low light mixes

The summer of guest mixes continues with an awesome set from friend of the show, Daniel Hawkins. He has created several mixes for us in the past and you can find them here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/amiably-ambient-by-daniel-hawkins/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/the-silence-between-by-daniel-hawkins/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/wabi-sabi-by-daniel-hawkins/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/dark-woods-by-daniel-hawkins/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/metallic-memories/
 
Daniel says the mix is pretty straightforward - "it's a mix to play on the long summer days - light and easy - no cosmic theme." Thanks Daniel, the vibe is perfect!
 

LINKS TO ALL THE MUSIC USED IN THIS MIX:

https://chronotopeproject.bandcamp.com/album/event-horizon

https://rocketempiremusic.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-empire

https://candlegravity.bandcamp.com/album/before-i-go

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038BEUKE?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/would

https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/the-limbic-system

https://v-e-n-n.bandcamp.com/album/xiii

https://idra.bandcamp.com/album/resonant-bodies-anticipated-memories

https://massergy-spm.bandcamp.com/album/fire-opal

 
Cheers!  
 
 
T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Chronotope Project - Automatic Writing (Event Horizon 2013)

06:45   Rocket Empire - Montezuma's Revenge (Rocket Empire 2010)

11:14   Candlegravity - Snow Monkeys (Before I Go 2013)

15:56   Zheleznyak - Silent Field (Attenuated In Ambient 2015)

26:55   Jogging House - Suns (Would 2018)

33:50   Sonmi451 - Cingulate Gyrus (The Limbic System 2015)

40:23   v e n n, E J R M - Disappearing Act, Pt. 1 (VIII 2024)

43:40   IDRA - Remembering Me (Resonant Bodies, Anticipated Memories 2024)

47:50   Massergy - La Extraña (Fire Opal 2019)

57:03   end

I have been a fan of Seabuckthorn for a long time. I think I have around a dozen or so releases. So when Andy Cartwright, who records as Seabuckthorn, offered to create a guest mix I was psyched. Andy did an excellent guest mix for LLM back in November of 2022 which you can find here: https://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2022/11/seabuckthorn-transcendental-freq.html 
or here: https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/seabuckthorn-transcendental-freq/
 
There is a new Seabuckthorn album out in the world - https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/never-the-same-river  So it's a perfect time for a mix to highlight some of the music that influenced the new album. Andy said this about the mix:
"It has a kind of ritual/ceremonial/psych folk vibe to it, which was the feel I was going for in my latest album."
 
I highly recommend checking out the new album and of course listening to this very cool mix. Also I think it's kind of hilarious that we followed a 4-hour mix with a 36-minute mix. Haha!
 
Cheers!
 
 
T R A C K L I S T :

Gnäw - Waters of Ether

Old Saw - The Flood Spires

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - Zelenaia Dubrovonka

ZAÄAR - Eucaryotes Et Reproduction Sexuée

Hermanos Gutierrez - Low Sun

Lino Capra Vaccina - Andante ancestrale

Richter band - Zaklepat

David Shea - Falling rice on the GuZheng

The Myrrors - Invitation Mantra

Hvad - Notice a tiny scratch for the blue behind

Dictaphone - Lofi Opium

Claire Deak - Prefigured (Ritornello)

Jessica Moss - One, Now

Sanam - Rings رينغز

Most mixes posted here are around one hour in length. There needs to be a good reason to go well beyond that time. Well, this guest mix is a good reason to go long. This set comes to us from Faru - https://faru.bandcamp.com/music He has done a bunch of mixes over the years including for the Deep Breakfast series & Silent Season's Campfire Stories. You can find those mixes here - https://soundcloud.com/faruambient/sets/my-mixes

Here's what he says about this 4-hour set:

"The sun comes through the leaves in pieces, slow shifting fragments that move across your skin like something deliberate. The air smells of warm grass and blooming, that specific fullness when everything is happening at once.

Pollen drifts through the light, weightless, golden, the leaves quietly dancing. Birds in the canopy. Voices not close enough to make out, just the shape of people being easy with each other, flowing past like part of the same current. The specific gravity and warm energy of another being, close.

Three hours passing, or maybe more. Your breathing has slowed to match something you can't name but can feel.

You are not waiting for anything. Just here, inside this particular moment. Which turns out to be everything."

Faru said he likes a 4-hour mix because he wants the music to start being the environment. This mix envelopes you and does become part of the surrounding space. Thanks for a great mix!

Cheers!

  

T R A C K L I S T :

Laraji - Meditation #1

Loscil - Kamouraska

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Up Dizzy On A Bastion

Multicast Dynamics - Circle One

zakè, Ossa, ASC - Momentary Drift 3

Flying Tulpa - Signless

singing sorrows - hear the fields confess

.Foundation - Empress

Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever

Alva Noto - A Forest

Faru - Two sources (unreleased)

Anf - Mary Lynne

Adam Wiltzie - Mexican Helium

Adam Wiltzie - Dim Hopes

Fergus Jones - A Leap

Noodle Therapy - Animal Rain

Adam Wiltzie - We Were Vaporised

Fergus Jones - Heap

.founcation - meteor hymn

Clark - No Pills U

DJ Healer - Run From

Dylan Henner - A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time

Hotel Neon - A Possible Past

Patagonia - Dragonfly Fountain

shipwreck detective - reentry

Roberto Musci - Nexus on the Beach

Hotel Neon - Reticent

.foundation - heralds

Zake & Coppice Halifax - Selection

shipwreck detective - subside

The Detroit Escalator Company - Tai Chi And Traffic Lights

Flying Tulpa - Forever Lost - 02 From Place to Place

Rod Modell - Grotto Of The Sun - Part 2

Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine - Part One

Faru - Her Frequency (unreleased)

Matteo Scaoloi - Ponti

Faru - Vortex Entry (The Velvet Protocol)

The Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man

Faru - Veloric Suspension (The Velvet Protocol)

It's been hot as hell here lately thanks to what the meteorologists are calling a "heat dome." Add in some smoke drifting in from Canadian wildfires and it makes being outdoors no fun. I wondered about hot weather music and thought slightly twangy, acoustic and electric guitar fits the mood. There's just something about these tracks that feels right for an oppressively hot day.

I like this collection because it covers a wide range of years from 1984 to 2026, with stops in 1998, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2014, 2024, & 2025. I hope you enjoy the mix and stay cool.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00   Ry Cooder - No Safety Zone (Paris, Texas 1984)

01:33   Tommy Guerrero - Water In Your Hands (Perpetuum 2014)

04:52   Hermanos Gutierrez - Cielo Grande (El Bueno Y El Malo 2022)

07:38   Six Organs Of Admittance - Oak Path (Dust & Chimes 2000)

11:17   Dirty Three - Black Tide (Ocean Songs 1998)

15:40   Marisa Anderson - Pair of Duduk (The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music 2026)

20:10   Earth - Left in the Desert (Hex 2005)

21:03   Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl - Tista lengter (Langeleik 2026)

23:53   Barry Walker Jr. - Under Leaf Hill (Paleo Sol 2026)

26:27   Steve Roach & Roger King - Gone West (Dust to Dust 1998)

30:20   Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day - Standing in the Doorway (Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day 2026)

35:53   Daniel Lanois - New Smoke (Purple Vista 2008)

38:07   Yo La Tengo - Leaving Home (Old Joy 2025)

43:30   Calexico - Dueto De Ivonne Y Tino (Road Atlas 2011)

45:02   33. Bruce Springsteen - A Prayer By The River(Instrumental) (Tracks II: The Lost Albums 2025)

46:46   Ry Cooder - Brothers (Paris, Texas 1984)

48:44   Luke Schneider - midafternoon classic (Across the Horizon Vol.1 2024)

51:20   Woody Jackson - It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago (Cowboy Yoga 2024)

57:55   Earth - Mirage (Hex 2005)

59:24   end

Most mixes posted here are around one hour in length. There needs to be a good reason to go well beyond that time. Well, this guest mix is a good reason to go long. This set comes to us from Faru - https://faru.bandcamp.com/music He has done a bunch of mixes over the years including for the Deep Breakfast series & Silent Season's Campfire Stories. You can find those mixes here - https://soundcloud.com/faruambient/sets/my-mixes

Here's what he says about this 4-hour set:

"The sun comes through the leaves in pieces, slow shifting fragments that move across your skin like something deliberate. The air smells of warm grass and blooming, that specific fullness of spring when everything is happening at once.

Pollen drifts through the light, weightless, golden, the leaves quietly dancing.

Birds in the canopy. Voices not close enough to make out, just the shape of people being easy with each other, flowing past like part of the same current.

The specific gravity and warm energy of another being, close.

Three hours passing, or maybe more. Your breathing has slowed to match something you can't name but can feel.

You are not waiting for anything. Just here, inside this particular moment. Which turns out to be everything."

 Faru said he likes a 4-hour mix because he wants the music to start being the environment. This mix envelopes you and does become part of the surrounding space. Thanks for a great mix!

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

Loscil - Kamouraska

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Waking Up Dizzy On A Bastion

Multicast Dynamics - Circle One

zakè, Ossa, ASC - Momentary Drift 3

Flying Tulpa - Signless

Roberto Musci - Ghost Train

.Foundation - Empress

Astrid Sonne - Everything is unreal

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever

Alva Noto - A Forest

Adam Wiltzie - Stock Horror

Anf - Mary Lynne

Adam Wiltzie - Mexican Helium

Adam Wiltzie - Dim Hopes

Fergus Jones - A Leap

Fergus Jones - Heima

Adam Wiltzie - We Were Vaporised

Fergus Jones - Heap

Fergus Jones - It Should Be 

.founcation - meteor hymn

Clark - No Pills U

DJ Healer - Run From

Dylan Henner - A New Living Being Opens Its Eyes for the First Time

Hotel Neon - A Possible Past

Roberto Musci - Kami Shintai

shipwreck detective - reentry

Roberto Musci - Nexus on the Beach

Hotel Neon - Reticent

.foundation - heralds

Hotel Neon - Tidal

shipwreck detective - subside

The Detroit Escalator Company - Tai Chi And Traffic Lights

Flying Tulpa - Forever Lost - 02 From Place to Place

Rod Modell - Grotto Of The Sun - Part 2

Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine - Part One

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

Faru - Unreleased

The Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man