Quiet Sounds Episode 34: Learning to Let Go

Quiet afternoons in a lovely place.

Tracklist:
1. “Malick” by Benoît Honoré Pioulard from Plays Thelema (Desire Path)
2. “Polarioid” by Leyland Kirby from SMM: Context (Ghostly/SMM)
3. “La Voix Du Lac” by Elodie from La Lumiere Parfumee (Faraway Press)
4. “The Ballad of the Maltings Floor” by The Boats from Ballads of the Darkroom (Our Small Things)
5. “Sky High” by The Irresistible Force from Flying High (Rising High)
6. “Sky Lounge” by Pete Namlook and Geir Jenssen from The Fires of Ork 2 (Fax)
7. “Forever Falling” by Vestals from Forever Falling Toward the Sky (Root Strata)
8. “Crazy for You” by Slowdive from Pygmalion Demos (no label)
9. “A Different Kind of Blue” by Passengers from Original Soundtracks 1 (Island)
10. “All Is Not Lost” by Pub from Making Trakcx.10 (Ampoule/Talent Hoover)

The Quiet Sounds 33: Now You Can Let Go

As the leaves tumble …

Tracklist:

1. “As I Drift Off” by Eluvium from When I Live by the Garden and the Sea (Temporary Residence)
2. “Firelight Compliant” by The Fun Years from Why We’re All Below Average (self-released)
3. “Burn Me Out from the Inside” by The Sight Below from It All Falls Apart (SMM/Ghostly)
4. “First Light: Shimmer of Gulls” by Ben Fleury-Steiner from Keep a Weather Eye Open (Infraction)
5. “Wipe” by Philip Jeck from 7 (Touch)
6. “11 Generations of My Fathers” by Christina Vantzou from SMM: Context (SMM/Ghostly)
7. “Abyss” by Fennesz + Sakamoto from Cendre (Touch)
8. “For the Self-Medicating” by Adam Pacione from Delayed, Vol. 6 (self-released)
9. “Circles III” by Daizok from Autumn Scenes (Install)
10. “Nineteen” by Pillowdiver from Sleeping Pills (12K)
11. “Retuned Minor” by Brian Grainger from Eight Thousander (Attack 9)
12. “7″ by Eluder from Rituals (Install)
13. “Statuit” by Kyle Bobby Dunn from Ways of Meaning (Desire Path Recordings)
14. “Part 2″ (edit) by Celer from Engaged Touches (Home Normal)

The Quiet Sounds 32: Vocal Motion

If it has vocals, is it ambient?

Tracklist:

1. “Plectrum” by Twine from Twine (Ghostly International)
2. “Ruby-Ha” by Seefeel from Succour (Warp)
3.  ”Murk” by Transient Waves from Transient Waves (Che/i)
4. “Mary, On the Wall” by Grouper from A | A: Alien Observer (Yellow Electric)
5. “There Was No More Time” by Sara Ayers from Echoes of Polyhymnia (Hypnos)
6. “XVLA” by Lovesliescrushing from Chorus (Automatic Entertainment/Line)
7. “Walking and Falling” by Laurie Anderson from Big Science (Elektra/Nonesuch)
8. “Incense of Voice” by Sawako from Hum (12K)
9. “Azukiiro No Kaori” by Susumu Yokota from Sakura (Leaf)
10. “See-Through by Arthur Russell from World of Echo (Audika)
11. “Cherry Coloured Funk” (Mark Clifford remix) by Cocteau Twins from Otherness (Capitol)
12. “Keep Up the Good Work” by Julianna Barwick from The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty)
13. “Epilogue” by Soriah from Chao Organica in A Minor (Beta Lactam Ring)
14. “Lens by Lens” by David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir from Hearing Solar Winds (Ocora)
15. “From the Birds” by Jim Cole & Spectral Voices from Sky (Spectral Spiral Music)

The Quiet Sounds 31: Muy Bien in 2010

best of the year 2010 …

Tracklist:
1. Concert Silence, “Strange Footing” from Rain Furniture (Infraction)
2. Richard Pinhas, “Legend” from Metal/Crystal (Cuneiform)
3. Scott Cortez, “Part VI” from Twin Radiant Flux (Line)
4. Stellar OM Source, “Icy Eyes” from Trilogy Select (Olde English Spelling Bee)
5. Cepia, “Hype Man” from Cepia (Cepia Music)
6. Seven Fields of Aphelion, “Lake Feet” from Periphery (Graveface)
7. The Alps, “Black Mountain” from Le Voyage (Type)
8. Alio Die, “Speculum Naturae” from Tripudium Naturae (Hic Sunt Leones)
9. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, “Body Within Body” from Love Is a Stream (Type)
10. Balam Acab, “See Birds (sun)” from See Birds (Tri Angle)
11. Toro y Moi, “Freak Love” from Causers of This (Carpark)
12. Washed Out, “You’ll See It” from Life of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
13. Moon Wiring Club, “Edwardian Romance” from A Spare Tabby at the Cat’s Wedding (Gecophonic)
14. Oneohtrix Point Never, “Ouroboros” from Returnal (Editions Mego)
15. Colored Mushroom and the Medicine Rocks, “Drifts” from At Red Frosting (Wagon)
16. Alva Noto, “Argonaut-Version” from For 2 (Line)
17. Kyle Bobby Dunn, “Empty Gazing” from A Young Person’s Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn (Low Point)

79.3 MB — fifty-eight minutes

codeine folk, benzo-bucolia, poignant samples … a stop-gap measure until I can get a new episode completed …

Tracklist:
1. Adam Pacione, “Soilbind Morning Glory” from A Cleansing Ascension (Elevator Bath)
2. Vince Guaraldi, “There’s Been a Change” from The Lost Cues from the “Charlie Brown” Television Specials vol. 1 (D&D)
3. Bill Nelson, “Tender Encounters (States of Grace)” from Pavilions of the Heart and Soul (Cocteau)
4. Tim Buckley, “Blue Melody” from Blue Afternoon (Straight)
5. William Basinski, “Evening Scars” from Shortwave Music (Raster Noton)
6. Harold Budd, “Saint’s Name Spoken” from By the Dawn’s Early Light (Opal)
7. Eluder, “In the End It Won’t Matter” from The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction)
8. Matthew Robert Cooper, “Miniatures” (excerpt) from Miniatures (Gaarden)
9. Ennio Morricone, “Invenzione Per John” from Giu la Testa soundtrack
10. Deerhunter, “Tape Hiss Orchid” from Cryptograms (Kranky)
11/12. The Dead Texan, “Taco Me Manque,” “Aegina Airlines” from The Dead Texan (Kranky)
13. The Boats, “May Our Enemies Never Find Happiness” from Tomorrow Time (Moteer)
14. Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois, “Always Returning” from Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Opal)
15. Seefeel, “Silent Pool” from Quique (Too Pure)

82.9MB – one hour, twenty-nine minutes, fifty-two seconds

Innovators old and new …

Tracklist:
1. “Where Does Time Go” by Oneohtrix Point Never from Returnal (Mego) (Start time: 0:42)
2. “Powers of Audition” by Jonas Reinhardt from Powers of Audition (Kranky) (6:10)
3. “Veterano” by Harmonia from Musik von Harmonia (Brain) (10:37)
4. “Trips Through the Park” (edit) by Mark McGuire from Tidings/Amethyst Waves (Weird Forest) (14:20)
5. “Germany” by White Rainbow from Zome (States Rights Records) (21:58)
6. “Tanzmusik” by Kraftwerk from Ralf & Florian (Germanofon) (26:31)
7. “Circulus Vitiosus” by Heldon from Electronique Guerilla (Cuneiform Records) (33:08)
8. “Genetic” by Emeralds from Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Mego) (40:10)
9-10. “Growth Sequence” & “Cloud Motion” by Steve Roach from Now/Traveler (Fortuna) (58:55)
11. “Interlude (Drift)” by Pale Blue Sky from Shades of Grey (Arbor) (80:08)
12. “Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)” by Brian Eno from Ambient 4: On Land (EG) (82:10)
13. “Two Rivers” by Andrew Chalk from Ghost of Nakhodka (Siren Records) (87:17)

56.7MB – one hour, two minutes, eight seconds

The eerie and whimsical sound of aged and ageless BBC electronic music and television, now with a decidedly modern (and twisted) twist by today’s strangest artists, plus one orgy. An uninterrupted mix.

Tracklist:
1. “In Your Own Time” by Moon Wiring Club from Shoes Off and Chairs Away (Gecophonic)
2. “Main Titles” by John Gale from Dr. Phibes Rises Again! soundtrack (Perseverance)
3. “Rosy Retrospection” by The Caretaker from Persistent Repetition of Phrases (Install)
4. “Melancholia VIII” by William Basinski from Melancholia (2062)
5. “Grey Water” by Tor Lundvall from Empty City (Strange Fortune)
6. “Amoeba” by Woob from Woob (Em:t)
7. “Hotel Freund” by Black to Comm from Alphabet 1968 (Type)
8. “Warp/Warpable” by Deathprod from Nordheim Transformed (Rune Grammofon)
9. “Ten Years or Twenty” by Moon Wiring Club from Shoes Off and Chairs Away (Gecophonic)
10. “The Willows” by Belbury Poly from The Willows (Ghost Box)
11. “The New Mobility” by Belbury Poly from The Owl’s Map (Ghost Box)
12. “Dead Eyes Opened” by Severed Heads from ComMerz (LTM)
13. “The Devil Is in the Details” by Boards of Canada from Geogaddi (Warp)
14. “New Trumpets of Time” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti from Lover Boy (Ballbearings Pinatas)
15. “Secret Admirer” by Freescha from Head Warlock Double Stare (Attack 9)
16. “My Game of Loving” by White Noise from An Electric Storm (Island)
17. “Salty Sun Tales” by The Focus Group from We Are All Pan’s People (Ghost Box)
18. “They Are in the Room with Us Right Now” by Roj from The Transactional Dharma of Roj (Ghost Box)
19. “Man” by Edward Williams from Life on Earth (Trunk)

… and various clippings from the BBC Sound Effects Library (Volumes 8, 15, 19), released by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Princeton NJ.

Part two of my yearly best-of selection.

Tracklist:
1. “Add Infinity” by Mountains from Choral (Thrill Jockey) (start time: 1:05)
2. “Maginot” by Benoit Pioulard from “Flocks” 7″ (Blue Flea) (8:13)
3. “Dopplerton” by Bibio from Vignetting the Compost (Mush) (13:50)
4. “Part 2″ by Grouper from live recording from All Tomorrow’s Parties (Free Music Archive) (18:15)
5. “From An Ancient Star” by Belbury Poly from From an Ancient Star (Ghost Box) (30:39)
6. “Fields Are Breathing” by Black Moth Super Rainbow from Eating Us (Graveface) (35:31)
7. “Spring” by Ducktails from Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee) (38:58)
8. “The Void” by Papercuts from You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong) (41:50)
9. “Quicksand” by Lotus Plaza from The Floodlight Collective (Kranky) (46:29)
10. “Long Way” by Parks from Hidden (Infraction) (57:57)
11. “Lest You Forget” by BVdub from We Were the Sun (Quietus) (68:41)

Some of my favorite ambient of 2009. Stay tuned for part two.

Tracklist:
1. “100 Years Ago” by Tim Hecker from An Imaginary Country (Kranky) (start time: 0:55)
2. “We Might Just Have What You Need” by The Fun Years from Split 10″ w/.cut (Three:Four) (4:10)
3. “The ACC” by Simon Scott from Navigare (Miasmah) (6:18)
4. “Sunday After the War” by Harold Budd & Clive Wright from Candylion (Darla) (14:58)
5. “Gaited Florets” by Celer from Mane Blooms (Low Point) (18:32)
6. “Canal Rocks” by Solo Andata from Solo Andata (12K) (24:19)
7. “Xerrox Sora” by Alva Noto from Xerrox, Vol. 2 (Raster Noton) (28:30)
8. “Ships Without Meaning” by Oneohtrix Point Never from Rifts (No Fun) (40:10)
9. “Lord, Am I Going Down?” by Mokira from Persona (Type) (49:24)
10. “Blooming Woods” by Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 from No Traces (Infraction) (56:24)