from nightfall to first light

Hello! This time around, I wanted to capture a bit of a vibe from the time that one drifts off to sleep until the awakening. I started off with something from BIOSPHERE that for some reason reminds me of growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida. I lived not too far from the beach, and as the youngest of 6 spent a lot of time outside playing Frisbee in the summer. I was also not too far from the airport and Embry Riddle University. The students there often flew small prop planes for study (fun study, right?), and hearing this song from BIOSPHERE really takes me back to that time when I was young, carefree, and spending all day outside until day faded until night.

I put in the rain to transition between 2 events: the end of the evening and that time when just before sleep when your mind begins to visualize bizarre things. I wanted you to imagine you are hearing something out of the ordinary, hence the GLOBAL COMMUNICATION talking and an excerpt from JIM HALL’s Beija Flor. Beija Flor is a piece written by South American composer (can’t remember who), and this rendition from JIM HALL does it much justice. As far as jazz albums go, his album All Across the City and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue are both my favorites (tie).

I have a lot of soundtrack material, and one day I’ll put more into use. I love everything about the soundtrack to American Beauty. Not only is it one of my all time favorite films (Kevin Spacey is an absolute hero!), but the music is dead on accurate as far as creating the right mood for the film. I’m envious of THOMAS NEWMAN. When you read his Wikipedia page, you’ll be blown away by the amount of output he’s had.

Oddly, I discovered the song Cirrus (HUGH & SATURATION) from a game created by IVORY called 4 DIFFERENCES. When the game loads, you can click a link to their website and get all of their compositions free. Not bad. Great game as well!

Again, more field recordings of a creek to break things up a little bit. The sleeping night is all about transitions.

The DAVID HELPING song comes from an album called Sleeping on the Edge of the World, which is appropriately named for our nightly passage. David shares a website with Jon Jenkins, so it’s worth checking out.

I have every album that PETER GABRIEL has released. Most people didn’t like OVO: The Millennium Show as much as his other stuff, but I love it. Peter’s not singing every song, there are a lot of cameos, but it’s him through and through. I spent a lot of consecutive days wearing the grooves out on this album, and every time I hear it, it’s like the first time that I’ve heard it again. And that’s okay. I have some more of his stuff that I’d like to use at some point, probably as excerpts.

The last 2 artists, ROBERT RICH and DAC CROWELL are both artists that I discovered via MAGNATUNE. Robert is a household name to those that like their ambient a little bit dark, somewhat like Steve Roach in feel. DAC is a bit unorthodox, and definitely has his own approach to soundscapes which are innovative and memorable. 

If the ending seems abrupt, it is meant to be that way (the song honestly ends like that) as you are awakening. And who ever wakes up over the course of 30 minutes? Only in Hollywood.

Well, I enjoyed making the mix, and have even more ideas for the next one. I’ll create one for the sleepers probably next, or a soundtracks mix, or a collage of snippets from rock tunes. We’ll see. Enjoy!

Turn on, tune in, sleep...

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TRACK LISTING

• “As The Sun Kissed The Horizon” by Biosphere from Substrata (Touch UK), Released January 1, 2004 (Start Time: 0:00)
• “Rain” by Unknown, Released Unknown (Start Time: 0:00)

• “06 0 54” by Global Communication from 76:14 (Dedicated/BMG Records/Arista/Legacy/SME), Released June 1994 (Start Time: 1:58)

• “Beija Flor (Excerpt)” by The Jim Hall Quartet from All Across The City (Concord), Released May, 1989 (Start Time: 2:56)

• “Any Other Name” by Thomas Newman from the American Beauty Soundtrack (Dreamworks), Released  October 5, 1999 (Start Time: 5:07)

• “Cirrus” by Hugh & Saturation from Unknown, (Start Time: 9:07)

• “Cricket Creek” by Unknown, (Start Time: 12:12)

• “All Things End” by David Helpling from Sleeping On The Edge Of The World (Spotted Peccary), Released September 14, 1999 (Start Time: 13:25)

• “The Nest That Sailed The Sky” by Peter Gabriel from OVO: The Millennium Show (EMI Import), Released June 12, 2000 (Start Time: 19:40)

• “Luminous Horizon” by Robert Rich from Propgation (Hearts Of Space Records), Released February 15, 1994 (Start Time: 24:03)

• “Prisengracht Extensions” (Excerpt) by DAC Crowell from Red-Shifted Harmonies (Magnatune), Released October 19, 2001 (Start Time: 32:53)