We are thrilled to have awakened souls, the stunning collaborative project from James and Cynthia Bernard, up next on our mix series. 

Some words from awakened souls "Our upcoming record, Night Songs (coming to Past Inside on March 18th) is an ode to sleep and rest. We decided to center this mix around songs which have helped calm our minds after dark. Some songs are recent discoveries, while others have been bringing us comfort for many years. We hope this mix brings you quietude and perhaps even a chance to close your eyes and drift away."

So as always, sit back, relax and take a load off. Enjoy.

Tracklisting
1. Air (Pete Namlook)- Spiritual Invocation (Silent State Recordings) 0:01
2. Geotic- Wake With the Day (Geotic/Ghostly)2:40
3. zarr. -Liminal (Stereoscenic) 4:50
4. Líom- Horizon (self-released) 9:45
5. T 1 D 3 S- Traces (Dewtone Recordings) 12:30
6. Inhmost- Day Dream (Captured Visions) 15:27
7. MLO- Wimborne (Music From Memory) 19:15
8. Hallow Under- Night (LILA लीला ) 26:26
9. Koda- Dark Secrets We Harbor (Infraction Records) 30:20
10. Inquiri- Witness (Stereoscenic) 33:42
11. Jordan Christoff-фризура (NO PROBLEMA) 38:15
12. Dave Depper- Vienna Five (Jealous Butcher Records) 41:04
13. christina vantzou-11:11 (kranky) 44:35
14. zakè- Pure Violet (PITP) 47:27
15. awakened souls- Dream Work (PITP) 50:32

Take a Trip with awakened souls

@earthzone

Earthen Sea is the experimental ambient/techno solo project of Jacob Long.  He began releasing Earthen Sea material during the early 2000s. Released on limited-edition cassettes and CD-Rs, some of his earliest material utilized violin, tape decks, and keyboards to create eerie soundscapes.
In 2014, taking a more beat oriented approach, the "Mirage" EP was released on the Lovers Rock imprint.  This release was followed by the project's first full-length "Ink"which appeared on Lovers Rock in 2015. A digital EP titled "The Sun Will Rise" was released by Nicolas Jaar's Other People in 2016. Following a move to Brooklyn, Long released "An Act of Love," his debut on Kranky, in 2017. Two years later, the same label released his third album, "Grass and Trees," which presented a stripped-down, skeletonized version of dub techno.  The soon to be released album "Ghost Poems" will be his third release for Kranky.

Bandcamp:
https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/ 
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/earthen_sea/ 
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/EarthenSea
RA:
https://ra.co/dj/earthensea-us

Tracklist :
Thomas Koner - Calle De Argumosa, Madrid
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - wav1
Tortoise - His Second Story Island
Popp - Kali
Kilchhofer Anklin - Tal
Tomoko Sauvage - Clepsydra
SND - 00009 a.1
Teebs - Bound Ball
Kane Ikin - Slow Waves
Pole - Fohlenfurz
Various Artists - Erosion 3
Anjou - Lamptest
Klaus - Cry Tuff
Picnic - Cipher
Thomas Koner - Venice(Hour Ten)

Human Lessons #059 - Earthen Sea

"The earth has music for those who will listen." (Shakespeare)

We bring you 'Nirgal Vallis River' by owl.

Produced by: Pierre Nesi aka owl.
Mastering: Arthur Bohl at Melifera studio, France
Artwork: Daisy de Montjoye
Label: Melifera Records, France
Release Date : Saturday, December 17
Format: Digital

Bandcamp: https://melifera-records.bandcamp.com/album/rivers-mlf009

Melifera:
https://soundcloud.com/melifera_records
https://www.facebook.com/meliferarecords
https://melifera-records.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/meliferarecords

owl.:
https://soundcloud.com/owlfromdeepspace
www.facebook.com/owlfromdeepspace
https://owlfromdeepspace.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/pete_owl

Premiere: Owl - Nirgal Vallis River

A generative drone with some calming piano chords

The Floating Garden (Interlude)

The works of zakè always take their time unfolding into rich worlds of detailed, harmonic drone, and on Dolere – his latest for Germany’s Affin – he offers two of his most patient and affecting compositions to date, over a span of 70 minutes. For this study of the ways in which time itself seems to stretch and slow during phases of sorrow and pain, the artist describes an inspiration from the feeling of being “suspended in the weight of emotions we cannot change.”


First movement, “Dolera” (from the Latin dolor, describing anguish), drifts on gorgeous, melancholy waves that encourage total focus and slow, sympathetic breath. It is ensconced in a trademark analog hiss, adorned in the stereo field by sonic streaks of light and the contemplative sound of decayed tape samples, mimicking a mind unceasingly turning over its preoccupations. Nearly album-length in its own right, “Dolera” may act – like many zakè pieces – as a sonic Rorschach Test, equally capable of serving as emotional commiseration, or as the backdrop for the essential inner work of meditation.


The artist states: “This year, my life came to a halt, as if the Spring froze in its tracks; amidst the heaviness I longed for reprieve, and to escape the relentless march forward. These tracks serve as a refuge for those burdened by distraction or sorrow, offering a brief respite from the inexorable passage of time.”


Fittingly the title piece, “Dolere”, is named for the present-tense, infinitive form of dolor. This small but significant linguistic difference echoes the shift in mood from the album’s first half, as a more darkly-tinged drone underscores barely perceptible field recordings of birdsong, and the subtle drama of a glow peeking through somber fog. “Dolere” progresses at a deliberate pace, shifting its hues in the way tree shadows move across a forest floor; the background white-noise hiss builds in tandem as fixation intensifies. The only time entropy wins is when the final notes fade, and we’re returned to the ticking of the clock on the wall.


zakè’s catalog is rich with modern ambient highlights, and Dolere feels destined to become a touchstone of the genre in league with those by artists like Thomas Köner and Andrew Chalk, perfect for those in need of a breath during an era defined by breathlessness.


The partnership in this release is a natural fit, as zakè’s own renowned label Past Inside the Present has worked with Affin’s founder Joachim Spieth closely over the years, and both share the same noble goal of building uncommon sonic spaces outside the mainstream. Dolere is graced with artwork by legendary polymath Markus Guentner, whose own releases for Affin – alongside those of bvdub, Tori Fuko, and Simone Giudice – have helped define the label’s graceful aesthetic.

design | https://markus-guentner.de
mastering | www.ambientmountainhouse.com
Affin | https://affin.bandcamp.com

Dolere

zakè - Dolere

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/much-room

Telescope is a four-member electronic music improvisation band that blend different genres of electronic music 
Knower | Aleatoric | Late Night Fusion | Stenik 



Much Room 1

Simply a minimal, floating tune, subtle sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Generations was used a lot when making this, check it out here:

https://innesti.bandcamp.com/merch/generations-diy-kit

Thanks for listening...

Minimalis Fabrica

Floating in Generative

Disappearing Before Our Eyes

In The Days To Come

The impossible task. Find a way to summarize the last ten years of music featured on the A Strangely Isolated Place blog. There's only one person to do it. https://soundcloud.com/djtodos More info and download: asip.me/todosTenYears

Discover ten years of ASIP: http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/tagged

todos - Ten Years of A Strangely Isolated Place

todos: Ten Years of A Strangely Isolated Place

Markus Trige Frandsen AKA Respira is one of the co-founders of Nature Tales and a resident musician of The Vibroacoustic Studio in Copenhagen. For the past 2 years his creative work has mainly been centered around music performance for yoga and meditation. Creating soundscapes of free form and fluidity, exploring texture and depth and playing with the contrasts and similarities of organic and electronic sound, he aims towards union and coherence between nature and technology.

“Since being invited to participate in the multi-sensory installation The Vesica Project one year ago, I’ve had the honor to work with sound and vibroacoustic technology together. In this case meaning a floor turned into a subsonic speaker, vibrating the body of the listener lying on it, creating a physical dimension of the music which can be an extremely relaxing, sleep inducing and even pain-relieving experience.

In May, Nature Tales opened up The Vibroacoustic Studio in Copenhagen and the exploration of this fusion of art and technology is now going strong, with weekly sessions of sound-massage, movement, yoga and concerts.

This is the first of two short sets I played for our introduction sessions for Vibroacoustic Sound Massage on the 5th of July 2020 - an improvised journey combining deep synthetic atmospheres, traditional acoustic sound-healing elements and field recordings”

Support and follow Respira here:
https://soundcloud.com/respirabreathe
https://www.facebook.com/respirabreathe
https://www.instagram.com/respiracreative/
https://respira.bandcamp.com/

Photography by Mari Mur:
www.instagram.com/lyramur/
www.mur.galleria.fi/

Nature Tales Live Set #17: Respira - Talking To The Sea - Part 1

ambient & electronic music ... soundscapes, tones, melodies, textures, field recordings

Floating in Generative

Jacob Newman