Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Daniel Lopatin’s score for Marty Supreme . We continue with an ambient piece by Guenter Schlienz (h/t Cow Tools), and then some new ambience by Loscil, Hayes Bradley, Aylu, and Mor Elian. There are a few jazz pieces by Chris Williams, Catherine Tang, and an old favorite from Moondog....

Today we have a guest mix from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, an American composer from the Pacific Northwest now based in Los Angeles. Her new album, Thoughts on the Future , comes out this Friday and about which she wrote, “This composition is shaped by loss, written with the quiet intention of holding someone through the unholdable.” We premiere that album here, and the rest of the mix is Smith’s hand-...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix consists of mostly new singles. We open with ambient music by Francesca Heart, Golden, marine eyes , and Rob Winstone. Then a new classical piece by Alanna Crouch and a performance of Harold Budd’s “Pavilion of Dreams” by harpist Nailah Hunter and thereminist Alia Mohamed. We move through instrumental compos...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with some new ambient music by Ess Whiteley, Sofie Birch, Driftless Region, Phil Cook, Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello, and Laurie Torres & Nailah Hunter. We excerpt some newish piano pieces by Rachel Grimes and Armin van Buuren. Then the synthesizers intensify with Slow Riffs, KMRU, cehryl, and On...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is provided by Seconds, whose fourth LP, Drafts , is the latest release on Flow State Records (more on that tomorrow). It’s now available for free/name your price on Bandcamp and is released under a Creative Commons license. This mix plays most of the Drafts tracks out of order, following the usual Flow Stat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix consists mostly of new music. There are new ambient works by Alaskan Tapes & Blue Miles, CFCF (from the Sounds of Taiwan compilation ), and Saapato. We play Gloria Cheng’s solo piano performance of John Adams’ “China Gates” from the ‘90s. Then, two tracks from Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider’s new ambient albu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a synth meditation piece by JD Emmanuel from 1982. There’s new ambient music by Jon Porras, Funcionário, U, and Martina Berther & Philipp Schlotter. We play some new instrumentals by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Hayes Bradley, and Golden Brown. There’s a miraculous solo ukulele performance of “...

Today’s mix is entirely sourced from friends of Flow State: musicians, curators, label heads, music fans. The 37 tracks that were contributed are quite varied: obscure favorites, recent loves, artists’ own tracks (including several unreleased). The only artist picked twice was Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. In honor of the big three oh oh, this mix is available to everyone. If you’re not already a F...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with acoustic instrumentals by Unchained and Golden Brown. There’s a Torus track which reimagines a Postal Service riff for ambient ears (thanks Richard for the tip). We play some new ambient music by Funcionário, Emily A. Sprague, Kelly Moran, and Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe. There’s a single from Lia Ko...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Nala Sinephro’s new score for The Smashing Machine . Then we have some new ambient music by Metric System 1981, Blanket Swimming, and Steve Hauschildt. There’s a neoclassical piece by Alanna Crouch and a Satie piece performed by Reinbert de Leeuw (thanks Thomas Thompson ). There are c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with the titular piece from Jonny Greenwood’s new score for One Battle After Another . There are a few other pieces from that score sprinkled throughout the mix. Then we have new ambient music from Emily A. Sprague, Kayla Pichichero, and Christopher Willits. We play a composition by the late great Dani...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix is a label edit of Passed Recordings , a record label founded in 2021. They have a global roster of artists who make “atmospheric music”: think ambient, drone, electronic, post-rock, and more. They invited us to explore their archives and select tracks for a Flow State mix. (You can explore their archives yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a track from Almost An Island’s new self-titled record, followed by some ambient pieces by Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. There’s a new longform instrumental by Bitchin Bajas, followed by shorter ones by Ben Bertrand, Harold Budd, and Corntuth. We play the “Rêverie-Nocturne” from pianist Alice Sar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an old favorite from the 2006 Little Miss Sunshine score by Devotchka. Then there’s new ambient music by B9 & marine eyes and a collaboration between zakè & William Basinski. We play instrumentals by Oakland Afternoon Ensemble, Ben Bertrand, Otto Benson, and Olivia Belli. There’s a moving track, “...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a premiere of the newest album from Flow State Records: The Nectar of Now by Davi Music. Unlike his previous works of ambient music and tape looped guitar, this record consists of humble covers of American traditional songs, spirituals, and folk standards. The album comes out tomorrow – we will fe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with ambient pieces by Nueen, Windy & Carl, and Peter Michael Hamel. There’s an unreleased track called “Night of the Hunter” from a forthcoming Flow State album. We play some newish instrumentals by Kaela, Hayden Pedigo, and Jonny Nash. Clarice Jensen has a new single called “Unity” which is fantastic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music by Offthesky, Luke Schneider, and Steve Gunn. There’s a newish long solo piano piece by Sophie Hutchings, and an environmental ambient piece by Passepartout Duo. Francesca Marongiu released a fascinating record, Still Forms in Air , a few weeks ago, from which we excerpt “Floral...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix begins with “Holy Thursday” by David Axelrod, which is one of the coolest songs of all time in large part because of Earl Palmer’s drumming. Then there’s ambient music by Luke Schneider, Susumu Yokota, and Gollden. Alanna Crouch has a new single out, “don’t turn back.” Then we play some favorites from the ne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a Stars of the Lid track from 1996 entitled “Be Little With Me.” That’s followed by some new ambient music by Felicity Mangan, Peter Chilvers, and Gollden. We play some new instrumentals by Andrew Wasylyk, Wilson Tanner, and Dntel, including Dntel’s remarkable track “What I Made.” There are some o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with two tracks from Almost An Island’s new album, a new collaboration by marine eyes , James Bernard, and Kenneth James Gibson. That’s followed by a new ambient single by Emily A. Sprague and a selection from Gabriel Brady’s Day-blind . There are classical pieces by Philip Glass and Hildur Guðnadóttir...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a moving Walt McClements composition, followed by new works by John Also Bennett and Metric System 1981. We selected a couple Lyle Mays tracks from his self-titled 1986 album which was featured last week. There’s a new single by harpist Lara Somogyi and pianist Jean-Michel Blais. Then some solo pi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with “A Handful of Olives,” a track from John Also Bennett’s new album. That’s followed by new music by Kilometre Club, Ami Kusakari, and Hammock. We revisit yesterday’s pairing of Excellent Birds and Hiroshi Yoshimura with their tracks “Lotus” and “Green Shower” respectively. There’s an instrumental f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a few new gorgeous ambient pieces by Hammock, Jeremiah Chu & Marta Sofia Honer, and Hiram. We continue with instrumentals by Devin Sarno, Félicia Atkinson, The Vernon Spring, and Fuubutsushi. There’s a fingerstyle solo guitar piece by Will Graefe, whose two new volumes of guitar instrumentals are...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient tracks by Kenji Kihara, Pan-American & Kramer, and Gabriel Brady. Then we play some… more new ambient music by Susana Lopez and Benoît Pioulard (don’t forget the circumflex). We play two tracks from Patricia Wolf ’s excellent new album, Hrafnamynd , which may appear in Flow State as so...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with two tracks from Gabriel Brady’s new debut LP, Day-blind . Then we transition into ambient works by Aarktica, James Holden/Wacław Zimpel, and Ai Yamamoto. We revisit a favorite Fleetwood Mac instrumental (you can probably guess which one) before playing some Gerry Mulligan Sextet and Lindstrøm. We...