Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with two ambient tracks from Haruhisa Tanaka, a Japanese ambient composer and sound engineer. We then move through new ambient music from Purelink, Alaskan Tapes, KMRU (excerpt), and Christina Vantzou/JAB. We revisit classics such as Peter Gabriel’s score to Scorsese’s Jesus movie and Gav...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with our favorite track from Laurel Halo’s excellent new album, Atlas . We continue with some other ambient favorites such as “Sand Partina” by Oneohtrix Point Never (who also has a new album out this Friday). There’s a track from Natalia Beylis, an outstanding sound designer whose stream...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning, glad to be back. Today’s episode begins with ambient pieces by Ex Confusion, Will Samson, Harold Budd, Purelink, and Hiroshi Yokoyama (performing John Cage). We continue into instrumental performances by Lavinia Meijer, Golden Brown, and Alessandro Sgobbio. We resurface select tracks from Brian Eno, Air, B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning The first half of today’s mix selects tracks from across Brian McBride ’s ouvre: solo work as well as tracks by his duo Stars of the Lid. Then we play new ambient music from KMRU and Brian Eno. We feature two tracks from Christina Chatfield’s 2021 quasi-ambient record Sutro (to be recommended on Friday). An...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode begins with two singles from upcoming LPs we’re excited about: Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett’s Klima and Laurel Halo’s Atlas . We include other recent discoveries such as Aria Rostami ( yesterday’s rec ) and Jeff Tobias, whose new album Music from Milky Way Underground is worth a li...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient pieces from Mark Pritchard, Brian Eno, Chino Yoshio, and others. There’s some contemporary classical from Simon Fisher Turner as well as Sova Stroj, new discoveries for us who may appear in the weekday newsletter soon. We move into new electronic from Purelink, Tomu DJ, and J...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with two piano tracks from Kyoto-based composer Chino Yoshio, a recent discovery. We move onto contemporary ambient music from GAS, Corntuth, and The Inventors of Aircraft (via A Closer Listen ). We revisit a Hans Zimmer cue from The Thin Red Line , which Christopher Nolan recently called...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode opens with new singles from ambient musicians Green-House, Carmen Villain, and Hollie Kenniff. We then do a survey of British composer Angus MacRae’s discography, featuring four of his piano and film score tracks. Next there’s George Winston and upcoming Flow State rec Nani Wolfgramm, follo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a few ambient tracks from Japanese producer Hakobune, French composer Maxime Denuc, and Americans Forest Management and Tim Hecker. We play a couple tracks from Greg Foat including a new collaboration with Gigi Masin. There are some cool instrumentals from Lynn Avery, Cole Pulice, an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with French multi-instrumentalist Akusmi, his Moondog-like track “Cogito.” Then we move into the usual ambient openers, this time from Luke Schneider, Peter Michael Hamel, and Laurel Halo. There’s some experimental electronic from Aria Rostami and KMRU (who has a new record out on Bandcam...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a David Byrne track from 1991 off a lesser-known solo album called The Forest , recently cited as inspiration by comedian John Mulaney. We then play some new tracks from Lionmilk, Greg Foat & Gigi Masin, Loscil, and Sophia Zhuravkova. There’s some instrumental music from Ukrainian co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the premiere of the newest Flow State Records release, Good Morning Deja Vu by Davi Music, which comes out this Friday. We’ll be recommending it next week. That’s followed by new music by Metric System 1981, Shida Shahabi, Aarktica, Hayden Pedigo, and Blue Lake. We dig through the ar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with favorite ambient tracks from Bengalfuel, Chihei Hatakeyama, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno. We then move to some recent discoveries off playlists by Dinner Music and Herb Sundays (Yu Su) , including artists Halftribe, Roedelius, and Pete La Roca. We excerpt two standout tracks from the ne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a newish track from harpist Lara Somogyi, followed by IKSRE, SUSS, and the mainstay Hiroshi Yoshimura. Those are the ambient tracks, and then we get into some piano music from Yumiko Morioka, a Franz Liszt composition that Evan recommended, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea. There’s som...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today we’re re-running Flow State Episode 94. The mix opens with a few longform ambient tracks from artists Misleading Structures, Nala Sinephro, and Kali Malone. Then we take you through a few New Age and classical pieces from Shiho Yabuki. Then there are some interesting instrumental, house, and left-fie...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a choral piece, “Hymn of the Cherubim,” which was recently recommended on Herb Sundays by Kevin Kelly, who cites the track as his go-to writing music. That’s followed by ambient pieces from William Basinski, Imaginary Softwoods, and Billow Observatory. There’s some new classical from...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some ambient canon: Hiroshi Yoshmiura, Harold Budd, and Georgia Kelly. There are a couple tracks from ANNA’s new album, Intentions , which is worth a separate listen. There’s ambient country from William Tyler, Chuck Johnson, and North Americans, as well as a longer instrumental cut...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a bunch of ambient tracks from Gallery Six, Eluvium, Adam Pacione, and Celer. We linger on ambient/electronic with James Ellis FOrd, Aarktica, and Billow Observatory. Galcher Lustwerk has a new ambient record out, from which we excerpt two tracks. There’s solo guitar from Kaki King 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 bunch of recent ambient tracks by Michiru Aoyama, KMRU, and Masahiro Takahashi. There’s a classical interlude consisting of two pieces by Debussy (whom the late Ryuichi Sakamoto loved ) and Clara Rockmore’s theremin performance of “Summertime” by George Gershwin. We play a few guit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the world premiere of Flow State Records 007: Seconds , the second album from Seconds. That’s the first 40 minutes. The remaining two hours are “kinetic ambient” tracks that influenced the record, mixed by the artist. First there’s classic minimalist influences from Moondog, Steve Re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a classic ambient piece from Stars of the Lid, followed by new music from Aquatic Dreamer and Loscil. We move into a few new Laraaji tracks, including a Jon Hopkins piano rework of one. There’s some Arovane and Kid606, followed by a Scott Joplin waltz and Amanda Whiting’s ethereal ha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix features a whole bunch of ambient and instrumental excerpts from Mac DeMarco’s 9+ hour album One Wayne G , which he released this past Friday. There are some genuine Brian Eno-esque ambient pieces on there. We also play new music from Flow State Records’ Davi Music and a new favorite from Golde...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with several ambient tracks, including new favorites by Liquid Mind and Travis McKay and old favorites from Oneohtrix Point Never and Rudy Adrian. We play a couple newer tracks from Locrian and Alice Sara Ott before diving into a tribute to jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, who passed away last w...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a few ambient pieces from Blood Incantation (they switched from death metal to ambient last year 🤘), Nico Georis, SidiRum, and Bianca Scout. We continue to celebrate the discography of Ryuichi Sakamoto. We also recently lost Ethiopian composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou, who we re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix begins with an hour of selections from Ryuichi Sakamoto ’s discography. Specifically, we play his ambient music, then solo piano, film scores, experimental electronic music, and an instrumental from Yellow Magic Orchestra, the band he co-founded in the late ‘70s. The second hour features new mu...