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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Sunday Morning Music vol. 15 - October Sky

For this Sunday Morning Music installment I used almost all brand new music. 16 of the 19 tracks are from 2017 & most of those are from the last two months. Two cuts are from 2016.

One outlier is from all the way back in 1999. That track is October Sky by Mark Isham. As I was putting the mix together I came up with the title of vol. 15 - October Sky(cuz it's October) and thought that it sounded familiar. I searched my hard drive and sure enough I found October Sky is a soundtrack by Mark Isham from 1999. BTW, it's an excellent movie. So I had to include that one old track in with all the new ones.

Also sorry for this not being uploaded on a Sunday morning. Brunch with the kids took priority, then football, the nap. So here it is on Sunday evening.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Joseph Shabason - Tite Cycle(Aytche 2017)
05:12 Kasami Washington - Desire(Harmony Of Difference 2017)
08:25 Clint Mansell - The Night Cafe(Loving Vincent 2017)
10:40 Arovane & Hior Chronik - Morning Fog(Into My Own 2017)
13:50 Four Tet - 10 midi(New Energy 2017)
14:52 Hannu Karjalainen - Love Unconditional(A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert 2017)
17:14 Lav & Purl - The Presnt Moment(still version)(The Present Moment 2016)
21:33 Jakob Lindhagen - i parken(Skorheten 2016)
22:30 Igneous Flame - Eevi(Sylvi 2017)
26:45 Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Photo w/ grey sky white clouds(Passive Agressive 2017)
33:33 Balmorhea - First Light(Clear Language 2017)
34:54 Hans Zimmer - Rain(Blade Runner 2049 OST 2017)
36:10 Kelly Lee Owens - Bird(Kelly Lee Owens 2017)
40:27 Kiasmos - Blurred(Blurred ep 2017)
45:27 Marl Isham - October Sky(October Sky 1999)
49:56 Joseph Shabason - Long Swim(Aytche 2017)
54:05 Ludmila - Day 4(1 day 1 track 2017)
55:44 Bonobo - Second Sun(Migration 2017)
59:09 Bjorn Meyer - Pulse(Provenance 2017)
61:48 end

Sunday, April 09, 2017

Sunday Morning Music vol. 14 - Early Bird

I haven't done a Sunday morning mix in quite a while so volume 14 solves that problem.

This follows the usual Sunday morning mix template of a few vocal tunes, some ambient tunes and a bit of jazz. I was happy to finally use Shenandoah in a mix. More than a year ago I was at a local high school spring concert and fell in love with the concert band version of this tune. I know it may sound out of place in a Low Light mix but I think it's beauty fits well with the Sunday morning series.

In addition to Shenandoah there is new music from Hite, Grails, The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Clocolan and fairly new music from Radiohead & Olafur Arnalds. And a nice old classic from Max Roach & Clifford Brown.

Cheers!

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T R AC K L I S T :

00:00 Olafur Arnalds - Particles
03:48 Grails - Rebecca
07:10 Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson - And still they move
09:56 Frank Ticheli - Shenandoah
16:20 Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin - Once there was a hushpuppy
22:48 Fripp & Eno - Evening Star(The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society interpretation)
28:57 Clocolan - Obsolete Advancement
34:25 Orchestre National de Jazz - Révolution
43:20 Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Delilah
51:02 The Still - The Early Bird
58:42 Hite - Old Crow
62:15 Radiohead - True Love Waits
66:52 end

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sunday Morning Music vol. 13 - Silver Sunrise

The latest in the Sunday morning series features a gorgeous remix of a Silver Lake Chorus tune from their forthcoming remix album out on June 24th.

https://thesilverlakechorus.bandcamp.com/

The mix opens and closes with Easy To Die by Silver Lake Chorus remixed by Hammock. The closing tune is an instrumental version.

The rest of the mix is the typical Sunday morning mix of instrumentals, jazz and vocal tunes. Most of the tracks are fairly new.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Silver Lake Chorus - Easy to Die(Hammock remix)
03:50 Julianna Barwick - Forever
08:00 Jim James - All Things Must Pass
13:13 Silmus - Close to Light
17:25 Oddisee - Right Side of the Bed
21:25 Baka Forest People of SE Cameroon - Liquindi 2
22:50 Hiatus - Third(Max Cooper remix)
27:20 Ólafur Arnalds - RGB
31:20 Radiohead - Daydreaming
36:57 Hammock - Marathon Boy
41:48 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Stratus
44:00 Fred Frith & Darren Johnston - Barn Dance
46:40 Strand of Oaks - Wonderful(my morning jacket cover)
50:00 Sliver Lake Chorus - Easy to Die(Hammock instrumental remix)
54:21 end

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Sunday Morning Music vol. 12 - September's Here Again

As usual with these mixes there is one song in particular that gets the ball rolling and in this case it's the title track from the album The Thompson Fields by the Maria Schneider Orchestra. The whole album is wonderful collection open, airy jazz tracks and the title song is just stunning. Definitely one of the most beautiful songs released this year, second only to Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell.

The rest of the mix is your standard Sunday morning mix. Maybe a bit more jazz in this one. Other than the Davis Sylvian tune most of the cuts are fairly new.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 David Sylvian - September
01:11 Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields
08:00 Bosques De Mi Mente - El amanecer reflejado en tus ojos
10:38 AXX - Interstellar Ambient
14:10 Patrick Watson - Love Songs for Robots
17:11 Kenny Reichert Band - Cascades
22:20 Bill Seaman - A Dark Thought
26:40 Ben Lukas Boysen - Sleeps Beat Theme
30:31 Anouar Brahem - Tunis at Dawn
37:03 Cliff Martinez - Placental Repair
39:11 Hidden Rivers - September Sun Memory
42:52 Olan Mill - Tallole
46:33 Maria Schneider Orchestra - Walking by Flashlight
51:33 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 12 - September's Here Again by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sunday Morning Music vol. 11 - Morning Moon

Here's the latest Sunday Morning Music installment. The mix starts with cuts from two of my fav albums of 2015 by Aero Flynn & Sufjan Stevens.

Aero Flynn is fronted by Josh Scott, a product of the same Eau Claire, Wisconsin music scene that gave us Justin Vernon(Bon Iver). Scott was in a band called Amateur Love that shared a couple of members with a band that Vernon was in, DeYarmond Edison. According to Chris Porterfield, who was in DeYarmond & would later form Field Report, Josh Scott was the most talented guy in that scene.

Just as Amateur Love was about to break Josh Scott got spooked and broke up the band and fled to Chicago. Since then he has flirted with comebacks but mental and physical illness always got in the way.

Now he is back with a fantastic new album released this past spring. The record was recorded in Justin Vernon's Eau Claire studio and was produced by Vernon. The sound is very different from Amateur Love, more electronics involved, the vocals more ethereal. The best way to describe the music is a cross between Radiohead & Bon Iver.

The Amateur Love album was re-released in 2012 by Vernon. He started his own record company just so he could release that album. And it's a wonderful recording, so full of promise. I wish there had been more.

Here are some links related to the Aero Flynn story...

http://aeroflynn.org/

Listen to all 9 Aero Flynn tracks

DeYarmond Edison on Amazon

Amateur Love album on Amazon

Field Report on Amazon

The other track that opens this mix is from Sufjan Stevens & his amazing new album, Carrie & Lowell. The entire album is about dealing with the death of his mother. Yes, some of the tunes are sad but all of them are beautiful, each in it's own way.

I saw him perform the entire album live back in April & it was easily one of the best shows I've ever seen. A friend described it as transcendent.

Sufjan in Milwaukee

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell on Amazon

Excellent Pitchfork interview with Sufjan

After those opening cuts it's all downhill. Haha. Actually there is much more good music in the rest of the mix. Most of it is new & it fits with the laid back Sunday morning feel of past mixes.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Aero Flynn - Moonbeams
06:12 Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
10:41 Bill Seaman - Another Day
13:15 Casino versus Japan - Scenic Loop
15:45 David Holmes - Hey Maggy
20:15 Julian Lynch - A Day at the Racetrack
22:50 San Fermin - Astronaut
26:12 Johann Johannsson - A Model of the Universe
28:55 Helios - Emancipation
31:15 Jakob Bro - Gefion
38:15 Andrew Bird - Rising Water
42:30 Alva Noto - Isola
45:35 Evan Chapman - Angels(The xx cover)
48:10 Jose Gonzalez - Vissel
51:20 Jon Hopkins - How I live now
55:47 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 11 - Morning Moon by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Sunday Morning Music vol. 10 - To Heal

Here's the latest in the Sunday Morning Music series. And as usual it follows a similar path to its predecessors - little bit of quiet vocals, little bit of jazz, little bit of classical, little bit of everything.

The first track in the mix is from DeYarmond Edison, which is Justin Vernon's first band from 2005. Vernon is the man behind Bon Iver. He's a fellow Wisconsonite that hit the big time with his For Emma album back in 2007. I discovered the DeYarmond Edison album while doing some Bon Iver research and found that it is an excellent album. Vernon is also a member of Volcano Choir, which has a cut in this mix as well. I have a Justin Vernon mix in the works. It will feature his music along with music from the many artists he has connections with.

As much as I like that first track, the highlight of this mix for me is the Kate Bush tune, Snowflake, from her wonderful album, 50 Words for Snow. She sings the song from the point of view of a snowflake, I only used about half of the song in the mix.

A couple of others favorite tunes in this mix are Ladder in Place from rf, very bright and happy. I have always loved the Underworld cut, To Heal and used it as part of the title for this installment of the Sunday series. And finally, the Daryll Hall tune at the end from his offbeat collaboration with Robert Fripp is another fav.

Other mixes on the horizon include a space rock mix, ambient dub, breathing, time dilation, Americana, sea music and the previously mentioned Justin Vernon Family Tree mix.

Enjoy

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 DeYarmond Edison - Time to Know
05:56 Pink Floyd - Things Left Unsaid
08:27 Underworld - To Heal
10:15 Black Elk - III_IV
15:05 Kate Bush - Snowflake
19:55 Gem Club - Red Arrow(john)
22:40 rf - Ladder in PLace
26:15 Kjell Anderson - Broadway Valetine
28:57 Volcano Choir - Husks and Shells
32:00 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air
35:50 Piers Faccini & Vincet Segall - A Half of Me
40:00 Dublin Guitar Quartet - Mishima V
43:28 Moon Ate the Dark - She Swimming
46:30 Labradford - P
55:25 Daryl Hall - Without Tears
58:17 end

Sunday Morning Music vol. 10 - To Heal by Low Light Mixes on Mixcloud