Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix ebbs and flows rather than gradually building. It opens with an instrumental from Ezra Feinberg, followed by a new electronic collaboration between H.Takahashi and Kohei Oyamada (H TO O). Then there’s some mellow electronic from Actress and Boards of Canada, followed by acoustic pieces by Marin...

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 trombone piece by Kalia Vandever. Then there are some more experimental instrumentals from NUG, Penelope Trappes (who also ends the mix), and K. Freund. There are guitar-led pieces by Oren Ambarchi and the band Ui. We play the “Stop Bajon” instrumental that Ambarchi recomm...

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 Hatsü and Manuel Göttsching. We move into contemporary classical pieces by Elori Saxl, Éliane Radigue, and Sophia Jani. There are film themes from Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith. Then, a bunch of guitar instrumentals from Woody Guthrie, Yasmin Williams, Cedr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with a solo piano composition from Yiruma, and then excerpts new scores from Eiko Ishibashi and Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow. There’s new ambient music from Kourosh Dini, Buildings and Food, and Gollden. We play a dusty track from The Caretaker, whose albums were recently made available o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with harpist Mary Lattimore’s new collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements. We then play a few recent favorites from Michael A. Muller, Kamaal Williams, Hayden Pedigo, and DBH. There’s a nice jam track from Chiminyo et al. before we sink into a 30-minute raga jam from Libe...

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 favorites from Celer, Anna Peaker, marine eyes, and Kenji Kihara. There’s a piece from Yunchan Lim’s new collection of Chopin études, followed by piano pieces by Michael Vincent Waller and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross. There’s a new Double Geography track (h/t Philip She...

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 ambient favorites from Rafael Anton Irisarri and Ellen Arkbro. We select a couple Brian Eno tracks from the set that accompanies the new Gary Hustwit documentary on the ambient pioneer. We then play through some Saapato, Perila, Carmen Villain, and The Balloonist. There’s an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix follows a different order than most Flow State mixes. Whereas the usual mix accelerates from ambient to dance – mirroring the progression of our Monday to Friday recommendations – this mix ebbs and flows like a sine wave. We begin with Dario Marianelli’s standout track from the V for Vendetta s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix includes a lot of new ambient releases, starting with Pan-American’s recent collaboration with Kramer. There are new tracks from Kiasmos, Davi Music, marine eyes, Fax, Isabel Pine, Adam Wiltzie, Kelly Moran, SUSS, and more. We play two tracks from Nathan Micay’s recent soundtrack for Time Bomb...

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 KMRU track. Then we move through Pan-American and a recommendation of his, Perila & Ulla. There are soundtracks from Ari Balouzian, Alexandre Desplat, and Henry Mancini. Then we get into jazz with Jasmine Myra, Santo & Johnny, and Eiko Ishibashi. We revisit standout dance m...

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...