I really enjoy the days when I unpack a batch of downloads for the show. I put them into the system and give each a preview listen as I start unzipping the next one. There are always these wonderful moments of discovery when a new album just hits me and I know I just have to share it with my listeners. There’s plenty of that in this episode, plus a half-hour’s cruise with Sverre Knut Johansen.
Hypnagogue Half-hour Spotlight: Sverre Knut Johansen
30.11 Paleozoic Era (Transformation – Animals and Plants Emanate onto Land), Precambrian (with Robert Rich)
41.37 Contact, Contact
45.54 Found, Earth From Above
49.44 Space and Time, The Vast Expanse
1.01.53 Ethereal Ephemera A Place Where Strangers Gather to Watch the Sunrise, A Place of Peace and Beauty
1.20.39 Loneward, Hidden in Plain Sight, Home
1.27.37 Tom Eaton, The Fog and the Lifting, How It Happened
Start Atomic Skunk, Spiderwood, Base Camp
6.59 Maureen Choi Quartet, Phoenix Borealis, Theia
14.43 Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer, Timeless Flow, Sound Currents
21.21 Toby Marks & Andrew Heath, With Iron (South) parts 1-3, Motion
37.32 Russ Young, Cavern, Pala
44.31 Hipnotic Earth, And Then She Smiles, Suspended in Silence
49.41 Samsuo, Scene Break, The Other Gold Side
54.58 Emilia, Spring Through A Window, Spring Through A Window
1.02.11 Ben Rath, Wait for It, Any Given Moment
1.11.48 Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana, The Closest Place to the Soul, The Threshold of Beauty
1.23.51 Tomotsugu Nakamura, Echoes, Monologue
Start Gunnar Spardel, A Day in a Lifetime, Simplicity in a Complex World
6.42 Grayhawk, The Banteay Srei Temple, Voice of the Ancestors
11.34 Spices Peculiar, Bridge to Santosa, Coastline
20.05 David Wright, Stranger Days Parts 5&6, Stranger Days
28.27 Western Edges, Very Good On The Rushes, Prowess
31.42 Witnesses, Signals, II
All things considered, this is a pretty uptempo episode. Sure, we get a little quiet in the middle when the Spotlight falls on the erstwhile Matt Borghi and his ambient-and-otherwise guitar stylings, but we finish on a high note.
Hypnagogue Half-hour Spotlight: Matt Borghi
33.08 Matt Borghi, Overcoming, Formlessness
38.31 TheDetroit76, Building – Waiting, Premiere
42.38 Matt Borghi, Mission Point, Olagra
46.43 Matt Borghi & Michael Teager, Awaken the Electric Air, Awaken the Electric Air
56.15 Manitou, Keep the Lake Francis Light Burning for Me, Landscape, Histories and Sentiment
Call it a lazy podcast with a twist–it’s long tracks, and just a few, but these tracks are taken from the middle section of pieces 45 minutes or longer in length. We start off where you might expect, and finish where you definitely did not.
