Maybe you’ve been here for a lazy podcast before–but you’ve never been here for one this lazy. Nothing’s under 25 minutes. Four cuts that run mighty, mighty deep. Drift on, my friends, and I’ll chat with you in about 103 minutes.
Start Steve Brand, Tides Of Time (excerpt), Tides of Time 27.32 Forrest Smithson, Dreaming Time I, Dreaming Time 52.10 Aloof Proof, The Last Leaf, Piano Text 1.18.25 Steve Roach, Early Man, Early Man
There are great themes for podcast episodes … and then there’s this theme. But let me circle back with you once you’ve gotten around to listening. Have a ball.
Start Michael Bruckner, Circles of Joy, Recycled Life 8.53 Dave Preston, The Circle Around the Sphere, In These Storms 12.23 Failover, North of the Circle, Landing Scars 17.28 The Smokering, Secret Circle, Mellow Majestic 21.08 Joe Frawley, The Magic Circle/Consulting the Oracle, Waterhouse 24.13 Robert Scott Thompson, Through Circle and Shadow (East Antrim Mix), As First Star Wakes, She Wanders There 36.29 Resonant Drift, And Then the Rain, Full Circle 44.28 Max Corbacho, Three Circles, The Talisman 49.27 John Sobocan, Enoch, A Soft Circle 55.48 Kit Watkins, Around and Around, Circle 1.01.47 Scott Lawlor & Jack Hertz, 3rd Circle – Gluttony (Ciacco bat), Divina Commedia I – Nine Circles 1.03.17 Cousin Silas, A Circle Of Trees (Shadows On The Hill), Cousin Silas 1.15.19 Julia Gjertsen, Falling in Circles, Formations 1.19.04 Djam Karet, Numerous Mechanical Circles, Sonic Celluloid 1.22.56 Steve Roach, Dream Circle (excerpt), Pure Flow
Now that the birthday party fervor has died down, we can get back to checking out new music for a bit. Then it’s into the library, beginning with a kind of new and possibly recurring segment…
Time to wrap up year 13 with a nice, longer-than-normal dive into the library to celebrate the music that’s kept me going (and kept you coming back) all this time. My genuine thanks go out to all the musicians and labels who’ve kept the show fed with delicious music all this time, and to all the listeners who’ve kept my ego fed just by being here. Let’s get the party started.
Start Sundaug, Desert Oasis, Nocturnality 4.05 miserable.noise.club, Dead Poetry, Thoughts On The Impasse* 7.37 Michelle Qureshi, Dreaming in Color, Seventh Wave 11.26 Amy Faithe, Moments, The Ascent 21.23 Dolmen, bleedbeginbegone, Terra Firma 28.33 Indigo Symbol, As They Lay Still, Zenith 41.49 Steve Roach, Electro Erotic, Fever Dreams III 53.28 Integral, Schlaflos, Rise 58.11 Rhizomorph, Khasafa, Xenofilika 1.03.39 Darshan Ambient, Black Mountain Morning, re:Karma 1.08.50 Atomic Skunk, Owl, Base Camp 1.17.01 Mount Maxwell, Q&A, Only Children 1.30.44 Ann Licater, Echoes in the Mist, Beyond the Waves 1.36.05 Will Ackerman, Tom Eaton & Jeff Oster, It Had To Be Like That, Brothers 1.40.46 Bruno Sanfilippo, Peter, Lost & Found 1.45.42 Zero Ohms, The Poetics of Space, Sweven 1.52.36 Igneous Flame, Ritva, Sylvi 2.00.17 Phillip Wilkerson, Among the Nebulae, The Stars and Afterward 2.06.34 Giles Reaves, Darkness Into Light, Sacred Spaces**
*It appears the artist has removed this album. However, if you like what you heard, hit their Bandcamp page (in the link) and check out their other work. **Most of Giles’ early albums are not readily available for download. You can find them for sale on various sites. As a rule, I do not link to those types of sites as the artist may not directly benefit. Also, check out his new work with Tony Gerber.
Oh, heck, you know the drill. There’s a bunch of great music to soothe your noggin and then some guy blabs in your ear for a bit. If you didn’t like it, you wouldn’t keep coming back! (So thank you for coming back.)
Start David Pedrick, The Golden Hour, Aurora 4.35 David Helpling, Bending Towards the Night, IN 12.38 Rednicuido, Pink Hopper, The Wave 18.40 Magnus Josefsson, Jimmy’s House, Acid Air 23.32 Butter City Poster Boys, Stand Infront of You, Your Guide to Love 29.01 Demetrio Cecchitelli, Nuance 04, Nuance 37.10 Interconnected, Mystery Of Being, Grainophonics 47.17 Loneward, Mellow Solace, Pallid Memories 55.52 Shane Morris, Equinox, Equinox 1.09.26 Bart Hawkins, Sidewinder, Vision of Eden 1.22.39 Erik Wøllo, Terra Novus 2, Blue Radiance
Once again we start in the Holding Tank to see what’s been sent along. (Turns out it’s a bit of harp, guitar, and piano, among other things.) After that we’ll shuffle through the shelves and see what musical delicacies we can uncover. Bound to be tasty.
Start Trine Opsahl, Do Not Simply Pass by Like a Dream (Duo), The Moon Stays Bright 6.00 Harriet Riley & Alex Garden, Sonder, Sonder II 10.25 Juan Sanchez, Those Fridays, Touch and Sound 15.21 Randall Meek, Mo’olio Place, Longings 20.39 Will Ackerman, Did I Dream This, Positano Songs 25.28 Solace Road, In Serenity, The Essence of Self 31.11 Jeff Greinke, Into the Night, Noctilucent 40.31 Lauge & Perry Frank, Undergrowth, Selvascapes 51.22 David W Donner, Someday Soon, Eterna 56.13 In Vitro, Metanoia, Modulandi 58.51 Martin Kohlstedt, Nox, Flur 1.04.53 Bersarin Quartett, Futur II, Methoden und Maschinen 1.08.32 Okada, Unclothe, Misery 1.22.57 Colin Russell, Daisy Chain _ Maypole, Etudes 1.25.43 Janne Hanhisuanto, Dance of Electrons, Quiet Places
A shadowy first set full of newer music gives way to some sequencer-driven cuts from the library. There’s a point where you’ll want to buckle up. It gets wild… Enjoy.
Sequencers light the fuse on this one, which rolls through some work wrapped around spoken word, picks up some tabla and blistering guitar along the way, and, as happens so often here, glides in hushed ambient tones to a mind-salving conclusion. Talk to you in 90.
Same length as usual but wow, are there a lot of tracks here. This one stays fairly firmly in New Age/contemporary instrumental territory (so, yes, ample amount of piano because that’s what gets sent my way). Clear out the full 90 for this and treat yourself.