2020_tranquil

Feb, 2010

Mix originally for http://noncollective.com/

夕方の影「Evening Shadows」[Mix, 2010]

June (i)tunes playlist  (Athens, 06-06-24, 37°C)


Isabel Zeumer, Karl Heinz Stegmann, Heinz Becker - Abends
Th Blisks - E v E 
L'Homme Statue - Jardim Secreto
Imaginaria - A State Of Mind
Rex Ilusivii - Letenje Jedrilice
Akis - Erotica
Arp - Il Sogno Di Monica 
Akis - At Sirius
Suso Saiz - Banana Buango-Mix
Sub Sub - Coast
Peak of Normal - Hava 
Folie 2 - SG Supersound 
Alex Ho - Tell Me 
David Datunashvili - Mixed Feelings
Alex Ho - Move
Paris Bis - Unis Dans La Nuit
Ghia - Keep Your House in Disorder 
Con Act - Lucky Dog
Hiroki Ishiguro - Unity
John Beltran - Em Trancoso
Cherly Glasgow - Glued to the Spot

Music For Heatwave I

On May 25th 2024, to accompany the launch of his Arthur Russell book "Travels Over Feeling" Richard King put together an event at London's Barbican celebrating Arthur's life with an all star musical cast recreating and reimagining his music.

I was thrilled to be invited to play a DJ set in the foyer afterwards. I have been an Arthur Russell devotee for 30 years and decided to play an all Arthur Russell DJ set*. The atmosphere was very special with lots of love transmitting back and forth from the DJ booth to the dancefloor. I really felt a freedom to slowly build it up playing so many of my favourite AR tracks and it was one of my very favourite DJ gis of 2024 so far.


*Full disclosure - there was an additional 30 minutes finale of this set that didn't record where I played non Arthur Russell, disco / disco adjacent records.

JD Twitch - All Arthur Russell DJ set, live at The Barbican, London 25/05/24

FRIENDLY MIXTAPE - SANCTUARY

Coyote Live Bodega Jan 25

Filip, a former hobby winemaker with a 3,000-square-meter vineyard and record enthusiast, who, together with @kyrandobler, upholds musical diversity on the turntables in Mannheim, presents a selection from his record collection in a pure vinyl mix. „Holy“ into the holidays... <3 

@fips-i

LAF Podcast #057 | filip

Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi - Oceanium
Strange Marks - The Undiscovered Shore (2025 mix) 
Ferdi Schuster - Resonance
Discodor - Ronda Roma
Diana Pequeno - Mistérios
Sun Creatures - Aviators 
The Person - Snail Cafe
Waterfront Dining & 猫 シ Corp. - With Love 愛を込めて  
Mike Welch - Colorado Country Girl 
B.J. Smith - Over Land And Sea (Original) 
Troels Hammer - White Elephant


Music For Dreams Radio Show 12.4.25

Forgotten

Song of Shadows – Chant des Ombres

I'm going to upload a series of 'mixes' over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly calming. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. The music here definitely helps me feel less anxious. I have just segued it together so the credit is really all due to the wonderful souls who made the tracks I used. It is also available as a 320 download. Tracklisting -

Takashi Kokubo - A Dream Sails Out To Sea part 1
Mkwaju Ensemble - Lemore
Hiroshi Yoshimura - 小川にそって
Yumiko Morioko - Rainbow Gate 
Haruomi Hosono - Fujitsubo
Inoyoama Land - Glass Chaim
Inoyama Land - Pokala (remix)
Popol Vuh - Ah!
Justus Köhncke and Fred Heimermann - Albatros
Nuno Canavarro - Blu Terra
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1
World Standard - Rozo, Du Pecoj
Testpattern - Souvenir Glacé

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 1

Here is the 2nd in a series of 'mixes' I intend to make over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly tranquil. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. The music here definitely helps me feel less anxious. I have taken a slightly different approach on this one and it does feature some beats later in the mix, so feedback welcome on whether this one has the desired effect. It is also available as a 320 download. 

Tracklisting -

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (piano version)
Bill Evans Trio - Peace Piece
Eden Ahbez - The Wanderer
Popol Vuh - We Know About The Need
Gaelic Psalms From The Hebrides Of Scotland - Psalm 62
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - 合唱刈干切唄
David Cunningham - Blue River
Inoyama Land - Anatano Yushoku No Tameni
Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time
Sheila Chandra - Quiet 1
Sheila Chandra - Quiet 6
Resili - Corrie Caves
Dettinger - Oasis A3
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 2

Here is the 3rd in a series of 'mixes' I intend to make over the coming weeks of music that I find particularly tranquil. I will try to make these one hour sessions filled with beautiful music that is helpful and calming to listen to while we get through this extraordinarily hard time. It is also available as a 320 download. 

Tracklisting -

Popol Vuh - Aguirre I
Peter Gabriel - With This Love (Choir)
Nowicki - Ostrich Dust Bath
Dennis Young - Voices Within
Alice Coltrane - Om Shanti
Reinhard Flatischler - Angkor Wat (intro)
Elodie Lauten - Prelude
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Henri Texier - Luce D'Alba (edit)
Tony Hymas - Lullaby
Tomita - Clair De Lune
Kid 606 - Temptation 
Elodie Lauten - Flow
Ozo - Anambra

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 3

https://www.nts.live/shows/emotional-landscape/episodes/emotional-landscapes-2nd-april-2020

Emotional Landscapes 020420

It's with great pleasure to welcome long time dear friend Jonny Nash (@jonnynash) who in 2019 released 'Make A Wilderness' with us (MFM037). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hey Jonny, welcome to the series. So, it's already been over a year ago since Make A Wilderness came out. How do you look back on that now? 

JN: In many ways Make A Wilderness marked the start of a new chapter for me, the first steps into new territory - a wilderness you could say! That record was really about exploring a simple question - what kind of sounds resonate with me, and why. I think the record was primarily an exercise in sound, and not necessarily in arrangements or songwriting. I felt it was necessary to open the doors to new sounds in this record, and I feel like I got pretty close to creating the album that I wanted to make. 

MFM: You went to different places to record specific instruments and in certain environments. Why? 

JN: It took me a long time to make the record, not in terms of actually writing the music, but determining what the instrumentation should be. I wanted a finely balanced mix of alien, unfamiliar sounds and organic human sounds, to somehow express a feeling of “ancient future”, the sense of floating in some timeless space that could be millions of years in the past or in the future. I found that the Cristal Baschet, was perfect for expressing this feeling of “deep time”. Capable of beautiful harmonics and also wonderful atonal textures, it was a central part of the album. I contrasted these sounds with familiar instruments such as piano, vibraphone and voice. It was very important to have some sparse elements of voice in the record to somehow keep it grounded on earth. 

MFM: Have you always been that interested in sound and sound sculpturing?

JN: Well, I’m a naturally curious person and I think my brain and also my ears are always developing and learning new things. I think that I am able to hear sound in a different way than I did a few years ago. A big switch from focussing on melody as the dominant element that catches my attention. Of course, melody is still a central element for me but I now spend alot of time thinking about timbre, the colour of the sound and how the distinctive character of a sound sits in context with other sounds in a given composition. New ways of hearing influenced the record and took me to a place where “sound sculpting” was of equal importance as deciding what chords and melodies to choose. 

MFM: You mentioned earlier that the past couple of months your label Melody As Truth got a lot support through digital sales. Does that have effect on your label vision and strategy?

JN: The switch towards digital and especially streaming does undoubtedly have an effect on how I think as a label owner. It is pretty clear that this is an important area of growth and although there are lots of issues with certain platforms and revenue models, I find it important to keep on top of what is going on and try to adapt. In the future I can see the label experimenting more with digital only releases, I think there are interesting areas to explore here. Quiet dynamic music cut on vinyl in 2020 often sounds worse than a WAV file to my ears. I also buy hardly any vinyl myself these days, it is expensive, taxing on the environment and often a form of object fetishism. The other side is that a physical object looks amazing, can sound great, gives full importance to the artwork and design, can be treasured and won’t be lost. So a physical object is almost like an insurance policy for not losing the music too. I guess I’m sitting somewhere in the middle.

MFM: Thanks for contributing your mix. Can you tell us a bit about it?
 
JN: The mix is pretty much a selection of music I have been enjoying or discovered this year. A few older favourites too. I had no idea except to make something that I would enjoy listening to whilst having a walk or reading in the morning.

MFM Mix 020: Jonny Nash

I started DJ'ing in 1987, am 50% of Optimo (Espacio) and I also run the Optimo Music record label.


“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
Mark Vonnegut

Email - kmcivor@me.com

Optimo Music Soundcloud here - https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music

DJ bookings (worldwide) - caroline@spunoutagency.com



Press - optimopr@mac.com


Discography - http://www.optimo.co.uk/discography/

JD Twitch - Tranquility Mix 1

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