Peinzing - Part 2 (2003) is of course the second part of Peinzing (Pondering; Muse-ing). Since both parts are meant to be listened to as one, please download part 1 first and listen to them sequentially. You can find the full comments with Peinzing - Part 1, so for this edition I'll just stick to the playlist.. --- originally published on Ambientblog ---

Do nót expect 'New Age' music, despite some whale-, cricket- and other sounds of nature. At times the layers of sounds are dark and threatening, maybe even confronting.There's always the dynamic range between tension and release. The quiet piano sounds of John Cage and Arvo Pärt surround a broad spectrum of auditive landscapes. Inbetween, sometimes 'ordinary' pop-songs define the theme, like Paul Simon's 'Quiet':"I am heading for a time of quiet / When my restlessness is past / And I can lie down on my blanket / And release my fists at last".

This particular sequence (Arno Peeter's collage of hectic life's answering machines, Paul Simon's detaching Zen-like song 'Quiet', and Jon Hassell seemingly rephrasing Paul Simon's last vocal line) is one of my all time favourite sequences.

Peinzing - Part 2 Playlist:

• Brannan Lane - Mouth- Lost Caverns of Thera - World Circle Records - 2000
• John Zorn - Mysteries- IAO - Music In Sacred Light - Tzadik TZ 7338- 2002
• Thom Brennan - Mist- Mist - TMB Music TB1034 - 2000
• Roger Eno - Where the Rock Fish Feeds- Night Garden - La Cooka Ratcha Records CD-16714 - 2000
• Tim Gerwing - Stars- Being to Being - MAPL (no number) - 2002
• Banabila/Vloeimans - Roofscape- Voiznoiz III - Javaanse Jongens/Challenge JJT 77009 - 2002
• Silent Watcher of Dark Matter - Toward the Infinite- Hempmachine Music - 2001
• Aphex Twin - 11- Selected Ambient Works II - Warp 021 LP - 1994
• Yves Daoust - Suite Baroque: l'Extase- Excitations - Empreintes Digitales - 2000
• Jon Hassell - Rising Thermal 14-16N;32-28E- Fourth World: Possible Musics - Editions E.G. EGED7 - 1980
• Jamuud - SayanNiskala - Konstellations, 769490111152/SSeyo CDRom - 1999
• Bono/Eno/Hassell/Lanois - Bathtub- The Million Dollar Hotel - Interscope 542395- 2000
• Bono/Eno Hassell/Lanois - The First Time- The Million Dollar Hotel - Interscope 542395- 2000
• Echoes of Nature - Hoots and Howls- Jungle Talk: The Natural Sounds Of The Wilderness - Delta B000001V4S - 1993
• Akira Rabelais - [....] edit- Full Swing Edits - Orthlong Musork orth 05- 2002
• Alio Die - In Mean Time- The Hidden Spring - Crowd Control Crowded 004 - 1997
• Alan Howarth - Blue Light Constant- Real Hollywood Sound Effects - GNP Crescendo GNPD 8054 - 1997
• Dino Pacifici - Timeshift (edit)- Hallowed Ground - Dance Plant Records/Farfield Records - 1999
• Tosca - Schwimmer.session 4- Dehli9 - G-Stone/!K7 140cd - 2003
• Justin Bennett - The Mosques of Tanger 1 + 2- The Mosques of Tanger - Staalplaat STmCD 010 - 1994
• Holger Czukay - Mirage- Good Morning Story - Tone Casualties tccd 9944 - 1999
• Barry Truax - Fog (Pacific Region), part 2- Fog - Cambridge Street Records, CSR CD 9101 - 1990
• Humpback Whale- NOAA Ocean Explorer Archive
• Beth Gibbons - Mysteries- Out of Season - Polydor 066 574-2 - 2002
• Humpback Whale / SlowdownNOAA Ocean Explorer Archive
• Stephan Micus - Adela (edit)- Desert Poems - ECM 1757 - 2002
• Arno Peeters - Blindside- Soundscape Jabotek 2001* radio recording - 2001
• Banabila - Steam- Spherics II - Boudisque Recording BOU 8 - 2003
• Brannan Lane - Cavern V: Circle of Darkness- Lost Caverns of Thera - World Circle Records - 2000
• Plenum - GSD- Various Artists: Communication Problems - Vibragun VIN 003 - 2002
• Harmonic Choir - Rainbow Voice- Hearing Solar Winds - Ocora c. 558607 - 1988
• Arvo Pärt - Für Aline- Alina - ECM 1591 - 2000
• AV911 - Rain Storm one + two- mp3.com