Episode 457

The ride this time opens with some New Age/contemporary instrumental style loveliness from the Holding Tanks, eventually finding its way into a territory lightly laced with a bit of funkiness because sometimes that’s how we roll. A talky bit, then it’s off to the cool comforts of the library where we start with a powerhouse combo of song and album titles. (Plus, the music’s good, too.)

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Start      Dandin, Chesed, Kingdom of Glory*
4.31       Richard Shulman, Fullness, Summer Solstice Piano Meditations
8.58       Lisa Swerdlow, All Is Not Lost, Dancing Between Worlds
12.56     Ann Licater, Rose Moon, Echoes from the Forest
16.19     James Filkins, Ashes to Ashes, North Manitou Trail
20.41     Anantakara, Tipping Point, Glimpse of Changes
25.42     Alexis Delozanne, Param, Abréviation
28.02     Øystein Skar, Stok, Hem
32.03     Marcator, Die Gärten des Zen 2025, PanAroma Reincarnations
38.03     THOOL, Waun Mawn, Cwmcerwyn
46.25     Andrew Weathers Ensemble, A Mountain of Snakes, The High Plains, A Knee in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky
55.44     The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Macguffin, Here Be Dragons
1.03.01  KiloWatts, Transmogrifier, Emerging Organisms, Vol 4
1.08.28  Kim Halliday, I. Development, Birdsong in Mist
1.13.43  Peter DiPhillips, Grass Green Lips, The Great Famine
1.23.36  LAD, Multiverse, Multiverse

*Oops, have this in my system as “Hand of Glory.” Might be that I’ve been reading Charles Stross’ “The Laundry” series, where the hero often uses a mummified pigeon foot called the hand of glory.

Episode 456

A non-stop swim through the goodness that is the Holding Tanks. Starting and ending with a couple fairly long ones.

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Start       Senza Testa, Pralaya I, Pralaya
21.29     Christopher Alvarado, Dragons Blood, Diamond Dust
27.58     Hanetration, Foe, Instance
33.50     Dirk Serries, Evocation, The Might Of Stars Sublime
43.21     Ako Amo, Mantra1, What’s the Sound of a Dream
46.53     With Open Arms, Sankofa, Some Place Like Home
51.25     Ambiente Solstice, His Name in Every Breath (feat. Dashmesh), The World Above the Clouds
54.48     Carl Lord, Peaceful Glen, Illuminated Expanse
1.02.41  Aidan Baker, When the Waves They Parted, & You Still Fall In
1.07.53  Steve Brand, Under the Canopy of Night, Outsider Music
1.15.52  Polaroid Notes, Cosmic Thing, Inner Harmonies

Episode 455

I went a little crazy and decided to kick us off in the library. I know–wild, right? We’ll spin back into the Holding Tanks at the halfway point, but not before a listen to someone who’s definitely coming to us from the “How Did You End Up Here?” Department. (It’s a pretty cool one, honestly.)

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Start      Specta Ciera & Arbee, Turn Around, Unified Formations
4.11       TheDetroit76, Once More with Feeling, Premiere
7.46       Sverre Knut Johansen, #Connecting #Landscapes, Earth from Above
12.01     REMY, Velocity, Exhibition of Dreams revisited
23.28     James Bernard, End Of An Era, Atwater
28.15     Suspension Bridge Workshop, It Ends Where It Begins, 001
34.01     Mirko Russo, The Other Way, Stories of Mirrors and Broken Roads
38.23     Randal Meek, Ice Tulip, Longings
40.53     Jeff Skunk Baxter, Juliet, Speed of Heat
50.09     Network 23, Niflheim, Legends of the Norsemen
57.41     AMMAR 808, Ah Yallila [ft. Mariem Bettouhami & Mahmoud Lahbib], Club Tounsi
1.01.03  Altus, Biosphere, Terraform
1.10.58  iceplanet9000, The Wave, The Nebula Suite
1.22.58  Meadow Argus, Little Tree Pt.1, Little Tree
1.25.39  echo & amy_cin, Aroha, Echo’s
1.28.32  Skullcap, Bear Out There, Snakes of Albuquerque

Episode 454

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

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 452

I quite enjoyed digging around in the library in the previous episode, so I’ve decided to ride that train a little longer here. Eighteen luscious tracks, aided and abetted by the shuffle (but mindfully, mind you!). And you never know…there just might be one of those. Yeah, one. Sure. That’s what I meant.

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Start      Warszawa, Interkosmos (Gulag Lockdown Mix), Kinetica*
4.34       FreqGen, Insufficient Data For A Meaningful Answer, Dreaming
8.13       Joseph Hyde, Agency, Spherical Harmonics
12.45     The Infinite Calling, Liquid Continuum Pt. II, Vidya**
18.22     Joe Frawley, Moonstruck Peter, The Night Parade
21.22     Petricor, Unbroken Horses, First Breath
24.52     Dead Bandit, Lucien’s Bitters, Dead Bandit
28.36     Sundaug, Against the Clock, Nocturnality
32.20     General Fuzz, The Arrival, Miles Tones
38.22     Yellow6, Pday, About the Journey
51.56     Ken Elkinson, Locusts, Music for Commuting
56.27     Nzungu, Rohanyiat, Dark Night of the Soul
59.25     Resonant Drift, Seeing Through the Veil, Passages
1.03.32  Roy Mattson, Mesmerized, Mesmer
1.10.30  Erdh, E-Creed, Sideremesis
1.15.56  The Hunted Hare, Just Beneath the Surface, Nothing Is Always
1.19.42  Liminal Drifter, Box Seat, Cortisol 22
1.25.22  Requator, Swaying Palm Trees, KosMo

*Looks like this might be out of print/unavailable. You can find it through resellers, but I don’t link to them here.
**Did I forget to mention this one? I think I did. Well, there it is.

Episode 451

Not much to say here other than it’s a 50/50 ride, with tracks in the back half going back to 2013. Although I do get to teach you what a ney is, so there’s that. Enjoy.

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Start      Tony Gerber, Life Electromagnetic, Plank and Strings
11.27     RL Huber, Deceitful Star, Hafgufa
15.38     Infinite Body, Trick World, My Bright Abyss
18.36     Jan Van Angelopoulos, Costis Christodoulou & Harris Lambrakis, New Beginnings, All We Got Is Time
22.37     Ran Slavin, Night Flower, Inner Weather
29.26     Gleisberg & Bernd Scholl, Drums Of Passion, Secret & Mystery III
34.21     Harald Gramberg, Sequence E, Nightly Silence (Nachtelijke stilte), Sequences
46.01     Takashi Suzuki, The Beginning, Voyage
52.50     Altus, Blazing Departure, Pioneer
58.35     Tom Eaton, Tuesday/The Compass, Abendromen
1.05.01  Tsode, Angels in the Shadows, Brainstorming
1.16.30  Sebby Kowal, In the End, Bright Spaces
1.23.11  Robert Scott Thompson, The Widening Sky, Ascension

Episode 450

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

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

Episode 448

How shall we begin year 16? I thought maybe some really good music from the Holding Tanks was the way to go. I think you’ll agree. Enjoy.

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Start      Paul Ellis, Winter Garden, Warmth From Other Suns
8.33       Yakuza Jacuzzi, Roscosmos, Space Race
23.08     Avalon, Our Hypnotic Moods (single)
29.48     Bohdan Stupak, Kviten, Microvariations
33.25     Conrad Praetzel, Vegetable Tales, Angels Set In Motion
37.44     M. Cross Dougherty, Interpretation III, Interpretations
47.12     Carl Lord, Sunday Morning, Transformation
53.28     Carl Weingarten, Twilight Reminisce, Songs for a Perigree Moon
1.00.07  David Helpling & Eric “The” Taylor, Cavernous Heart, The Precious Dark
1.08.15  Dött ljus, Förr, Bottna
1.13.00  HERE, After The Sun Has Set, Hues of Amber & Rose
1.16.11  ARROWOUNDS, Across the Subterranean Mirrored Ocean (Edit), The Loneliness of the Hollow Earth Explorer Vol. 1
1.23.08  Brian Fechino, This Empty Room, A Safe Place
1.27.45  Tauon, Changes (single)