Winter Solstice 4: “In C” (Mix)

 

 

 

This is my contribution to the fourth (8-hour) ambient night on Concertzender Nederland, which is traditionally scheduled on or around midwinter solstice.
As in previous editions, this night has four parts, respectively compiled by Roel Janssen, Harrold Roeland, Bob Rusche, and myself. It was broadcast from 5:00-7:00 AM on December 25, and closed the night.

As in all of my (Ambientblog) mixes, Winter Solstice 4 is a collage created from short fragments – hence the extended tracklist below. This time, I used a different method of selecting tracks: I chose only tracks in the key of C. (Or, to be honest: the tracks that my software told me were in C, since I have no absolute hearing).
As a result, the mix absolutely flows more coherently than you might guess by looking at the sequence image. At least, that’s how I feel it, and I hope you feel that too.
Anyway, it’s quite a hallucinating two-hour trip to dive deep into. I hope you enjoy listening! And of course: feedback is always appreciated.

 

TRACKLIST:

Start time Sample length Artist – Title
Album Title, Year, Label

• 00:00 5:21 S.E.T.I. – End Alarm
  Sleep Environments For Interplanetary Travel, 2018, Power & Steel
• 02:17 4:07 Anthéne – Light Years
  Solitary Hymns, 2020, Vaknar
• 04:16 02:56 Agate Rollings – 3.23 AM – In The Distance, Before Disappearing Behind The Corner Of A White Building, The Loss Of Life As You Know It
  Meantime/Elsewhere, 2022, Midira Records
• 06:13 3:26 Pat Keista – Orchestras Of Cygnus
  Digital Hydrogen, 2020, self-released
• 08:09 3:31 Loscil – Pearl
  For Greta, 2015, self-released
• 10:39 4:35 Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno – Over The Canaries
  Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (extended edition), 2019, Virgin EMI Records
• 12:25 1:57 Thomas Carleberg, Emil Nilsson – Good And Bad Are But Names
  Future Unfolding (Original Game Soundtrack), 2017, Minimum Records
• 13:18 5:00 Kasper Bjørke Quartet – Miocene
  Mother, 2022, Kompakt
• 14:43 6:49 Dirk Serries – Metamorphosis
  Disorientation Flow, 2015, Projekt
• 17:50 3:48 Joe Evans – Receding Sun
  Ecliptic Plane, 2012, Runningonair Music
• 19:44 2:35 Ben McElroy – Autumn Later
  …To Warm Their Hearts, If Not Their Hands, 2017, 1024311 Records
• 21:06 1:48 Ida Toninato – Avant Les Forêts
  We Become Giants, 2020, Dragon’s Eye Recordings
• 21:26 4:55 Pan American – The Penguin Speaks
  For Waiting, For Chasing, 2006, Mosz
• 23:51 5:01 Andrew Heath – Mother Calls Me Home
  Drawings From Imagined Cities, 2021, self-released
• 26:55 6:17 Stephen Phillips – Enraptured
  Lightness Of Being, 2009, Endless Ascent
• 31:00 3:06 Ian William Craig – A Given Stack
  Music For Magnesium 173, 2022, 130701 Ltd.
• 32:16 3:46 Pantaleimon – All The Birds (Melting Canvas) with Andrew Liles
  Mercy Oceans, 2007, Durtro
• 34:41 4:14 Robert Kroos – Anemone
  4 Sonic Meditations, 2022, Ambientblog
• 37:08 2:54 Ian Hawgood – Such Vocal Scars
  Eilean 92, 2018, Eilean Records
• 38:06 2:36 Bass Communion – Lina Romay
  II/III, 2008, Tonefloat
• 39:17 2:55 Andreas Rönnquist – Paradigm
  New State Of Flux, 2021, Reverse Alignment
• 40:31 4:23 Richard Chartier – Sketch For Winter (Version 2)
  Grenzwellen Eins, 2017, Grenzwellen
• 42:19 2:57 Svärtsinn – Wasteland Corridors
  Of Darkness And Re-Creation, 2003, Cyclic Law
• 44:09 3:36 Porzellan – Rosen
  The Fourth Level Of Comprehension, 2009, Hibernate
• 45:14 3:32 Yann Novak – Radical Transparency
  The Future Is A Forward Escape Into The Past, 2018, Touch
• 47:15 3:17 Frans Friederich – Rood
  Ambient #5 – Prima, 2017, self-released
• 49:30 4:10 Sonmi451 – Zero Day Exploit
  Seven Signals In The Sky, 2021, Laaps
• 52:37 3:48 Flim – How High The Moon
  Ultimate Stranger, 2020, self-released
• 55:43 2:39 IKSRE & Party Store – Thursday Night, Friday Morning
  Northwest & Southeast, 2022, Stereoscenic records
• 57:46 2:30 Christina Vantzou – Life Of A Mushroom
  Releasing Spores, 2021, Slow Moves
• 58:52 2:11 Alan Morse Davies – Myfanwy
  Ys, 2021, Submarine Broadcasting Company
• 58:53 2:19 Ajna & Onasander – Routing The Empusa
  Canidia, 2021, Winter-Light
• 1:00:31 2:43 Kenji Kihara – Light In The Sea
  Dawn, 2019, Eilean Rec.
• 1:02:07 3:38 Clarice Jensen – Sleep
  Ainu Mosir, 2021, 130701
• 1:04:30 5:05 Shinobu Nemoto – Trip 12
  Melting Loop Trip, 2010, Resting Bell
• 1:07:39 3:40 As Lonely As Dave Bowman – Failure Of he AE-35 Unit Radio Antena
  Monolith, 2015, Projekt
• 1:08:31 5:52 Masayoshi Fujita – Fabric
  Bird Ambience, 2021, Erased Tapes
• 1:13:24 2:42 Animated Matter – Follow
  Selkie, 2021, Animated Matter
• 1:15:39 2:35 Bjarni Gunnarsson – Undrun
  Safn 2006-2009, 2010, Lamadameaveclechien
• 1:16:22 3:35 Ben McElroy – The First Wave Crashes Into The Mountain
  1​,​000 Sewing Machines, 2017, Unknown Tone Records
• 1:18:16 3:52 Zakè – Laudation
  Milieuxia, 2019, Aural Canyon
• 1:21:11 3:56 Innesti – Hexagonal Galleries
  Between Worlds, 2019, self-released
• 1:23:48 2:54 Philip Samartzis + Eugene Ughetti – Radome
  Array, 2021, Room40
• 1:24:26 3:25 Max Würden – Or Lost
  Or Lost, 2012, Farfield Records
• 1:25:28 4:01 Carter Tutti – The Noise Of Chance
  Camera Lucida, 2007, Line
• 1:27:50 3:55 Rosales – Amethyst
  Places For Peace, 2022, Home Normal
• 1:30:14 3:10 Sven Laux – I Wish I Could Sleep
  Paper Streets, 2017, Dronarivm
• 1:32:12 3:10 Emmalee Crane – The Queens Of Carmen
  Formantine, 2010, The Streetlight Farm
• 1:34:48 1:52 Snowdrops – Abandoned Battlefield
  Manta Ray, 2019, Gizeh Records
• 1:36:00 4:36 Northaunt- The Unseen Earth
  Istid I-II, 2015, cyclic Law
• 1:39:18 6:13 Mark Harris – The Tributary – Losing Your Way
  Sequence 5, 2012, Futuresequence
• 1:41:46 3:08 Kasper Bjørke Quartet – Seminom Non Seminom
  The Fifty Eleven Project, 2018, Kompakt
• 1:43:36 5:25 Listening Mirror – Storm Train
  What’s Wrong With Miracles?, 2012, Twice Removed
• 1:46:24 3:31 John Kannenberg – Maius/Sextilis
  Cordolium, 2014, self-released
• 1:49:18 2:44 Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival
  Arrival OST, 2016, Deutsche Grammophon
• 1:51:02 2:01 Jeremy Bible – Co_11
  Collisions, 2014, False
• 1:52:20 2:15 Andrew Weathers Ensemble – They Said That One Day We’d Be Free
  Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything, 2015, Full Spectrum Records
• 1:54:08 1:03 Visionary Hours – The Return Of Basho
  The Road To Basho, 2011, Preserved Sound
• 1:54:56 3:00 Hammock – Dark Beyond The Blue
  Longest Year, 2010, Hammock Music
• 1:57:30 2:27 From The Mouth Of The Sun – Walking Behind Glass
  Into The Well, 2015, self-released

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