Grace" by Schneider TM. When I heard it I was reminded about how much I like the sound of a vocoder. I also realized that I never did a follow-up to the the vocoder mix I did all the way back in 2010 - http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2010/10/vox-electronix.html

So here is a new collection of vocoder tunes. I'm not sure how many of these tracks actually use a vocoder and how many are other vocal effects but I don't care. I'm just going for a sound and vibe. Many of these tracks are new to me as I discovered them in my search for vocoder songs. I am particularly taken with "Last Man Standing" by Cities of Foam. And of course the Eno track from his album of last year is fantastic.

Enjoy the robo-tunes!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Boards of Canada - Telepath (Tomorrow's Harvest 2013)
01:26 Schneider TM - Light & Grace (The 8 Of Space 2021)
05:18 Paul McCartney - Be What You See(Link) (Tug of War 1982)
05:43 Dimmes - I Am Still (2018)
07:53 Cylob - Are We Not Men Who Live & Die (IDMEMO - A Future of Nostalgia 2020)
09:20 Holly Herndon - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (PROTO 2019)
12:06 Cities Of Foam - Last Man Standing (A Great Day For The Race 2005)
16:20 Vanishing Twin - Light Vessel (Ookii Gekkou 2021)
19:52 Röyksopp - Daddy's Groove (Late Night Tales 2013)
22:50 Peter Baumann - Biking Up The Strand (Transharmonic Nights 1979)
25:12 Plone - Plock (Plock 1998)
29:02 Tex La Homa - Vapour Trails (Some Lost Bliss 2006)
34:50 Boards of Canada - 1969 (Tomorrow's Harvest 2013)
38:40 Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi - Burrata (Hotel Record 2017)
44:47 Brian Eno - Making Gardens Out of Silence (FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE 2022)
52:25 Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Rising Dust (Drawn From Life 2001)
59:53 end