Welcome to Episode 16 of The Ambient Zone Podcasts, curated and produced exclusively for us by Digitonal featuring tracks from across The Ambient Zone Playlists  

1. Ulrich Schnauss - I Take Comfort in you Ignorance  (Arovane AMX2) (Scripted Realities)  
2. Mr Projectile - Underneath the Evening (Merck Records)  
3. The Black Do –  Chesh (Warp Records)  
4. Luto -  Mount Kenya Imperial (LostTribe  Sound) 
5. Cliff Martinez - WillShe  Come Back (Fox Film Music Corp.)  
6. Hotel Neon - 1:57 (Green Kingdom remix)(Hotel Neon  Music)
7. Brian McBrid - Overture (For Other Halfs)(Kranky)  
8. Plaid - Masat Shuffle (Warp Records)  
9. The AlbumLeaf  – Twentytwofourteen (EMI)  
10. Dirk Maassen – Muse (Dirk Maassen)  
11.  Bonobo - Second Sun (Ninja Tune) 
12. Danny Norbury - Speak, Memory (Static Caravan)

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The Ambient Zone // Episode 16

GUEST MIX - Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler 

Episode 17 of The Ambient Zone Podcasts, curated and produced by Digitonal featuring GUEST MIX by Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler 
 
1. Digitonal - Paper Unicorn 
2. Silver Mt Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round The Side Of Your Bed – (Constellation) 
3. Disasterpeace - Seeds of The Crown – (Disasterpeace) 
4. Greg Haines - Something Happened – (Denovali Records) 
5. Ben Fehr & Liam Cutler - Lock (Rework/Open)  
6. Carl Stone - Solo – (Felmay Records)  
7. Molly Drake - Poor Mum – (Island Records) 
8. Tim Hecker - Black Refraction – (kranky) 
9. Mark Pritchard - EMS – (Warp Records) 
10. Richard Norris - Echo Chamber – (The Ambient Zone) 
11. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - W – (Erased Tapes) 
12. Alex Zhang Hungtai - Pierrot – (NON Worldwide) 
13. Thomas Ragsdale - Acolytes – (This Is It Forever) 
14. Colin Stetson - Spindrift – (Colin Stetson) 
15. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - All Things Beautiful – (Warner Bros) 
16. Zbiegnew Preisner - First Time Outside – (Varese Sarabese Records)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 17 featuring Guest Mix by Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler

The Ambient Zone Podcast: Episode 18

Episode 18 of The Ambient Zone Podcast series, curated and produced by Digitonal

The Ambient Zone // Episode 18

The Ambient Zone Podcast: Episode 19

Episode 19 of The Ambient Zone Podcast series, curated and produced by Digitonal    
1. Brambles – Arete (Serein)  
2. Northcape - Arrive Ruttledge Col (Sun Sea Sky Productions)  
3. Bola – Maghellen (Skam Records)  
4. Boards of Canada – Telepath (Warp Records)  
5. Meredith Monk - Earth Seen from Above (Delos)  
6. Aphex Twin - #1 (Warp Records)  
7. 36 - Room 1(A Strangely Isolated Place)  
8. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Solari (Editions Milan Music)  
9. Loner - Light Works (The Ambient Zone)  
10. Boundary - Intro (Diecisiete) (El Cuarto Elastico)  
11. Wouter Dewit - La Durée (Zeal Records)  
12. Hotel Neon - Essential Nature (Archives)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 19

The Ambient Zone Podcast is a monthly radio show from The Ambient Zone, the definitive home of ambient music. Curated and produced by Digitonal, it features ambient music from across the full musical spectrum, with occasional Guest Mixes.

Featuring  tracks  from  across  The  Ambient  Zone  Playlists  as  follows:
1. Greg Haines - Wake Mania Without End II (Denovali Records)    
2. Julia Kent - The Leopard (The Leaf Label)  
3. Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat (Virgin Records)  
4. Loscil - Angle of Loll (Kranky)  
5. The Dead Texan - Aegina Airlines (Kranky)  
6. Jon Hopkins – Candles (Domino Records)      
7. Clocolan - Escarpment at Pella  
8. Proem - No Imback (the1056)  
9. Arthr - Been Here Once Before (Arthr)    
10. Global Communication - 4:14 (Dedicated)    
11. Ishq – Elysian (Matthew Hillier)    
12. Yagya - Rigning Einn (Delsin Records)    
13. Echo Grid – Colour (Echo Grid)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 20

The Ambient Zone Podcast: Episode 21 

Episode 21 of The Ambient Zone Podcast series, featuring Guest Mix by ‘Fionn’, produced by Digitonal    
1. Boli Group – Overture (Posh Isolation)  
2. Elodie – Corridor (Ideologic Organ)
3. Hakobune – Undulate (The Ambient Zone)    
4. Simon Scott & Marcus Fisher – Thorns (12k)
5. Clams Casino – Wavey (Clams Casino)    
6. My Bloody Valentine - Loose My Breath (Sony Music Ent. Ltd)   
7. Tasos Stamou – Pirates (Discrepant)    
8. Arthur Russel - Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix) (Modern Love)
9. Ben Vince – Assimilation (Where To Now)    
10. Hudson Mohawke - Eye For An Eye (Reprise)  
11. Ben Fehr & Liam Cutler – Lock (The Ambient Zone)   
12. Robert Lippok - All Objects Are Moving (Raster – Artistic Platform) 
13. SOPHIE – Infatuation (Transgressive Records)   
14. ImCoPav x Ezhak - Well Hello There, Baby (ImCoPav)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 21

The Ambient Zone Podcast - Episode 22
Curated and produced by Digitonal 

1. Mike Lazarev, Arovane - Footsteps (Moderna Records)
2. Autechre - 32a_reflected (Warp Records) 
3. John Metcalfe - Twelve Days Later (Neue Meister/Edel Germany GmbH) 
4. Olan Mill - Neutrino (Olan Mill/Preservation) 
5. Young American - Primitive Sunrise (Zoe Magik)
6. Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silence, Pt1(Kranky) 
7. Kodomo - Orange Ocean (Loscil Remix) (Kodomo) 
8. Loess - Brumal (n5MD)
9. Cerulean Skies - Set in Stone (Cerulean Skies)
10. Shuttle358 - Calty (12K) 
11. Masayoshi Fujita - Snowy Night Tale (Erased Tapes) 
12. Locust Toybox - Fika (Brainfeeder)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 22

The Ambient Zone // Episode 24
Featuring ILUITEQ, Echaskech, Rob Lewis, Marconi Union.... Compiled and producedby Digitonal
1. ILUITEQ - No Longer Know (Follow the Light Mix)(The Ambient Zone) 
2. Roger Eno - Salty Tears(Painted Word Music)
3. Echaskech – Hyphae(The Ambient Zone)
4. Simon Scott – Modena(Air Texture) 
5. Rob Lewis – Roots(Ambient Zone Mix) (The Ambient Zone)
6. Talk Talk - The Rainbow(Parlophone Records) 
7. Radiant Mind, Steve Roach -Sphere 5(Time Room) 
8. Specimens - Unfold in All Directions(SVS Records / First Terrace Records) 
9. Marconi Union - Weightless (253 Edit)(The Ambient Zone)
10. The Prodigy - 3 Kilos(XL Recordings)

The Ambient Zone // Episode 24

“These are soundscape of the area that was heavily affected by Great East Japan Earthquake, where the Tsunami washed my whole town away on the 11th March, 2011.

Some people may say that those places are completely gone since the Tsunami. But we know it’s not true. There are beautiful new things born everyday in the place where it has lost everything in the past, and I want you to know it.”

Nami Sato grew up in Sendai – a small town on the coast side of Japan. In 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, a Tsunami washed out many towns. Her hometown, Arahama, was one of them. Ever since, she has made music in an attempt to create “scenery, fragrance and a special holy place in mind” for anyone who listens her songs.  
 
In summer of 2017, Public Cultural Foundation in Sendai city organized the project to report the presence of the affected area. These tracks werecreated while she attended the local events herself. 
 
“When the tsunami struck, my parents were at work out of town. I managed to avoid the direct hit too as I was in my University of Arts in Yamagata City (a mountainous town 80km away from Arahama) but I felt a very strong tremor and all the infrastructure was down completely for several days.

My grandfather was in Arahama when it happened. We found his body in a mountain of rubble and mud about a week after the disaster. Our family dog I grew up with like a sibling was at my parent’s house when it struck, and after 8 years, we still haven’t found his body.

I understand what happened to us is a tragedy. However, predominantly, these experiences are part of my personal life experience. I accept the reality of what happened as is, rather than being in despair. “Making music” was at the heart of that process of acceptance. I would like to share this universal fact, that these personal life events always have impact on all artists and musicians work, including myself.”

Nami’s atmospheric suites inspire both calmness and wonder. With gorgeous layerings of synth, piano, guitar, field recordings and more, her songs recreate our world as much as they reimagine it. The title of each of these songs is the name of the area where the field recordings were carried out. Nami visited those 5 areas with her microphone and focused on capturing the sound of local festivals of affected areas and disaster relief events. She created collages of sound by extracting and using the most personally memorable part of the recording. This was her attempt to reconstruct all of the things lost including town, people and scenery in the listeners mind through music.  
 
Her first independent album ‘In spring at the north wasteland’ was released in 2011 as a part of the fund raising project to support orphans of the Tsunami.  In 2018, she qualified for the Red Bull Music Academy in Berlin as a solo ambient musician. Her musical performances brought many of her listeners to tears. Some say ‘she touched our soul with her sound’. 

“If time is on a linear line that leads to the future, I personally feels like that line was split abruptly on 11th of March 2011. It almost feels like we slipped into a parallel world and cannot find the way back home. This unusual feeling is something I can share with other refugees who suffered the disaster and the radiation leak. We cannot retrieve what we lost. This strange discomfort will last a lifetime but our lives go on. There are people there and something new is born every day in this little town 300km away from Tokyo, on a small island country that is on the edge of the world map. It makes me really happy and content to show it to the listeners through my music.”

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instagram : https://www.instagram.com/10jikannetai/ 
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/om73

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Nami Sato - Arahama

Featuring Geist, Nami Sato, Neil Foster, Ocoeur, Still-Life, Khotin, Faru, Bengalfuel, Plaid…

Curated and mixed by Digitonal. 

1. Geist - Tranquility Base (The Ambient Zone)
2. Neil Foster - Shine (The Ambient Zone)
3. Ocoeur - Progression (Field Rotation Rework) (N5MD)
4. Still-Life - Ghosts from the Past (The Ambient Zone)
5. Khotin - Frog Fractions (Pacific Rhythm)
6. Celer - Elapsed Paradise (Celar)
7. Nami Sato - Arahama (The Ambient Zone)
8. Faru - When we Follow (The Ambient Zone)
9. Bengalfuel - Gryphon (The Ambient Zone)
10. Plaid - Praze (Warp Records)
11. Kelly Moran - Helix (Edit) (Warp Records)
12. r beny - If I (Dauw)