Category: dark ambient

Episode 494

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To be honest, part of this episode isn’t for everyone. Gets a bit dark and droney and maybe a li’l rough. But that’s why science invented fast forwarding. If you make it through the full non-stop 90 without skipping, you may have a cookie.

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Start RL Huber, Themisto, Themisto
3.45 Christian Wittman, Alexei Tchirikov, The Northwest Passage
8.56 jarguna & Chris Russell, Zephyr Flow, Wind of Dissonance
14.52 Hanetration, Sightline, Sightline
32.22 Ran Slavin, Saffron Breeze, Aegean Gold
38.54 Clariloops, Quiet Current, The Quiet Below
42.46 Bernd Scholl, Seasons Will Change (single)
46.47 Bernward Koch, Wonderful Glider, Fly Lounge II (compilation)
50.05 Robert Scott Thompson, Cirrus Spissatus, Cirrus
1.02.09 Orange Crush, Quiet Reverie, Eidolons
1.09.06 Andrew Heath & Simon McCorry, Mist, Isla’s Calm Cloud (compilation)
1.16.40 Drogtech, Torn Apart, Until Now
1.21.29 Daniël Jolan, Étendue II, Sublime Lenteur

Episode 493

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None of the following artists dropped out of the Freedom 250 concert. I mean, they weren’t asked, but if they had been they might have said “No thanks, I’m already on Hypnagogue 493.” Funky voyages, primal spaces, and meditative passages await. Enjoy.

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Start Cravagoide, Emisof, Hidden Sanctuary
4.52 Joe Weineck, Sonic Forest, Orient to Occident
12.31 Twilight Archive, Infinity Net, Roaming Elsewhere
17.55 Steve Roach, Unearthed, Trance Archeology
24.09 Loren Nerell, Tenganan Grove, The Venerable Dark Cloud
30.25 Roy Mattson, Electro-Static Release, Intersecting Skies
36.52 Erik Wollo & Byron Metcalf, Light and Ground, Earth Luminous
44.30 Jason A Mullinax, Space Amish, Home World
50.13 Undara, Islands of Fog, Traveller
56.12 Gandalf, Fields of Bliss, A Light from Afar
1.02.52 East Forest, Mylodica, Music Meditations
1.08.42 Craig Padilla, Discovery of Meaning, Discovery of Meaning
1.13.02 Ryan Summers, Glimmer to Glean, Deeply Divided
1.21.17 Bruno Sanfilippo & Aukai, Collab 1 (single)

Episode 488

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What’s in this one? Well, some piano, a few drifty things, a bit of whump whump, some kinda weird stuff, and a Hall of Fame artist name. A quick glance at the playlist gives that away.

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Start       Carl Weingarten, Sandwave, This is Where I Found You
6.42       Joe Frawley, Wrist Piece, Body Nocturnes
10.27     Moab, Forestlight, Winter Sketches Vol I (compilation)
12.28     Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble, To Listen, A Moment of Yet
17.31     Phobos, Cold Light / Hope Fades Away, Cydonia Plain
31.27     In Vitro, Personas En Exhibicion, Radio Spectrum Secrets
37.13     Wolfskin, Sulfur Ascendant, Ring of Spheres
43.51     Audio Mainline, Desert Climes, Aliferous
48.56     Christopher Alvarado And Thomas Park, After Earth Generative Remix, Heat Head
52.41     Manitou, Reflections on the ice at Water Works Park, Shadows of a Detroit Winter Sun
54.49     B. Ashra, Open the Door, Fluffy Spirals
1.03.21  One Of Them, Grace Bay, Sithabo
1.07.18  Gustavo Denouard, Ringing Through the Silence, Echoes of the Cosmos
1.18.22  Planet of the Arps, Palomar Observatory, Planet of the Arps 2

Episode 470

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This is very much one of the episodes where we follow the motto “the flow dictates the show.” Which is why it winds its uninterrupted way toward some darkness at the end. Maybe the slow onset of New England winter is getting to me already…

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Start      Trem 77, The Fifth Compass Point Dub, The Fifth Compass Pointhttp://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-compass-point
3.39       Forest Dweller, A Relic Of No Demonstrable Presence, Forever Elusive
7.13       miserable.noise.club, Vehemence, Vehemence
11.42     Cravagoide, Emisof, Hidden Sanctuary
15.17     Futuredrugs, This is the Time, Past Warnings of Present Futures
17.42     Sævar Jóhannsson, Quiet Presence, Quiet Presence
22.16     Simon Wilkinson, Terraforming, Before Silence
35.29     Phillip Wilkerson, Kieta Ne, Kieta Ne
50.06     Child of Both Space and Man, #2, I wish there was a place I could call home
57.19     Wil Bolton, Skadarlija (excerpt), Stari Grad
1.11.30  Lambwool, Exodus, Ashes
1.16.40  Arrowounds, Bioluminescent Forests of Megalithic Fungi (Edit), The Loneliness of the Hollow Earth Explorer Vol. 2
1.23.48  Ajna, I am dead, but not separated, New Revelations of Being

Episode 469

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Seems like lately I’ve wanted to start shows by helping you get your groove on. I’m trying not to picture you twirling and spinning around the living room, but I must say I’d be glad if you were. You take it easy on the pelvic movements there, Elvis. This ain’t that kind of place. Fair warning: I do wax a little rhapsodic for a couple minutes about a meaningful-to-me album at the end. You know there’s a “stop” button, right?

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Start      Claudio Crispo, Dark Sun (single)
5.17       Cosmic Soup Kitchen, Spicy Pumpkin, Soul of the Machine (compilation)
12.47     Mark Isham, Musings—in Two Parts, Soul of the Machine (compilation)
16.56     Samatha, Samatha II, Mara
21.03     M. Sage, Tender of Land (Patrick’s Version) (single)
25.49     Unknowndivide, Ghost, Existence
31.36     DAYOFWRATH, The Warrior’s Pilgrimage, And the World Will Perish in Flames
35.30     Meadow Argus, The Walls Were Supposed to be Green But They’re Blue (Instrumental), Somewhere Near Medina
47.14     Erwilian, Wandering (Live), Cascadia
54.49     Sundaug, Isles of the Blessed, To Bloom, To Wither
58.59     Eric Bikales, Humility, Mandala
1.02.37  East Forest, Samana, Prana
1.10.18  Giles Reaves, Strength, Wunjo
1.15.42  Forrest Fang, Dream of the Last Fisherman, The Fata Morgana Dream
1.26.45  Jeff Greinke, The River, Before Sunrise

Episode 464

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Once the first set tells its lovely story, I talk to you about it a little. Then we’re off again from a somewhat odd launching pad, headed into dark and quiet spaces.

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Start      Hari Maia, Universalis I Pt. II, Universalis
8.22       George Wallace, Cascades, Timeless
17.32     Extasis, Navel 528 Hz
21.47     Sherry Finzer, Fascination, Dreamweaver—Music for Deep Dreaming
26.06     Brannan Lane, Flute Impressions (Tubing the Guadalupe), Flute Impressions
29.50     Adrian Lane, Two Seagulls Gliding, Where Once We Danced
32.08     Terry Lee Nichols, Lying Next to You, Love Is
38.36     Sir Tad, The Return of Sir Slippy, Generation Joint
43.13     Chloe Yu Nong Lin & P.M. Tummala, Levitation Stories, Levitation Stories
49.22     Boreal Path, Life in Cataracts Poured Down, Boreal Covenant
58.34     Phobos, Part Seven, Phenomenon
1.07.02  Visible Light, Losing Leaves, Songs for Eventide
1.16.03  Paul Beaudoin, Evening Frost, A Space for Remembering
1.21.13  Siddhartha Barnhoorn, Meditation III, Dune Meditations

Episode 454

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Hiding in here we’ve got music inspired by a novel, music that started with a harp in a tree, and music used in a healing ceremony for a loved one. Do I have your attention?

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Start      Gabó, Mystic Rocks, New Wind (single)
4.06       The Birds Companion, The Memory Machine, A Place Outside of Time
7.13       Temporal Waves, Water Temple (Dynatron Remix), Incoming Transmission
12.02     Tides, Fade, Where Her Flowers Still Bloom
16.10     Tatsuro Murakami, …I still want to see, Mita Koyama-cho
19.20     Alexander Sussman, Hope, Sonic Calm – Part One
24.57     Richard Atkins, French Cafe, Pianistically Speaking
27.53     Brannan Lane, Rain Nap (excerpt), Rain Nap
48.09     Trem 77, Over These Dark Ages, Blacklight Sunset
52.04     Dronal, Cumulative Troposphere, If We Land
57.19     Ozbolt, Deja Vu, Chasyng Drakens
1.07.51  William St Hugh, Shaking Hands with the Shadow, To Forge a Darker Path
1.10.38  A-Sun Amissa, We Are Not Our Dread, All the Sky Was Empty
1.21.16  Dashmesh, Luminous Bardo 2, Luminous Bardo

Episode 453

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Two distinct parts here. We’ll kick off with a couple long-ish, flowing tracks, endure a short talky bit, then head off again where things get a bit…peppier. (Did I just use an old-guy word? Oh, well. Enjoy!)

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Start      Sephiroth, Cathedron, Cathedron*
13.11     Jarguna, Light Passage, The Truth Lies Beyond
25.02     eyes cast down, Corona, Light Echoes
41.31     John Puchiele Ensemble, Birds, Alive
47.02     The Unknown Soundscapes, A New Beginning (single)
51.40     Nettaiya featuring Yuko Motoki, Rising Sunset (single)
55.14     Janne Hanhisuanto, Part 9, Yume
1.00.52  Murray Grant, The River, 3000 Days
1.05.58  Corciolli, Utopia, Songs of Dust and Shadow
1.11.42  Dino Pacifici, Borne on the West Wind, Unfocused Dream Fragments
1.15.55  Sankt Otten, So Weit, So Gut, Hymnen und Helden**
1.21.12  Sylvain Carel, In the Red Marble Rotunda, Atlantide II-Testament

*Neglected to mention this is a re-release of a 1999 album some folks consider a classic of dark ambient.
**Also should have noted this is a cover of this song by Harald Grosskopf

Episode 450

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Call it a landmark without fanfare. Instead, just another 90 minutes of dang fine music, including an unplanned “Ladies of the Piano” section. The flow dictates the show…

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Start      Karmacosmic, Voice from Beyond, Sky Space Bar III (compilation)
4.35       Élément Kuuda, Tidal Denouement, Harbour of the North Wind
8.26       Velocidad Crucero, Florus, Natura
17.29     Michelle Qureshi & Sean O’Bryan Smith, The Night, One Is All
21.02     Celestial Trails, Peace, Observation of Transcendence
30.20     Melissa Galosi, Anchor, Quiet Path
33.18     Susanne Darre, Pictures, Travel Back
36.41     Ann Sweeten, Distant Clouds, Still
42.05     Susana López, Mundus Imaginalis, Materia Vibrante
52.54     Socool, Another Kind of Earth Pt. 1, Another Kind of Earth
1.12.22  Ben McCarthy, Orange Mesh Bag, Decorative Arts II
1.16.01  Twilight Transmissions, Rot Mouth, Liquid Tendril
1.21.35  OdNu, Breathing Orange Air, The Wind Swept All the Colours

Episode 449

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What starts in Jazz Valley and ends up wrapped in shadows? This episode.

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Start      David Mash, Bottles, Back to My Roots
8.45       Laura Masotto, Orange (Rubin Henkel Rework), The Spirit Of Things Reworks
12.14     Prix Libre, A Rendez-vous, Dead Again
18.21     Ben Chatwin, The Beginning/The End, The Beginning
25.13     Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach, Into The Glare (single)
27.31     Das Rad, Dubsaw, Buzzsaw
34.10     Robert Rich & Ian Boddy, Link Lost, Outpost
44.23     Monster Taxi, Pacifica (single)
48.17     theAdelaidean, Komaba Dream, Tokoro
54.27     Kaverna, Candelas de Mayo Sobre El Cerro Alto, Un Monolito en Llamas Quiebra el Horizonte
1.01.07  Kamil Kowalczyk, The Enchanted Forest, Dark Thoughts
1.13.57  Network 23, Titans, Music to Be Ignored 2