Beautiful my friend. All of it...Thank you ❤️🙏🏼

This is so stunning. Ill use this while im working. 

Another beatiful mix my talented brutha!! Thank you

Puts me in a beautifully natural place of refuge :-)

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window (Hiatus Remix)

It’s been a grim year. I won’t add to the countless column inches exploring why; suffice to say I’ve spent a great deal of it feeling like humanity is on the edge of oblivion, and wondering if, all things considered, that might not be such a bad thing. At other times I’ve clung to what Obama described as ‘the audacity of hope’ – the idea that we may one day learn to live with love, that future generations may finally step out of the shadow of fear that divided and conquered their ancestors.

I wrote this track the night before last, then got up at 5am to record the guitar before engines started roaring in the bus garage outside my flat. You can hear a few birds singing at the end, but that seemed appropriate, so I left it in. 

Thanks for listening in 2016. Here’s hoping.

20.12.16

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There’s a modern term that has recently entered our vocabulary, arising from the need to describe the mental and existential distress caused by climate change: Solastalgia. Drought spreads across the land, storms lash the coasts and plastic choked ocean waters rise swallowing cities and islands.  Closer to home, fires burn across our state of California and the toxic clouds of smoke that descend on the Bay Area each fall and blacken the sky become an annual occurrence, as if it were its own dark season. The one where we pull out our apocalyptic Vog masks so we can breathe as, instead of colorful leaves falling from trees, bits of burning ash flutter down upon us. All in the shadow of the oil refineries that loom over the so-called sacrifice zones we live in.

 Now that I have a young toddler, who has just started preschool a couple of miles from the refinery, I wonder what kind of planet will be left for him and all the future generations. When we think about all that has already been lost - the trees, the waters, the beings - the emotional anguish can flood in like a red tide. Yet just a few weeks back, joining millions of youth and their allies marching in the streets for their Climate Strike to save our planet, I also felt a small sense of hope and imagined my little one joining them someday, not just in the fight, but in the greener future.

 There’s much still to celebrate here on Mother Earth and so this blend is a tribute to the songs and sounds of our wondrous planet as we still have it. At a time of nationalism and tightening borders, music still has its magical power to transcend all that, as our one international language that moves us in ways beyond words. So while some music choices honor tradition, others focus on collaborations across time, countries, cultures, shattering any notion that we must live behind walls, or that we are anything but beings that share one planet together.  

My sonic travels were greatly enhanced by collaborating with a fellow audiophile and sound documentarian, Heather, who spent a year recording sounds and soundscapes from around the world to answer the question, "what do we sound like?"—from human-made urban rhythms, to the sounds of people at work and at play, to the animals that make their own music day and night, and nature itself joining in the chorus.

In the meantime, happy travels through the sonic wilds of Solastalgia.  Don’t forget to pack your headphones!

SOLASTALGIA SETLIST
U2 with Brian Eno - Zooropa (Intro) - Zooropa
weSound Interlude 1
Peter Gabriel - The Rabbit-Proof Fence - Long Walk Home 
Sanggar Ceraken of Bali - Prelude For Meditation - Gamelan Cage
Asuna & Opitope - the lake was opened when came out of the grove at the dawn - The Crepuscular Grove
Maghreb Machine - Aum Boreal - single
Dark Morph - Kavura - Dark Morph
Massive Attack - Home of the Whale (Mayday Mix) - single for Parley For The Oceans
Orchestra Baka Gbine - Liquindi 1 - Voice of the Rainforest
Aukai - Colorado - Branches of the Sun
Clave Y Guaguanco & Bill Laswell - Para Clave Y Guaguanco - Imaginary Cuba
Frank Emilio & Bill Laswell - Loungin’ With F.E. - Imaginary Cuba
weSound Interlude 2
Anugama & Sebastiano - African Journey - Baraka soundtrack
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro - Un Canto A Mi Tierre - Tradition In Transition
Da Lata feat. Jandira Silva & Pedro Martins - Ronco Da Cuica - Fabiola
Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle - Watch We (Souljazz Orchestra remix) - Strut Africa
Karsh Kale, Natacha Atlas & Nitin Sawney - Nomadic Sky - Samaya
Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express - Allah Elohim - Junun
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Lasidan - Talking Timbuktu
Astor Piazzolla - Prologue (Tango Apasionada) - Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night
Kongar-ol Ondar - It’s Hard To Lose A Friend - Genghis Blues soundtrack
weSound Interlude 3
Cheb I Sabbah - Hari Om Narayan - As Far As
Kailash & Ducky
Iarla O’Lionaird - Abha - Bliss

Solastalgia

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In my last Dream Feed, I collaborated with Heather Love, a global documentenarian of audio soundscapes from her travels to different corners of our Earth. We were also co-members of a local Listening Lab dedicating complete attention to music so often a background to something else we are doing.  I appreciate the spirit of anyone who devotes time to sharing the amazing everyday sounds that surround us everywhere that we so often miss, caught up in our own hustle.  Of course, our reality is different now that we are largely confined to our home environments, waiting out the viral storm outside.  So it feels like a good moment to offer the balm of music in these edgy times from our first guest Dream Feed, a moving journey of sound.  Here's Heather:

INTRO
There's not much to know about me other than to say I'm a human like any other human who is, as Adam Phillips writes, "dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear." Developing self-love has felt elusive and chaotic until I began to focus on tolerating the experience of being myself. In bearing my aliveness, I surf sensations in my energy body, I doodle maps of the abyss, and on the days where I find myself anesthetizing instead of being brave, I laugh and double down on whatever (mostly-harmless) hedonistic comfort I've landed in. As I've learned to tolerate and love myself, so has it become effortless to tolerate and love every being. To no longer watch from the sidelines, but to bear withness in all things.

This Dream Feed, Bearing Withness, is dedicated to the intensity of the human experience. We incarnate, we think we have a clue, we realize nobody has a clue, we forgive ourselves, we love ourselves, we love the world, we are the world, we die unto ourselves, and we bear ourselves again. I give thanks to my teachers and lovers and friends. I especially give thanks to Ram Dass, who passed away this past December 22nd. In bearing his own aliveness with so much love and laughter, he gave us a model for how to do the same for ourselves. "Love everyone, and tell the truth." "We're all just walking each other home." "Be here, now." And I give thanks to you, dear listener, for the gift of bearing your aliveness that we may bear withness together for the rest of the ride.

TRACKLIST
They Dream By Day - Pruina - Pruina
Kid Koala - The Observable Universe - Music To Draw To: Satellite
ODESZA - Kusanagi-Instrumental - In Return (Deluxe Edition)
Mt. Wolf - Red - Red (Deluxe Edition)
Mike Monday - When The Rain Falls - Smorgasbord
Donso - Waati - Waati-EP
Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya - Mogoya
Konradsen - Baby Hallelujah - Saints And Sebastian Stories
Jay Electronica - Better In Tune With The Infinite
Josh Ritter - Dreams - Gathering
Ibrahim Maalouf - Beirut - Diagnostic
Sussan Deyhim - Beshno Az Ney / Windfall - City Of Leaves
Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not Be Sad In This World - I Will Not Be Sad In This World
East Forest & Ram Dass w/ Krishna Das & Javad Butah - I Am Loving Awareness (Christopher Willits Rework) - Reworks
Moby w/ Damien Jurado - Almost Home - Innocents
Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window - Immunity
Maree Docia - At Last, Sunrise - We Were Legends
Essie Jain - O, I Love You - Until The Light Of Morning

Bearing Withness (guest set Heather Love)

We walked through the redwoods before the fires came.  The ancient green and silence surrounding us a safe haven from the pandemic world beyond the trees. Now, the beach, where the waves meet the shore between the smoke and marine layer, is a place of wild comfort.  The meditation cushion, surrounded by candles and incense in the predawn darkness, a space of refuge, to catch one’s breath from all that’s suffocating outside.  We all have our secret, sacred spaces outside and in, that we retreat to for ease and comfort, especially now with a world going up in flames.

Music has always been my infinite private temple, that untouchable realm, an impenetrable bubble of sound I could cocoon myself in for awhile to rediscover myself while the storm blows over.  So I’ve turned to it again in this time of anxiety, fear and uncertainty.  This offering is my transport through a turbulent sea to a hidden island, where the sun burns bright, the trees are abundant with life, the turquoise waters are tranquil and the sky is eternal blue.

LATIBULE
The Wong Janice - Good Morning Melbourne - Birds of Melbourne (EP)
Poemme - Birdsong - Arboretum
Cheb I Sabbah - Devotion - Devotion
Jon Hopkins - 1/2 Singing Bowl (Ascension) Excerpt - (Single)
Laaraji - Ocean Flow (Seahawks Deep Drift Mix) - Sun Transformations
Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper - Opening - Glassforms
Dalai Lama - Compassion - Inner World
Bobby Hutchinson - Manzanita - Linger Lane
Alice Coltrane - Lovely Sky Boat - A Monastic Trio
Michael Kiwanuka - Interlude (Loving The People) - Kiwanuka
Hiatus - Distancer - (Single)
Aukai - Akal Ki - Game Trails
Laraaji - Kalimba - Celestial Music 1978-2011
Seckou Keita - The Path from Gabou - 22 Strings
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Is Love What You Don’t Know - Tag Eins Tag Zwei
Hampshire & Foat - Lullaby - Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
Garth Stevenson - Dusk - Flying
Emilio Villalba & Sara Marina - Al Andalus - Al Andalus

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