Between Interval: Instrumental gems (mostly) from 70s rock - by Paul Asbury Seaman

 

Two guest mixes in a row - I am a lucky guy! This one comes to us from LLM regular contributor, Paul Asbury Seaman. It's a great collection of instrumental tracks that, as the title says, leans heavily on music from the 1970s.

My brain has been stuck in the 70s for a while as I collect tunes for the Electronic Music of the 1970s series(1971 is coming soon). So I was excited about the coincidence of Paul coming up with a 70s(mostly) mix. Some tracks I was familiar and others I was hearing for the first time, which is the wonderful thing about these guest mixes - they go in directions that I would not have taken them. This one turns into a great journey of nostalgia and discovery.

Here's what Paul has to say about this mix:

“Something old, something new. Something cheerful, something blue. Some great instrumental tracks that might have slipped between the cracks. So, no “Colour My World.” Yes to Black Sabbath. Plus a couple of mellow vocal numbers, chosen for their melodies that were just too pretty to leave out. The selections here span more than fifty years, though most are from the 1970s.

The title of this mix comes from the working name (one of my all-time favorites) of Swedish ambient electronic artist Stefan Jonsson.”

Thanks, Paul, for another excellent set. Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Agitation Free - First Communication (2nd 1973)
• 05:57    Jeff Greinke - Losing Time (A Thousand Year Flood 2023)
• 11:23    Between Interval - Portals in Time (The Edge of a Fairytale 2009)
• 14:38    Vangelis - Love Theme, Blade Runner (Nocturne: The Piano Album 2019)
• 20:35    Mike Oldfield - Incantations - part four(excerpt) (Incantations 1978)
• 24:50    Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Faerie Steps (Time is the Key 1979)
• 30:10    Moody Blues - Visions of Paradise (In Search Of The Lost Chord 1968))
• 34:15    Genesis - Horizons (Foxtrot 1972)
• 35:50    Rick Wakeman - Summertime (Rhapsodies 1979)
• 40:08    Neal Schon - Midnight Express (Electric World 1997)
• 45:15    Iron Butterfly - Slower Than Guns (Metamorphosis 1970)
• 48:53    Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise (Vol. 4 1972)
• 51:37    Ian Anderson - Boris Dancing (The Secret Language Of Birds 2000)
• 54:40    Pink Floyd - It's What We Do (The Endless River 2014)
• 59:50    Bill Frisell - Bird On A Wire (Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen 2022)
• 63:35    end