Flow State

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Today’s mix consists entirely of film scores from 2023. We play music from Poor Things (catch our interview with composer Jerskin Fendrix), Asteroid City, Oppenheimer, Ferrari, Anatomy of a Fall, No One Will Save You, The Curse, Society of the Snow, Past Lives, Dream Scenario (Owen Pallett’s entire score), May December, Rustin, The Boy and the Heron, Beau is Afraid, American Fiction, The Creator, Maestro, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers, Nyad, Saltburn. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Jerskin Fendrix - Bella (from Poor Things)

0:01:35 - Alexandre Desplat - A Bewildering and Bedazzling Celestial Mystery (Asteroid City)

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Today’s mix opens with an ambient track from JWPaton, followed by piano instrumentals from Nils Frahm (a new release) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (from his final record, 12). Two tracks are discoveries via the latest Ambient Country podcast; they’re by cellist David Darling and guitarist ML Buch. We hear instrumentals from Francisco Tárrega/Alexandra Whittingham, Bruce Kaphan, Yussef Dayes, and Linda May Han Oh. Dayes arranges an incredible full-band performance of “Portrait of Tracy.” We continue with more upbeat tracks from Fields of Mist and Numa Gama before closing with a longform Terry Riley track. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - JWPaton - Middens to Skyscrapers

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Today’s mix features many artists who are upcoming Flow State recommendations. Ariel Kalma opens the mix and continues it in a couple places. Then there’s the brilliant Maya Shenfield, Dean McPhee, Patrick Holland, and Arushi Jain. We take a moment or two to appreciate Jaco Pastorius’s live performance as part of Weather Report. Then there’s electronic music from Microstoria, rRoxymore, Daisuke Tanabe, and Danz CM. We wind down with a long, live CAN jam session from Paris 1973 showcasing the talent of the late great Damo Suzuki. The mix wraps with JWPaton – don’t sleep on JWPaton. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Ariel Kalma - Echorgan

Good morning. We’re doing all piano music this week.

Today’s mix collects piano recordings that came out over the past year or so. There are classical pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Glass, and more. Players include Bertrand Chamayou, Kate Liu, Víkingur Ólafsson, Timo Andres, Martha Argerich, and Yuja Wang. There are also contemporary pieces by Nils Frahm, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Olivia Belli, Belle Chen, Sufjan Stevens, Aphex Twin, and Ironomi. In the tracklist, we list the composer first, performer next. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Aphex Twin & Vanessa Wagner - Avril 14th

0:02:41 - Nils Frahm - Changes

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Today’s mix opens with an organ piece from Kali Malone’s new album All Life Long. That’s followed by an unreleased Flow State Records ambient track, plus a meditation from Huerco S. and drones from Phill Niblock. We play the classic Wendy Carlos composition for A Clockwork Orange as well as some throwback Black Emperor and Air. There’s a Fleetwood Mac instrumental before the electronic sequence of Yeong Die, Vegyn, Burial/Four Tet, and Squarepusher (our edit). We wrap with a Can song in memoriam of Damo Suzuki. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Kali Malone - Prisoned On Watery Shore

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Today’s episode opens with Philip Glass performing his own composition for The Truman Show while at home in the first year of the pandemic. We continue with the prelude from Hinako Omori’s 2023 album stillness, softness… Then we’re onto ambient pieces from Michael Hoenig, Aphex Twin, Drum & Lace, and FM3. Next we have synth/guitar instrumental compositions from Jeremiah Chiu, Roy Montgomery, Setting, and Laurie Spiegel. The last section has band jams from Nelson Riddle, Molly Lewis (x2), and I Marc 4. We wrap with our own instrumental edit of a new track from The Smile and Om Unit’s edit of Manuel Göttsching’s magnum opus. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Philip Glass - Truman Sleeps

0:04:37 - Hinako Omori - both directions ?

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Today’s mix opens with Lara Somogyi’s new harp cover of Kate Bush’s hit “Running Up That Hill.” We continue with ambient from Benoît Pioulard, Autechre, Novatria, and Kara-Lis Coverdale. We move into gentle instrumentals from Nils Frahm, Surya Botofasina, and Kirk Barley. There’s a track from Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen’s tender soundtrack for Past Lives. Then some more instrumentals from Cowboy Sadness, Astride Sonne, Tortoise, Tomaga, and Manami Kakudo. We wrap with a distorted shoegaze track from Japanese band Arakoi. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Lara Somogyi - Running Up That Hill

0:02:14 - Benoît Pioulard & Offthesky - Whisper Down the Lane

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Today’s mix opens with a 2020 ambient composition from German composer Jeannine Schulz. We play some abstract instrumental pieces from The Black Dog, Jens-Uwe Beyer, and Slow Attack Ensemble. There’s a whole guitar section, featuring Marisa Anderson, West Montgomery, Minhwi Lee, and Max Ochs. Then a slew of imminent recommendees: Spirituals, Cowboy Sadness, and Donato Dozzy. There’s a brief detour in Brazil through the Italian eyes of Piero Piccioni. We wrap with upbeat electronic from Polygonia, Damar Davis, and finally Leon Vynehall. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Jeannine Schulz - Attraction

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Today’s 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’re also commemorating Iasos, playing a few tracks from Inter-Dimensional Music across the mix. The first half has 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 wrap with a track from Rosie Carr. We hope you enjoy.

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

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Today’s mix begins with a longform track from saxophonist Cole Pulice. About 22 minutes later we move into contemporary piano tracks from Henrik Landstrand and Hania Rani. Then there’s some newish electronic music from Omni Gardens and Biosphere. We hear Golden Brown’s acoustic guitar and some experimental instrumentals from Ariel Kalma et al., Löwenzahnhonig, and Carlos Niño and Friends. We wrap with some ambient techno ish music from X.Y.R. and Basic Channel, giving Mirek Coutigny the final word (h/t Closer Listen’s best of 2023 list). We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Cole Pulice - If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture