The latest mixes including descriptions and track listings

Summer’s End

Between storms at summer’s end. A modern classical and compositional ambient journey

Jóhann Jóhannsson – She’s Your Gift – 00:00
Julia Kent – Glint and Fade – 02:12
Adrian Lane – After the Storm Subsides – 06:17
From the Mouth of the Sun – Landing in the Dark – 09:22
kj – waters – 13:31
Glåsbird – Sleeping Land – 26:20
Lee Yi – Papaver – 30:40
Yann Novak – Silence Will Hang in the Air (When We Are Gone) – 33:55
Bethan Kellough – Hour Glass – 43:17
Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist – Under Hamnen – 47:35

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Adrift in the Doldrums 3

A long slow drift toward the summer doldrums with ambient drones and soundscapes

Jason van Wyk- A Diary of Sorts – 00:00 (on 5MD)
Federico Mosconi – Braiding Light – 03:41 (on Dronarivm)
Logic Moon & Atmøsphäre – Fading Thoughts – 08:45 (on Ambientologist)
Andrew Tasselmyer – Soft Collapse – 13:53 (on Seil Records)
Mind over MIDI – Pause – 19:24 (on Lontano Series)
Michael Gordon – Clusters – 22:39 (self-released)
Rosales – Kin – 37:21 (on Archives)
Eduardo Briganty – Esperanza (Con Pepo Galán) – 48:24 (on El Muelle Records)
Hollie Kenniff – Sunset Chant – 52:46 (on Western Vinyl)
Memory Bell – beneath a Soft Clearing – 56:05 (on INNI)
Marine Eyes – shortest day (reprise) – 71:17 (on Stereoscenic)

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River Path

A distant springtime reverie featuring ambient and electroacoustic soundscapes:

Andy Cartwright – A Diary of Sorts – 00:00 (on Fluid Audio)
Moss Covered Technology – Warm Kane – 03:20 (on Dronarivm)
Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date – Particles Of Light Flashing In The Morning Sky – 08:17 (on Laaps)
Rinnovare – For Until All Things – 14:40 (on Shimmering Moods)]
Chihei Hatakeyama – Butterfly’s Dream – 19:30 (on Gearbox Records)
Observatories – We Both Try For The Same Thing (But For Completely Different Reasons) – 22:49 (on IIKKI)
Mi Cosa De Resistance + Jens Pauly – Language Is Leaving Us – 33:40 (on MRM Recordings)
Tapes and Topographies – From a Broken Circuit – 38:44 (on Shimmering Moods)
Jeannine Schulz – Zazen – 42:10 (on Polar Seas Recordings)
Christopher Royal King + Nico Rosenberg – Healing – 51:30 (on INNI)
36 + Awakened Souls – Need Your Light – 55:06 (on Past Inside the Present)
Alaskan Tapes – And Then, Calm – 1:06:20 (on Nettwerk)
Lee Yi – Isoindy – 1:09:17 (on THESIS)

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Deep Resonance Vol 6

A spring awakening. Volume six in a series of mixes featuring deeply resonant modern classical compositions and soundscapes

Atli Örvarsson – Dropar (feat. Gyða Valtýsdóttir) – 00:00 (on INNI)
Rutger Hoedemaekers – Ring Out the Darkness – 05:58 (on 130701)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – So That The City May Begin To Exist – 11:28 (on Artificial Pinearch)
Black Swan & Endless Melancholy – Blue Tomorrows – 16:08
Kumi Takahara – Tide – 22:28 (on Flau)
Echo Collective – Glitch – 28:25 (on 7K!)
Adrian Lane – Sun Prints – 32:21 (on Preserved Sound)
William Ryan Fritch – Movement I – 36:14 (on Lost Tribe Sound)
Ólafur Arnalds – Still / Sound – 37:51 (on Mercury KX)
Jacob David – Mormor – 41:07 (on Moderna Records)
Julia Kent – Drops – 44:40 (self-released)
Valgeir Sigurðsson – A Point, Ahead – 49:08 (on Bedroom Community)
Mike Lazarev – Finale – 51:35 (on Injazero Records)

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False Spring

A glimpse of spring in the twilight of winter. A selection of organic ambient drones, textures, and soundscapes by the following artists:

Clara Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander – “Cerulean” – 00:00 (on Polar Seas Recordings)
Maiya Hershey – “What the Bearing Sea Takes”- 04:15 (on Mailbox)
Wil Bolton – “Unravelling” – 8:42 (on Home Normal)
Morimoto Naoki – “Dawn” – 15:05 (on Lontano Series)
Michael Grigoni, Chihei Hatakeyama, Stephen Vitiello – “Breeze Rises” – 19:55 (on White Paddy Mountain)
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers – “Three Thousand, Four Hundred, and Fifty-six” – 26:12 (on Bedroom Sucks)
Chuck Johnson – “Serotiny” – 31:15 (on VDSQ)
Andrew Tasselmyer – “Hindsight” – 38:27 (on Home Normal)
Freya Arde – “Lying Down After A Long Day” – 43:02 (self-released)
Haraldur Thrastarson – “Eitt” – 49:20 (on INNI)
Olan Mill – “Magnetocaloric” – 52:25 (on Shimmering Moods)

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Annum 2020

A slow reflection on the passing year. All of these tracks were released in 2020. Featuring the music of the following artists:

Danny Clay – “Prologue (from Ocean Park)” – 00:00 (on Laaps)
Elskavon & John Hayes – “L’Etoile”- 04:12 (on Western Vinyl)
Richard Luke – “In the Company of Insects (part 1)” – 8:06
Claire Deak & Tony Dupé – “for bernadette” – 10:34 (on Lost Tribe Sound)
amble – “May Kasahara” – 13:20 (self-released)
Ishmael Cormack – “Before” – 17:00 (on Rottenman Editions)
Helios – “Domain” – 21:44 (on Ghostly International)
Snorri Hallgrímsson – “Suffering” – 27:46 (on Moderna Records)
Glowworm – “Stones in the Sky” – 30:25 (on Post Dog Productions)
Illuminine – “Take 12 – Waves” – 33:42 (on Ferryhouse Productions)
Still Harbours – “The Shape of Modern Tragedy” – 38:40 (on Lontano Series)
Meanderings – “You’ve Simply Had Enough Of Drowining” – 45:33 (on El Muelle Records)
Federico Mosconi – “Un Instante Sospeso” – 54:14 (on Slowcraft Records)
r beny – “shimmering and obvious” – 59:55 (self-released)
Black Brunswicker – “On A Sunny Shore” – 1:06:05 (on THESIS)
Aaron Martin w/ Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Glacis, & Neal Heppleston – Roots Fall Into the River – 1:16:30 (on Preserved Sound)

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Reflection and Reminiscence III

A new sonic journey of reflection and reminiscence featuring the following artists:

Christopher Bissonnette – “Overture” – 00:00 (on 12k)
Secret Pyramid – “Flares” (excerpt) – 04:17 (on Geographic North)
Pie Are Squared – “Away, World, Away” – 10:34 (on Whitelabrecs)
anthéne – “light shade” – 14:55 (on Home Normal)
Grandbruit – “Éveil” – 17:42 (self-released)
awakened souls & Pepo Galán – “The Roots Know Your Name” – 23:52 (on Stereoscenic)
Jeannine Schulz – “Transition” – 28:54 (on Stereoscenic)
Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea – “Caduta del Cielo” – 31:20 (on Azure Vista Records)
thme – “obsolete form of beauty” – 35:14 (on Whitelabrecs)
Tapes and Topographies – “Peacocks in the Verdant Bush” – 40:01 (on Dronarivm)
Loscil – “Lines” – 45:44 (self-released)
Rime Trails – “Eternal” – 54:17 (self-released)

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Autumnal IV

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October…no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”
Alexander Smith

Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea – “Liberamente ” – 00:00 (on Azure Vista Records here)
Julianna Barwick – “Healing Is A Miracle” – 06:58 (on Ninja Tune here)
Goldmund – “The Valley in Between” – 17:14 (on Western Vinyl here)
Glåsbird – “Paryashchiye Morya” – 21:28 (on Whitelabrecs here)
Mathieu Karsenti – “Reslience” – 25:16 (on Slowcraft Records here)
Christopher Tignor – “Ode to Joy” – 30:15 (on Western Vinyl here)
Mark Peters & Clem Leek – “Overhill” – 35:22 (on THESIS here)
Shida Shahabi – “Prologue” – 44:13 (on Fatcat / 130701 here)
Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg – “Los Océanos” – 47:50 (on Ambientologist here)
Peter Broderick – “Earnest Leslye” – 54:00 (on Moderna Records here)
Madeleine Cocolas – “A Promise” – 57:45 (on Room40 here)
Glowworm – “Psalm (feat. Asia Dojnikowska)” – 64:04 (self-released here)

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Acoustic Autumn

An acoustic oriented mix echoing the hints of autumn’s arrival. Featuring music by:

Seabuckthorn – “Or a Morning Blue in the East” – 00:00 (on IIKKI Books here)
Gia Margaret – “lakes” – 02:05 (on Orindal Records here)
The Green Kingdom – “Anam Cara” – 03:35 (on Hidden Vibes here)
Max Ananyev – “Proportion and Reaction” – 06:52 (on Whitelabrecs here)
Tomotsugu Nakamura – “Pastoral Song” – 11:48 (on Laaps here)
Siv Jakobsen – “A Temproary Soothing” – 17:14 (on U OK? here)
Claire Deak & Tony Dupé – “the rain” – 18:41 (on Lost Tribe Sound here)
Andrew Tuttle – “Sun At 5 In 4161” – 23:05 (on Room40 here)
Zoltan Fecso – “Dressed in Sun” – 28:10 (on Whitelabrecs here)
El Conejo – “O, Elisa [reprise]” – 34:33 (on Mailbox here)

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Summer Reverie 3

A densely atmospheric and deeply emotive journey into compositional ambient music featuring recently released works by the following artists:

Mikael Lind – “Lingering Outside the Window” – 00:00
Rinnovare – “Still Fabrication” – 01:55
Rafael Anton Irisarri – “Distance” – 06:15
Tapes an Topographies – “The Modern Equivalent” – 12:52
Chronovalve – “If Ever There Was” – 16:05
woodworkings – “like water floating” – 22:06
Federico Mosconi – “Sail and Black Bubble” – 26:04
Phil Tomsett – “The Sound of Someone Leaving (w/ Aaron Martin)” – 35:12
Porya Hatami “Restless (Sven Laux interpretation)” – 39:02
e & i – “Resting Upon” – 44:21

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Adrift in the Doldrums 2

Adrift in the summer doldrums with an electroacoustic ambient mix that wafts across oscillating waves into deep waters and back to peaceful shores. Vol. 2 featuring work by the following artists:

David Cordero & Pepo Galán – “When the Light Disappears” – 00:00
the volume settings folder – “Milkmaid’s Yoke” – 08:36
Blochemy – “Ale” – 13:27
Benoît Pioulard – “Kenopsia” – 17:32
r beny – “Fjorda” – 20:41
meanwhile.in.texas – “Slow Motion” – 25:34
Mount Shrine – “Earth Bridge” – 28:16
Past Inside the Present (anonymous) – “[_____]” – 38:32
Christine Giannone – “Realms” – 47:42
twincities – “june 6th” – 52:37
Wodwo – “onko äiti” – 55:04

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Relief Station 4

Fourth in a series of mixes to provide solace and company during a discomforting time of isolation, anxiety, and forced distance from others. This volume features music by the following artists:

Federico Durand – “Comenzó a nevar” – 00:00
KMRU – “und” – 03:54
M. Sage – “Paper Palace” – 07:10
Mehrdad Kanani – “Under the Onset of Calamity” – 12:35
Sean Curtis Patrick – “Arête – II” – 20:28
r beny – “Northern Breath” – 27:04
Federico Mosconi – “Seguendo Il Muro Di Pietra” – 30:32
Mathieu Karsenti – “Pales” – 34:59
Hakobune – “furiko” – 41:15
Andrew Tasselmyer & anthéne – “Distant – Part One” – 48:38
Slow Meadow – “Outro” – 53:52

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Relief Station 3

Number three in a series of mixes created to provide company and solace in a time of discomfort, anxiety, and isolation. Many of the tracks selected were released specifically with reference to Covid-19 or to raise money for organizations providing support and relief. Featuring music by the following artists:

Mary Lattimore – “We Wave From Our Boats” – 00:00
Tomotsugu Nakamura – “transparence” – 03:50
Chequerboard – “Distant Light” – 06:12
Spheruleus – “Bring Back the Beach” – 10:33
Julia Kent – “Forsythia” – 13:52
The Green Kingdom – “Fantasma” – 19:18
Constantina – “São João” – 23:44
El Conejo – “Bloom, Spring, Bloom” – 28:48
Black Brunswicker – “The Wayfarer’s Song” – 33:10
OHIO – “Crepuscle” – 36:36
Andrew Tasselmyer – “01 200508_01.wav” – 42:31
Cloud Tangle – “Intermission” – 50:58
Jazz Defector – “Day 4” – 54:15

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Relief Station 2

The second in a series of mixes to provide solace and company during this discomforting time during which we find ourselves in isolation and forced distance from others. This volume features music by the following artists:

Andrew Heath – “Breathe” – 00:00
Sean Curtis Patrick – “VIII” – 08:33
Halftribe – “Imperfect”- 11:22
Jonas Munk – “Shadows” – 17:30
Still Harbours – “Cloudless Skies” – 22:23
Warmth – “Safe” – 29:04
r beny – “mamiya” – 33:38
Alaskan Tapes – “Shape of Things” – 37:42
Black Brunswicker – “Sunrise on the Lake” – 47:52

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Relief Station 1

“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.” – Robert Browning

The first in a series of mixes to provide solace and company during this odd time during which we find ourselves in isolation, quarantine, and distance from others. This volume features music by the following artists.

Slow Reels – “Shona” – 00:00
Anderew Tasselmyer – “Dawn Light” – 12:32
Ishmael Cormack – “Sister on the Shoreline” – 17:54
Blochemy – “eim” – 25:54
Glåsbird – “stillefjord” – 29:26
Silmus – “Dancing on the Pier, Discovering the Sea” – 32:28
Christopher Bissonnette – “Color Deceives Continuously (reprise)” – 37:20
Samsuo – “Hope in Broken Hours” – 43:48
Anthene – “Transient” – 49:00
Tomonari Nozaki – “Circumnavigate” – 53:12

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Eighty-Eight Vol 2

“There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe” – James Rhodes

A springtime selection of compositions from Piano Day 2020 and other recent album releases featuring:

Nils Frahm – “A Shine” – 00:00
David Nørlund – “At Holde Fast I Luften” – 04:12
Slowburner – “Everything Will Be Ok” – 08:04
Snorri Hallgrimsson – “Bliss” – 10:36
S.hel – “Delay Common Sense” – 14:11
Balmorhea – “Of Hopeful Green Woven” – 17:30
Codes in the Clouds – “The Trip (piano rework)” – 19:27
Olga Wojciechowska – “Unseen Traces” – 24:35
Anna Yarbrough – “Murmur” – 27:45
Manos Milonakis – “Misha’s Song” – 29:48
Olivia Belli – “Silent Dusk” – 33:04
Valeska Rautenberg – “Infinite” – 36:30
Leah Kardos – “Open Again Eventually” – 41:14
Julia Gjersten – “The Fountain” – 46:44
Penguin Cafe – “Midnight Sun” – 50:05
Whale Fall – “It Will Become Itself” – 54:08

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Aurora

A luminous selection of ambient and cinematic post-rock tracks by the following artists:

Explosions in the Sky – “Day Seven” – 00:00
Mono – “Vanishing, Vanishing Maybe” – 04:23
Glories – “Driftwood” – 10:20
All Shall Be Well – “I Will Guide You over Oceans and Across Troubled Lands” – 13:10
Codes in the Clouds – “Sixes and Seventeens” – 17:47
Bob Guido – “Mooregate” – 24:02
The Echelon Effect – “Into Eleven” – 28:38
epic45 – “Penarth” – 30:35
Penguin Cafe – “The Life of an Emperor” – 36:10
Caspian – “Ishmael” – 41:02
Lights & Motion – “Vultures” – 48:57
Tracey Chattaway – “Oceans” – 51:08
Hugar – “Rok” – 56:10

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Antevernal

A warm acoustic mix for a winter that has felt more like spring. The title derives from the term ‘antevernals‘ coined by Michelle Nijhuis to describe spring flowers that bloom early in the year due to changes in climate.

Mute Forest – “Morning Guitar” [Lost Tribe Sound] – 00:00
Tim Linghaus – “Flashlight Signals in an Open Field” [Schole Records] – 03:34
The Phonometrician – “If I Died Tonight” [Lost Tribe Sound] – 06:12
Black Brunswicker – “Woodsmoke” [Past Inside the Present] – 09:15
Ben Rath – “This One Too” [Whitelabrecs] – 13:10
Yadayn – “Toen” [Eilean Rec.] – 20:40
Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band – “Sweet Midwester” [Full Spectrum Records] – 25:10
Aaron Martin – “Looking Back” [self-released] – 27:58
Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello – “Transparent As a Hanging Glass” [12k] – 29:20
El Conejo – “Peixe de Água Doce” [La Petite Chambre] – 36:20
Ben Lukas Boysen & Martyn Heyne – “Sparkling Anxiety” [THESIS] – 41:58
Valotihkuu – “Faded Memories” [Hidden Vibes] – 44:54

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Hibernaculum III

Hibernaculum is Latin for “winter quarter”, a place where creatures seek shelter and refuge from the harsh elements while they go dormant for the season. Volume III features a selection of austere, introspective pieces by the following artists:

Siavash Amini & Saåad – “Calm In Resignation” [Opal Tapes] – 00:00
Tsone – “Tributaries” [Home Normal] – 05:18
Pepo Galán & Lee Yi – “L’Isolée” [Archives] – 10:32
Twincities – “Graceless (ft. Matthew Citarella)” [Eilean Rec.] – 15:18
Ishmael Cormack – “Sketch Four | Shoreline” [self-released] – 18:20
The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard – “In the Anodyne Brisk” [Dauw] – 20:38
Gray Acres – “Scars Will Fade” [Whitelabrecs] – 24:58
Ex Confusion – “What I Miss Most” [n5MD] – 30:18
Marek Kamiński – “Long Hands” [self-released] – 34:15
Wurrm – “River Stairs” [self-released] – 38:47
Sven Laux & Harry Towell – “Still Counting” [Fluid Audio] 45:45
Rime Trails – “Sanndraigh III” [Shimmering Moods] – 54:40

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Annum 2019

A lingering look back at the passing year with a selection of atmospheric, and emotive ambient, electroacoustic, & drone tracks released throughout 2019. Featuring the music of the following artists:

the volume settings folder – “Hothocleana” [Oscarson] – 00:00
Luis Miehlich – “Timecuts III” [Whitelabrecs] – 04:10
Aaron Martin – “This Last Hope” [self-released] – 11:02
Seabuckthorn – “After Image” [Eilean Rec.] – 13:16
Emmanuel Witzthum – “Book of Loss” [Fluid Audio] – 16:53
Christopher Whitley – “Salt” [Fluid Audio] – 23:54
Shida Shahbi – “Keikei” [130701] – 29:25
Jane Antonia Cornish – “Yugen” [self-released] – 34:07
James Murray & Francis M Gri – “Ma” [Ultimae Records] – 39:00
r beny – “Felt” [Dauw] – 47:04
The Humble Bee & Benoit Pioulard – “Honesty” [Dauw] – 55:11
Alaskan Tapes – “Another Song To Stop the Spinning” [self-released] – 61:10
Celer – “From the doorway of the beef noodle shop…/Rains Lit By Neon” [Two Acorns] – 66:15
Hakobune – “tenkyuu” – [Constellation Tatsu] – 77:04
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri – “El Vacio En Sus Ojos” [A Strangely Isolated Place] – 83:00
Anthene – “Atteri” [Fluid Audio] – 89:39
OHIO – “Rows, Barns, Fields (Broken)” [12k] – 97:32

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