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Episode 393

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Half a dozen from the Holding Tanks before we take a lengthy dip into the library stacks. Second set goes a little bit of everywhere, and has one of those artists who just happens to nail both song AND album title of the episode! Enjoy the ride.

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Start      Cottage 42C, Weeds like an Ocean, Moon Tourism
5.51       Hanslik & Moniz Experiment, Serene Encounter, Call & Answer
12.43     Thorny, See No Sky, See No Sky
20.02    Thorny, Top of the Fog, Mostly Gray
27.23     Colin Andrew Sheffield, Images, Images
37.01     Scott Solter & Rohner Segnitz, Chruth From The Cirrus Clouds, The Murals
44.50     Hidden Rivers, Beat A Path Through, Plainsight Lakes
48.28     Durango Budd, Piano Synthesis Drone 3, Drones for Prepared and Synthesized Piano
56.15     The Dread, Quantum Tunnel, The Fifth Age
1.01.09  Todd Tobias & Chloe March, Lillavva, Amialluma
1.04.40  Cass Anawaty & Paul Russell, Syrian Siren Song, Monjour
1.10.22  TaeT, Gouache, Icer
1.15.28  Eleon, Species Communicating (feat. David Helpling), Dreams Beyond Terra
1.19.44  Symbion, Project Nature Abhors a Vacuum, Backscatter
1.24.32  Mount Maxwell, The People’s Forest, The People’s Forest
1.26.28  Northcape, Last View, Exploration and Ascent
1.28.33  Shadow Plea, The Day the Crane Fell was the End of an Era, How to Finish Something You Wish You Hadn’t Started

Episode 392

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Might as well start off in contemporary instrumental/electroacoustic territory since I’ve been getting a lot of good stuff in that fits that bill. In the latter half it’s back into the library to revisit some friends.

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Start     Michael Whelan, We Are All Made of Stars, Walk in Beauty, Like the Night
4.17       David Darling & Hans Christian, Miracle, Ocean Dreaming Ocean
10.47     Deborah Martin & Jill Haley, Hall of Whispers, Into The Quiet
16.08     William Ryan Fritch, Musk Ox, Polarity
20.38     Caldon Glover, The World at Large is a Shrine, Labyrintia
28.28     Maddy Briggs, Late Night Swim II, Late Night Swim
35.35     Wil Bolton, Going Nowhere, Swept
47.15     Lee Kajko, Blind Pilgrimage, The Space Hermit
57.05     Matt Borghi & Michael Teager, Weird Minor, Shades of Bending Light
1.02.09  Intersonic Subformation, Tulips (Purple: Welcoming the Unknown), Post Apocalyptic Flower Shop
1.15.37  Steve Roach, The Ritual Continues, Now
1.20.23  Caminauta, Distance, Fragments
1.25.42  Ad-Just, God’s Sickle, Saturn (compilation)

Episode 391

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Okay, this one might start off a little strange, but we’re getting toward the bottom of the Holding Tanks and it’s getting time to reload ’em. Back half of this one is a trip to the library. You like the library, right? (There’s even one of those artists…) Off we go!

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Start      Beluga Brando, Become My Lungs, Become My Lungs
10.18     Peter Kvidera, Pozorný, Verism
12.46     Tapes and Topographies, Penn Tir, Floating World – Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island
18.36     Blue Is Nine, The Marina, City Spaces
24.45     Remanence, Sentinel Species, Sepiadrone
33.19    Masako, Calling, Call of the Mountains – Ascent
38.06     Gandalf, Australia – Dreamtime, Traveller, Eartheana
48.03     Kai Nobuko, Them Against Them, Ober Attached
52.05     Between Interval, The Tunnel, Legacy
55.20     Ujjaya, La Ballade de Taccoli Otenan, The Landing Zone
1.01.08  Joe Frawley, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Waterhouse
1.04.59  Igneous Flame, Tomorrow with You, Ki
1.14.42  Jim Cole & Spectral Voices, Arches 2, Innertones
1.21.23  Bob Holroyd, All Colours Pt 1, In Motion
1.26.55  Henry Courgette, Qosmic Quest Qommencement, Qaptain Qoulshed’s Cosmic Quest

Episode 390

Hypnagogue4 Comments

You know how this goes: you set aside 90 minutes and hope to enjoy the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music. Good news: you get a bit of all of that here, including tracks from a couple albums I had good things to say about on social media.

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Start      Firehand, Deep Learning, Sky Gardens
5.11       Nico Less, Everybody Needs to Come Down, Still
10.16     Haarvöl, A Sombre Description of the Now, Seeking the Intimacy of Silence
18.52     Eva Lucidity, However, Radiation
31.48     Yoan Wachowiak*, Lukti, Infinite Hotel
35.07     Kurt Reiman, Pathways, A Glimpse of Grace
39.21     Michelle Qureshi, Hearth, A Blueprint for Life
42.32     Tom Eaton, Instead I Said Goodbye, Weathering
48.48     Loneward, Enveloped by Beauty, Willoweald
55.28     Phillip Wilkerson, Paz Infinita, Paz Infinita
1.08.00  The Tank Center for the Arts, Slow Beethoven (Radio Edit 3), Slow Beethoven
1.13.14  Trem 77, Intertwine, Intertwine
1.20.55  (a), Anemoia, There are Three Noises Inside Each of Us
1.25.00  Sven Laux, The Hope, What Remains

*Didn’t notice until well after recording that Yoan records as Wako. Too lazy to go back and re-record that.

Episode 389

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After an episode with just a handful (literally) of tracks, let me toss a bit more than a dozen at you this time around. As a bonus treat, I mangle some Italian, reference Nikki Minaj, put you on hold at least once, and may or may not speak two words of Galician. If you’re new here…heh.

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Start      Frore, Trapped in Amber, Biome
9.49       Monogoto Lamella, (deletion 78), Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol. 2)
20.02     Remo De Vico, Gurù dalle Zampe di Capra, Finally the Moon
25.33     Thiago Desant, Endless Worlds With Countless Versions Of Our Life Together, Let It Happen Here And Now
36.05     Feldermelder, Non C’é, Euphoric Attempts
39.07     Yuya Ota, Boy In Flight Suit, Dramatic Syndrome
49.34     Darren Rogers, The Winds of Nature, A Taste of Life
53.07     Janne Hanhisuanto, Part 4, 39
58.06     Tomo-Nakaguchi, Morning View of the Iceberg, The Long Night in Winter Light
1.00.19  Pascal Savy, Hyperspace without Atmosphere, Simulacra
1.07.11  Swartz et, Running Inland, Nilch’i
1.11.35  James Asher, Lake of Mirrors, Recentering*
1.15.35  Omhu, Spell VII, Sp​ę​lls
1.25.21  Lia Kohl, Became Daily Today, The Ceiling Reposes

*This is a streaming-only release. As a general rule, I don’t link to said streams because of the way they treat artists. Although this artist has made the choice to not have the album available for download or purchase, I’m sticking to my guns here. The link in the playlist points to his website, from which you can decide how to proceed if the music interests you.

Episode 388

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A lazy podcast, but with a purpose! I saw that in adding to my “Tracks to Play” doc I had noted several that were fairly long. So I decided to lump them together. There are only five, and as tends to be the case with long tracks, this episode runs pretty quiet.

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Start      LPF12, New Cargo, New Cargo
18.34     Leonard Donat, Washing Over, Tremors Today
33.55     Eventless Plot, Memory Loss Pt II, Memory Loss
49.18     The Lonely Bell, Then the Snow, Ghost Town Burning
1.09.25  Oberlin, Bodman II, Lake Constance Days

Episode 387

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How would I characterize this episode? I have no friggin’ idea. It just came together like this. We’re going a little bit of everywhere.

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Start      Computerchemist, It Could be Paradise, Mysterious Cave of Eternal Theta
10.22     Altus, Null Unit, Descender
20.55     Pulse Emitter, Fireflies, Dusk
25.54     Surkid, Apparatus Yet, Home Frequencies
30.11     Ben Rath, World Grief Pts I & II, Resolve
41.47     The OO-Ray, Middle, Generate
45.29     SourceCodeX, Movement Three – Peace, Echoes of an Unquiet Mind
51.25     Rudy Adrian, Rising Mist, A Walk in the Shadow Garden
57.26     Uncertain, The White Elk Mother of the Sea and Moon, The Descending Spirals of Time
1.08.23  Chaigidel & NERATERRÆ, Entrails of Souls, Lamaŝtu
1.16.04  Markus Reuter, Barren, Truce 2
1.21.12  Echo Us, Singing with You, Inland Empire

Episode 386

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From a funky start to a quiet close, I think you’re gonna like this one. And that’s all I have to say about that.

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Start      B. Tweel, Anybody Home, Bring in the Lampstand and Light its Lamps
2.47       Nheap XP, Back View, Inside Talk*
8.57       Peter Mergener, Ignition, New Horizons
18.10     Hudson Glover, Winter Beeps, Solar Surfing- Music From The Film “Crystal Oscillators”
23.01     Polaroid Notes, Attic Reverb, Cloud Anthems
29.17     Pacific Walker, Mycelium Ab Astris Ad Astra I, Pacific Walker
35.59     Arrowounds, Tree of Disciples, In the Octopus Pond
47.21     Antxnio Graz, Cadenza Liquids, LOADING//:fluids
53.11     Christina Vantzou, Kimona I, No. 5
56.57     The Broken Cradle, A Game of Chess, The Burial of the Dead
1.00.57  Slites, Never Met a Robot I Didn’t Like, At a Distance
1.04.21  Scott Lawlor, A Sky Full of Ghosts (excerpt), A Sky Full of Ghosts
1.20.29  Robert Scott Thompson, Night and Day, Night and Day

*Album title incorrectly ID’d as “Back View” 

Episode 385

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The first half skews electronic; then we tack around and set a course for acoustic/New Age territory. Seventeen big cuts for your aural consumption.

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Start      Oaki, Taodide, Irwan Alos
4.24       Sova Stroj, Sequence, Travelling Waves I
12.49     Dino Pacifici, Arctic Sky, Geo-Ambient Excursions
18.35     Turista Digital, Misión Kepler, Tiempo/Espacio
26.13     Bart Hawkins, River Boat to Atlantis, Entering the Axis Mundi
34.19     Break_fold, Mishby, This Was Forever
38.02     Theatre Of Delays, The Edge, Far
42.16     Ruxpin & Stafrænn Hákon, Flawless Delivery, Meet Me In Forever
51.20     Arin Aksberg, Virtuality, It Flows Between Us
56.25     Guy Gelem, I’m in a Flow, Passing By And Through
1.01.47  Ben McElroy & A Spot on the Hill, The Wilder We Became, Everything Was Different Yesterday
1.05.01  Adrian Lane, Marking Time, Missing The Crows
1.07.28  Eric Allaman, Adrienne, What We Whispered
1.11.50  David Cullen, Follow the Creek, Revival
1.16.06  The Green Kingdom, Return Transmission, Voyager
1.18.25  Michelle McLaughlin, Fireflies, Luminous
1.21.51  Shajan, Forest of Miracle, Garden of Eden

Episode 2: The Revisiting

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So I was wrong about episode 2 being on archive.org. So here you go.

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Start       Austere, Citadell, Rorrim
6.49       Dave Preston, Be Alive, Be
13.43     Igneous Flame, Earthly Guitar, Satu
18.40     Jonathan Block, Dissolve, The Anatomy of Waves*
31.51     Larry Kucharz, 1979 No. 03A, Blue Drawings & Text*
45.53     Lopside, When, When You’re Finally Through Being Responsible
53.32     Orbital Decay, Running Through the Fog, Solar Maxima**
58.51     Phillipe Emanuel Gueble, Paris 23h36, Fire & Remembrance
1.05.40  Sense Project, Cimbalom, The Sublime
1.14.50  Zero Ohms, The Poetics of Space, Sweven

*Might be out of print. You can find it through some resellers, which I do not link to.
**As noted, I was handed this at a show. On a CDr–and that’s an age check for you and I.