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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 25 - The Beauty of Sundays

It's been a little over a year since my last Sunday Morning Music mix so I figured we needed to revisit this beautiful series. This mix follows the same format as previous sets - a little jazz, some ambient and a few vocal tunes. There's not much else to say other than grab a cup of coffee, kick back and enjoy some Sunday Morning Music.

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 Arve Henriksen - The Beauty of Sundays (Touch of Time 2024)
03:00 Blendreed - Sillages (Tales Of Tides 2025)
07:54 Knudsen, Bremer, Ewert - Broken Beauty (Bushbabies 2024)
11:22 Björn Meyer - Motion (Convergence 2026)
16:25 Michael Grigoni & Pan American - Sun Morning Sun (New World, Lonely Ride 2025)
19:45 Momoko Gill - Heavy (Momoko 2026)
23:23 Phi-Sonics - Morning Sun (Morning Sun/Arrival 2024)
28:12 Michael Scott Dawson - Present Day(feat. Jairus Sharif) (The Tinnitus Chorus 2024)
30:50 Kamaal Williams - Everything in its Right Place (2024)
36:12 Anja Lauvdal - Silk (Farewell to Faraway Friends 2023)
38:38 Amanaz - Sunday Morning (Africa 1975)
43:30 Barry Walker Jr. - Under Leaf Hill (Paleo Sol 2026)
45:54 The Japanese House - Indexical Reminder Of A Morning Well Spent (In The End It Always Does 2023)
50:05 CV & JAB - Dwelling (Klima 2023)
53:50 Alabaster DePlume - Not My Ask (To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals vol. 1 2020)
57:10 Aaron Shaw - Soul Journey (And So It Is 2026)
61:28 END

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 24 - Dream State

I did not do a Sunday Morning Music mix at all last year 😮 That's probably the first year since the series started in 2011 that I didn't post a Sunday mix. The Sunday Morning series is one of the reasons that Low Light Mixes blew up on Mixcloud. So you'd think I would be posting more of these mixes to feed the algorithm. But, no, there is no plan for curating these mixes, they just happen when they happen.

With all that preamble, I'm excited to finally get a Sunday mix up & running. This follows the classic format of some laid back jazz, some ambient & some quiet vocal tunes. My favorite track in the mix is "Amber Waves" by Ethel Cain. It's from her new album, "Perverts", which is an interesting collection of tunes that range from noisy, dark ambient to beautiful vocal tracks like "Amber Waves."

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 Andert Tysma - Dalmally (Hana 2024)
05:35 Earthen Sea - Present Day (Recollection 2024)
09:35 Alister Fawnwoda, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Leisz - Night Bunny (Milan 2021)
15:48 Oliver Patrice Weder - Breathe In (The Shoe Factory 2024)
19:03 Sam Wilkes - Descending(Frue) (iiyo iiyo iiyo 2024)
23:19 Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Night Reign 2024)
28:22 Faye Webster - Wanna Quit All the Time (Underdressed at the Symphony 2024)
31:27 G.S. Schray - Another Haunted Mirror (Whispered Something Good 2024)
35:25 Ethel Cain - Amber Waves (Perverts 2025)
42:40 Kamasi Washington - Dream State (Fearless Movement 2024)
50:45 This Is The Kit - Careful of Your Keepers (Live at The Minack Theatre 2024)
53:45 Von Spar & Eiko Ishibashi - I (Album I 2024)
60:00 end

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Sunday Morning Music Vol. 22 - Warm Waves

It was a little more than ten years ago that I posted my first Sunday Morning Music mix. I had not intended on making it a regular series but the mix did very well on Mixcloud and is partially responsible for starting the explosion of followers the Low Light Mixes feed got in the following years. So I've been creating roughly two per year for 10 years. Yikes! It's kind of crazy to think about how long I've been making these mixes.

This one follows the same formula - some ambient some jazzy tracks, a few vocal tunes, all resulting in a mellow vibe perfect for sipping coffee on a Sunday morning.

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 Time Rival - Breakfast with Birdsong (Fell 2020)
02:40 Turn On The Sunlight - Warm Waves (Warm Waves 2020)
08:33 Damian Dalla Torre - Where to Go (Happy Floating 2022)
12:27 Cole Pulice & Nat Harvie - Dream Days (Strawberry Roan 2022)
16:27 IDRA - Air and Salt (Duet 2022)
19:03 Peter Banks - No Place Like Home (Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky 2018)
20:34 Peppermoth - Sun Dreamer (Ventrilokissed 2021)
24:45 David Byrne And Yo La Tengo - Who Has Seen The Wind (2022)
27:20 Shearwater - Wind Is Love (The Great Awakening 2022)
31:33 The Smile - Open The Floodgates (A Light For Attracting Attention 2022)
35:35 Kittylung - Garden Abandoned (Of Context 2021)
38:07 Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker - Self Blind Sun (Little Common Twist 2019)
42:13 Björn Meyer - Provenance (Provenance 2017)
48:04 SiP - Alice (Leos Naturals 2020)
54:00 Loris S. Sarid - Tano (Music for Tomato Plants 2020)
56:40 Jon Hopkins - Ascending, Dawn Sky (Music For Psychedelic Therapy 2021)
65:03 end

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Sunday Morning Music vol. 20 - Exhale

I haven't posted a Sunday Morning mix since January and with how much things have changed since then I figured we could all use a mix with that Sunday morning vibe.

So here it is #20 in the Sunday Morning Music series. It's mostly new music, with 13 tracks from 2019 & 2020. One of the oddball old cuts is from 1980, John Martyn's "Sweet Little Mystery." I've always liked the tune but I hadn't heard it in a long time until it made an unlikely appearance in the show DEVS. As soon as I heard it I knew I need to include it in a mix.

A couple of vocal tracks in the middle seem to fit perfectly with the Sunday vibe but also fit with the messed up times we are living through. The Shards tune has this appropriate lyric -

"We know not yet what the future brings

But a bird's still a bird without its wings

Each day, each day is a curious thing

If I can't take flight then inside I'll sing"

And then there's Jonsi reminding us to breathe in and breathe out in "Exhale."

I've been drinking a ton of coffee as I work from home so maybe I'll say go grab a nice cup of Jasmine tea, a good book, play this mix, and...exhale.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 morning walk
00:30 Mute Forest - Morning Guitar (2020)
03:40 Mountain Man - slow wake up sunday morning (2019)
07:23 Opitope - A Quiet Morning Arriving to the Valley (2007)
09:23 Zachary Hay - untitled 7 (2019)
13:10 Mute Forest - Atoms Falling (2020)
17:22 The Heart Is Awake - Full of Stars pt II (2020)
21:30 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Tides IX (2019)
23:34 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Your Own Spell (2011)
26:09 Shards & Isolation Choir - Inside I'll Sing (2020)
30:16 Jonsi - Exhale (2020)
34:10 Ecovillage - She Walks In Beauty (2020)
37:03 Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Spring Frost (2020)
40:34 John Martyn - Sweet Little Mystery (1980)
45:45 Lounge Lizards - Bob the Bob (1989)
47:48 Alabaster DePlume - I Hope (2020)
53:08 log(m) & Laraaji - Pear Strings (2019)
59:34 Albrecht La'Brooy - Healesville (2019)
65:36 end

Sunday, June 09, 2019

Sunday Morning Music vol. 18 - Sun Room

The 18th installment in the Sunday Morning Music series is here. It starts with one of my favorite albums of the year - Spirit by Rhye. It's so beautiful and intimate. From there we get some more pretty tunes because that's what I want on Sunday morning - no dark ambient drones here, just pretty and calm.

All the tracks are fairly new - the oldest being from 2016, while most are from this year.

Sunday morning musings - the cover pic of a cup of coffee reminded me of something. I've noticed in a lot of the science fiction I read that coffee is very important to a lot of characters in sci-fi stories. Many times it's in a post-apocalyptic world and coffee has become rare, a character finds a stash of coffee and it's like striking gold. Or a character is in space and has been traveling for a long time and finally gets to a location that has coffee and again it's like they have found the holy grail. This type of thing happens more often than I would have expected. I wonder if it's because writers drink lots of coffee as they write and they know that coffee is the world's most wonderful liquid(right behind beer).

Grab some coffee, interstellar or not, and take a listen to this latest mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Rhye - Awake(Spirit 2019)
03:39 Marty Hicks - Alnum Hymn 56(Olreilion 2019)
06:55 Lullatone - Waking Up On A Picnic Blanket(Music For Museum Gift Shops 2019)
09:29 Ann Annie - Wander Into(wander into 2019)
15:00 Wilson Tanner - Sun Room(69 2016)
19:30 Joseph Shabason - 1517(Anne EP 2019)
25:05 High Tides - Tidal Movement(Paradise Daze 2019)
28:36 Kryshe - Meditation(Hauch 2019)
31:31 Meitei - Nami(Komachi 2019)
35:00 Andrew Heath - Headland(Soundings 2017)
36:31 Nicholas Britell - The Children of Our Age(If Beale Street Could Talk 2018)
37:47 Corey Fuller - Lamentation(Break 2019)
40:22 Wilson Tanner - Odd Low(69 2016)
43:22 Rhye - Green Eyes(Spirit 2019)
45:37 The Phonometrician - Poppy Meadows(Mnemosyne 2019)
50:48 The Hardy Tree - After The Rain(Stagale EP 2019)
56:30 Lullatone - Morning Coffee(Music For Museum Gift Shops 2019)
59:30 end

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Sunday Morning Music vol. 17 - Sparkling Early Mornings

I haven't posted a Sunday morning mix in a long time. So here is the first Sunday morning collection of 2019.

There's not much to say - it's the typical Sunday morning mix. A little jazz, some ambient, some instrumental, etc. Most of the tunes are fairly new with three exceptions.

The cover pic is my backyard, but not from this year as we haven't had much snow at all. Of course I just jinxed it so next week we'll probably get 3 feet.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Johann Johannsson - Mandy Love Theme(2018)
01:30 Ben Rath - A Quiet Morning(2019)
06:25 Luis Miehlich - Spring Haiku 2(2018)
10:19 Andrey Kiritchenko - Sparkling Early Mornings(2008)
13:55 Joseph Shabason - Treat It Like A Wine Bar(2018)
19:43 Alice Coltrane - Radhe-Shyam(1977)
23:32 Peppermoth - Claude(2018)
27:34 Gigi Masin - Kite(2018)
31:45 Dean Mcphee - The Devil's Knell(2018)
36:00 Hampshire & Foat - End Song(2017)
37:46 Eli Keszler - Fifty Four To Madrid(2018)
40:58 The Necks - The World At War(1990)
56:00 Endurance - Measurements of Light(2017)
61:24 end

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Sunday Morning Music vol. 16 - Daybreak

Here's the first Sunday Morning Music mix of 2018.

Most of the music is new. All of the tracks were released in 2018 with the exception of "To Earth" by Ariwo from 2017 and "Jade Visions" by Bill Evans from 1961. There are no vocal tunes in this mix, which wasn't on purpose, it just sort of works out that way sometimes.

Many thanks to the artists and labels for the excellent music that appears in this mix. To name just a few...

Thanks to Bob Duskis at Six Degrees Records and Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society for the Cloudface Remixes:
https://deliaderbyshireappreciationsociety.bandcamp.com/album/cloudface-remixes
https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/

Thanks to Michael Cottone, aka The Green Kingdom, for the heads up on the new ep "Depths."
https://thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/depths-ep

Thanks to Ryan at Lost Tribe Sound for the sneak peaks of two fantastic albums being released soon,
"Sleep Stations" by From The Mouth Of The Sun and "Black Box Animals" by Luton.
https://ftmots.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-stations
https://luton.bandcamp.com/album/black-box-animals-2

Thanks also to Harry Towell over at Whitelabrecs for pointing me in the direction of the new Paper Relics album, "The Road Home."
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-home

And finally thanks to my online friend Thomas Lindsey, aka Tonepoet, for another fine album, "Ocean of Infinity."
https://tonepoet.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-of-infinity

All the music from these labels and artists is fantastic and I hope you take some time to check them out. I love all the connections, online and in the real world, brought about by our mutual love for music. Thanks for all the great tunes over the years!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T I N G :

00:00 Albrecht La'Brooy - Daybreak
04:55 Gigi Masin - Morning Light
09:24 Anenon - Open
12:15 Henri Texier - Quand tout s'arrete
17:48 Joachim Staudt - Mother Earth
19:05 Ariwo - To Earth
27:40 Christian Kleine - Sun Star
30:52 Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Cloudface
34:42 The Green Kingdom - Velvet Wavescape
37:03 Luton - Archipelago
41:00 Paper Relics - Stoke's Hall
45:05 From The Mouth Of The Sun - About the Birth of Stars
46:30 Tonepoet - The Birth of Gravity
49:00 Christina Vantzou - At Dawn
51:25 Ian Hawgood & Danny Norbury - V
56:30 Bill Evans - Jade Visions
59:51 end

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Sunday Morning Music vol. 15 - October Sky

For this Sunday Morning Music installment I used almost all brand new music. 16 of the 19 tracks are from 2017 & most of those are from the last two months. Two cuts are from 2016.

One outlier is from all the way back in 1999. That track is October Sky by Mark Isham. As I was putting the mix together I came up with the title of vol. 15 - October Sky(cuz it's October) and thought that it sounded familiar. I searched my hard drive and sure enough I found October Sky is a soundtrack by Mark Isham from 1999. BTW, it's an excellent movie. So I had to include that one old track in with all the new ones.

Also sorry for this not being uploaded on a Sunday morning. Brunch with the kids took priority, then football, the nap. So here it is on Sunday evening.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Joseph Shabason - Tite Cycle(Aytche 2017)
05:12 Kasami Washington - Desire(Harmony Of Difference 2017)
08:25 Clint Mansell - The Night Cafe(Loving Vincent 2017)
10:40 Arovane & Hior Chronik - Morning Fog(Into My Own 2017)
13:50 Four Tet - 10 midi(New Energy 2017)
14:52 Hannu Karjalainen - Love Unconditional(A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert 2017)
17:14 Lav & Purl - The Presnt Moment(still version)(The Present Moment 2016)
21:33 Jakob Lindhagen - i parken(Skorheten 2016)
22:30 Igneous Flame - Eevi(Sylvi 2017)
26:45 Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Photo w/ grey sky white clouds(Passive Agressive 2017)
33:33 Balmorhea - First Light(Clear Language 2017)
34:54 Hans Zimmer - Rain(Blade Runner 2049 OST 2017)
36:10 Kelly Lee Owens - Bird(Kelly Lee Owens 2017)
40:27 Kiasmos - Blurred(Blurred ep 2017)
45:27 Marl Isham - October Sky(October Sky 1999)
49:56 Joseph Shabason - Long Swim(Aytche 2017)
54:05 Ludmila - Day 4(1 day 1 track 2017)
55:44 Bonobo - Second Sun(Migration 2017)
59:09 Bjorn Meyer - Pulse(Provenance 2017)
61:48 end

Sunday, April 09, 2017

Sunday Morning Music vol. 14 - Early Bird

I haven't done a Sunday morning mix in quite a while so volume 14 solves that problem.

This follows the usual Sunday morning mix template of a few vocal tunes, some ambient tunes and a bit of jazz. I was happy to finally use Shenandoah in a mix. More than a year ago I was at a local high school spring concert and fell in love with the concert band version of this tune. I know it may sound out of place in a Low Light mix but I think it's beauty fits well with the Sunday morning series.

In addition to Shenandoah there is new music from Hite, Grails, The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Clocolan and fairly new music from Radiohead & Olafur Arnalds. And a nice old classic from Max Roach & Clifford Brown.

Cheers!

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T R AC K L I S T :

00:00 Olafur Arnalds - Particles
03:48 Grails - Rebecca
07:10 Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson - And still they move
09:56 Frank Ticheli - Shenandoah
16:20 Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin - Once there was a hushpuppy
22:48 Fripp & Eno - Evening Star(The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society interpretation)
28:57 Clocolan - Obsolete Advancement
34:25 Orchestre National de Jazz - Révolution
43:20 Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Delilah
51:02 The Still - The Early Bird
58:42 Hite - Old Crow
62:15 Radiohead - True Love Waits
66:52 end

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sunday Morning Music vol. 13 - Silver Sunrise

The latest in the Sunday morning series features a gorgeous remix of a Silver Lake Chorus tune from their forthcoming remix album out on June 24th.

https://thesilverlakechorus.bandcamp.com/

The mix opens and closes with Easy To Die by Silver Lake Chorus remixed by Hammock. The closing tune is an instrumental version.

The rest of the mix is the typical Sunday morning mix of instrumentals, jazz and vocal tunes. Most of the tracks are fairly new.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Silver Lake Chorus - Easy to Die(Hammock remix)
03:50 Julianna Barwick - Forever
08:00 Jim James - All Things Must Pass
13:13 Silmus - Close to Light
17:25 Oddisee - Right Side of the Bed
21:25 Baka Forest People of SE Cameroon - Liquindi 2
22:50 Hiatus - Third(Max Cooper remix)
27:20 Ólafur Arnalds - RGB
31:20 Radiohead - Daydreaming
36:57 Hammock - Marathon Boy
41:48 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Stratus
44:00 Fred Frith & Darren Johnston - Barn Dance
46:40 Strand of Oaks - Wonderful(my morning jacket cover)
50:00 Sliver Lake Chorus - Easy to Die(Hammock instrumental remix)
54:21 end

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Sunday Morning Music vol. 12 - September's Here Again

As usual with these mixes there is one song in particular that gets the ball rolling and in this case it's the title track from the album The Thompson Fields by the Maria Schneider Orchestra. The whole album is wonderful collection open, airy jazz tracks and the title song is just stunning. Definitely one of the most beautiful songs released this year, second only to Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell.

The rest of the mix is your standard Sunday morning mix. Maybe a bit more jazz in this one. Other than the Davis Sylvian tune most of the cuts are fairly new.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 David Sylvian - September
01:11 Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields
08:00 Bosques De Mi Mente - El amanecer reflejado en tus ojos
10:38 AXX - Interstellar Ambient
14:10 Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
17:11 Kenny Reichert Band - Cascades
22:20 Bill Seaman - A Dark Thought
26:40 Ben Lukas Boysen - Sleeps Beat Theme
30:31 Anouar Brahem - Tunis at Dawn
37:03 Cliff Martinez - Placental Repair
39:11 Hidden Rivers - September Sun Memory
42:52 Olan Mill - Tallole
46:33 Maria Schneider Orchestra - Walking by Flashlight
51:33 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 12 - September's Here Again by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sunday Morning Music vol. 11 - Morning Moon

Here's the latest Sunday Morning Music installment. The mix starts with cuts from two of my fav albums of 2015 by Aero Flynn & Sufjan Stevens.

Aero Flynn is fronted by Josh Scott, a product of the same Eau Claire, Wisconsin music scene that gave us Justin Vernon(Bon Iver). Scott was in a band called Amateur Love that shared a couple of members with a band that Vernon was in, DeYarmond Edison. According to Chris Porterfield, who was in DeYarmond & would later form Field Report, Josh Scott was the most talented guy in that scene.

Just as Amateur Love was about to break Josh Scott got spooked and broke up the band and fled to Chicago. Since then he has flirted with comebacks but mental and physical illness always got in the way.

Now he is back with a fantastic new album released this past spring. The record was recorded in Justin Vernon's Eau Claire studio and was produced by Vernon. The sound is very different from Amateur Love, more electronics involved, the vocals more ethereal. The best way to describe the music is a cross between Radiohead & Bon Iver.

The Amateur Love album was re-released in 2012 by Vernon. He started his own record company just so he could release that album. And it's a wonderful recording, so full of promise. I wish there had been more.

Here are some links related to the Aero Flynn story...

http://aeroflynn.org/

Listen to all 9 Aero Flynn tracks

DeYarmond Edison on Amazon

Amateur Love album on Amazon

Field Report on Amazon

The other track that opens this mix is from Sufjan Stevens & his amazing new album, Carrie & Lowell. The entire album is about dealing with the death of his mother. Yes, some of the tunes are sad but all of them are beautiful, each in it's own way.

I saw him perform the entire album live back in April & it was easily one of the best shows I've ever seen. A friend described it as transcendent.

Sufjan in Milwaukee

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell on Amazon

Excellent Pitchfork interview with Sufjan

After those opening cuts it's all downhill. Haha. Actually there is much more good music in the rest of the mix. Most of it is new & it fits with the laid back Sunday morning feel of past mixes.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Aero Flynn - Moonbeams
06:12 Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
10:41 Bill Seaman - Another Day
13:15 Casino versus Japan - Scenic Loop
15:45 David Holmes - Hey Maggy
20:15 Julian Lynch - A Day at the Racetrack
22:50 San Fermin - Astronaut
26:12 Johann Johannsson - A Model of the Universe
28:55 Helios - Emancipation
31:15 Jakob Bro - Gefion
38:15 Andrew Bird - Rising Water
42:30 Alva Noto - Isola
45:35 Evan Chapman - Angels(The xx cover)
48:10 Jose Gonzalez - Vissel
51:20 Jon Hopkins - How I live now
55:47 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 11 - Morning Moon by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud