AbstractRadio session - ambient abstractions III - may 2022

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.

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AbRad

Taking you to obscure places.
Not necessarily honouring the return fare.

Love and babirusas,

x

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Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
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 --