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
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.
It may look like doing 350 episodes of a podcast is an accomplishment, but if you think about it, it’s really just seven sets of 50. So let’s not dwell on the numbers and instead just dig into the music. No spoilers, but there’s a world record on this episode.
Let’s start with another of those artists I downloaded and lost in the mix, only to have them pop up in shuffle to show me the error of my ways. (Trust me, there will be more…) Electronic landscapes give way to a touch of grimness as we move toward the end, but we’ll get kind of cinematic before we’re through, so it all turns out okay.
Start Timothy Minneci, Procession, Harys 5.14 Gypsy Witch, Amnisiades Dreams, Elemental Dreams 21.30 Keith Richie, Neutrino, Ambient Highways 28.59 Volker Lankow, For Egil, Remembrance 40.20 Ruby Singh, Eutrophic Inception, Polyphonic Garden: Suite 1 49.49 T, Bargaining, Death Poems* 54.00 Skyence, We Burn, Two Windows 57.12 Parenthetical, Earth, Void 1.03.37 Mount Maxwell, Ring of Rushes, The People’s Forest 1.08.42 Those Damn Thieves, Intrusive Thoughts, Coherent 1.14.21 Shadowed Grace, Tales From The Golden Horde – Golden Child Of Future Past, E-Bliss 1.20.01 George Wallace, Far as the Soul Can See, The Art of Imagining
*The things you learn… When this was sent to me, it was in a message that read, in total, “Here you go,” followed by a link. Normally I dump that kind of thing. But I asked the artist what it was, and they responded, and I grabbed this good album. When I put it into the system, iTunes showed the artist as “T.” For whatever reason, I had put it into my folders under the artist’s name, Teemu Purhonen. Made for a helluva time trying to find the track to add it… When it came time to put links into the playlist, I went back into my email and found that the only info I had was that initial download link. No artist site, etc. I did some digging on our friend the interwebtubes before bothering to email the artist. (I love a challenge…or maybe I just hate to bother people.) Took a few tries because neither T nor Teemu Purhonen were coming up when added to “Death Poems” — and “Death Poems,” it turns out, is a pretty popular title on Bandcamp, but lo and behold, I finally found that Teemu recorded this and uploaded it under the name Telefantastico. In 2015. I wish I’d been able to tell this story on the show, but I do the shows well before I add the links. But now you know…
Coming to you live from the depths of the holding tank, it’s the first episode of 2022! We’ll open up in contemporary instrumental territory, out there on the New Age border, then slip through a narrow passage of drone and into electronic realms. Off we go!
Start Raphael Groten, Care, Potential 8.06 Adrian Lane, The Revolving Door, The Fleet 10.47 Guy Gelem, A Thought, Scenario 14.19 Johannes Linstead, In The Stillness Of Love, Bohemian Strings 18.30 Ann Sweeten, One Last October, Change is in the Wind 23.44 Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster & Tom Eaton, Head for the Sky, Brothers 28.40 Richard Souther, You Are the Picture, The Fourth Man in the Fire 31.56 Thomas Peters, Prayer, Lamentations 38.14 Phil Yeah, Giver Bend (If It’s Rain) (excerpt), Grey & Gold 52.49 Hiram, A Spectral View, Artemisia 57.49 Jim Ottaway, Celestial Parallax, Threshold of the Universe 1.05.56 Byron Metcalf, Seasons of Shifting Recall, Rhythms of Remembering 1.14.50 Chronotope Project, Myth of the Cave, Gnosis
Last show of 2021. While other folks are doing their best of lists or holiday-themed shows, you and I are just going to dig into some good cuts from the library and enjoy the ride. Thanks in advance for being a great audience, and I wish you the best in the year to come!
Start Adam Werner, Sage & Sand (For Tristan), Deep 5.00 Sundaug, Summer Rain, Nocturnality 8.43 Bryan Carrigan, The Drive Home, Passing Lights 12.58 Paul Ellis, Between The Trees; Mount Hood, Moth in Flames 27.34 Break_fold, 29_04_18, Break_fold 31.47 Understated Theory, Aviation Trails, Juxtapparition 37.43 Gianluca Piacenza, Mutations, Dreams 51.25 The Man from Impossible, Use Me, The Man from Impossible 55.00 Geoffrey Armes, A Narrative of Paradise, Hemisphere 58.07 Active Dark Filament, Scrypt, Beyond the Great Divide 1.09.07 Leaving Richmond, Backlit Narrative, The Bird and the Submarine 1.12.51 Glanko, Orvot, Remission 1.19.03 Vivien Le Fay, Ex-self, Ecolalia 1.24.56 Seamus O’Muineachain, The Space Where You Once Were, Blue Moon Set
As you may know, I listen to virtually no music other than that which is sent along for the podcast. True story. And as I Iisten, I keep a list of tracks that catch my ear and make me want to share them with you. Well, the list was getting long so I decided it’s high time I pruned it back a touch. Enjoy.
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