Episode 201

It’s time to listen to tracks from some of my favorite albums that I reviewed this year. Settle in—we’re going long again.

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Start      Forrest Fang, Driftwood, The Sleepwalker’s Ocean
7.45       Jeff Pearce, Downstream I, Follow the River Home
11.22     Manitou, Last Cry of the Seven Sisters, Landscape Histories and Sentiments
15.23     Robert Rich, Meeting Face to Face, What We Left Behind
19.55     Purl & Sinius, Over the Edge, Oceans of Sound
25.26     Altus, Cerulean Skies, Komorebi
35.45     Mathew Roth, Step, Written & Unsent
41.59     Joe Frawley, Elegy, The Night Parade
46.48     Tom Eaton, Friday/Patience, Abendromen
54.29     Bruno Sanfilippo, Before Nightfall, The Poet
58.07     Medard Fischer, Five Years Almost to the Day, Four Songs for the City of New York
1.00.46  Robert Logan & Steve Roach, Nightspeak, Second Nature
1.07.54  Chance’s End, Culte de la Femme, Almost Home
1.11.36  Cousin Silas, Funky Snatcher, Through a Cobweb Strange
1.15.15  Twilight Archive, Sense Making Stops, Mood Chain
1.21.01  SineRider, Winter Months, Seconds Minutes
1.25.12  Sensitive Chaos, The Romance of Train Travel, March of the Timeshifters
1.32.00  Off Land, Pulsar, Afterglow
1.40.50  Manuel Frau, Blue, Sky Blue Ice Dawn
1.47.48  Phillip Wilkerson, The Last Day Here, Waking Across the River
1.59.10  Ministry of Inside Things, Grateful, Everlasting Moment

Episode 200

Two hundred shows? Seriously? Vegas odds-makers lost money when I went past 50, so they must be jumping out windows to see that I got this far. And as I’ll tell you at the end of this extended episode, the reason I got this far at all is because of the great musicians who feed me sound, and the superb tribe of listeners who keep downloading to hear it. Thank you to everyone. Let’s get started.

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Start   Steve Roach, T.B.C., Now/Traveler
5.37     Steve Roach, Beyond the Blood, Truth & Beauty
10.27   Robert Rich, Aerial on Warm Seas, What We Left Behind
19.10    Robert Rich, Attar, Ylang
25.33    Dan Pound, Of the Essence, Spherical
34.17    Dan Pound, Under Her Spell, Medusazoa
39.13    Matt Borghi & Michael Teager, Nightdrive, Shades of Bending Light
46.00   Matt Borghi, Silhouettes, Ambient Guitar
50.04   Slow Dancing Society, A Song to Help You Remember to Forget, The Sound of Lights When Dim
56.08    Slow Dancing Society, Lemon Crush, The Dusk Recital
1.01.49 General Fuzz, Victory Raisin, Oughta See
1.05.48 General Fuzz, Second Thoughts, Soulful Filling
1.10.11  Patrick O’Hearn, Sea, Transitions
1.15.24  Patrick O’Hearn, Forsaken Beauty, Glaciation
1.17.49  Tim Story, When Comes December, Collected
1.21.44  Tim Story and Dwight Ashley, Theft, A Desperate Serenity (out of print)*
1.26.46  Steve Brand, The Fruits of the Spring, Second Spring
1.37.42  Steve Brand & Ran Kirlian, The Uncarved Block (excerpt), The Uncarved Block
1.48.34  Meg Bowles, Chant for a Liquid World, A Quiet Light
1.57.08  Meg Bowles, Undulant Sea, The Shimmering Land

*A reminder: while nothing is ever truly out of print in the shady wildlands of the web, I will only link to legitimate, artist-approved or artist-run sites.

Episode 199

A recent binge of adding albums to the library and review queue helped form the first half of this episode–and especially the opening track, which immediately caught my ear. And although we start off quiet, we certainly don’t stay there.

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Start    Reverberant Evenings, Quiet Poetry, Every Man is the End of a Day
14.19    Dirk Serries’ Microphonics, XXVII – Swept to the Skye, Microphonics XXVI-XXX : Resolution Heart
20.53    Benjamin Mauch, When I Leave I Will Remember, Golden Bay Garden
25.45    nil.co, On the Crest of Change, Slowly Comes the Morning
31.52    Tigerforest, Nevada Gold, Songs of Reverence
36.45    Oh Hiroshima, Drones, In Silence We Yearn
47.33    Gianluca Piacenza, Reflections, Dream
55.19     Ken Elkinson, Inevitable Departure, Music for Commuting, Vol. 9 & 10 Next Wednesday / Next Thursday
58.43     Aetopus, Angels and Machines I, Angels and Machines
1.04.21  Llewellyn, The Clan Returns, WolfLore
1.11.19   Paul Ellis, Waves for Durga, Moth in Flames
1.17.30  Eric Pietras, Duck Island, Beams
1.22.33  Scott Cossu, Purple Mountain, Safe in Your Arms

Episode 198

A non-stop flow of deep cuts from the expansive and ever-expanding Hypnagogue Library of Musical Curiosities.

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Start     Paulina Cassidy, Luna Sea, Sugar Wingshiver
4.44      Robert Slap, Healing Temple, Atlantis Trilogy: Brave New World
10.48    Uwe Gronau, Babylon People, Visions
14.10    Sensitive Chaos, Cream and Variation, March of the Timeshifters
19.50    Elizabeth Fawn, Under Strange Skies, Odyssey of Rapture Vol 3
24.16    Michelle Ippolito, On the Prairie, Drifting in Dreams
29.46   Peter Kater, Deeply, Love*
34.18    Sloum, A Box in the Middle of a Meadow, Sloum
38.27    Material Object & Phonaut, Part 3, Indiana Drones
50.29    The Ambient Visitor, Daedalus, Eight**
58.16     Nelson Foltz Tom Lynn, Still Life One, Part 2, Still Life One
1.13.26  Chronotope Project, Clear Bell Ringing in Empty Sky, Solar Winds

*First mistake: Managed to not only NOT mention this track, but furthermore did not originally have it in the playlist because I never even entered it into my spreadsheet! Many thanks to observant listener Andrew for the catch! And apologies to Peter.

**Second mistake: During my mindless babbling at episode’s end, although I was looking right at the spreadsheet and reading songs and artists from it, I managed to mentally hiccup and not mention this track. Sorry, Ambient Visitor!

Episode 197

Good music can come from just about anywhere—including underneath a pile of CDs and folders on my table, like one of these tracks did. Dive in for some deep sounds, jazzy pleasantry, and at least one good prayer. Enjoy.

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Start      Arc Lab, See You There, Anthem
3.17        Ana Never, I Saw You Today, Long Turning
8.22       Joe Frawley, The Waxwork Heart, How They Met Themselves
12.29     Von Geistley, Once More Round the Orb, Winter
16.50     Igneous Flame, Vox Humana, Ocean Sighs
23.37     Arrocata, Dream Walk, Man in the Maze
29.42     Fellirium, Dreaming Fish, Mermaids
36.59     Silvia Nakkach, Liminal, Space Liminal
47.24     Tim Kays, King of the Kopje, Saving Cecil’s Pride
55.05     Ministry of Inside Things, VM-75 Prelude / VM-75, Everlasting Moment
1.03.17  Ricky Kej, Intervention, Shanti Orchestra
1.10.33  Paradiso & Rasamayi, Attuning to Oneness, Attuning to Oneness
1.17.11  Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig, Vision, Intention
1.26.42  Thupten Pema Lama & Steve Roach, Gyab Do / Ganden Lhagya, Prayers to the Protector

Episode 196

Some recent arrivals sparked the start of this episode, with three guitar-based tracks. I took this opportunity to keep my mouth shut, so you get a straight-through flow this time around. Hey, don’t get used to it…

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Start     Matt Borghi, Pamela, Ambient Guitar
3.27      Carl Weingarten, Landreth Lights, An Endless Premonition
14.00    Rob Byrd, Crow’s Woods, Aurora Season
18.44    Andrew Howie, Beacon, Scars Are Like A Beacon
22.07    Martin Tillman, Unlocking the Locks, Superhuman
28.26    Howard Givens & Mahdavi Devi, Source of Compassion, Source of Compassion
38.45     Altus, Vast Yet Insignigficant, Innerspace
49.53     John Sobocan, A Path, A Soft Circle
54.57     Silvercord, Bioluminescence Pt 5, Bioluminescence
1.01.44  Austere, Sunshone, Euterpe
1.17.32  Broken Harbour, Drift, Gramophone Transmissions
1.25.17  Stephen Christopher Stamper, Sea, Echoic

Episode 195

I’ll admit that I sometimes get overwhelmed by how much music is sent to hypnagogue.net for review—you know that’s where music for the show comes from, right? But then I realize that I’m pretty blessed to have this much great music to share with you. I think this show has two super-solid sets for you to dig into. Enjoy.

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Start      Michael Bruckner, The Vishmoor Incident, Muzikhala
13.22     Jason Sloan, Hegira, Haven
26.39     David Arkenstone, The Moonless Midnight, Beneath a Darkening Sky
35.02     Mikael Delta & Hior Chronik, Standing in the Middle of Nowhere, The First Ray
39.24     Memorybell, Ambulatory, Obsolete
43.35     Harold Nono, Otosan, Ideeit
51.36     Joel Taylor, Lunar Transformation, Night Stories
59.19     Juta Takahashi, Silence, Silence
1.14.26  Echaskech. Caeleste. Ambient Zone 2
1.18.28  East Forest. Apana. Prana
1.27.09  Mingo, Equilibrium Point, Sky Over Sea