Flow State

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...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient pieces by Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee as well as Alaskan Tapes & Lutes Jennings. We move through some sweet instrumental compositions by Tracy Chow, Cole Pulice, Kaela, and Bea Brennan. We play Claire Chase’s inventive arrangement of Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint” for flute. The...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an Ariel Kalma piece called “Open Like a Flute.” That’s followed by a new Brian Eno track, “Big Empty Country II,” a collaboration with composer Beatie Wolfe. We continue with a whisper of an ambient track by Sun Dawei, courtesy of Concrete Avalanche ’s recent post . Then pieces by Aarktica (a new...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an 11-minute richly textured ambient composition from Benoît Pioulard’s forthcoming album. We play some more ambient by Abul Mogard, Warmth, Green-House, and Kara-Lis Coverdale. There’s a brilliant collaboration between Natural Information Society and Bitchin’ Bajas. We play two tracks from Sam Wi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with an ambient jazz piece by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio that came out last year. We continue with some new instrumentals by Rindert Lammers and Wilson Tanner. Hat-tip to marine eyes for sharing Alanna Crouch’s music – we feature her solo piano composition “longing” here. We play some jazz pieces b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm In the spirit of Flow State hero and spirit animal Brian Eno, we took a cue from Oblique Strategies and put this mix in alphabetical order by track name. One implication of this strategy is that Rindert Lammers’ “Closing Credits” appears on the mix before his “Opening Credits.” Another is that we hear club banger Passar...

Today’s mix is a label edit of RVNG Intl., a Brooklyn-based label founded in 2003. (We pronounce it “revenge” but their website says , “As for the correct pronunciation of RVNG, please consult the cosmos.”) We’ve featured many RVNG records over the years, so we were delighted to pore through their archives with Matt, the founder. This fully instrumental mix comes on the heels of the label’s latest...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with violinist Esther Abrami’s outstanding performance of Satie’s classic “Gymnopédie No. 1” as arranged by Svetoslav Karparov. That’s followed by a great early ‘90s jam by Tokyo’s Natural Calamity and a colossal composition by Loscil from his new album, Lake Fire (highly recommend). The mix proceeds w...

Today we have a guest mix from Elori Saxl, an American composer from the midwest who has a new score out for the documentary Texada . This mix is defined mostly just by what I’ve been listening to lately, but I did notice I tended to lean into North American composers and specifically those whose music seems to reflect the North American landscape and its vastness. It feels fitting for a mix celeb...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix goes out to Earth, aka Gaia, the best planet in the universe. It’s two hours of music that features field recordings of mother nature or is inspired by natural surroundings. Mort Garson’s majestic “Plantasia” opens the mix. Then we have a new track by Evan Shornstein (aka Photay) and Will Epstein, who record...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with a new multi-track cello composition by Theresa Wong, followed by a 2020 ambient recording by Photay. There’s some new ambient-ish music by Spirituals, Nico Georis, Jäverling ◇ von Euler, and Lara Somogyi. We excerpt the new Barker album, Stochastic Drift , specifically the track “Fluid Mechanics.”...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix begins with two ambient pieces by Oneohtrix Point Never (from his 2009 LP, Russian Mind ) and Harold Budd (from his 2011 LP, In the Mist ). We play a beautiful, epic new collaboration between guitarist Joel Shearer and cellist Clarice Jensen called “The Clear Light of the Void.” Then some new music by HxH, B...