Flow State

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. The five-year Flow State T-shirt is available here and we are off next week. Today’s mix is the last one of the year. We’re departing from our usual meticulously ordered mixes and embraced a degree of randomness this time. We open with a Lou Harrison strings piece followed by a Kali Malone organ piece. We...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some instrumentals: Tamam Shud’s “Bali Waters” (h/t Janie Jones ) and William Tyler’s collaboration with Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet). We move through jazzier pieces by Laurindo Almeida and Carlos Niño & Friends. Then we get into ambient from David Michael Moore, Vince Clarke, Satosh...

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 long ambient tracks from Eternell and James Bernard & anthéne. We move through harp from Lavinia Meijer and accordion from Yara Asmar. Then there’s some electronic instrumentals from Jupi/ter, Tomu DJ, Davi Music, and Suzanne Ciani. We play both sides of the new Cowboy Sadne...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with ambient music from Brian Eno, Johnny Nash, and Will Gardner. Mary Lattimore covered Hiroshi Yoshmiura’s “Blink” on the harp. We include a track from André 3000’s new ambient album. There’s instrumental music from Rosie Carr, Yara Asmar, and Jan Jelinek, and electronic music from Spac...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s episode is a collaboration with Michael Cina , a versatile artist and designer based in North St. Paul, Minnesota. Currently the principal of Cina Associates , he has gained a wealth of experience, having garnered accolades such as an Emmy win and a Grammy nomination for his design work. Cina also...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with harpist Lara Somogyi’s moving cover of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto. We then play a bunch of new ambient music from Courtney Barnett, Peter M. Murray, Leo Takami, Blue Divers, Salamanda, and Joseph Shabason. Christine Ott does an amazing solo piano cover of the...

Good morning. Today we have a guest mix from FogChaser , an American composer and producer based in Portland, OR. We’re making his mix available to all subscribers. As Fog Chaser, I release a new instrumental song every month exclusively through my free newsletter . I recently completed my second full year of writing these pieces.  The first twenty-four tracks of today’s mix make up Volumes I and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix #200 is sourced from Friday’s open thread of community music recs . We open with ambient pieces from William Basinski, Michiru Aoyama, and Brian Grainger. We move through some contemporary classical with Tigran Hamasyan, Hania Rani, and Will Gardner. Two video game soundtracks are represented:...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with the opening track from Hiroshi Yoshimura’s recently reissued album, Surround . We continue through some ambient favorites from John Carroll Kirby, Pauline Anna Strom, and SUSS. Two classical pieces appear from John Cage and J.S. Bach. Two psychedelic guitar/keyboard instrumentals fro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.flowstate.fm Good morning. Today’s mix opens with some 2020s ambient from Luke Schneider and Belly Full of Stars. That’s followed by a choice track from Mary Lattimore’s stellar new album, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada , the subject of tomorrow’s email which will also include an interview (spoiler). Back to the mix, we then play some Nine I...

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...