After all these years still loving this dark journey

Absolutely brilliant. So dark and beautiful <3 I love it!

Welcome to this Atmospheres episode curated by Bålsam

Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Anthony Asher-Yates approached ambient music when he moved to Colombia, being inspired by the diversity of the ecosystems that exist in this region. Known for taking his listeners deep into the tropical rainforest, Bålsam has conjured up a dream world surrounded by nature. Anthony's music is composed by field recordings he does during his walks though the mountains where he now lives with partner Nina Nativa and his daughter.

Enjoy!

Tracklist
1. Bålsam - Stropharia (forthcoming Unknown Tribe)
2. Hitayosara Ojeda - La Siesta
3. Bålsam - Vientos de Verano (forthcoming Nature Tales)
4. Blanket Swimming - Fragment 25
5. @imphepho - remember u told me
6. Hipnotic Earth - Float Gently Dear Mother [@shimmering-moods-records]
7. @amanita-phalloides, Heavenchord @nirgoona - Amazonian Silence [@secretdomainlabel]
8. Bålsam - Las Montañas son Hijas para Alguien tan Mayor
9. @scareymusic - Rothko Fields [@jagjaguwar]
10. Air Shaper - Exit Strategy
11. Frakkur- SFTLB1
12. Tonina @user-590502382 - Pendulum
13. @murkok - Akbara
14. @themonkbythesea - Nature Scene
15. @ecovillage- Lost Trees [@constellationtatsu]
16. @anthony-asher-yates-1 - Aguamonte
17. @lorenzweber - thései (θέσει)
18. @panamericanofficial - LIghts On Water
19. Ecovillage - Spellbound ft. Tonina

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anthony-asher-yates
Bandcamp: https://balsam.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LAKEBALSAM?ref=hl
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_asher_yates/

Å Asher-Yates (acoustic guitar project)
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/anthony-asher-yates-1

Dream Seeds (Bålsam and Galaxy's Bachelor)
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dr3ams33ds
Bandcamp: https://asher-yates.bandcamp.com/
Bandcamp: https://dreamseeds.bandcamp.com/releases

Tonina (Anthony and Ninas musical project)
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-590502382

E.M.C. atmospheres - Bålsam

~ Deep Breakfast 115 by Ian Hawgood (https://soundcloud.com/homenormal) ~

Tracklist:

• 00:00 - 04:44 • Josh Mason - Low Hazard (Taken from ‘Recreación Segura’ - Self Release)

• 04:18 - 09:37 • Federico Durand - Linternas Junto A La Laguna (Taken from ‘A Través Del Espejo’ on 12k)

• 09:18 - 11:04 • Jürgen Müller - Traumfolge Einier Qualle (Dream Sequence For A Jellyfish) (Taken from ‘Science Of The Sea’ on Digitalis)

• 10:54 - 18:59 • Le B'OO-Ray - A Witness Against Himself (Taken from ‘V’ on Twin Springs Tapes)

• 18:46 - 22:06 • SineRider - Pins (Taken from ‘Video Sketches’ - Self Release)

• 21:48 - 26:34 • con_cetta - Hornplant (Taken from ‘Sclerosis’ on Zymogen)

• 26:24 - 30:24 • Cloudburst - Flora (excerpt) (Taken from ‘Katedra’ on Resting Bell)

• 29:46 - 33:46 • Landtitles - Folded Yellow, Framed (Taken from ‘Your Voice In Pieces’ on Slowcraft)

• 33:34 - 37:14 • Josh Mason - Magic Hour Insects (Taken from ‘Timecode Beach’ on Digitalis)

• 36:52 - 37:28 • Holger Hiller - While Leaving (excerpt) (Taken from ‘Little Present’ on Mute)

• 37:18 - 39:57 • morimoto naoki - Melt (Taken from ‘Sui’ on Seil Records)

• 39:46 - 43:48 • r beny - Light Leak (Taken from ‘Full Blossom Of The Evening’ on Dauw / Self Release)

• 43:28 - 47:09 • Benoît Pioulard - An Image Apart From Ourselves (excerpt) (Taken from ‘Sonnet’ on Kranky)

• 46:48 - 56:28 • Marcus Fischer - The One That Went With The Film Of The Trees (Taken from ‘Public Works’ - Self Release)

• 55:08 - 01:05:12 • Dag Rosenqvist - Are There Tigers On The Moon? (Taken from ‘Music In Three Movements For When The World Falls Apart’ on Dauw)

• 01:03:16 - 01:07:44 • The Humble Bee - Manual With Foot Pedal (excerpt) (Taken from ‘Instruction Booklet N. 1232’ on Dauw)

• 01:06:36 - 01:17:42 • Jogging House - Farewell (excerpt) (Taken from ‘Flaws’ on Seil Records)

• 01:17:25 - 01:17:58 • B18h29m47s10may2019

Have a good listening.

Photo: Emily Bernal

Deep Breakfast 115 - Ian Hawgood

“There are two ways of expressing things; one is to show them crudely, the other is to evoke them artistically.” - Henri Rousseau

"Nectar of flowers ripening inside the hive. This is the sweetness I experience during two hours of thoughtful and finely tuned eclecticism. Trips like this make your passion to never want to stop discovering, listening, diving, getting your fingers dirty and collecting, making the most of your senses. Sweeter than honey."

Francesco Piunti (@francescopiunti) curator of Deep Breakfast Series (@deepbreakfastseries).

HOCast #76 - Francesco Piunti

A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Steve Roach (born 1955 in La Mesa, California) drew on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient. Inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis and by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. 

After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with artists including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, - in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music.


Steve Roach : Ambient retrospective (Invisible landscapes) 1982-

1) Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta ("Red Crow" in Dakota)
2) Mercurius Alchemical Creation From The Realm Of Opposites - Mercurius / 2018
3) The unreachable place (again) - Truth & Beauty / 1999
4) Deep sky time - New life dreaming / 2005
5) Memory - Empetus / 1986
6) Liminal - At The Threshold Of The In-Between - Mercurius / 2018
7) Calyx revelation - Halcyon days  / 1996
8) Longing to be...- Sigh of ages / 2010
9) Night strands - The road eternal / 2011
10) Cloud Of Unknowing - The magnificient void / 1996
11) Cloud of knowing - Shadow of time / 2016
12) Infinite shore - The magnificient void / 1996
13) Specter - Desert Solitaire/ 1989
14) Aftermath - Truth & Beauty / 1999
15) Calyx revelation w/Stephen Kent / Kenneth Newby – Halcyon Days / 1996
16) Oracle (part 2) -   Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces / 2003
17) Connected underground - Origins / 1993
18) HeartBreath - Tomorrow / 2020
19) One - 01 - Steve Roach, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig - Mantram / 2004
20) Immanent - Mercurius / 2018
21) Structures from silence - Structures from silence / 1984
22) Ascension for protection - Cavern of sirens / 1997
23) The current below -  Cavern of sirens / 1997
24) Aeon -  Mercurius / 2018
25) Birth still of places - Dynamic stillness / 2009 
26) Soul tones -  Soul tones / 2012
27) Underground clouds over a secret grotto - Atmospheric conditions / 1999
28) HearAfter - The Delicate Forever / 2014
28) Perfect sky -  The Delicate Forever / 2014
29) Quiet friend - Structures from silence / 1984
30) The return - Dreamtime Return / 1988
31) This life - Day out of time / 2002
32) Cloud of New Promise  / Michael Stearns ‎– Beyond Earth & Sky / 2021
33) The initiation - Steve Roach, David Hudson, Sarah Hopkins – Australia: Sound Of The Earth / 2001

Steve Roach - Ambient mix (Invisible Landscapes)

James Clements is back on ASIP but this time with his widely admired ASC alias. 'Original Soundtrack' is his first foray into an extremely minimal palette focused on the 🎹, mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri: Digital + Digipak CD now available: http://asip.me/asip037

ASC / Original Soundtrack (ASIP037) [Previews]

This month's mix comes from Madrid-based duo Menhir. With their recent album released on Piano and Coffee Records in the bag, they share with us some of their influences, and tracks they are enjoying right now. A true experimental journey through a variety of soundscapes, very textural. 

We also chat about site-specific music, and their take on using sound to affect a landscape and the Earth in this interesting interview: https://subtempo.com/mixes/menhir

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 042 - Menhir

Welcome to the 6th chapter of the Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. This time a Live set created by Triames. 
He called is set:

Thermal Expansion ("The tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in temperature")

In his tracklist he gives a explanation about this unique set. Enjoy his journey in to the realms of the Thermal Expansion!

Tracklist:

There's no tracklist, it's just a collection of patches, sounds and effects that played well together, performed and tweaked live, which is how I like to play ambient and drone sets: with no particular tracks or sections in mind, just a constant flow of sound.

Some sounds used for the first half of the set come from my collection of Buddha Machines: I like to physically place two or three them in front of some source of background noise (the ocean, air conditioner units, dripping taps, distant factories, traffic...) and record a couple of minutes of what unfolds. Then I load the results into a sampler and play with it, which creates all sorts of interesting harmonies, rhythms and textures. There's also water drops hitting the top of a coffeemaker and the wind shaking a bunch of reeds in there, see if you can spot them

Links:

@triames

facebook.com/triames

Photography and Design: Jeroen Smulders

Circiut Jellyfish Design: NLz

Ambient Sessions # 06 - Triames

Araceae presents us with a stunning ambient/techno album based on hundreds of field recordings from travels, nature, and the varied moments of his life. 

Read the full interview: https://mnmt.no/exclusive/araceaes-ambient-techno-release/

more info

MNMT Mix: Araceae – Lunae Semita

Campfire Stories 56 (Remembrances) by Synthbiont & Anassimandrus

~ About The Story ~

Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee, 
Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! 
Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, 
Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave? 

Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover 
Over the mountains, on that northern shore, 
Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover 
Thy noble heart forever, ever more? 

Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, 
From those brown hills, have melted into spring: 
Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers 
After such years of change and suffering! 

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, 
While the world's tide is bearing me along; 
Other desires and other hopes beset me, 
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong! 

No later light has lightened up my heaven, 
No second morn has ever shone for me; 
All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given, 
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee. 

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished, 
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, 
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, 
Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy. 

Then did I check the tears of useless passion— 
Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine; 
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten 
Down to that tomb already more than mine. 

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, 
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; 
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, 
How could I seek the empty world again? 

-BY EMILY BRONTË

~ Chapters ~

1. Gailes - Requiem for an airport television newsreader [Ba Da Bing!]
2. S.A.M. - Untitled [Delaphine 003]
3. Huerco S – A sea of love [Proibito]
4. Waveform Transmission – V 2.4-2.7 [Astral Industries]
5. Loscil – Névé [Glacial Movements Records]
6. Aepiel – Cache [ESHU records]
7. Bvdub - Heartless [n5MD]
8. Jon Hopkins - Open eye signal (Asleep version) [Domino]
9. Cosimo Damiano - Diana Nemorense [NVDA]
10. David Morley – Frozen [Apollo]
11. Hysee - Circular dispute [Visceral Vibrations]
12. Gras - Untitled IV [Riviera Club]
13. Kasper Marot – Hajsoen [Oscillat Music]
14. Warmth – Fisura [Rohs! records]
15. Blamstrain – 6 pm [Erotus]
16. Vladislav Delay – D./Kompila [~scape]
17. Robert Leiner - Visions of the past [Apollo]
18. Heavenly Music Corporation – Cloudless light [Astral Industries]
19. Rdei - Az erdő hangja [Visionary Mind Records]
20. Abul Mogard – Tumbling Relentless Heap [Ecstatic]
21. Vangelis - Tales of the future [Warner Music Group]
22. The Gods Planet – Days [TGP]
23. Sepia Parlour - Mother lode [Lagerstätte]
24. Skirt - Mirage (Lakker remix) [Trolldans]
25. Tapan - Tarantella (Black Merlin remix) [Malka Tuti]
26. Abul Mogard – The purpose of peace [Ecstatic]

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

- - -

Photo: Mari Pa

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories #56

Campfire Stories 56 (Remembrances) by Synthbiont & Anassimandrus

I present you the 7th special podcast in the serie. A ambient set created by Ambionic. He divided the set in four different sessions. You can read it  in the description in the tracklist.

Bio: 
Ambionic (Joe Woodruff) has been an avid collector of all types of music since the early 90's and began mixing electronic music around 12 years ago. Initially influenced by Trance, Psy Trance, House and Techno, he now pursues the deeper and more downtempo sounds of Dub and Ambient.

Link:
https://soundcloud.com/ambionic-jw

About the mix:

For this ambient mix I decided to focus on the sound of nature with each section representing a different season and atmosphere, I hope you enjoy the journey...

Natura Contraversim:

Blankets of frozen white
Life hidden from the cold

1. Lost In A Blizzard
2. Om Ovnimoon - Algun Dia
3. The Snow Frogs Awakening
4. Hydrangea - Morning Dew
5. Luigi Tozzi - Epipelagic
6. Ishq - Opal (Opaque Mix)

Darkening shadows
Leaves drift to sleep

7. Imaginary Softwoods - Aura Show
8. Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2
9. 36 - Black Soma
10. Heavenchord - Gate 4
11. Hecq - Night Falls (Reworked by Christoph Berg)

Warm sunlight on the earth
Plants grow stronger

12. Steve Good - 360
13. Melodia - The Spirit Of The Rain Arrives To The Forest
14. Poemme - Birdsong
15. about : forest - Feeling Light
16. Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Lost In The Humming Air

Life awakening 
A world is reborn

17. Purl - Skäralid
18. Hotel Neon - Remnants
19. Poemme - Murmuration
20. Steve Good - Nimbus
21. Washed Up On A Jungle Beach

Artwork created by Jeroen

Natura Contraversim

Deep Electronics Special #07 - Ambionic (Natura Contraversim)

3Six recordings provide the latest isolatedmix - an atmospheric journey through some stunning ambient.
--
01. Chris Watson - 10m
02. Thomas Köner - Teimo
03. Deathprod - Treetop Drive 3
04. Markus Guentner - Wenn Musik Der Liebe Nahrung Ist
05. Celer - Balsam
06. William Basinski - El camino Real
07. Arvo Pärt - Für Alina (Rafael Anton Irisarri Cover)
08. Bass Communion - Ghosts On Magnetic Tape II
09. Mono - Due Foglie, Una Candela : Il Soffio Del Vento
10. Christian Fennesz - Plays Charles Matthews
11. Arovane - Scapen Te
12. Grouper - Sick
13. Talvihorros - Handwriting (Part II)
14. Resignation - I (2)
15. 36 - After Time
--
http://astrangelyisolatedplace.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/isolatedmix-12-36/

isolatedmix 12 - 36

Music from A Strangely Isolated Place + 9128.live.

Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

isolatedmix 12 - 36

astrangelyisolatedplace

Recent comments

izel

Mads Linden

ThatChickkMei

Attack Ships On Fire

Related tracks