Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with two tracks from the latest Flow State Records release: Fascinating Stuff by Seconds (available on Spotify , Apple Music , Bandcamp , and the other usuals). The first track, “Pacific Pond,” features Stuart Bogie improvising on clarinet over shimmering synths and an 808. The second is a Burial-style...

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 Alaskan Tapes and zakè/From Overseas/James Bernard. We play a classic track by Brian Eno & Cluster which featured prominently in Gary Hustwit ’s fantastic new documentary, Eno – or it did in the unique version of the film generated for a screening last week. There are some ne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s episode opens with an ambient piece from the great new record Flint by zakè , From Overseas, and James Bernard. Shortly thereafter we play a 13-minute track from Nico Georis’s new record, Plant Music Vol. 3 - The Golden Teachers , another new one worth checking out. Then we play some highlights from earlier 2024...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music from Jogging House, who’s soon to appear in conversation in this very newsletter. We proceed with some instrumentals from the American southwest by Harold Budd and SUSS. There are guitar-led pieces by Daniel Bachman and Tomo Katsurada, plus some new experimental tracks by Chloe L...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Today’s mix opens with new ambient music from Jogging House, Perila, Ibukun Sunday, KMRU, and Rafael Anton Irisarri. There are some instrumental throwbacks to Harold Budd and Brian Blade. Then some new piano-led tracks from Cephas Azariah, Julian Davis Reid, and Kolumbo. There’s some left-field guitar instrumentals from...

Today we have a guest mix from FogChaser , who writes and produces a new instrumental song every month, shared exclusively through his newsletter . It’s another free multi-hour mix to take your mind off other things… The first twelve tracks of today’s mix are from my most recent collection, Explorations , songs written with a mix of orchestral, acoustic, and electronic instruments along with field...

Today’s Flow State episode – three hours of calm instrumental music – is available to everyone, apropos of nothing. Along with new discoveries and recent recs from the community, this mix has some of our favorite ambient tracks from 2024 so far. Highlights include Alaskan Tapes, Surya Botofasina, Belle Chen, Oliver Coates, Nala Sinephro, Ry Cooder, Prairiewolf, Yussef Dayes, and Four Tet. The full...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix – the big two five oh – begins with a few tracks from øjeRum, the rec from yesterday. There’s some newish ambient from Bruce Brubaker (who has a new set of Brian Eno covers), Tristan Arp, and Landon Metz. There’s some instrumental guitar from Masahiro Sugaya, Josh Kaufman, and ML Buch. There’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a track from Alaskan Tapes’ new album, Something Ephemeral , followed by ambient pieces by Poemme, Taylor Deupree, and Harold Budd. We play an echoey cello piece from Oliver Coates’ excellent new album, which we’ll be recommending soon. There’s solo piano by Julia Gjertsen, Marika Ta...

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 new ambient pieces by Alaskan Tapes, Kenneth James Gibson, and RIOPY. We play one track from Belle Chen’s new Ravel in the Forest meditative rework album. Then we’re listening to electronic instrumentals from Relaxer and Midland before delving into ambient techno by Purelink (a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient tracks from Sachi Kobayashi and ERSATZ. There are some gentle piano recordings from Julia Gjertsen (whose new record will be featured soon) and Ludovico Einaudi. We have an exclusive premiere of Davi Music’s new track “Hoop Dreams,” which plays nostalgic chords over the echoe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode opens with a new ambient recording from Trey Anastasio of Phish, a kind of post-rock track reminiscent of Talk Talk or David Pajo. There are a few longform ambient pieces across the mix, from Hiroshi Yoshimura, GAS, Loula Yorke, Arushi Jain, and Matchess. We include a few new instrumental f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode opens with ambient pieces by Tomasz Bednarczyk and zakè. Guitar-led instrumentals follow, specifically ones by Buckethead, Chuck Johnson, and Whitney Johnson. We play one track from Max Richter’s fantastic new album, In a Landscape . Then a Miles Davis recording from the ‘60s, an Alejandro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with “Hollywood Dream Trip” by Syrinx, an instrumental that to us expresses the arrival of fall. We play two tracks from Alaskan Tapes’ new EP, Delirium Hums . Then some newish ambient music by Metric System 1981, Jon Hopkins, and Shida Shahabi. We took two tracks from from Gigi Masin’s r...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode begins with a new ambient-ish track from Casino Versus Japan. There are a couple tracks by Green-House and a mellow piano piece by Hania Rani. Then an adventure of a recording by Veryan that is about 20 minutes long. We revisit classic instrumentals by Susumu Yokota and Shigeo Sekito, which...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning – we’ll be off Monday and Tuesday next week. Today’s mix opens with a solo piano piece from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final album, Opus . We follow that with ambient pieces by Chubby Wolf, James Devane, and Boards of Canada. There’s an instrumental edit of a subdued, meandering Mark Hollis track. Then we play some...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens atypically with Otto Benson’s guitar-led “Another Long Day.” We proceed with “Parade” from Hayes Bradley’s fantastic new album Recommence , and then excerpt two long tracks from AJA’s Ajasphères . There’s a novel instrumental jam from Argo Noff & Take Care, and then an epic composition fr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode begins with Boards of Canada, and then settles into ambient from William Basinski, Otto Benson, and Superposition. There’s additional felt piano-led pieces by Alaskan Tapes, Kenichiro Isoda, and Volodja Brodsky. Then we play experimental instrumental tracks by DRINKS, Argo Nuff, and Davidss...

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 pieces by French artist AJA, followed by ambiences from Brian Eno and Kara-Lis Coverdale. We play David Pajo’s guitar cover of Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel” as featured on last week’s Ambient Country episode with Pajo. Then two Bill Frisell guitar pieces, followed by K...

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 of longform ambient pieces by Gollden (check out our interview from yesterday) and France Jobin. Then we play some more experimental pieces by Yann Novak / Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello / Taylor Deupree. There’s a bunch of instrumental guitar music by Stanley Jordan,...

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 new ambient music from artists Alaskan Tape, Volodja Brodsky, marine eyes , and Willows8ng. We play some lowkey piano music from Olivia Belli and Joep Beving before another excerpt from an upcoming Flow State Records release. There’s some more experimental instrumentals fr...

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 by Chihei Hatakeyama, William Basinski & Janek Schaefer. We play two unreleased tracks from an upcoming Flow State Records release. There are two excerpts from pianist and composer RIOPY’s new album, Meditation 432 . We inspect a few experimental electronic works from...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with new ambient music from Buildings and Food, Chihei Hatakeyama, Metric System 1981, and marine eyes . We play Bruce Brubaker’s solo piano cover of Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports,” followed by pianists Belle Chen and Víkingur Ólafsson. There are some tape loops by Tomotsugu Nakamura, D...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. We’ll be off Thursday and Friday. Today’s episode opens with a few ambient compositions on the lachrymose side, from William Basinski, zakè, and øjeRum. There are two excerpts from SUSS’s new album, Birds & Beasts , which we’ll hear more about on the Ambient Country podcast tomorrow. There’s new contempora...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix is all longform ambient pieces. It starts with Seconds’ 11-minute drone track “Flat Ontology.” Then we play long ambient pieces both classic and relatively new. The classic include pieces by Stars of the Lid, Harold Budd, and Pauline Oliveros. The new include pieces by Taylor Deupree, The Black...