I love all the elements so perfectly in balance in this composition

🖤💙🖤Contemplative deep love track🖤💙🖤

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Illuha, “Roji”
Kenneth Kirschner, “September 19, 1998”
Kory Reeder, “Somewhere, Some Place Else”
Steve Roden, “Airra (Hanging Garden) Second Version”
FUJI​|​|​|​|​|​||​|​|​|​|​TA, “Uguisu”
Alessandra Novaga, “April 21”
Asuna / Tomoyoshi Date / Federico Durand, “On the Shore of the Stray Pond”
Steve Roden / Brandon LaBelle, “The Quiet Mist Drones”
Felicia Atkinson, “Badlands”
Erik K. Skodvin, ‘Dreams of a New Beginning”
Matthew P. Hopkins, “Fog Study #1”
Lawrence English / Lea Berttucci, “Strata”
Andrew Weatthers, “The Cardinal, the Bike, the Stars”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 28Sep2023

Tired Sounds w/ Soporus. cosmic fragments / daydream soundtracks / resting heartbeats / piled-up drifts. Listen live - 1st Sundays, 4-6PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Elseware - Oneohtrix Point Never (Again / Warp 2023)
House of Light - zakè - (Orchestral Tape Studies II / Past Inside The Present 2023)
Windcatcher - Heather Woods Broderick (Domes / Dauw 2022)
Premonition (excerpt) - David Sylvian & Holgar Czukay (Plight & Premonition / Venture 1988)
Leaving The Stars Behind - Mary Yalex (Fantasy Zone / A Strangely Isolated Place 2023)
Antipodes - Silence & the Unwinking Minds and T1D3S (Antipodes / Mystery Circles 2023)
Every time - 7038634357 (Neo Seven / Blank Forms Editions 2023)
Analog Paralysis, 1978 - Tim Hecker (Ravedeath, 1972 / kranky 2011)
We're The Only Ghosts Here - Tarentel (We Move Through Weather / Temporary Residence Limited 2004)
JF Phase - Benjamin Mauch & Oahu (Phases / HSAL 2018)
Nana Piano - Kelly Lee Owens (LP.8 / Smalltown Supersound 2022)
North Sole - Elskavon (Origins / Western Vinyl 2023)
The Midsummer Sea - Goldmund and Hollie Kenniff (The Midsummer Sea / self-released 2023)
Alone In The Pavilion - r beny (Natural Fiction / self-released 2020)
La Vagabonde - Balmorhea (The Wind / Deutsche Grammophon 2021)
Mary You Were Wrong - Mary Lattimore (Collected Pieces II / Ghostly Intl 2021)
Mauve District (excerpt) - Stephan Mathieu (Mauve District / Schwebung 2023)
Anchor States (part I) - Stars of the Lid / John McCafferty (Ad Aspera Per Astra / kranky 1997)
Never Goodbye - Max Richter (Hostiles (Soundtrack) / Deutsche Grammophon 2018)
Atomos VII - A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Atomos / Erased Tapes 2014)
Belleville - Laurel Halo (Atlas / Awe 2023)
The Towns We Love Is Our Town - Bing & Ruth (Tomorrow Was The Golden Age / RVNG 2014)
Felt - Drum & Lace (Healing Together compilation / Past Inside The Present 2023)
Future Memory - Carmen Villain (Only Love From Now On / Smalltown Supersound 2022)
Infinite Ocean - zakè (Orchestral Tape Studies Collectanea / Past Inside The Present 2020)

Tired Sounds w/ Soporus - 01Oct2023

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Simon Scott, “AC Waters”
Tender Crust, “Pickled Galapagos”
Svarte Greiner, “Untitled”
Zelienople, “Mary Celeste”
Marja Ahti, “Dust / Light”
Lotus Eaters, “Untitled”
Daniel Menche, “Thatch”
Stephan Mathieu, “Et Sic In Infinitum”
Jon Mueller / Duane Pitre, “No Longer of Our Time”
Boris / Sunn O))), “N.L.T.”
Tender Crust, “White Birds, Waving Hands”
On, “In the Forest of the Night”
Boris / Sunn O))), “Blood Swamp”
Mirrorring, “Mirror of Our Sleeping”
The Language & Music of the Wolves, “Opening Howl”

This Green Earth

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 26Oct2023

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Dedicated to Steve Roden and Brian McBride

~Tracklist~ 
Steve Roden, “Small Fire 4”
Steve Peters & Steve Roden, “Winds Through Bleak Timber”
Steve Roden & Tu M’, “Paper Bridges and Small Soft Buildings”
Steve Roden, “Throat.”
Stars of the Lid, “Down 3”
Steve Roden, “Truth Is the Bell [Saarbrücken]”
Stars of the Lid, “Lactate’s Moment”
Stars of the Lid, “Be Little With Me”
Brian McBride, “Silent Motels”
Stars of the Lid, “Adamord”
Steve Roden, “Rust.”
Stars of the Lid, “Central Texas”
Stars of the Lid, “Sun Drugs”
Steve Roden & Tu M’, “Geographies”
Stars of the Lid, “Lagging”
Stars of the Lid, “The Daughters of Quiet Mind”
Stars of the Lid, “Goodnight”
Brian McBride, “String to Light Feed Frenzy”
Stars of the Lid, “Piano Aquieu”
Stars of the Lid, “Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage”
Steve Roden, “Resonantlightones”
Steve Roden & Jason Kahn, “Untitled”
Stars of the Lid, “Down”
Stars of the Lid, “A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process”
Steve Roden, “Star Cluster [First Bench]”
Brian McBride, “Our Last Moment in Song”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 23Nov2023

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. 

Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Laurel Halo, “Belleville”
Raum, “In Held Company”
CV & JAB, “Take the Hot Route”
Lucy Liyou, “Fold The Horse [종이접기]”
First Tone, “Ex Conceit II”
Apologist, “Anything You Want”
Andrew Weathers, “Two Conversations Heard Through Relevant Objects”
Ohio, “Drift of Autumn”
François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley, “Four Rays [Anti Divide]”
BIG|BRAVE, “The Fable of Subjugation”
Joe McPhee / Mette Rasmussen / Dennis Tyfus, “Death or Dinner?”
Sandy Ewen / Jason Nazary, “Made Way for Ice”
Stephen O’Malley & Anthony Pateras, “Déjà Su”
SG, “Rain Nr.9”
Patrick Shiroishi, “How Will Get Back to Life Again?”
Tyresta, “I Dreamt That We Were Laughing”
Raum, “Blood Loss”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 28Dec2023

Geoscope w/ Westov Temple.Unlimited data for introspection.
Listen live - first Sundays, 6-8PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

Special guest ~ Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ]. 3-hour edition of Geoscope focused on music released between 2005 and 2011.

~Tracklist~
WT
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Reprisal [note: not from 2005-2011 but played intentionally...it's part of the story]
Tstewart - Along Blue Eyed Creek 
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues 
Broadcast - Black Cat
Morgan Packard - I Think I  
Burial - Ghost Hardware 
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Like A Restless Sea

CR
Seaworthy & M. Rösner - Meroo Sedgeland Pt. 1
Solo Andata - Beneath This Stone Wall
Taylor Deupree - A Fading Found
Savvas Ysatis & Taylor Deupree - Listen to the Morning Sleeping

WT
Mohlao - Ambrose
Andreas Tilleander  - Folded Lines 
MLZ - M-Brane
Sven Weisemann - Amirty
Sascha Dive - Deepest America (Samuel Davis Dark Soul Mix)
Millie and Andrea - Black Hammer 
2562 - Enforcers

CR
Bird Show Band - Quintet One
Valet - Babylon 4 Eva
Ilyas Ahmed - As Those Above
Pan American - Dr. Robert Goddard
Burial - In McDonalds

WT
Shackleton - Bastard Spirit
Isomer Transition - Give Me Your Hand 
Function - Reykjavik
Frozen Border - A1 01
Levon VIncent. - Double Jointed Sex Freak
Shackleton - Next To Nothing [Guilaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix]
Autechre - Tankakern

CR
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon
Emeralds - Damaged Kids
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Strelka Update
The Caretaker - Past Life Regression

Geoscope

Geoscope w/ Westov Temple & Carl Ritger - 07Jan2024

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Sounds from 2005-2011
~Tracklist~
Ustad Zia Mohiuddun Dagger, “Raga Yaman Kalyan – Jhala & Chautala [12 Beats]”
Oren Ambarchi, “Trailing Moss In Mystic Glow”
Solo Andata, “Aggregate”
Lisa Lenkerfeldt, “Stairway To The Interior”
Seaworthy, “Inside”
Cleared, “Nests”
Ezekiel Honig, “Folding Us In On Itself”
Svarte Greiner, “Bird”
Nephila, “A Subtle Shift In The Smallest Hours”
Fennesz / Daniell / Buck, “Unüberwindbare Wände”
Barn Owl, “Ancestral Star”
Celer, “All You See Is Red But All You Feel Is Blue”
Seaworthy, “Inside 2”
Chihei Hatakeyama / Federico Durand, “María”
Stephan Mathieu, “In Them A Giant Diverted Himself”
Matt Christensen / Dousing, “1”
Thomas Köner, “28º 41’ N 17º 45’ W Hour Four”
Belong, “I Never Lose. Never Really”
Ezekiel Honig, “Past Tense Kitchen Movement

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 28Jan2024

Somewhere Else w/ The Ultraesthetic. Suffer a sea change into something rich and strange. Listen live - 2nd Sundays, 2-4PM ET at www.greatcircles.net

Somewhere Else w/ The Ultraesthetic - 11Feb2024

Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

~Tracklist~
Chihei Hatakeyama, “Swaying Curtain in the Window”
Lawrence English, “Complimentary Cicada”
Opitope, “An White Drop of Morning Dew”
Tomoyoshi Date, “A Supermarket in the Woods”
Asuna & Opitope, “Column of Air”
Lawrence English, “Chamber”
Tetuzi Akiyama / Ken Ikeda / Chihei Hatakeyama, “III”
Illuha, “Mukaemizu”
Illuha, “Vertical Staves of Line Drawings and Pointillism”
Minamo, “Conceal”
Chihei Hatakeyama, “The Distant Sound of a Bustle”
Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels, “Ekki”
Chihei Hatakeyama, “Blue Reminder”
Lawrence English, “Bamboo Shinjuku”
Chihei Hatakeyama & Hakobune, “It Is, It Isn’t”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 22Feb2024

Somewhere Else w/ The Ultraesthetic. 

The first edition of Somewhere Else was be a very special one-- the entire two-hour show is 100% the Ultraesthetic's original solo material. What's more, the entire first hour or so is brand-new solo material which had not yet been heard by another living soul. Written, recorded, and arranged over the last two months, this work represents both the birth of a new direction and a logical continuation of previous efforts, both solo and collaborative.

Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else w/ The Ultraesthetic - 14Jan2024

Taken from my recently released album, 'Dzud.'

Recorded at home, Spring 2020.

Dzud

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Carl Ritger [FKA Radere; b. 1984] is a composer and sound artist hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently living and working on Colorado’s Front Range, his work composites acoustic sound sources, electronics, and location recordings into densely textured sonic environments.

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