#149 – Ambient / Drone – 06.04.24
1. Kali Malone – All Life Long (2024) – All Life Long (for Organ) – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto – Cendre (2007) – Cendre – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="08:33"]08:33[/sonaar_ts]
3. Eluvium – Copia (2007) – Indoor Swimming At The Space Station – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="11:40"]11:40[/sonaar_ts]
4. Asmus Tietchens – Nachtstücke (2014) – Falter-Lamento – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="21:15"]21:15[/sonaar_ts]
5. Black Swan – Repetition Hymns (2021) – Closer – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="27:20"]27:20[/sonaar_ts]
6. James Heather – Modulations: EP1 (2017) – The Conscience Loop – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="30:51"]30:51[/sonaar_ts]
7. William Ryan Fritch – Polarity (2023) – A World of Promise and Inaction – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="32:53"]32:53[/sonaar_ts]
8. Abstract Aprils – Imagination Carousel (2024) – Forlorn for Long – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="37:14"]37:14[/sonaar_ts]
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (2021) – Our Side Has To Win (for D.H.) – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="40:38"]40:38[/sonaar_ts]
10. Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – Evening Star (2019) – Wind On Water – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="47:15"]47:15[/sonaar_ts]
11. Arthur Russell – Keep The Lights On OST – Feat. The Music of Arthur Russell (2012) – Instrumentals Vol. 2 – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="51:57"]51:57[/sonaar_ts]
12. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) – #3 – [sonaar_ts post_id="8119" time="58:32"]58:32[/sonaar_ts]
Cover: Artwork for Ryuichi Sakamoto and Fennesz album Cendre released in 2007 on Commmons records, a label founded by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Avex Trax label founder, Max Matsuura.
Main Image: Still from ‘Stalker’ 1979. Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky.
“Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” – The Stalker
#141 – Electroacoustic – 03.03.24
1. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat – An Interlude to The Outermost (2007) – Prelude – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Secret Pyramid – The Silent March (2014) – Her Spirits – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="02:30"]02:30[/sonaar_ts]
3. Hala Strana – Fielding (2003) – Villages – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="09:20"]09:20[/sonaar_ts]
4. Aranis – Aranis (2005) – Wespengraf – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="13:21"]13:21[/sonaar_ts]
5. Sonic Youth – Daydream nation (1988) – Providence – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="18:00"]18:00[/sonaar_ts]
6. A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions From the Geographic North (2020) – Louise Bock – Flummox – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="20:23"]20:23[/sonaar_ts]
7. Thisquietarmy – Hiatus (2023) – Hiatus IV – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="27:15"]27:15[/sonaar_ts]
8. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (2001) – Could’ve Moved Mountains – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="32:14"]32:14[/sonaar_ts]
9. Steven R. Smith – The Loss of What We Keep (2019) – Awake – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="42:40"]42:40[/sonaar_ts]
10. This Immortal Coil – The World Ended a Long Time Ago (2022) – Dark River – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="45:20"]45:20[/sonaar_ts]
11. Tape Loop Orchestra – Open Tapes Vol. 3 – Liminal Live Pt. 1 (edit) – [sonaar_ts post_id="6416" time="49:47"]49:47[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Artwork for Secret Pyramid ‘The Silent March’, originally released in 2011 on cassette by the Canadian micro-imprint Nice-Up International.
#134 – Ambient – 21.01.24
1. Laurel Halo – Atlas (2023) – Sick Eros – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Joep Beving – Henosis (2019) – Sol and Luna – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="04:15"]04:15[/sonaar_ts]
3. Coen Oscar Polack – A Concrete Pasture (2023) – Cuore Nero – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="09:30"]09:30[/sonaar_ts]
4. Faust – Momentaufnahme II (2023) – Lampe an, Tür zu, Leute Rein! – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="14:57"]14:57[/sonaar_ts]
5. Secret Pyramid – Movements of Night (2013) – A Descent – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="20:10"]20:10[/sonaar_ts]
6. Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins – Fifth Continent (2023) – The Spring Room I – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="25:30"]25:30[/sonaar_ts]
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson – A Prayer to the Dynamo (2023) – A Prayer to The Dynamo: Part 2 – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="29:26"]29:26[/sonaar_ts]
8. Robot Koch – The Next Billion Years (2020) – Manipura – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="39:18"]39:18[/sonaar_ts]
9. Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann – Mother of Pearl (2021) – Daniela – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="45:12"]45:12[/sonaar_ts]
10. Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls (2015) – Christ Mong the Broken Glass – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="49:24"]49:24[/sonaar_ts]
11. Stars Of The Lid – Carte-De-Visite (2007) – Requiem String Melody – [sonaar_ts post_id="5180" time="01:00:41"]01:00:41[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Artwork for Secret Pyramid’s album ‘Movements of Night’ released in 2013 by Students of Decay Records.
#129 – Experimental – 17.12.23
1. Hilary Woods – Acts of Light (2023) – Blood Orange – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Secret Pyramid – The Silent March (2014) – Eternal – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="04:23"]04:23[/sonaar_ts]
3. Helen Money and Will Thomas – Trace (2023) – She Never Suspected – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="12:13"]12:13[/sonaar_ts]
4. Ural Umbo – Delusion of Hope (2011) – The Dead and Fabled Waste – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="16:32"]16:32[/sonaar_ts]
5. François J Bonnet and Stephen O’ Malley – Cylene II (2023) – Vulcani di Fango – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="20:05"]20:05[/sonaar_ts]
6. Anna Von Hausswolff – Källa (Betatype – 2014) – Källa A + B – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="25:13"]25:13[/sonaar_ts]
7. Lustmord and Jo Quail – The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed – 2022) – Prime – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="46:00"]46:00[/sonaar_ts]
8. Siavash Amini – Eremos (2023) – Wayward – [sonaar_ts post_id="5121" time="55:07"]55:07[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Hilary Woods
#124 – Experimental – 28.11.23
1. A Silver Mt. Zion – He Has Left Us Alone… Corners of Our Rooms (2000) – Broken Chord Can Sing a Little – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Earth – Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequence Mix (2023) – Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine (Brett Netson Version) – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="09:10"]09:10[/sonaar_ts]
3. Steven R. Smith – Lineaments (2002) – Crown Upon These Lines – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="30:50"]30:50[/sonaar_ts]
4. Deathprod – Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth (2022) – VII 0 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="36:00"]36:00[/sonaar_ts]
5. Doug Tuttle – Fearful Guitar (2023) – Critical Sinking – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="38:00"]38:00[/sonaar_ts]
6. Ulaan Khol – La Catacomb (2012) – Watching From the Cave of My Skull – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="40:20"]40:20[/sonaar_ts]
7. Jozef Van Wissem – Nosferatu – The Call of The Deathbird (2022) – Nosferatu: Act 4 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="47:35"]47:35[/sonaar_ts]
8. Nurse With Wound – Soliloquy For Lilith (1988) – Soliloquy for Lilith 2 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4815" time="53:15"]53:15[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Variations on the artwork for Nurse With Wound’s ‘Soliloquy for Lilith’, first released in 1988 by Idle Hole records.
Main Image: Josef Van Wissem Playing his soundtrack for the restored original version of Nosferatu.
#113 – Ambient – 14.10.23
1. zakè – Deep into The Unknown We shall Endlessly Roam (2023) – Mute Faces Remained Transfixed in Perpetuity, excerpt – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Celer – Discourses of The Withered (2008) – Retranslating the Upside-Down Mountain – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="04:14"]04:14[/sonaar_ts]
3. Jóhann Jóhannsson & Guests – A Holiday Compilation (2015) – End of Summer Part 4 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="14:47"]14:47[/sonaar_ts]
4. Natalia Tsupryk – Vaara (2021) – Vaara – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="21:17"]21:17[/sonaar_ts]
5. Pausal – Lapses (2010) – Without – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="26:15"]26:15[/sonaar_ts]
6. Carmen Villain – Music From the Living Monument (2023) – Silver – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="29:20"]29:20[/sonaar_ts]
7. Thomas Köner – La Barca (2014) – Tokyo Hour One – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="38:35"]38:35[/sonaar_ts]
8. MMMD – Hagazussa (2018) – Jou a Syèl la Ouvri… – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="44:50"]44:50[/sonaar_ts]
9. Pauline Oliveros – New Sounds in Electronic Music (1967) – I of IV – [sonaar_ts post_id="4674" time="54:10"]54:10[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover and main image: Artwork for ‘Music from The Living Monument’ by Carmen Villain, released in June 2023. Visual from the performance.
#108 – Ambient Series – 20.09.23
1. Ulver – Messe I.X-VI.X (2013) – Son of Man – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. The Eye of Time – Acoustic I (2014) – Dead Sea – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="08:21"]08:21[/sonaar_ts]
3. Wanderwelle – All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea (2023) – Waves of Ruin – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="12:57"]12:57[/sonaar_ts]
4. Helen Money & Will Thomas – Trace (2023) – Half Awake – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="18:35"]18:35[/sonaar_ts]
5. Kreng – A Holiday Compilation (2015) – Acceptance – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="20:52"]20:52[/sonaar_ts]
6. Maria W Horn – Epistasis (2019) – Intelocked Cycles Pt.2 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="23:50"]23:50[/sonaar_ts]
7. Derrick Penrod – A Leaf Adrift (2022) – A Leaf Adrift – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="33:33"]33:33[/sonaar_ts]
8. Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001) – Fear and Wonder – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="37:30"]37:30[/sonaar_ts]
9. Benoît Pioulard – Vigil (Live from La Berceuse 2023) – Vigil (Live from La Berceuse – Edit) – [sonaar_ts post_id="4492" time="40:36"]40:36[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Artwork for Wanderwelle’s album ‘All Hands Bury the Cliffs at Sea’ released February 2023 on Important Records.
#101 – Experimental Rock – 20.07.23
1. Dakota Suite & Vampillia – The Sea Is Never Full (2016) – The Sea is Never Full Pt. 2 – [sonaar_ts post_id="4319" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O. (2002) – Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls – [sonaar_ts post_id="4319" time="26:52"]26:52[/sonaar_ts]
3. A Silver Mt. Zion – Horses in The Sky (2005) – Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone) – [sonaar_ts post_id="4319" time="47:30"]47:30[/sonaar_ts]
4. Mono – Hymns to The Immortal Wind (2009) – Ashes in The Snow – Remastered – [sonaar_ts post_id="4319" time="01:00:25"]01:00:25[/sonaar_ts]
5. Do Make Say Think – Do Make Say Think (1997) – The Fare to Get There – [sonaar_ts post_id="4319" time="01:11:26"]01:11:26[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Artwork for A Silver Mt. Zion album ‘Horses in The Sky’ released in 2005 on Constellation Records.
Main Image: Birds in Fukushima, Japan after the 11/03/2011 Nuclear accident.
#86 – Electronic – 28.02.23
1. Randall Dunn – Beloved (2018) – Theoria Aleph – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="00:00"]00:00[/sonaar_ts]
2. Abul Mogard – Works (2016) – Drooping Off – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="08:55"]08:55[/sonaar_ts]
3. Kassel Jaeger – Le Lisse et Le Strié (2019) – Prismatic Haze – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="16:09"]16:09[/sonaar_ts]
4. Ascending Divers – Cyclic II – Cyclic Law’s 20th Anniversary (2021) – Charybdis Drain – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="21:30"]21:30[/sonaar_ts]
5. MMMD – Sidiroun Parapetasma (2023) – Parapetasma Roentgentizdat – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="27:43"]27:43[/sonaar_ts]
6. Black Swan – re/miniscence: Unreleased Recordings, 2010-2020 (2021) – Tone Poetry – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="36:05"]36:05[/sonaar_ts]
7. Beyond The Ghost – You Disappeared (2019) – You Disappeared – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="48:00"]48:00[/sonaar_ts]
8. Pedro Vian & Mana – Cascades (2022) – Cascades I – [sonaar_ts post_id="3055" time="55:55"]55:55[/sonaar_ts]
Mix Cover: Artwork for Randall Dunn ‘Beloved’ released in 2018.