Low Light Mixes

Sunday, March 06, 2022

The Power of Memory by Altus

The first time I used a track from Altus in a mix was 10 years ago. I've been a fan ever since. Altus is Mike Carss, who also records as Loneward. Between those two musical personas, I've used Mike's music in 10 mixes.

After listening to the new Loneward album, Pallid Memories, I asked Mike if he could create a guest mix for me. Luckily, he said yes and now we have this wonderful new collection, The Power of Memory. I've been listening to it nearly every day for the last two weeks and I just can't say enough about this mix. It transports the listener through space and time.

Here's what Mike says about this mix:

Our brains are mysterious machines when you regard how memory works. If you listen to new music and it causes you to sit up and take notice, there's a chance that moment in time will encode itself into the soundwaves. With each repeated listen, you can reinforce that, recording fragments of those periods of time. Afterward, no matter how long a time gap, if you listen to that song again, you can enjoy the memories held within. This makes the music yours and deeply personal.

Even more interesting is when you listen to new music and it simply unearths nostalgia within you.

The final track in this mix, written by me (Loneward), is my way of expressing both these phenomena.

As you might have guessed, each song (aside from the final track) has deep meaning to me. I'm happy to be able to share them with you, and I hope the music moves you enough to explore the albums they came from.

When Dave asked me to guest mix for LLM, I thought: yeah, that sounds like a fun project. I've never done anything like this before but knew there was an art to it. Now, I have a whole new level of respect for those who create these mixes. Coming up with a set list is one thing, but getting them to actually work together without unwanted dissonance . . .? Ouch!

My thanks to Dave for the opportunity. I hope you enjoy the journey.

- Mike

You can find Altus & Loneward music here - https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/

Links to every album used in this set, in the same order in which they appear in the mix:

Also thanks to Mike for collecting this social info for all the artists in the mix:

Facebook:

Srg
@robertrichmusic
@hakobuneongaku
Jess Kahr
@Ex Confusion
@christophersiskmusic
@mattborghi
Awakened Souls
@kwajbasket
Norihito Suda
Ajna & @Massergy
@eternellmusic
@dirk.serries
Wings Of An Angel
@SteveRoachMusic

Twitter:

Srg
@robertrichmusic
@hakobunemusic
Jess Kahr
@exconfusion
@christophersisk
@mattborghi
@souls_awakened
@Kwajbasket
Norihito Suda
Ajna & @massergy
@illuvia
Dirk Serries
@WingsAmbient
@steve_timeroom

Instagram:

Srg
@robertrichmusic
@tobirarecs
Jess Kahr
@exconfusion
@christophersisk
@mattborghimusic
@awakenedsoulsmusic
@kwajbasket
Norihito Suda
@ajna_drone & @massergy_ambient
@ludvigcimbrelius
@dirkserries
Wings Of An Angel
@steveroachofficial

Thanks again, Mike, for creating this gem!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Srg - Mantra 28th Oct 2008 (Self Released 2008)
04:51 Robert Rich - Seascape (Trances & Drones on Release Entertainment 2000)
09:19 Hakobune - Whispering In Their Presence (Whispering In Their Presence on Sunshine Ltd 2012)
14:21 Jess Kahr - ICA (The North Shore on Darla Records 2004)
17:29 Ex Confusion - Speak Softly In My Dreams (Embrace on n5MD 2012)
21:00 Christopher Sisk - 03 (Light 1 on Christopher Sisk Music 2012)
24:30 Matt Borghi - Dream Journal (Music for Meditation and Sleep - Short Forms, Vol. 1 on SloBor Media 2020)
27:28 Awakened Souls - How We Heal (How We Heal on Stereoscenic 2020)
30:37 Kwajbasket - Do Not Go to the Medical Deck (Science Fiction Soundtrack / Self Released 2012)
32:37 Norihito Suda - Acceptance (Modestly Calm on Somehow Recordings 2011)
35:19 Ajna & Massergy - White Spinels (Self Titled EP / Self Released 2013)
38:25 Eternell - Gray Havens (Waking Music / Self Released 2013)
41:00 Vidna Obmana - Forever Grown (Passage In Beauty on Decade Collection 1991)
44:10 Wings Of An Angel - Your Clinic Of Asunderous Therapeutic Atrophies Has Won This Year's Nobel Prize (Don't Trust The Sun / Self Released 2015)
48:07 Steve Roach - Dream Body (Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces on Projekt 2003)
52:41 Loneward - A Collection of Lesser Moments (Pallid Memories on Altus Music 2022)
60:34 end

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Meditation Zone

Ugh, the world sure could use a time out and some meditation to bring the temperature down a notch or ten. So here's a collection of calming tracks for meditation, reading, a bubble bath or just staring off into space for an hour.

Here are links to the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear:

https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/listening-sky

https://jonhopkins.bandcamp.com/album/meditations

https://summerrecreationcamp.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-rhythm

https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-tomato-plants

https://whaleloryb.bandcamp.com/track/awaken-earth-handpan-journey

https://eternell.net/album/kalimba-ambience

https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-hollow

https://studiokosmische.bandcamp.com/album/wf-48-ritual-74

https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-tales

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 John Thayer - Listening Sky (Listening Sky 2022)
09:47 Jon Hopkins - 1/1 Singing Bowl(Ascension) (Meditations 2020)
17:20 Jason Kolar - Bells (Liquid Rhythm 2022)
22:07 Loris S. Sarid - Posture (Music for Tomato Plants 2020)
25:20 Calm Whale - Handpan Journey (Awaken Earth 2022)
33:10 eternell - Kalimba I (Kalimba Ambience 2014)
38:47 Robert Davies - Writhing Mist (Hidden Hollow 2021)
47:50 Studio Kosmische - Herz I (Ritual 74 2021)
52:40 Wil Bolton & Francis Gri - The Ripple Theory (Imaginary Tales 2022)
60:41 end

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Being Human by Fragile X

I am a lucky guy. Lucky, because I get to present a second guest in as many weeks. Lucky, because I was able to discover new artists in this excellent mix. And lucky because I am also lazy and these guest mixes allow me to put some beautiful music out there with the heavy lifting done by someone else.

This mix comes to us from J. Gorecki who records as Fragile X, a musician/producer from Glasgow and the founder of the Bricolage record label: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/

Fragile X also has a very good new album out that you can find here: https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/human-condition

And here is more Fragile X music:

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/fragilex/
https://soundcloud.com/fragilex

Here's what he says about this new mix:

“I put this mix together to tie in with the release of my new album, ‘Human Condition’. Like the album, it is intended to portray the sense of the perpetual cycle of life. The entrance and the exit. The journey that we all individually take through birth, growth, emotion, aspiration, conflict and mortality.”

Thanks for an excellent album and great mix!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Jeannine Schulz - Resting Place (Resting Place Self Released 2021)
03:37 Aemaer - Clocks (Artifacts Self Released 2019)
06:13 Satori Minayia - Life Itself (Unified Field on Pyramid Blood 2020)
09:25 Patricia Wolf - Distant Memory (I'll Look For You In Others on Past Inside The Present 2022)
13:51 faintface - Hikari (ACCENTVA006 on Accents Records 2021)
16:00 nueen - Wait Until Then (Circular Sequence on Quiet Time Tapes 2021)
18:55 Oreste - Integers Cannot Float (Unfull Psalmodian Theory on Rites 2022)
23:56 Adzuki - Glass Float (Radio Sea on Shimmering Moods Records 2016)
25:45 Fragile X - Cogito Ergo Sum (Human Condition on Cue Dot Records 2022)
34:21 R Beny - Felt (echo's verse on Dauw 2019)
41:31 Octo Octa - My Body Is Powerful (Resonant Body on T4T LUV NRG 2019)
45:41 Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pelegrim - Invernu Velu (Movements of a Cloud on Bricolage 2022)
50:30 Accelra - Three Suns (SEQUENCE3 on Futuresequence)
58:11 end

Sunday, February 13, 2022

somewhere else by Michael McGarrity

Friend of the show, Michael McGarrity, offered to create a guest mix and, of course, I jumped at the chance because Michael has been cranking out excellent mixes for several years. You can find his stuff here:

https://www.friskyradio.com/show/wander/

https://www.mixcloud.com/michaelmcguk/

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

"I made this mix to help remember those long summer days and nights which feel so far away in February. It was a particularly rainy Saturday when I put this together & all I wanted was to get away to somewhere dry & warm, even if just with a soundtrack. Hopefully this takes you away to that 'somewhere else' too."

I've said this before, but one reason I love guest mixes is they are a combo of familiar and unfamiliar artists. It's always cool to hear new stuff mixed in with favorites.

Here are links to every album used in this set, in the same order in which they appear in the mix:

Thanks for the mix Michael!

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Be Still The Earth - Colored Grey
05:37 Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist - Skinnarviksberget
07:34 Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Porcupine Stream
12:58 Tapes and Topographies - Signal to Noise
15:12 Andrew Tasselmyer - The Creek in Iceland
19:53 Mathieu Karsenti - No. 73
23:05 awakened souls & From Overseas - Passing Dreams
28:55 anthéne - signs (reprise)
32:11 marine eyes - cloud collecting
35:59 Denis Stelmakh - A Little Broken
38:56 Wife Signs - Small Art and Love
41:16 Olan Mill - Later Season
43:29 Black Brunswicker - Riptide
44:23 Tyresta - All We Have
46:02 Jamison Isaak - Pattern 14
49:13 City Of Dawn & Sherry Finzer - Elegy
52:54 Jonathan Warman - Haf
56:02 City Of Dawn - Melody (with Dottie)
60:00 end

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Between These Breaths

In April of 2020 I posted "Of Reed and Breath" which is an ambient sax mix. You can find that mix here:

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2020/04/of-reed-and-breath.html

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/of-reed-and-breath/

When I created that one I wasn't sure how it would work. Turns out, ambient sax is a great theme to build a mix on. I've been planning on a follow up for a long time and it's finally here.

Since that first mix two years ago I have totally bought into wind instruments in ambient and modern composition music. That's why my fav album from last year was "Departures" by mastroKristo(who makes an appearance in this mix). From Clariloops to Sam Gendel to Dirk Serries to Andrew Heath, sax and other woodwinds have become a big part of my ambient listening habit.

All the tracks in this mix are excellent but I especially love the cut from Matt Borghi & Michael Teager and the cut from Dirk Serries. Perfect combo of sax and ambient. I also have to mention the final track Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight by Signum Saxophone Quartet. That track is one of my favorites of all time so when I found a sax quartet cover of it I nearly lost my mind. Perfect way to end the mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ethan Braun + Sam Gendel - 1/2 SCULPTURE [Rio Nilo 66 2021]
04:14 mastroKristo - The Breath [Depatures 2021]
07:05 Phillip Schroeder - On Occasion [Passage Through a Dream 2015]
10:25 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - For Mothers [A Little Night Music Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North 2020]
14:15 Matt Borghi and Michael Teager - Stationary Voyage [Subterranean Bearings 2020]
19:25 Dirk Serries & Trösta - Oceanus [Island On The Moon 2021]
26:22 Night Gestalt - Between Two Breaths [Thousand Year Waves 2021]
31:34 Fuubutsushi - Cicada Season [Fuubutsushi 2020]
34:00 Carmen Villain - Agua Azul [Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita 2021]
38:25 M. Sage - Spinnaker on a Southerly [The Wind of Things 2021]
41:14 Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer - What We Leave [Amiira 2016]
45:52 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills - Notes with Attachments [Notes with Attachments 2021]
47:37 Sam Gendel & Shin Sasakubo - Reeds [Sam Gendel & Shin Sasakubo 2021]
49:54 Okomotive, Joel Schoch - Sail, my Friend! [FAR: Lone Sails Soundtrack 2018]
53:00 Signum Saxophone Quartet - On the Nature of Daylight for Saxophone Quartet and Cello [Echoes 2021]
59:13 end

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Unfold the Universe

A million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at it's parking spot at Lagrange Point #2, the perfect place to search the heavens for faint light from the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. This mix tells the story of the Webb observatory as it seeks to "Unfold the Universe."

The telescope, like its mission, is big. When expanded to full size, it can’t fit into the nose cone of any available launch vehicle. One of Webb’s main components, sunshield, is the area of a tennis court. It was carefully folded and packed to fit inside the Ariane 5 rocket. In space, the sunshield will expand and separate into five distinct layers. The telescope's primary mirror, the largest mirror ever flown into space, is also too wide to fit into the rocket in one piece. So it is segmented into 18 hexagonal pieces on a hinged structure so it can fold up for launch and unfold in space.

That unfolding is one of the themes of this mix and can be seen in track titles like "Tentative Unfolding", "Watching It Unfold" and "Unfold pt. 2." The story of the Webb telescope is told in other tracks such as "Lagrange Point" "Gathering the Starglow" "Looking Into the Past" and "The Light Beyond."

Unfold the universe with the Webb Space Telescope & Low Light Mixes.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 intro noises

00:33 Lingua Lustra & Snufmumriko - Far Away from the Buzz [Dwelling in Sound 2015]

02:12 Astropilot - Drifting Away [Earthwalk 2022]

03:40 Robert Rich - Tentative Unfolding [Tactile Ground 2019]

08:35 Focus On The Breath - Unfold pt. 2 [Unfold 2021]

13:33 Lawrence English - Watching It Unfold [A Colour For Autumn 2009]

17:45 The Humble Bee - The Collecting Plate [The Indescribable Brightness Shone 2011]

19:00 Jeff Greinke - Mirrors [Timbral Planes 1988]

21:45 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Lagrange Point [Outpost 2005]

27:45 Lunar Testing Lab - Gathering the Starglow [Signalling The Stars 2016]

32:27 Shen - Peering Down Gazing Up [Outlines 2006]

33:15 Saul Stokes - Iris My Observatory [Portraits 2002]

36:22 Brian Eno - Stars [Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks 1983]

40:25 Detroit Escalator Company - Gathering Light [Black Buildings 2001]

42:55 Benn Jordan - Looking Into the Past [Pale Blue Dot: A Tribute to Carl Sagan 2008]

46:25 Wouter Veldhuis - To look further afield [Blue Forest 2013]

48:22 Altus - Overwhelmed by Starlight [Trailhead 2020]

55:35 Rohne - Past Light [Forms 2021]

57:09 Ruxpin - we are far away from all the things we know [This Time We Go Together 2013]

58:55 Jeff Pearce - The Light Beyond [The Light Beyond 2001]

61:09 end

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Hymns & Voices

This is a great way to start off 2022. We have an excellent guest mix from Kevin, the man responsible for "Cello Mood Swings" and "Not Seeing a Flower" which you can find here...

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/cello-mood-swings/

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2021/07/cello-mood-swings.html

https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/not-seeing-is-a-flower/

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2020/07/not-seeing-is-flower.html

For this mix Kevin collected a bunch of vocal and choral tracks & I mixed them together. Here's what he has to say about the mix:

"The idea came from listening to Jonsi and Alex - Boy 1904, I realized that quite a few ambient artists used the voice to create a type of auditory ambience. A few hymns have been added and a couple of more classical based choral works. These songs are not about words but the sounds of the voices and the emotions they provoke. They have been chosen for their haunting mournful beauty. I hope you enjoy them."

Thanks Kevin for an excellent collection of tracks! Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Russian Cathedral Bells
00:23 The Russian State Symphony Cappella - Rachmaninov Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom Great Ektenia
04:00 Olafur Arnalds - Raddir ft South Iceland Chamber Choir (Island Songs 2016)
07:55 Inca - Solo Soprano(for meditation) (Gregorian Chants: Chants of Monks for Meditation, Monk Chants for Quiet Time & Prayer 2013)
10:20 Ulf Söderberg - Tidvatten Part 1 (Tidvatten 1998)
14:40 St. Petersburg Chamber Choir - Chorale (Sacred Treasures III 2000)
17:00 Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle (Healing Is A Miracle 2020)
21:00 Voces8 & Olafur Aenalds - Nyepi(Choral Version) (re:member(choir versions) 2019)
24:53 Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei
28:28 Arvo Part - Da Pacem Domine (2004)
33:55 Peter Gabriel - With This Love(Choir) (Passion 1989)
37:10 Hans Zimmer - Aurora (2012)
45:20 The Russian State Symphony Cappella - Hymn of the Cherubim(Excerpt 1)
49:50 Jónsi & Alex - Boy 1904 (Riceboy Sleeps 2009)
54:30 Anna Roxanne - Nocturne (~~~ 2019)
59:36 Voces8 - A Pile of Dust by Johann Johannsson (Infinity 2021)
64:38 end

Sunday, January 09, 2022

Jazz 2021

I don't do these year-end jazz mixes every year. Most of the time I'm just too lazy. I don't keep close track of what came out and what I liked. At some point this year I started tossing individual tracks into a playlist and that helped me remember what I enjoyed in 2021.

So here's my Jazz 2021 mix. It is by no means a "Best of" mix. It's merely a collection of jazz-ish tracks from albums I liked this year. And of course some of the tunes lean a bit toward ambient.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Nala Sinephro - Space 8 [Space 1.8 on Warp]
13:03 Eli Keszler - Dawn [Icons on Lucky Me]
17:58 Joseph Shabason - 15-19 [The Fellowship on Western Vinyl]
23:17 Sons of Kemet - To Never Forget the Source [Black to the Future on UMG]
26:09 Benjamin Mørk & Arve Henriksen - Pasvikdalen [The Valleys]
28:57 Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Cold Pocket [Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs on Leaving Records]
32:09 Nick Garbett & Mike Majkowski - Aerial [The Glider]
38:20 Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1 [Promises on Luaka Bop]
43:12 Bell Orchestre - Nature That's It That's All [House Music on Erased Tapes]
47:20 M. Sage - Spinnaker on a Southerly [The Wind of Things on Geographic North]
50:12 Jeff Parker - Four Folks [Forfolks on Nonesuch]
55:37 Fuubutsushi - Fresh Salt [Setsubun on Cached Media]
58:32 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - Ay Amor (Live) [Tone Poem on Blue Note]
68:32 end

Sunday, January 02, 2022

Best(favorite) Ambient Albums of 2021 part 2

A few things I noticed from my year-end list - no berlin-school music, very little what I would call 'space' music, a fair amount of dusty, loop music like Maps & Diagrams or Tapes & Topographies, several guitar based albums like Dave Depper, Dave Nelson, SUSS, and Devendra Banhart, and lastly, a lot of modern classical/modern composition albums from Mastrokristo & Alapastel to Max Richter and Viktor Orri Árnason and Glåsbird.

That collection of favorites is nothing new for me. I've been a big fan of that dusty, noisy, loop-based style for a long time & as modern composition has grown over the years, so has my interest. Although, I may need to dive back into spacey, droney ambient like the stuff in the stargazing mixes.

I guess there's not much else to say for this post other than here is part 2 of my favorite ambient albums of 2021.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves 1 [Cicada Waves on NNA Tapes]
05:45 Sonmi451 - Lampenfiber [Seven Signals in the Sky on Laaps]
10:10 Bombay Dub Orchestra - Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) Part 3 [Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) on Six Degrees]
15:08 Glåsbird - Last Ritual [Siberia on Whitelabrecs]
24:26 Sailcloth - Red Woods [Woodcut on Lost Tribe Sound]
27:00 Dave Nelson - Easy and Preferred Answers [The Act of Vanishing]
29:52 Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson - Three Gates [Refuge on Dead Oceans]
33:25 Jens Pauly, Stijn Hüwels - The Leaves Will Fade [When The Night Ends on Vaagner]
39:36 Dirk Serries - Recloose(excerpt) [Recloose]
48:26 anthéne - Winter Sun [maritime on Ambientologist 2021]
53:17 Wil Bolton - Unraveling [Cumulus Sketches on Home Normal]
59:05 Jeannine Schulz - River [Luminous on Polar Seas]
63:17 Just a Human - Revive(Outro) [Hibernate]
65:25 Enrico Coniglio - Everything and Nothing [Alpine Variations on Dronarivm]
68:50 Asc & Inhmost - Obscured Form [Dimensional Space on Auxilairy]
75:07 Peter Gregson - Over [Patina on Deutsche Grammophon]
76:51 end

Saturday, January 01, 2022

Best(favorite) Ambient of 2021

These year-end lists seem to be getting harder and harder to curate. The sheer number of releases makes it nearly impossible to keep up and listen to all the music. Through Spotify and Bandcamp most of this music is available immediately, which is great, but it can also foster a severe case of FOMO, fear of missing out. Whether it's ambient music or indie rock/pop I am on a constant prowl for new music, sometimes at the disservice of current music which I have not given time to sink in.

A list like this is obviously not a definitive "Best of" list. These are just some of my favorites from this year. Sometimes an album happens to catch me in the right mood, in the right place and it hits home. Is it better than all the other releases? Maybe. But all I know is it caught my ear at the right time, I latched on, listened, and it became one of my favorites.

I made the list with a top 5 and then listed everything else alphabetically. It's way too hard to say this one is #14 while that one is #22. That being said I totally loved the top 3 on this list.

FAVORITE AMBIENT ALBUMS OF 2021:

1. Mastrokristo - Departures [Lost Tribe Sound] 2. Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5 {Denovali] 3. Alapastel - Ceremony [Lost Tribe Sound] 4. Max Richter - Voices 2 [Decca] 5. Loscil - Clara [Kranky] -------------

AES DANA - (a) period. [Ultimae] Andrew Heath - Drawings from Imagined Cities [Elm Records] anthéne - maritime [Ambientologist 2021] Arovane - Reihen [12k] ASC & Inhmost - Dimensional Space [Auxilairy] Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves [NNA Tapes] Bombay Dub Orchestra - Cultivating Compassion(instrumentals) [Six Degrees Records] Calm Whale - Breathing Earth Meditation Christian Loffler - Parallels [Deutsche Grammophon] Clariloops - Sun//Rain Darkroom - The Last Sense To Fade [Whitelabrecs] Dave Depper - Europa [Jealous Butcher Records] Dave Nelson - The Act of Vanishing Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson - Refuge [Dead Oceans] Dirk Serries - Recloose Enrico Coniglio – Alpine Variations [Dronarivm] Glåsbird - Siberia [Whitelabrecs] Gray Acres - Dreams and Phantoms [Archives] Igor Yalivec - Still Life [Polar Seas Recordings] Jeff Parker - Forfolks [International Anthem] Jeaninne Schulz - Luminous [Polar Seas] Jens Pauly & Stijn Huwels - When the Night Ends [Vaagner] Just a Human - Hibernate Maps & Diagrams - Teygja Parts A & B [Handstitched] Merope - Salos [Stroom] Peter Gregson - Patina [Deutsche Grammophon] Sailcloth - Woodcut [Lost Tribe Sound] Sonmi451 - Seven Signals in the Sky [laaps] SUSS - Night Suite Tapes & Topographies - Monomials [Simulacra Records] Tapes & Topographies - In Muted Forms [Shimmering Moods] Taylor Deupree - Mur [12k] Toumani Diabate & London Symphony Orchestra - Korolen [World Circuit] Viktor Orri Árnason - Eilífur [PentaTone] Wil Bolton - Cumulus Sketches [Home Normal] William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void [Lost Tribe Sound]

That's too much for one mix so I'll post part 1 and part 2. I also plan on doing a mix of favorite jazz-ish tracks from this year. I have a list of several non-ambient instrumental/jazz releases that I really liked so I'll post the list and a mix of fav tracks.

But first, my favorite ambient music, part one. Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Max Richter - Psychogeography [Vpices 2 on Decca]
06:30 mastroKristo - Ocean [Departures on Lost Tribe Sound ]
09:53 Dictaphone - Griot Dub [Goats & Distortions 5 on Denovali]
14:05 Alapastel - Releaseness [Ceremony on Lost Tribe Sound]
18:48 Loscil - Vespera [Clara 0n Kranky]
22:45 Arovane - Sicht [Reihen on 12k]
25:38 Aes Dana - Haphazard [(a) period. on Ultimae]
28:18 Calm Whale - Breathing EARTH [Breathing EARTH Meditation]
31:05 Merope - Vilnia [Salos on Stroom]
35:13 Dave Depper - Vienna Five [Europa on Jealous Butcher Records]
41:11 Christian Löffler - Pastoral [Parallels on Deutsche Grammophon]
44:42 Tapes and Topographies - Spec Work as Magic [Monomials on Simulacra Records]
47:23 Map & Diagrams - Mutability [Teygja Part B on Handstitched]
50:50 Igor Yalivec - Nymphaea [Still Life on Polar Seas]
55:40 Andrew Heath - Drawings from Imagined Cities [Drawings from Imagined Cities on Elm Records]
65:02 end