Today we have a guest mix from Elori Saxl, an American composer from the midwest who has a new score out for the documentary Texada.

This mix is defined mostly just by what I’ve been listening to lately, but I did notice I tended to lean into North American composers and specifically those whose music seems to reflect the North American landscape and its vastness. It feels fitting for a mix celebrating the release of my original score for the film Texada, which explores the intersection of land/geology and people on the island of Texada off the coast of British Columbia. I also figured I’d take advantage of this long-form mix to get to play out longer tracks and multiple movements from pieces.

The mix opens with a track by CTM off her album Vind, which has been one of my recent favorites with its sense of pulses both real and implied. Maxime Denuc’s album Nachtorn has been another recent favorite. Made by sending midi signals into a pipe organ, it gets at that intersection of classical harmony and dance pulse that I’m always after. I have a few pieces by John Adams. I’ve been slowly making my way through his autobiography all spring and enjoying learning about some lesser-known pieces. Light Over Water was composed as the score for a dance piece by Lucinda Childs with scenography by Frank Gehry for the opening of LACMA in 1983. Through their long harmonic gestures, pieces by Smerz, John Luther Adams, Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Nico Muhly feel to me like wide landscapes in the far north. Matthew Halsall’s “Together” has been breaking my heart all spring.

0:00:00 - CTM - Summer

0:04:28 - John Adams, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, & Marin Alsop - Shaker Loops (version for string orchestra): A Final Shaking

0:08:31 - Elori Saxl - The Quarry

0:10:44 - Maxime Denuc - Ouverture

0:16:01 - John Adams - Light Over Water: Part II

0:26:56 - John Adams - Light Over Water: Part III

Today’s mix goes out to Earth, aka Gaia, the best planet in the universe. It’s two hours of music that features field recordings of mother nature or is inspired by natural surroundings. Mort Garson’s majestic “Plantasia” opens the mix. Then we have a new track by Evan Shornstein (aka Photay) and Will Epstein, who recorded synth and saxophone in upstate NY next to a pond full of spring peeper frogs (their album is called Frog Raag). Then we get into Gigi Masin, KMRU, Saapato (Brendan Principato), Patricia Wolf, Matthew Hiram, and Green-House. We linger on the Hiroshi Yoshimura track “Green” before a classic from Ariel Kalma and a new one by Woo (from the standout series Music To Watch Seeds Grow By). We play some Emily A. Sprague, Early Fern (h/t marine eyes), Calming River, and Ashra. There’s a brief recording of a great horned owl from us before Lawrence English’s 14-minute field recording, “The Picnic,” ends the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Mort Garson - Plantasia

0:03:15 - Evan Shornstein & Will Epstein - III

Today’s mix opens with a new multi-track cello composition by Theresa Wong, followed by a 2020 ambient recording by Photay. There’s some new ambient-ish music by Spirituals, Nico Georis, Jäverling ◇ von Euler, and Lara Somogyi. We excerpt the new Barker album, Stochastic Drift, specifically the track “Fluid Mechanics.” There’s an exclusive demo, “Raven Feather Detail,” from an upcoming Flow State Records release. Instrumentals by Luiz Bonfá, Gūsū, Cameron Knowler, and Walt McClements follow. We play two tracks from the new Butcher Brown record, Letters from the Atlantic. “Heavy Weather” from Larum’s new record of the music of Hildegard von Bingen gets the last word (or lack thereof). We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Theresa Wong - Sea Eating Sun

0:07:40 - Photay - Peace in the Era of Telecommunication

Today’s mix begins with two ambient pieces by Oneohtrix Point Never (from his 2009 LP, Russian Mind) and Harold Budd (from his 2011 LP, In the Mist). We play a beautiful, epic new collaboration between guitarist Joel Shearer and cellist Clarice Jensen called “The Clear Light of the Void.” Then some new music by HxH, Barker, and Nico Georis (who has an amazing new album called Music Belongs To The Universe). We play a couple tracks from electronic musician Luke Abbott. Then some nu-disco style music from Passarani and East Coast Love Affair. A cavernous synth composition by Hüma Utku ends the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Months

0:03:03 - Harold Budd - Haru Spring

0:07:15 - Joel Shearer & Clarice Jensen - The Clear Light of the Void

Today’s episode opens with a track from Elijah Fox’s excellent new album, Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. There’s a 2020 piece by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and an archival Basinski-like track by Kenneth James Gibson. We play ambient works by Omni Gardens, Gustavo Denouard, and Àngeles Rojas. There are some solo guitar/string pieces by Ofir Ganon (slightly edited by us) as well as Keith Jarrett (!). Two new piano pieces appear from Henrik Lindstrand and Yama Warashi, before we head into electronic music: Polo & Pan, Kaytranada, Igaxx, and Taz Modi. An epic Irish jam by the band Trá Pháidín concludes the mix. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Elijah Fox - Never Let Me Go

0:02:38 - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Door With No Sign

0:07:45 - Kenneth James Gibson - Her East Texas Rose Never Wilted

Today’s mix opens with an upbeat track: Phoenix’s first single, the instrumental “Heatwave,” which we discovered via Derrick Gee’s Lot Radio set from last April. (We slowed the track down a bit.) Then there are atmospheric tracks by Saapato (in collaboration with James Bernard, marine eyes, and Patricia Wolf), the Brendan Eder Ensemble, Kali Malone, and DOVS. We excerpt three tracks from the new Strategy record, A Cooler World, and two tracks from the newly reissued Hiroshi Yoshimura record, Flora. Then we play interesting instrumentals by Macie Stewart (whose new album is available on Bandcamp), Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and M. Geddes Gengras. There’s a newly unearthed solo piano performance of “Ave Maria” by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. We wrap with a classic performance of “Misty” by Don Byas, a new single by Julian Davis Reid, and an energetic collaboration between Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Phoenix - Heatwave (Flow State Edit)

0:04:43 - Saapato, James Bernard & marine eyes - Highway at Night

Today’s mix opens with new ambient tracks by Dance et al., Yumiko Morioka/Takashi Kokubo, Gunn/Truscinski Duo, and Max Cooper. We excerpt two tracks from the new Whatever the Weather album. There are string instrumentals by Brandee Younger, Barry Archie Johnson, Ami Fukui, and Rebellius. There are some classic jazz performances by Oscar Peterson and Roy Ayers. Then towards the end the BPM picks up into electronic music by Vainqueur, Boof, and DJ Boring. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Dance et al. - Juhl

We’re revisiting a community favorite episode that was originally posted in January 2024. This mix opens with a piece from Phill Niblock, an American avant-garde composer who passed away last week. We play his thirty-minute collaboration with cellist Arne DeForce from 2013. We also commemorated Iasos, playing a few tracks from Inter-Dimensional Music across the mix. The first half had newish tracks from Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross, Davi Music, and Peter M. Murray. The second half plays a new instrumental from Minhwi Lee and classic new age music from Pauline Anna Strom and Constance Demby. We wrapped with a track from Rosie Carr. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Phill Niblock & Arne DeForce - FeedCorn Ear

Today’s mix opens with new ambient pieces by Kilometre Club and Olga Anna Markowska. We play through an atmospheric composition by Eiko Ishibashi from the Drive My Car OST (as selected by Laurie Torres last week). We play new quasi-jambient pieces by Gunn / Truscinski Duo and Little H Collective. We excerpt one track from the new Tim Hecker album, Shards. The pace picks up with two dubby tracks by Prince Jammy and The Scorpios. We revisit a couple favorite dance tracks by Yoshihiro Sawasaki and Function before we end things once again with Oneohtrix Point Never. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Kilometre Club - to rest to reset to rest

0:08:23 - Olga Anna Markowska - Borderland

Today’s mix opens with pure ambient by Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy, Mathias Grassow, Lawrence, and Hiram. There’s a new single from Elori Saxl’s upcoming score for Texada, and a track from Sam Gendel’s new live album, Live at Union Station. We play three tracks from Ofir Ganon’s 2017 record, Pollen / Promises. There are brand new pieces by SUSS & Immersion, Oksana Linde, and Ai Yamamoto & Dan West. The pace picks up with Raven, Tiger & Woods, and Opik, before we wind down with a forthcoming, unreleased track from Flow State Records. Oneohtrix Point Never gets the final word. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy - path

0:04:25 - Mathias Grassow - Setting Sun