Flow State

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Today’s episode begins with recent ambient discoveries from H.Takahashi, Omni Gardens, baklu, and Johnny Nash. We play an Egisto Macchi composition courtesy of our recent guest recommendation. There’s a classic Houston & Dorsey track, as well as a couple 2023 selections from BCMC and Brendan Eder Ensemble. We then move through more upbeat tracks from Pizza Hotline and Beastie Boys before wrapping with an excellent jam from Dexter+Franz. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - H.Takahashi - Halcyon

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Good morning. The five-year Flow State T-shirt is available here and we are off next week.

Today’s mix is the last one of the year. We’re departing from our usual meticulously ordered mixes and embraced a degree of randomness this time. We open with a Lou Harrison strings piece followed by a Kali Malone organ piece. We move through instrumentals from Daniel Ögren, Genfukei, Sven Wunder, and Bill Orcutt. We play some of our favorite recent discoveries from Rahul Sharma et al., Yara Asmar, and Tara Clerkin Trio. There are some 2023 favorites from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Blue Lake before we dig into classics from Harold Budd & Brian Eno and Christopher O’Riley. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Lou Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings: 2. Chorale “Et in Arcadio Ego”

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Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with some instrumentals: Tamam Shud’s “Bali Waters” (h/t Janie Jones) and William Tyler’s collaboration with Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet). We move through jazzier pieces by Laurindo Almeida and Carlos Niño & Friends. Then we get into ambient from David Michael Moore, Vince Clarke, Satoshi Ashikawa, and Spirituals. We play two pieces from Grand River, and then head back into guitar-led instrumentals from Kinloch Nelson and Mac DeMarco. We wrap up with a cool dance track from the 1980s Switzerland club scene by Bells of Kyoto. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Tamam Shud - Bali Waters

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Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with a couple long ambient tracks from Eternell and James Bernard & anthéne. We move through harp from Lavinia Meijer and accordion from Yara Asmar. Then there’s some electronic instrumentals from Jupi/ter, Tomu DJ, Davi Music, and Suzanne Ciani. We play both sides of the new Cowboy Sadness EP, a new project from Bing & Ruth. We wind down with some Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, McCoy Tyner, and finally Biosphere. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Eternell - Tears of Reverence

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Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with ambient music from Brian Eno, Johnny Nash, and Will Gardner. Mary Lattimore covered Hiroshi Yoshmiura’s “Blink” on the harp. We include a track from André 3000’s new ambient album. There’s instrumental music from Rosie Carr, Yara Asmar, and Jan Jelinek, and electronic music from Space Ghost and Midland. We wind down with solo percussion by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi and an instrumental jam from Can. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Brian Eno - Chamber Lightness 1

0:04:27 - Johnny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - See Yourself Out of the Way

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Good morning.

Today’s episode is a collaboration with Michael Cina, a versatile artist and designer based in North St. Paul, Minnesota. Currently the principal of Cina Associates, he has gained a wealth of experience, having garnered accolades such as an Emmy win and a Grammy nomination for his design work. Cina also continues as an accomplished painter, showcasing his distinctive artwork in exhibitions worldwide. He also writes a newsletter, Cina, about his own process and design in general.

Michael shared a long playlist of his favorite instrumental music to work to. From the playlist we derived the tracklist below, focusing on artists we haven’t featured yet in Flow State (we think). It’s mostly ambient, with some piano and synth arpeggios, and the last 20-30 minutes are a more upbeat electronic. We hope you enjoy.

Michael shared the following about the music: “I use music to evoke seasons, worlds, moods, desires, etc. This season passed from a sweltering summer to winter, leaving my fall playlist tradition unfulfilled. My playlist is a fusion of elements from my past two autumn playlists and some songs I would have included for this year. It's a testament to finding beauty and solace in the unexpected. Music knows no bounds when it comes to capturing whatever we desire, be it the essence of changing seasons or the emotions that accompany them.”

0:00:00 - Ludwig A.F. - Feather

0:03:24 - Deru - 1979

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Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with harpist Lara Somogyi’s moving cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto. We then play a bunch of new ambient music from Courtney Barnett, Peter M. Murray, Leo Takami, Blue Divers, Salamanda, and Joseph Shabason. Christine Ott does an amazing solo piano cover of the Vertigo score. We excerpt a track from Daft Punk’s new drumless reissue of their 2013 album Random Access Memories (specifically the track “Motherboard”). We wrap with electronic instrumentals from Kin Leonn, Moon Diagrams, and Evian Christ. There’s a Metro Boomin beat in there toward the end too. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Lara Somogyi - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

0:04:12 - Courtney Barnett - Life Balance

Good morning. Today we have a guest mix from FogChaser, an American composer and producer based in Portland, OR. We’re making his mix available to all subscribers.

As Fog Chaser, I release a new instrumental song every month exclusively through my free newsletter. I recently completed my second full year of writing these pieces. 

The first twenty-four tracks of today’s mix make up Volumes I and II of my newsletter, a series of pieces in all twenty-four musical keys. The mix finishes with two lo-fi collabs and ten ambient tracks for a novel I’ve been scoring.

Only some of these songs have been released on streaming platforms — this is the first time they have ever appeared together in one place, exclusively for Flow State.

-Matt / Fog Chaser

Meditations, Vol. II

0:00:00 - Fog Chaser - Beneath the Woodbine

0:03:07 - Fog Chaser - Cathedral Hush

0:07:17 - Fog Chaser - Slow Bloom

0:11:55 - Fog Chaser - After a Summer Rain

0:16:19 - Fog Chaser - Soft Season

0:20:06 - Fog Chaser - A Little Window

0:24:47 - Fog Chaser feat. Niamh Fahy - Gathering Light

0:27:53 - Fog Chaser - Cascadia

0:31:57 - Fog Chaser - A Simple Carol

0:34:17 - Fog Chaser - Melyn

0:37:18 - Fog Chaser - Late Roses

0:40:44 - Fog Chaser - Wingbeat

Meditations, Vol. I

0:44:01 - Fog Chaser - Alpine

0:46:48 - Fog Chaser - Alluvial

0:50:37 - Fog Chaser - Resolve

0:53:22 - Fog Chaser - Contentment

0:56:07 - Fog Chaser - Florescence

0:59:09 - Fog Chaser - Unmoored

1:01:40 - Fog Chaser - At Smith Creek

1:04:19 - Fog Chaser - An Opening

1:06:55 - Fog Chaser - Seeking / Calling

1:09:17 - Fog Chaser - Foreign Morning

1:12:29 - Fog Chaser - On The Path

1:14:52 - Fog Chaser - Flight

Collabs

1:17:50 - Fog Chaser + Wowflower - An Opening (Rework)

1:20:12 - Fog Chaser feat. Wowflower and Kyle McEvoy - daydream

Oblivion, the Score (Ambient)

1:22:36 - Fog Chaser - Elysia

1:26:29 - Fog Chaser - Wao

1:30:00 - Fog Chaser - In The Garden

1:33:30 - Fog Chaser - Pale Pink

1:36:44 - Fog Chaser - Bamboo Forest

1:39:45 - Fog Chaser - Borderless

1:43:40 - Fog Chaser - Rinsed Clean

1:46:53 - Fog Chaser - Fanghu

1:51:09 - Fog Chaser - Immortals

1:55:01 - Fog Chaser - Memory

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Good morning.

Today’s mix #200 is sourced from Friday’s open thread of community music recs. We open with ambient pieces from William Basinski, Michiru Aoyama, and Brian Grainger. We move through some contemporary classical with Tigran Hamasyan, Hania Rani, and Will Gardner. Two video game soundtracks are represented: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Cult of the Lamb. There are guitar band instrumentals from Tommy Guerrero, Daniel Villarreal, and The Olympians. Also electronic tracks from Purelink, Kosmischer Läufer, and Richard Houghten. We wrap with a euphoric Todd Terje cut. We hope you enjoy.

Thank you for reading Flow State ❤️

0:00:00 - William Basinski - Vivian & Ondine 1.1 (from Adam)

0:03:43 - Michiru Aoyama - Osiru (from Lucas)

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Good morning.

Today’s mix opens with the opening track from Hiroshi Yoshimura’s recently reissued album, Surround. We continue through some ambient favorites from John Carroll Kirby, Pauline Anna Strom, and SUSS. Two classical pieces appear from John Cage and J.S. Bach. Two psychedelic guitar/keyboard instrumentals from Masaki Sakamoto and BCMC precede two dub tracks from Pan-American and Monolake. Then there are four beats from obscure yet talented producer Sgarz. We wrap with an amazing instrumental jam from Oscillation Ochre. We hope you enjoy.

0:00:00 - Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time After Time