Episode 398

Taking our leave of 2023, we do so in a manner most casual, stretching out, biding our time, meandering as one does, unrushed and–oh, who am I kidding? We’re getting lazy for the last show of the year, airing out some longer cuts that have been tucked into the Tracks to Play list for a while. Get comfy. This is a very deep non-stop ride. Thanks for coming along on the journey this year, whether you’re new around these parts or you’ve been here long enough to hear the hold music more than once. You are appreciated.

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Start      Computerchemist, Testcard, Green Twilight
15.39     bvdub, Two Loves and the World, Four Forgetting
35.02     Lauri-Dag Tüür, Waves Of Silent Whispers, Waves Of Silent Whispers
55.46     Soft Generator, A Further Point of View, On a Map of Sound
1.21.04  Aglaia, The Left Bank of the River, Along the Vast Ancient River

Episode 395

Get the children to safety in the bunker! There’s a theme show a’comin!
Yeah, it’s that time again. Mr. Shanahan gets a “clever idea” and runs with it. (And yes, this is the one I talked about on 393…) Look at it this way: you get 20 tracks of musical goodness out of it! Enjoy!

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Start      Matthew Stewart, Who Stays Who Goes, A World Bathed in Sunlight
5.45       Darshan Ambient, Who Will Answer, Falling Light
9.32       Radium 88, Who Will Save Us from the Waves, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Space Traveller
14.55     Cousin Silas, Ron Shayler & Glenn Sogge, Who Am I?, Cousin Silas & Friends Vol 8 Pt 1
19.21     Ken Elkinson, What I Needed to Say Music for Commuting, Vol. 11 & 12, Next Friday / Above Beyond
22.25     Ex Confusion, What It Means to Me, With Love
25.41     Robert Rich, What We Left Behind, What We Left Behind
31.23     Bruno Sanfilippo, What I Dreamed, Lost & Found
36.33     Lopside, When, When You’re Finally Through Being Responsible
44.11     IIITAIII, When It Rains, Zeros and Twos
47.35     Bett Butler & Joel Dilley, When Everything Changed, Gracia
54.37     Charm Days, Where Monsters Roamed, Shelter
57.19     Jeff Pearce, Where All Rivers Begin, In the Season of Fading Light
1.00.22  Laurence Furr, Where Angels Tread, Upon the Corner of the Moon
1.04.13  Everyday Dust, Where Light Fails, The Green Decay
1.09.37  Forest Robots, Where The Wild Summer Storms Run, Timberline and Mountain Crest
1.13.09  Taylor Barefoot, Why So Serious?, Distressed Signals
1.17.33  Boy Is Fiction, Why Did You Do That?, Boy Is Fiction
1.23.42  TheDetroit76, Why Not Detroit, Premiere
1.27.29  Matthew Collings, Why Do You Want It To End?, Uzonia

Episode 390

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 388

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

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 2: The Revisiting

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.

Episode 383

’round about midstream, this flow decided it might like to be at least a little lazy. Pulled up at eight nice, deep tracks and we keep things mostly on the quiet side. Probably for the best since we’ve got a big party coming soon…

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Start      Max Corbacho, Stillness Glow, Atmospheric Twilight
12.18     Altus, The Place Between, Hidden Realms and Vacant Spaces
22.33     Steve Roach, Future Informing, Rest of Life
32.06     Igneous Flame & Kati Astraeir, Enchant, Cobra
43.24     odoma, Ordinary Scenes (Giallo) (excerpt), Ordinary Scenes (Giallo)
56.37     Phillip Wilkerson, The Horizon of Night, Silver Afternoon
1.06.43  Marta Mist, We Have Business to Attend to, Eyes Like Pools
1.20.13  Off Land, Talisman (Endless Rose), The Moon Rituals

Episode 379

I wouldn’t go so far as to call this a lazy podcast, but… It’s only got eight tracks, some of them are pretty long, and it stays quite quiet. So, semi-lazy, and you still get 90 minutes out of it. Enjoy.

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Start      NTHNL, Soundbath3, Tranquility Studies, Vol 2
18.20     Strangebird~Sounds, Lavender River, Lavender River
23.15     Siddhartha Barnhoorn & Robert Logan, Scattering Light, Cosmos Unfolding
34.32     Tom Eaton, Oord 4, Verloren
44.13     Deepspace, The Wind at Night, The Blue Dunes
55.25     Loneward, The Infinite Regress (excerpt), Fractional Dimensions Vol 1
1.16.03  Jesüs Antonio Vergara, Altaer, R Derive Aplysia (RDA)
1.29.07  Russ Young, Chancel of Living Trees, Cloak

Episode 375

Time to get our hush on with 90 minutes of nice, quiet music. No bumps, no surprises, no stops. One might go so far as to say you could meditate to this one. Don’t get used to it, though…

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Start      Giles Reaves, The Unknown, Wunjo*
19.25     Igneous Flame, Incandescence, Opaline
30.46     Manitou, Quiet stillness rests on the Algiers Motel, Shadows of a Detroit Winter Sun
37.34     Neuro… No Neuro, When I Wake Up and See You, Let’s Be Happy
42.18     Jeannine Schulz, TAI (Peace), Ground. The Gentle
45.45     Carey Moore, St. Matthews, Life Is Ugly. Make Pretty Art.
49.59     Scott Lawlor, Capturing Sunlight, Show Me the Glint of Light
53.40     Biome, Rain Temple, The Shores of Temenos
58.06     Conni St. Pierre, Snowfields, Mountain Spirits
1.03.39  r beny, Overgrowth, Full Blossom of the Evening
1.09.19  Andrew Lang, Confluence, Momentary Senses
1.13.17  Dreamhub, Andromeda, Moments in Space
1.18.47  Blear Moon, Must, Fallow
1.22.10  Eyes Cast Down, Exquisite Divination of Patterns, Divinations

*Out of print. If you want it, you can find it through resellers, which I do not link to.

Episode 374

Let’s head down to the library, dust off some albums and see how they sound. (Spoiler alert: pretty darn good!)

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Start       Kyron, Domum, Perdurabo
4.55       Green Isac Orchestra, Hapi, Green Isac Orchestra
11.20     Snowdrops, Odysseus, Volutes
24.34     Dwight Ashley & Tim Story, A Poem for the Fire, A Desperate Serenity
29.55     Jumpel, Behind the Shore, Cabogato
37.56     Ryan Somerville & Ben McCarthy, ∞.1, Paranoia Is Appropriate
43.46     Radium88, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Deep, Only Science Can Tell Us the Truth
48.31     Magnetic Wind, Kaleidoscope 5, Kaleidoscope
58.22     Chords of Orion, The Darkling Year, Souls
1.04.33  Piksel, Travel, Places
1.06.56  Austere, Morning Glory, Remittance
1.13.13  Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel, In Another Time, Temple of the Melting Dawn
1.25.11  Sensitive Chaos, Last Day Song, Walking a Beautiful World