Last night, my first guest mix aired at the great WFMU’s Radio Row. Invited by Olivia Bradley-Skill, I was super happy to put this together. Just a few months before, I’ve worked on another mix (which hasn’t aired yet), and I had no idea what to expect but I came to love the process so much, that I am actually looking forward to do more.

In a constant busy life, it feels like I barely have time to listen to other artists’ work which feels like a capital sin to me, but doing this turned into a work task and I enjoyed so much listening and revisiting field recordings and music.

Admittedly I have been greatly inspired by Adriene Lilly, since I got to know her work last Spring. And putting a piece like this together is playing with textures and rhythms, so not that different from a sound designer’s role.

Below is the playlist, that you can also find on WFMU’s website, with links to each album and track. I hope you enjoy!

Jeremy Hegge	The darkness screamed	Short glimpses from Mmabolela	0:00:00
Fractured Memories	Lust	Consciousness	0:00:00
bahía mansa	El Sopor y la Nada	Devoradores de Piedra	0:01:50
David de La Haye, Jez Low	Hidden Sounds	Hidden Sounds (Binaural)	0:04:16
Bethan Kellough	Descent + Vision	Aven	0:05:50
Wild Aesthesia	Calm Rain	Rain and Thunder in the Congo Jungle + Rain and Thunder at Bai in Congo the Jungle	0:13:36
Joseff Harris	Incahuasi	Talking to Trees	0:15:50
Fractured Memories	My consciousness	Consciousness	0:17:28
Ian Wellman	It Crept Into Our Deepest Thoughts	On The Darkest Day, You Took My Hand and Swore it Will Be Okay	0:19:53
Nelson D	Wirá-Wasú	Wirá-Wasú	0:22:47
Eartheater	Burning Feather	Phoenix: Flames are Dew Upon my Skin	0:25:39
Southeast of Rain	Day 8 Between Fleeting Somethings	42 Days	0:26:50
High aura’d	Sleep Like The Dead	Sanguine Futures	0:32:56
Claire M Singer	A Different Place	Solas	0:38:05
Laurent Wermenlinger	Five	résonance	0:43:30
Miguel Isaza	Polenn	Flor	0:45:38
Cibelle	Phoenix	The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves	0:47:08
Emil Zapffe	The View From Mount Zapffe	Dissonance in Dogma	0:50:10
Jeremy Hegge	An Antelope wandered through the glowing thorn veld	Short glimpses from Mmabolela	0:51:18
Cibelle	Inútil Paisagem	Cibelle	0:52:37
Fractured Memories	Center	Consciousness	0:57:50
Jeremy Hegge	The Darkness screamed	Short glimpses from Mmabolela	0:56:00

I’ve opened the playlist with Jeremy Hegge’s work. I think this was the very first work I bought on bandcamp. It’s not easy for my ear to get caught in field recording or musical work; there is a number of conditions or qualities that inevitably, without thinking, determine if I like it or if it’s just an okay experience. Jeremy’s field recordings are immediately attractive, mysterious, curious, evocative.

The piano piece played on top is from the project “Fractured Memories“. We know the artist(s) is from Japan and the rest is up for us to get to know just by listening, as no more information is to be found. I’m in love with these loopy glimpses: they seem to portray emotional deep scenes of a film – it’s what it feels like to me.