Today’s mix opens with new ambient music by Offthesky, Luke Schneider, and Steve Gunn. There’s a newish long solo piano piece by Sophie Hutchings, and an environmental ambient piece by Passepartout Duo. Francesca Marongiu released a fascinating record, Still Forms in Air, a few weeks ago, from which we excerpt “Floral Ascent.” We revisit a favorite piece off Laurie Torres’ record Après coup from earlier this year. Then some classical instrumental favorites by Black Sabbath, Ahmad Jamal Trio, and Augustus Pablo. We wrap up with a Coatshek ambient techno track, a Mr. Fingers acid house track, and a very experimental piece by Derek White called “island birds coping with wifi.” We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Offthesky - Into the Voids

0:04:01 - Luke Schneider - A Map of Invisible Trails

Today’s mix begins with “Holy Thursday” by David Axelrod, which is one of the coolest songs of all time in large part because of Earl Palmer’s drumming. Then there’s ambient music by Luke Schneider, Susumu Yokota, and Gollden. Alanna Crouch has a new single out, “don’t turn back.” Then we play some favorites from the near past by Green-House, Bibio, and SUSS. There’s a really nice cover of “You Go To My Head” by pianist Paul Weston. Connan Mockasin just put out an instrumental track called “Mexican Summer,” which is fantastic. Speaking of summer, which it still is, we include a rendition of “Summertime” by jazz guitarist Joe Pass. We end with the great Walter Wanderley, the great organist’s “Beach Samba.” We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

0:05:13 - Luke Schneider - For Dancing in Quiet Light

Today’s mix opens with a Stars of the Lid track from 1996 entitled “Be Little With Me.” That’s followed by some new ambient music by Felicity Mangan, Peter Chilvers, and Gollden. We play some new instrumentals by Andrew Wasylyk, Wilson Tanner, and Dntel, including Dntel’s remarkable track “What I Made.” There are some older instrumentals by Toshifumi Hinata, Stereolab (!), and Ray Fernandez. There’s a new remix of a Gabriel Brady composition by Sam Prekop. We wrap it up with a deep house track by Basic Instinct and a sui generis electronic piece from the 1995 Japanese compilation Lover’s Hawaii, surfaced by Fond/Sound. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Stars of the Lid - Be Little With Me

0:05:35 - Felicity Mangan - String Thing

Today’s mix opens with two tracks from Almost An Island’s new album, a new collaboration by marine eyes, James Bernard, and Kenneth James Gibson. That’s followed by a new ambient single by Emily A. Sprague and a selection from Gabriel Brady’s Day-blind. There are classical pieces by Philip Glass and Hildur Guðnadóttir. Then we play some instrumentals by Patrick Shiroishi, Susana López, Andrew Staniland, and Harold Budd. There’s a classic film score by Herb Alpert (h/t Aidan) and a favorite by Gábor Szabó et al. We play two double-headers: rRoxymore and Rawayana, both featured last week. The final track is Booker T. & the M.G.’s timeless blues jam, “Green Onions.” We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Almost An Island - Quadrivium

0:05:11 - Almost An Island - An Ode to Nothing

Today’s mix opens with a moving Walt McClements composition, followed by new works by John Also Bennett and Metric System 1981. We selected a couple Lyle Mays tracks from his self-titled 1986 album which was featured last week. There’s a new single by harpist Lara Somogyi and pianist Jean-Michel Blais. Then some solo piano by Alice Sara Ott, Eydís Evensen, and Alexandre Tharaud (whose latest album performs newly discovered Satie pieces). There’s a collab by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills before jazz instrumentals by Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock. Natural Information Society jams for over ten minutes before a 2017 track by Photay closes us out. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Walt McClements - Billows, Like a Shore

0:03:28 - John Also Bennett - First Lament

Today’s mix opens with “A Handful of Olives,” a track from John Also Bennett’s new album. That’s followed by new music by Kilometre Club, Ami Kusakari, and Hammock. We revisit yesterday’s pairing of Excellent Birds and Hiroshi Yoshimura with their tracks “Lotus” and “Green Shower” respectively. There’s an instrumental from the newly released Nick Drake compilation The Making of Five Leaves, of which we made a slight edit. There’s a track from Sally Anne Morgan’s new record as well as two instrumentals from Mac DeMarco’s gargantuan One Wayne G. We play some ‘70s and ‘80s instrumentals from Dieter Schütz, Rubba, and Lyle Mays. Then the pace picks up with Mammo, Gold Panda, rRoxymore, Polygon Window, and Rival Consoles. A frenetic, virtuosic composition from Varra concludes the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - John Also Bennett - A Handful of Olives

0:06:33 - Kilometre Club & Retland - Jumping Backwards

Today’s mix opens with a few new gorgeous ambient pieces by Hammock, Jeremiah Chu & Marta Sofia Honer, and Hiram. We continue with instrumentals by Devin Sarno, Félicia Atkinson, The Vernon Spring, and Fuubutsushi. There’s a fingerstyle solo guitar piece by Will Graefe, whose two new volumes of guitar instrumentals are sensational. The pace picks up with Sally Anne Morgan, Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith), and Saffron Bloom. We round things out with Kiln (new record) and Helena Hauff et al. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Hammock - Requiem for Johan

0:04:17 - Jeremiah Chu & Marta Sofia Honer - On the Other Sea

0:08:20 - Hiram - Slow Growth

Today’s mix opens with new ambient tracks by Kenji Kihara, Pan-American & Kramer, and Gabriel Brady. Then we play some… more new ambient music by Susana Lopez and Benoît Pioulard (don’t forget the circumflex). We play two tracks from Patricia Wolf’s excellent new album, Hrafnamynd, which may appear in Flow State as soon as tomorrow. There are some instrumentals by Harold Budd (h/t Gabriel Brady), Alanna Crouch, Bing & Ruth, Fleetwood Mac (yep), and Oren Ambarchi. The mix picks up with Alex Kassian’s ode to Manuel Göttsching (reportedly a favorite of Beyoncé’s), Rival Consoles, and Anthony Naples. The final word comes from goat, specifically their percussion-led track “Quest” that comes recommended by raihan_ via Herb Sundays’ recent mid-year track roundup. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Kenji Kihara - Kinmokusei

0:02:34 - Pan-American & Kramer - The Double Life of a Seahorse

0:07:30 - Gabriel Brady - Ordinary

Today’s mix opens with two tracks from Gabriel Brady’s new debut LP, Day-blind. Then we transition into ambient works by Aarktica, James Holden/Wacław Zimpel, and Ai Yamamoto. We revisit a favorite Fleetwood Mac instrumental (you can probably guess which one) before playing some Gerry Mulligan Sextet and Lindstrøm. We play “Gymnopedie #2” from the 1989 Electric Satie album by composer Mitsuto Suzuki. There’s some Hailu Mergia, Francis Lai (h/t Emma Withers), and Orchestra Mambo International. Then some electronic music: a scintillating new track by Facta and others by Passarani, Eli Escobar, and GoGo Penguin. We wind down with Bennie Maupin and then Jonny Greenwood, whose winding, haunting chord progressions call back Gabriel Brady’s from the start. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Gabriel Brady - Untitled

0:03:05 - Gabriel Brady - Streetlight

0:06:11 - Aarktica - Awakening

Today’s mix opens with new ambient pieces by Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee as well as Alaskan Tapes & Lutes Jennings. We move through some sweet instrumental compositions by Tracy Chow, Cole Pulice, Kaela, and Bea Brennan. We play Claire Chase’s inventive arrangement of Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint” for flute. There’s also a new single from Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond, whose September LP is hotly anticipated. We play some more upbeat tracks by Ron Trent, Glass Beams (h/t Sabrina), and Passarani. A newly released jam from the ‘80s by Repetition Repetition concludes the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee - Grass Covered the Ground

0:04:29 - Alaskan Tapes & Lutes Jennings - Bloom III