Your questions answered ...
What is this? An accompanying piece to our ambient abstractions sessions from 2016 - consider it a six-decade-encompassing cinematic, meandering sweep through all things horizontal.
What should I prepare myself for? Well, for starters, there's the break into the strings in Romer's That Was a Good Feeling, which is simply breathtaking. Then there's Hannah Peel's and Bill Callahan's astounding contributions, which also send shivvers.
And after that, pretty much all of the rest of it.
Is this a requiem for those no longer with us? To some degree, occasionally yes, but in a life-affirming way.
Is it deeply moving in parts? You betcha!
Should I be using heavy machinery while I listen? No, this would be highly inadvisable.
It seems to go on forever? Yep, that's the general idea.
It just sends me to sleep - WTF? The last 15 mins should counter that.
Have you completely taken leave of your senses? The jury remains out on that.
How long did this take to make? You really don't want to know ... let's say we really wanted to go the extra mile on this one.
Why not make it more manageable and cut it into two halves? Well, we thought long and hard about this, and decided that it makes a lot more sense when listened to as a whole.
Sorry, but where's the banging house music? Coming back soon, we promise.
AbRad
Taking you to obscure places.
Not necessarily honouring the return fare.
Love and babirusas,
x
[any feedback, as ever, much appreciated]
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Tracklist
| 000:00 | gabrielle dennis | family first | marvel |
| 000:01 | ana roxanne | it's a rainy day on the cosmic shore | leaving |
| 002:56 | krill.minima | submarine poetry | native state |
| 007:45 | bubble | passing safely | carpe sonum |
| 012:54 | biosphere | kobresia | all saints |
| 016:10 | aisha badru | mind on fire | nettwerk |
| 021:49 | seigen ono | julia | saidera |
| 026:04 | william galison & madeleine peyroux | heaven to me | waking up |
| 030:05 | pharoah sanders | astral travelling | impulse |
| 034:07 | julie mintz | take me home country roads | daughters of cain |
| 038:34 | kan wakan | phantasmagoria pt 1 | white |
| 043:50 | fatima | movie | eglo |
| 047:04 | lil greenwood | I must see jesus for myself | ace |
| 049:04 | james carr | the dark end of the street | glowax |
| 051:27 | tsegue-maryam guebrou | homesickness | buda |
| 053:08 | barefoot | born slippy | onetwo |
| 057:14 | irma thomas | anyone who knows what love is | liberty |
| 061:04 | kaitlyn aurelia smith | stratus | western |
| 063:42 | jónsi & alex somers | boy 1904 | white |
| 068:21 | beautiful chorus | pachamama | white |
| 069:58 | jóhann jóhannsson | flight from the city | dg |
| 074:42 | gigi masin | celebration of eden | music from memory |
| 079:21 | dal | those days | genepool |
| 083:42 | opez | balera de mar | k7 |
| 087:00 | solomon grey | the rift | decca |
| 089:01 | mary lattimore | never saw him again | ghostly |
| 095:19 | the crazy z's | my favorite show | azm |
| 098:25 | archive | old artist | island |
| 101:53 | superjaimie & danilo braca | homage to jean s | tsonyc |
| 107:07 | axel boman | chestnut heartsprite | mule musiq |
| 113:54 | hans zimmer | time | reprise |
| 117:42 | alice coltrane | journey in satchidananda | impulse |
| 123:53 | peter gabriel | the nest that sailed the sky | virgin |
| 127:24 | nils frahm | you | erased tapes |
| 131:10 | dan romer | that was a good feeling | ost |
| 134:06 | rare silk | storm | palo alto |
| 139:20 | donovan | hurdy gurdy man | epic |
| 140:43 | randy crawford | one day I'll fly away | warners |
| 143:50 | bark psychosis | pendulum man | circa |
| 151:58 | stars of the lid | dungtitled | kranky |
| 154:27 | mahalia jackson | I've been buked | columbia |
| 158:47 | romare | la petite mort | ninja |
| 161:45 | litmus | set world on fire | blanco |
| 165:14 | stanley cowell | lullabye | strata |
| 169:02 | the cinematic orchestra | that home | ninja |
| 170:57 | cat power | I found a reason | matador |
| 172:47 | top drawer | song of a sinner | wish bon |
| 177:07 | easy | d'ya dig | lsd |
| 182:25 | leon redbone | lazybones | third man |
| 185:34 | eunice collins | at the hotel | modart |
| 187:51 | stars of the lid | articulate silences pt 2 | kranky |
| 192:25 | ulla straus | billow | quiet time |
| 196:44 | trent reznor & atticus ross | life on mars | null |
| 199:34 | bill callahan | one fine morning | drag city |
| 207:58 | hannah peel | sunrise through the dusty nebula | mop |
| 213:05 | prince | sometimes it snows in april | paisley park |
| 219:30 | black taffy | geraldine | leaving |
| 222:53 | hannah peel | particle g1 | mop |
| 228:08 | hannah peel | the planet of passed souls | mop |
-- Total running time – 234:58 --
