Sea of Stars 2020

photo by Wil Stewart https://unsplash.com/@wilstewart3

I've been working from home for a couple of months and you'd think I might have some extra time to work on some mixes with being locked down and all. But nope, I seem to have fallen farther behind with a lot of things. 

I wanted to get a mix up onto Mixcloud so that I don't go too long in between uploads. But I hadn't done anything new so I was looking through some old mixes that were posted here but never made it to Mixcloud. And I found one from 2008 called Sea of Stars. I still listen to it occasionally as sleep music so I decided this would be a good one to share on Mixcloud. But I couldn't pass up the chance to tweak it a bit so I hacked off the last two tracks and added 5 new tunes. The new mix is now an hour & a half long, perfect for sleeping or laying out under the stars watching for satellites.

This mix was originally posted in 2008 so think of it as the light from many of the stars in the sky in 2008 is just now reaching earth so playing this mix fits perfectly. I plan on posting another revised version in 2032.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    bvdub - You'll miss me when I'm gone
• 06:19    Area C - Mare Imbrium
• 11:30    Kyle Bobby Dunn - Furthest From It
• 18:10    Emmanuel Errante - Radio Hopes
• 23:40    Parks - Trains
• 29:50    Kode - Movements #6
• 35:30    Shirk - Itchytime
• 38:55    Deaf Center - Close
• 40:55    The Caretaker - Lacuna Amnesia
• 44:05    Area C - Sea of Clouds
• 51:15    Kabana - dubru
• 55:45    Lauge - Floating
• 60:15    36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Stage 2)
• 65:30    Innesti & Jacob Newman - Moon Machine
• 71:18    North Atlantic Drift - Lost Years
• 75:27    The Winterhouse - A Long Way From Here

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

Serenity, Hope & Grace by Paul Asbury Seaman

cover art by Suzybee - https://www.suzybee.buzz/

I can always count on Paul for a good palate cleanser. After the bizzaro world of DEVS & the continuing covid crapola, I think everyone is in need of a little positivity.

Paul and I have talked often about how a lot of ambient music has a melancholy vibe. I know I definitely gravitate toward that end of the spectrum. Paul figured we could use something hopeful in these strange days. Here's what he says about this mix:

“I think authenticity is a precursor to authentic redemption. Thus, we honor our grief and fears and all the losses of this time we’re living through. There is pain alongside, not canceled by, the tranquility we seek. And there is a mysterious grace that gives us the strength to remain clear-eyed and truthful as we embrace hope.”

Thanks to Paul for another well-thought-out mix. Thanks to the folks at Kaya Project for letting us use the artwork from their latest album as the cover art for this mix. That art is from Suzybee - https://www.suzybee.buzz/ .  And thanks to all the artists that continue to crank out lovely music which helps us through the quarantine. 

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Shoshana Michel - Quietly, Gently, Peacefully ( Impressions 2020)
• 04:16    Eguana - Deep Sleep (Invisible Civilization Vol. 3 2019)
• 11:05    Tonepoet - The  Grieving Soul Begins To Awaken (Kaleidoscope 2020)
• 15:15    Kaya Project - Finding Balance Ambient MIx (body.mind.soul 2020)
• 20:00    Sigesmundsen & Gregory Paul Mineeff - Forgotten Borders (Crrossing Worlds 2020)
• 23:55    Darshan Ambient - A Day Within Days (A Day Within Days 2010)
• 28:25    Slow Meadow - Clouds, Not Clocks (Clouds, Not Clocks / Rara Pluma 2018)
• 32:35    Kit Watkins - Tranquility (This Time and Space 2008)
• 36:20    Jeff Pearce - Sun On Frost ( From The Darker Seasons 2017)
• 38:30    Endeleas - Forgotten Shore (Forgotten Shore 2019)
• 42:12    Bruno Sanfilippo - Unity (Unity 2018)
• 50:45    Slow Dancing Society - How Life Was Meant To Be Lived (The Sound of Lights When Dim 2020)
• 58:46    end

DEVS - a real & unreal soundtrack

DEVS, a tv series on FX/Hulu, is easily one of the best things I've ever seen on tv. It's written, directed and produced by Alex Garland the man responsible for Ex Machina & Annihilation, two of my favorite films of the last ten years.

The sound design and music in his films is always perfect. His musical collaborators are Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow and they are responsible for the music in DEVS as well. Garland lets scenes breathe, lets the music wash over you as the camera lingers. 

It's difficult to separate the original music from pre-existing music used in the series. No soundtrack has been released so this mix has none of the newly written score. But I was able to track down a few of the pre-existing tracks that were used. The most important of which is Jan Garbarek - Regnantem Sempiterna. It makes several appearances throughout the series. One of the other pieces I was happy to find is Fortunate Ones by The Beacon Sound Choir. I ended up using two other tracks from them because they fit the style of the show perfectly.

I used several tracks from other soundtracks by Salisbury & Barrow and a few from the new Johann Johannsson album. I also used some favorite tracks from Cliff Martinez because of the steel drum sound he uses. Salisbury & Barrow used that same type of sound throughout their score. And anybody that has seen the series finale will know why I used Rachmaninov - Dues Meus.

If you haven't seen the series I highly recommend it. And then, of course, listen to this mix.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Jan Garbarek - Regnantem Sempiterna
• 05:28    Existence - Moon
• 06:15    DEVS - Stuart's Poem
• 08:48    Daniel Lopatin - Buzz Me Out
• 09:23    The Beacon Sound Choir - Fortunate Ones
• 12:04    Steve Reich - Come Out
• 14:35    Mica Levi - Bedroom
• 15:40    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise
• 19:25    Cliff Martinez - What Shoe Size
• 21:14    Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Slow Destruction Of Neptune
• 24:36    Ashera - Lullaby for Mother Earth
• 27:38    Cliff Martinez - They Broke His Pelvis
• 28:39    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Smelling Reality
• 29:25    Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Remembrance Of The Past
• 30:45    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - The Ghost of Her Mother
• 33:48    Cliff Martinez - We Don't Have to Think Like That Anymore
• 36:15    The Beacon Sound Choir - Drone 3
• 39:52    Rachmaninov - Deus Meus
• 43:50    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Dream Reality
• 44:25    Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation
• 48:15    The Beacon Sound Choir - Sea Of Voices (Machinefabriek Rework)
• 52:33    Johann Johannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - The Last Men
• 55:28    Salisbury & Barrow - Sleep
• 56:42    Johannsson & Glotman - The Universal End
• 58:11    end

Of Reed and Breath

This mix started nearly two years ago when I created a playlist on Spotify called "Sax is Back." In there I collected tracks that used a saxophone as a main instrument and had an ambient vibe. I was careful to not let the tunes devolve into Kenny G on the beach schlock. But I still wasn't sure if an entire mix of sax tunes would work, but, I gotta say, this mix turned out really well. It's cohesive and a nice variation on straight forward ambient.

One caveat - I'm not entirely sure that the instrument in every song is indeed a saxophone. Soprano sax can sometimes sound like an oboe so there may be a couple of times where that may happen. But I don't really care, I just love the sound of this whole mix.

A few of my favorite tracks in the mix are:
-  Blue Chamber by Mute Forest from the excellent new album, Riderstorm, on Lost Tribe Sound. 
- A Break in the Clouds by Andrew Heath from Soundings
- Music for Airports by Delta Saxophone Quartet from Bowie, Berlin & Beyond

I hope you enjoy this slight detour into ambient sax.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Tortusa & Breistein - Mind Vessel [2018]
• 05:30    Joseph Shabason - Long Swim [2017]
• 09:45    Anenon - Panes [2016]
• 12:34    Ben Bertrand - The Manmaipo [2020]
• 16:40    Daniel Thorne - Fear of Floating [2019]
• 18:52    Mute Forest - Blue Chamber [2020]
• 21:42    Andrew Heath - A Break In The Clouds [2017]
• 27:57    Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Joy [2019]
• 32:40    Rauelsson - Marbles [2018]
• 35:03    Donny McCaslin - Warszawa [2016]
• 38:00    Dylan Howe - Art Decade [2014]
• 42:10    Delta Saxophone Quartet - Subterraneans [2018]
• 47:50    Anenon - Mansana [2018]
• 50:28    Tortusa & Breistein - Ladder [2018]
• 53:43    Ben Bertrand - Those Behind Us That We Follow [2020]
• 58:28    Delta Saxophone Quartet - Music for Airports [2018]
• 64:05    end

Lockdown - by Peter Van Cooten of Ambientblog.net

I like to think that I put a lot of thought and effort into these mixes. Hopefully, the mix as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But what I do is nothing compared to the transformative touch that Peter Van Cooten brings to his mixes.

Each mix is a unique work of art. Peter rarely lets a track play in its complete form. Instead, he uses smaller samples and deftly weaves the tracks in and out of each other. Sometimes 2,3, or 4 tracks play simultaneously, creating something new from different elements. In this mix, he uses an incredible 41 tracks! Here's what Peter has to say about using so many short samples:

"Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed about using such short samples and/or editing the tracks (of these 41, only 8 are used in their complete form). It's a bit like cutting up the Mona Lisa to create a landscape patchwork with the fragments ;-)  But on the other hand, this is what I feel makes these mixes unique. Taken out of their context and in relation to other fragments, the music sometimes tells a different story."

This mix is a bit darker than most of my mixes. But it's dark in an interesting way, not in a droney, dissonant way. The mix has a very cinematic feel and combined with the cover art and title I can imagine drone shots of empty streets and newspapers blowing across the square. Peter was hesitant about the name and the cover art. He says - 

"It may be too closely linked to the current worldwide crisis, but on the other hand I have tried to think of another name or context but the uncertain times seem to be too dominant to think of another name I could give it. The funny thing is, that if you listen back most of my mixes have a rather dark edge to them. There's always a lot of 'tension/release' to them. But in this case, it seems there's a bit more 'tension' than 'release'. Oh well, sign of the times..."

Peter runs his own ambient music blog called, appropriately, Ambientblog.net. Where in addition to his fine mixes(available in DTS surround as well), he has a ton of good reviews and recommendations. You can find it here...  
https://www.ambientblog.net/blog/   He's also on Mixcloud here... https://www.mixcloud.com/ambientblog/

When he creates these extraordinary mixes he posts a pic of the total track layout, layer upon layer of all the music used. Here is the map of this mix...

Peter does his tracklist a little differently than I do. He gives listeners more info about each track, including start time, sample length, artist, title, album title, year and record label.  

Thanks to Peter Van Cooten of Ambientblog.net for such an excellent mix. Hopefully, I can talk him into doing another one in the future.

Cheers, and stay safe.

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T R A C K L I S T - Start time - Sample length - Artist - Title

Album Title, Year, Label

00:00  03:23 Fovea Hex - Is 

Is Lanza Light and Given (Steven Wilson Remixes), 2019, Die Stadt/Janet Records

01:25  04:35 Maggi Payne - Fluid Dynamics

Arctic Winds, 2020, Aguirre Records

02:03  01:45 Pat Keista - Doppler

Still Of The Void, 2020, self-released

04:17  01:47 Dave Phillips - Phytognosophysiology

Post Homo Sapiens, 2020, Attenuation Circuit

05:10  02:45 Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman - Prelude

Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon

05:42  02:00 Andrew Pekler - Fonseca Winds (Lament)

Sounds From Phantom Islands, 2019, Faitiche

07:29  01:19 Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman - Telepathic Unity

Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon

08:13  03:10 Ben Bertrand - Those Behind Us That We Follow

Manes, 2020, Les Albums Claus

11:08  01:31 Fani Konstantinidou - (Variations)

Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair, 2020, Moving Furniture Records,

11:58  01:32 Aaron Martin - Overcoming Inertia

Test Subjects, 2019, self-released

12:53  01:51 A Journey Of Giraffes - Gone Is The New Fuji

Kona, 2019, Somewherecold records

13:29  03:30 Robert Haigh - Ghosts Of Blacker Dyke

Black Sarabande, 2020, Unseen Worlds

16:46  02:48 Snorri Hallgrímsson - Fear

Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records

16:53  00:30 Mica Levy - Mensajero

Monos, 2019, Invada

17:40  02:30 Snorri Hallgrímsson - Suffering

Chasing The Present, 2020, Moderna Records

19:22  01:58 Bersarin Quartett - Prolog

Methoden Und Maschinen, 2019, Denovali 

20:41  01:09 Ruairi O'Baoighill - Scryer

To See Without Eyes, 2018, Cursed Monk Records

20:50  01:59 I Wound - The Choir Of The Drowned Sings 'Our Demons Are Real'

Homework Year 3, 2018, Taâlem

21:48  03:01 Christine Ott - Comma

Chimères (Pour Ondes Martenots), 2020, Nahal Recordings

24:22  02:34 Ida Toninato - Pour Retourner Au Silence

We Become Giants, 2020, Dragon's Eye Recordings

25:32  03:47 Merrin Karras - Drawn, Quartered

Northwest Passage, 2020, A Strangely Isolated Place

28:27  02:07 Ciro Berenguer - Luna Creciente

Eilean 100, 2019, Eilean Records

29:57  01:47 Yiorgis Sakellariou - B4

Diapsalmata: A Collection Of Short Works, 2018, Tanuki Records

29:57  01:19 Celer - Birds Inside The High Halls Of Hangzhou (06.23.17)

Xièxie, 2019, Two Acorns

30:12  03:18 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Koichi Shimizu - Sharjah And Java

Metaphors - Selected Soundworks from the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2017, Sub Rosa

31:24  00:44 Coil - Corybantic Ennui

Stolen and Contaminated Songs, 2019, Cold Spring Records 

32:32  01:22 Olivier Messiaen - Quator Pour Le Fin Du Temps III: Abîme des Oiseaux

Olivier Messiaen - Complete Edition, 2008, Deutsche Grammophon

33:54  01:26 Hildur Gudnadottir - Following Sophie

Joker OST, 2019, Watertower Records

35:14  00:55 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Countdown

Black Mirror: Smithereens, 2019, Milan

35:45  03:24 Silent Chaos - Nocturne On Ganimede 

Macro, 2020, We Don't Give A Fuck

38:52  04:03 Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Burnt Umber

Mixing Colours, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon

42:38  02:13 Martina Bertoni - Invisible Cracks

All The Ghosts Are Gone, 2020, Falk

44:29  03:30 Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang - Nightspell

Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes, 2020, Jazzland Recordings

46:21  02:13 Jana Irmert - Fog

Cusp, 2020, self-released

47:40  01:36 Fovea Hex - Given

Is Lanza Light and Given (Steven Wilson Remixes), 2019, Die Stadt/Janet Records

48:42  02:40 Frank Makowski - Fliegende Schatten - Canon 1

Canon der Finsternisse, 2019, Diffusschall

49:05  01:12 Michael Begg - Plain Chant

Sonambulo, 2019, Omnempathy

50:40  02:20 A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Slow Descent Has Begun

The Undivided Five, 2019, Ninja Tune

52:35  04:30 Felix Blume - Horns In Fog Pt. 2

Fog Horns, 2019, Discrepant

55:49  03:02 Max Richter - Ursa Minor - Visions

Ad Astra, 2019, Deutsche Grammophon

58:30  00:40 Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman - The Sun

Last And First Men, 2020, Deutsche Grammophon

59:10 End

Piano Day 2020

Today, March 28th, is International Piano Day. This is what the Piano Day website says about today:

“Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

Piano Day, an annual worldwide event founded by a group of likeminded people, takes place on the 88th day of the year – in 2020 it’s the 28th March – because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated.

The aim of the day is to create a platform for piano related projects in order to promote the development of musical dimensions and to continue sharing the centuries-old joy of playing the piano. Piano Day welcomes all kinds of piano lovers — young and old, amateur and professional, of any musical direction – to join in this year's festivities. It is intended to be the most joyful of all holidays!

Piano Day gives me an excuse to put together an all-piano mix. I really like the vibe of this year's version. Most of it is very stripped down and simple. I've also found it to be very therapeutic during these quarantine times.

Hang in there everybody!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Plïnkï Plønkï - Hiraeth
• 04:22    Mike Lazarev - Afflicted
• 07:00    Olga Wojciechowska - All I Have Not Seen
• 11:27    Innesti - Forgotten
• 14:18    Klangriket & Sjors Mans - Leidseplein
• 18:22    Nils Frahm - Some
• 22:20    Ben Lukas Boysen - Only in the Dark
• 25:35    Ólafur Arnalds - saman
• 27:39    Sjors Mans - With You
• 30:31    S.hel - Eia Popeia
• 34:38    Hania Rani - Warszawa
• 39:55    Infinite Scale - Across the Otherside
• 42:03    Julien Marchal - Insight XXXVIII
• 43:12    Roger Eno And Brian Eno - Blonde
• 47:05    Yosi Horikawa - Thalfang
• 50:50    Piano Day Website Remix
• 63:29    end

Alone Time - music for self-isolation

I have to come clean. I stole this idea. Dennis Huddleston, who records as 36, posted a Spotify playlist a couple of days ago and I thought it sounded like a good theme for a mix. Here's his playlist...

All the tracks in this mix have quarantine/isolation appropriate titles such as "Stay Home," "Return to Self" and "Being Alone Never Hurt Anybody."

Working in tv news it was crazy watching email after email come in sating another school system closed, another performance canceled, another event postponed, another business shutting down. It was nuts! We went from virtually no school districts closed to essentially all of them closed in a couple of hours.

Stay home, stay chill and enjoy some music.

Cheers!


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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Justin Hurwitz - Quarantine (2018)
• 02:06    William Ryan Fritch - Separation (2019)
• 05:45    Pulusha - Isolation (1997)
• 12:30    Heavenchord - Infinity From The Inside (2018)
• 19:15    Warmth - Home (2017)
• 22:40    Gray Acres - Return To Self (2018)
• 28:25    Hildur Guðnadóttir - Alone (2019)
• 31:47    Max Richter - Dream Solo (2019)
• 38:24    Arovane & Mike Lazarev - Us, Inside (2019)
• 41:35    Sean Curtis Patrick - Being Alone Never Hurt Anybody (2019)
• 44:57    Dalot & Sound Awakener - Inside (2018)
• 47:36    Dub Tractor - Stay Home (2017)
• 51:15    Neil Cowley & Ben Lukas Boysen - Solitary Refinement (2019)
• 56:00    R Beny - And Fall, Standing Alone Again (2019)
• 62:53    Justin Hurwitz - Home (2018)
• 64:28    end

Lullabies for a Night Train by Paul Asbury Seaman

After the last mix, I was trying to decide what to do next - sea mix? orchestral? shortwave? train? Well, Paul beat me to it by sending a tracklist for another excellent train mix.

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

“The main qualification in selecting music for a train mix is that it has that distinctive rocking rhythm, like a cradle. Like a lullaby. Beyond that, there is the paradoxical elements of both wistfulness and anticipation—nostalgia and unknown adventures. This mix features a more mellow side of “Berlin School” sequencer-driven electronic music. I have also included one track each from my other three train mixes for Low Light Mixes: “The Memory of Trains,” “Galaxy Express” and “Places I’ve Never Been” (all available on Mixcloud). “Memory of Trains” was the first mix I did with Dave and Low Light Mixes three years ago. And life has never been the same! Happy travels, on this slightly longer-than-usual journey….”

Paul, thanks for another superb set!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Stellardrone - Twilight (A Moment of Silence 2011)
• 04:10    Tom Moore & Mike Clay - Leaving Our Orbit (Beyond Our Orbit 2020)
• 08:40    MHZ - Train Tracks (25 Peaks 2015)
• 14:30    Marconi Union - Sleeper (Ghost Stations 2015)
• 20:25    Cousin Silas - Green Mist (Midnight Beats 1 2020)
• 25:27    Spiral Dreams - Anywhere (Anywhere 2016)
• 32:45    John Agebjorn - Sleepless on the Kostomuksha-Petrozavodsk Night Train (We Never Came To The White Sea 2017)
• 38:54    Paul Speer & Sherry Finzer - Venus Rising (2016)
• 43:57    Von Haulshoven - The Multiverse Trip (Symptom of the Multiverse 2019)
• 51:14    Stimulus Timbre - Look at the Stars and Think of Us (A Place We Never Been 2017)
• 56:43    Germind - Time Consciousness (Antimatter 2014)
• 62:45    Between Interval - On Track (Legacy 2017)
• 66:02    Tigerforest - Vermilion (Songs of Reverence 2016)
• 70:15    Sequentia Legenda - Au Revoir (Extended 2016)
• 89:12    end

Music for Meditation - healing vibes for election season

It's hard to believe there are still 9 months until the presidential election here in the US. It feels like the 2016 campaign never ended. Working in TV news I need to remind myself to step back, log off Twitter, turn off the tv, and listen to some ambient music, especially meditative music.

I know most ambient music is good for meditation but for this mix, I was looking for formless music that's not dark, something that wouldn't be too out of place at a spa but also not too gooey new agey either.

Most of the tracks used in this mix are new with three each being from 2020 and 2019 and one each from 2017 and 2013. This year is shaping up to be another excellent year for ambient music.

Cheers!


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T R A C K S :

• 00:00    Albrecht La'Brooy - Afternoon Carafe (Healesville 2019)
• 08:02    Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither (Bring On The Sun 2017)
• 14:35    Sphontik - Late Summer Blue (2019)
• 20:20    Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo (Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo 2013)
• 31:00    Kenji Kihara - Hayama Ambient 010 (2019)
• 36:52    Luis Miehlich - Flows (Currents 2020)
• 43:50    Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Ember Valley (Rainforest Hill I + II 2020)
• 53:57    zakè - Gaffney Fields (Carolina 2020)
• 60:09    end