Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Flow State episodes are now available on Spotify for paying subscribers – just link your Substack account to unlock them. Email us if you have any issues. Today’s mix opens with a few tracks from Sawako, whom we recommended yesterday . We continue with two T.R. Jordan tracks and an excerpt from Ari Balouzi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a scientifically proven calm-inducing track from Marconi Union. At least that’s what NPR reports . Then we play some new great ambient pieces from Tewksbury, David Cordero, T.R. Jordan, and Medasin. Film score composer Dustin O’Halloran premieres some great focus music, and we follow...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a collaboration between ambient legends Steve Roach & Robert Rich. We then include some new music by Golden Brown, Annie Aries, Slowfoam, and MIZU, as well as some classics from David Darling and Bruce Kaphan. There are a few Four Tet tracks – a couple from his new album Three and a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a synth/field recording piece by Aiko Takahashi. We then play some ambient music by Sonja Tofik & Mar-Ilena, kita kouhei, and Lara Somogyi. There’s some solo piano by Eren Önsoy and Nils Frahm, along with instrumentals by LI Yilei and Minhwi Lee. A couple new tracks from Jasmine Myra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix consists entirely of film scores from 2023. We play music from Poor Things (catch our interview with composer Jerskin Fendrix), Asteroid City , Oppenheimer , Ferrari , Anatomy of a Fall , No One Will Save You , The Curse , Society of the Snow , Past Lives , Dream Scenario (Owen Pallett’s entire...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with an ambient track from JWPaton, followed by piano instrumentals from Nils Frahm (a new release) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (from his final record, 12 ). Two tracks are discoveries via the latest Ambient Country podcast ; they’re by cellist David Darling and guitarist ML Buch. We hear instru...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix features many artists who are upcoming Flow State recommendations. Ariel Kalma opens the mix and continues it in a couple places. Then there’s the brilliant Maya Shenfield, Dean McPhee, Patrick Holland, and Arushi Jain. We take a moment or two to appreciate Jaco Pastorius’s live performance as...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. We’re doing all piano music this week. Today’s mix collects piano recordings that came out over the past year or so. There are classical pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Glass, and more. Players include Bertrand Chamayou, Kate Liu, Víkingur Ólafsson, Timo Andres, Martha Argerich, and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with an organ piece from Kali Malone’s new album All Life Long . That’s followed by an unreleased Flow State Records ambient track, plus a meditation from Huerco S. and drones from Phill Niblock. We play the classic Wendy Carlos composition for A Clockwork Orange as well as some throwback...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning Today’s episode opens with Philip Glass performing his own composition for The Truman Show while at home in the first year of the pandemic. We continue with the prelude from Hinako Omori’s 2023 album stillness, softness… Then we’re onto ambient pieces from Michael Hoenig, Aphex Twin, Drum & Lace, and FM3. N...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with Lara Somogyi’s new harp cover of Kate Bush’s hit “Running Up That Hill.” We continue with ambient from Benoît Pioulard, Autechre, Novatria, and Kara-Lis Coverdale. We move into gentle instrumentals from Nils Frahm, Surya Botofasina, and Kirk Barley. There’s a track from Christopher B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a 2020 ambient composition from German composer Jeannine Schulz. We play some abstract instrumental pieces from The Black Dog, Jens-Uwe Beyer, and Slow Attack Ensemble. There’s a whole guitar section, featuring Marisa Anderson, West Montgomery, Minhwi Lee, and Max Ochs. Then a slew o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a piece from Phill Niblock, an American avant-garde composer who passed away last week. We play his thirty-minute collaboration with cellist Arne DeForce from 2013. We’re also commemorating Iasos, playing a few tracks from Inter-Dimensional Music across the mix. The first half has ne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix begins with a longform track from saxophonist Cole Pulice. About 22 minutes later we move into contemporary piano tracks from Henrik Landstrand and Hania Rani. Then there’s some newish electronic music from Omni Gardens and Biosphere. We hear Golden Brown’s acoustic guitar and some experimental...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode begins with recent ambient discoveries from H.Takahashi, Omni Gardens, baklu, and Johnny Nash. We play an Egisto Macchi composition courtesy of our recent guest recommendation . There’s a classic Houston & Dorsey track, as well as a couple 2023 selections from BCMC and Brendan Eder Ensemble...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. The five-year Flow State T-shirt is available here and we are off next week. Today’s mix is the last one of the year. We’re departing from our usual meticulously ordered mixes and embraced a degree of randomness this time. We open with a Lou Harrison strings piece followed by a Kali Malone organ piece. We...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some instrumentals: Tamam Shud’s “Bali Waters” (h/t Janie Jones ) and William Tyler’s collaboration with Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet). We move through jazzier pieces by Laurindo Almeida and Carlos Niño & Friends. Then we get into ambient from David Michael Moore, Vince Clarke, Satosh...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a couple long ambient tracks from Eternell and James Bernard & anthéne. We move through harp from Lavinia Meijer and accordion from Yara Asmar. Then there’s some electronic instrumentals from Jupi/ter, Tomu DJ, Davi Music, and Suzanne Ciani. We play both sides of the new Cowboy Sadne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient music from Brian Eno, Johnny Nash, and Will Gardner. Mary Lattimore covered Hiroshi Yoshmiura’s “Blink” on the harp. We include a track from André 3000’s new ambient album. There’s instrumental music from Rosie Carr, Yara Asmar, and Jan Jelinek, and electronic music from Spac...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode is a collaboration with Michael Cina , a versatile artist and designer based in North St. Paul, Minnesota. Currently the principal of Cina Associates , he has gained a wealth of experience, having garnered accolades such as an Emmy win and a Grammy nomination for his design work. Cina also...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with harpist Lara Somogyi’s moving cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto. We then play a bunch of new ambient music from Courtney Barnett, Peter M. Murray, Leo Takami, Blue Divers, Salamanda, and Joseph Shabason. Christine Ott does an amazing solo piano cover of the...

Good morning. Today we have a guest mix from FogChaser , an American composer and producer based in Portland, OR. We’re making his mix available to all subscribers. As Fog Chaser, I release a new instrumental song every month exclusively through my free newsletter . I recently completed my second full year of writing these pieces.  The first twenty-four tracks of today’s mix make up Volumes I and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix #200 is sourced from Friday’s open thread of community music recs . We open with ambient pieces from William Basinski, Michiru Aoyama, and Brian Grainger. We move through some contemporary classical with Tigran Hamasyan, Hania Rani, and Will Gardner. Two video game soundtracks are represented:...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the opening track from Hiroshi Yoshimura’s recently reissued album, Surround . We continue through some ambient favorites from John Carroll Kirby, Pauline Anna Strom, and SUSS. Two classical pieces appear from John Cage and J.S. Bach. Two psychedelic guitar/keyboard instrumentals fro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some 2020s ambient from Luke Schneider and Belly Full of Stars. That’s followed by a choice track from Mary Lattimore’s stellar new album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada , the subject of tomorrow’s email which will also include an interview (spoiler). Back to the mix, we then play some Nine I...