Music For Focus

Live PA recording from Airspace event, April 25, 2015

Gear used:
MacBook Pro with Ableton Live
Livid CNTRL:R midi controller
Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo
Strymon Blue Sky Reverb


Airspace: Black Dot - LIVE PA

segue - [ soundcloud.com/segueambient ] + [ www.facebook.com/seguemusic/ ] 

TL:
Bing & RUth - The Towns We Live is Our Town 
Porya Hatami - Fen (by Segue) 
Alex Humann - Blurs 
Klara Lewis - Shine 
Refracted - The Jungle is Thick 
Organon - Orbital Colony II 
Hydrangea - Going and Coming Back 
Takuya Morita - Silent Stream 
Zzzzra - Assurance Malheurs 
Deepchord - Where Science Meets the Divine (original mix) 
Purl - Stillpoint 
Xoki - Past & Present & Future (feat. Hieronymus)

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segue - hello strange podcast #159

Campfire Stories 45 (Litha) by El Choop (@el_choop)

~ About The Story ~

Midsummer —
Longest day
Shortest night
Longest light
Shortest dark
The world within
Echoes the world without
Lush foliage, leaves unfurled
Soft springy grass dotted with
Brightly colored flowers peeping through
The earth is green and bright
With warm sunny days
Clear velvety blue skies
Gentle cool breezes
Nature in glory
Our hopes blossom
Creativity flowers
With the season
The seeds of the fruit
Our desires will bear
Can be seen
On the stems
Of our dreams
- JT

~ Chapters ~

0:00 - 32:00 - Live Ambient Improvisation
32:00 - End - DJ mix

~ 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.

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 45 (Litha) by El Choop

The first installment of a monthly mix series focussing on the more meditative and intricate layers of house and techno music.

Reflective Sessions Vol.1

@bossmanwines

~ Tracklist ~

Kapak - Les Ciels De Plomb
Bug Bus Piano - Fare Evade
JAB - A Little Breeze
India Jordan - Rest
Black Zone Magick Chant  - Where Will We Meet When Our Ashes Are Spread In The Wind
Not Glass - Ludicrum
Cloudface - Unhex
Gooooose - Lab White (Sote Persian Electro-Acoustic Rework) 
Blackwater - Woodstock
Hesitation - Monday, Noon
MJ Lallo - Birth Of A Star Child
Bug Bus Piano - Apauauaya45Season
JAB - Planner’s Beauty

~

It is a great joy to present the next Deep Mind Music mix, a deeply healing and very special mix from a friend of mine, Bossman Wines. 

Listening to this mix feels like being suspended in a hologram of fractal light, as tones and colours wash over you. It’s an intimate, vulnerable and moving listen, inspiring my continued faith in ambient music as an incredible tool for cathartic emotional processing. I listened to it twice in a row on a flight last week when my body was feeling pretty fragile,  I certainly felt better after. The perfect soundtrack for zooming out of existence for a while.

Bossman Wines says he made the mix of “long exhale tracks, built of tones and textures which are gentle and vital, long rung chimes, flutes and glowing pads which move slowly and soothe.” This creates an enveloping and spacious energy which allows thoughts to trail off into ether, and the mind to relax. The mix does feel like a continuous gentle exhalation too, of feelings, of tensions, of problems, as each is released and let go by the end of the mix, one’s soul feels lighter. 

I’ll leave you to listen with a poem Bossman Wines wrote to accompany the mix:

Bigger notion and process;
true dream is experience, decoded through our flat filter.
Under the slow rush looking up,
gaze we into distant past.
Stitched together from zero to one –
the real that blinks with one fragment to next,
explained by sequence
but remembered backwards.
We are all our breaths at once,
zero to one, then back to nothing.
Step we out further, it looks calm from far away.

~

~ Downloads Enabled ~

Deep Mind Music

Bossman Wines ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.10

It's my pleasure to welcome Yan to the podcast, co-founder of Harmony Rec. and beloved resident of Prague's Ankali. We finally crossed paths in Japan last fall, playing together in Shibuya in what became one of my favorite memories of the year before heading off to the one-and-only Labyrinth.

Having just celebrated their sixth anniversary and with six label releases now under their belt, the Harmony Rec. crew have a lot to celebrate. You can hear it in this mix, I think, buoyant and addictive in its dedication to the never-ending dance floor. Yan takes us right into the zone and keeps us there.

@yanmmxiv
@harmony-rec

Photography by Alyce Currier.

Sure Thing Mix 098: Yan

I strive to create atmospheres that serve as a catalyst for emotional and cognitive exploration while bringing the listener into the more intricate layers of human consciousness.

For booking information, please contact me at joshuamccormickwriting@gmail.com

Reflective Sessions Vol.1

MYZTICO