Category: Listen

Today’s guest deejay is Sean Conrad.

I met Sean through Steve Targo (listen to his mix for Soundwave here). I asked Steve who he thought would share a mix on Soundwave, and he recommended Sean, who runs the Inner Islands music label. I spent an afternoon listening to some of the music from Sean’s label. Wonderful stuff! I sent out an invitation to guest deejay on Soundwave, toot suite.

Sean also records under under the names Ashan and Channelers, and is in the duo Skyminds with Michael Henning.

On today’s show, Sean showcases select tracks from his recordings as Channelers.

Sean has words about today’s mix below.

 

This week electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze died. Klaus was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers. Klaus released more than 60 albums in sixty years during his solo career.

Last year I invited Klaus to guest deejay on Soundwave. It saddens me that Klaus was unable to appear on the show. I would have loved to have heard what music he finds essential. But we will always have Klaus’s music to experience and enjoy.

You can listen to a 7+ hour mix of Klaus’s music on Spotify.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Andrew Tasslemyer.

See you then.

 

The following pieces trace my (mostly) acoustic work as Channelers recorded on 8-track tape over the last six years. The pieces revolve around long live takes, minimal to no editing, and compositions that range from fully worked out to fully improvised, with most resting somewhere in between. This is in contrast to my electronic albums as Channelers, which have heavily relied on editing, loops, effects, and generally more post-production than playing. As the years go by, the tape pieces remain closer to my heart. There is a certain spaciousness and spirit to them that I still resonate with. They are more indicative of how I would like to carry on with the Channelers’ work.

1. Channelers “In The Garden Of Venus”
2. Channelers “Moving Through My Second Self”
3. Channelers “Praise For Life In All Its Forms”
4. Channelers “Life Living Through”
5. Channelers “Dissolving Image”
6. Channelers “Pressure Sigh”
7. Channelers “Slow Leaf Spell”

Subscribe to SOUNDWAVE on iTunes, Overcast, Castro and Pocketcasts.

Logo by Rik Oostenbroek

Today’s guest deejay is Jacob Newman.

When I launched Soundwave, I had no plans beyond releasing a weekly show dedicated to ambient, classical, experimental, and instrumental music to help cope with the stress and isolation of the stay-at-home self-quarantine during the first few months of the pandemic. If I had a plan, it was that I would wrap up the show once COVID-19 was reasonably under control. Soundwave will have fulfilled its purpose.

Week after week, I’ve shared fantastic mixes from guest deejays who are musicians, deejays, label owners, writers, etc. Each show is different; each show is a gem. But the pandemic isn’t over, and Soundwave hasn’t ended.

One of the unexpected delights of Soundwave over the last two years is the network of people that emerged who have participated in the show. I ask each guest deejay on Soundwave whom they know who would want to share a mix on the show. Soundwave has been around long enough that asking for someone to guest deejay on the show will branch out to three other guests. How far will it go as the year goes by?

I met Jacob Newman when I asked Innesti who should guest deejay on Soundwave. They recommended Jacob. After listening to his music on Bandcamp, I wholeheartedly agreed and extended an invitation to Jacob.

 

The music you’ll hear in Jacob’s mix captures the spirit of his own music. If you enjoy Jacobs mix, then you’ll definitely want to listen to his latest album, Ephemeralis Algorithmica. As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Jacob’s new album and paused to look up and see palm trees swaying in the breeze against a clear blue sky. The sense of peace and happiness of that moment was magic.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Inner Islands.

See you then.

1. Misleading Structures “Momentum Drift”
2. Lab’s Cloud “Reflections”
3. Loscil “Orta”
4. Lo Mismo “Time and Again”
5. Atmøsphäre “Evening Lights”
6. Motionfield “Reality”
7. Martin Jarl “Isolated Incident”
8. Mnemonic45 “Restless Heart”
9. Autumna “Du er mit lys”
10. Blure “Singing of Forests (el canto eterno de los bosques)”
11. Eternall, Blure “Beauty and Resistance”
12. Ishq “Starflower City”
13. strië “Unseen Weight”

Today’s guest deejay is Shad Marsh.

Shad shared a mix on Soundwave a few years back. Today he shares a mix no less remarkable. His mix explores immersion and isolation.

I’m writing this in the evening from my kitchen table. My patio door is open, and there’s a perfect cool breeze. Shad’s mix is playing in the background, and it feels like an ode to spring. I hope my neighbors are enjoying Shad’s mix as music as I do.

 

Shad lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. His radio show 2000 Years of Radio can be heard Sunday mornings on 103.3fm in Asheville, NC, and on the web. You’d be doing yourself a favor if you tuned in.

Shad also shares a poem from William Carlos Williams , which you can find below. How nice is that? I may ask future guest deejays on Soundwave to share poems as well.

Speaking of guest deejays, next week features a mix from Jacob Newman.

See you then.

1. Daniel Bachman “Accokeek Creek”
2. Daniel Bachman “Blues in the Anthropocene”
3. Porest “No Terracotta Relief”
4. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt “Demands of Ordinary Devotion”
5. Kink Gong “Bamboo Chicken”
6. caroline “Skydiving onto the library roof”
7. Lea Bertucci “On Opposite Sides of Sleep”

“Lifeless in appearance, sluggish,

dazed spring approaches —

They enter the new world naked,

cold, uncertain of all

save that they enter. All about them

the cold, familiar wind—

Now the grass, tomorrow

the stiff curl of wild-carrot leaf.

One by one objects are defined —

It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf,

But now the stark dignity of

entrance — Still, the profound change

has come upon them; rooted they

grip down and begin to awaken”

—W.C. Williams

Subscribe to SOUNDWAVE on iTunes, Overcast, Castro and Pocketcasts.

Logo by Rik Oostenbroek

Today’s guest deejay is Melissa Pons.

I found Melissa while doing a deep dive in Bandcamp for new music to listen to. I spent the day skipping from musician to musician. I’d play a minute or two of a few of their songs. If it didn’t move or interest me, I’d move on to the next artist. I skipped across a lot of songs, and then I came across Melissa. Her music was compelling. I spent the rest of the day listening to her albums.

So of course I invited Melissa to guest deejay on Soundwave.

 

Funny thing. Earlier this week my friend and I were talking about ambient music. He’s a musician and he has strong opinions about his craft. He thinks ambient is nothing but a lot of loops, for example. I told him “My friend, I know.” Yes, that kind of ambient music exists, but that’s not the kind of music that the guest deejays on this show play. I told him how Melissa’s mix makes me smile. Melissa’s mix took me on a journey, and I’d take delight when I found myself in reverie.

I hope you’ll have the same experience when you listen to Melissa’s mix.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Shad Marsh.

See you then.

1. Fierce Islands “Memory Bag”
2. Jake Muir “like sweet thoughts in a dream”
3. Eartheater “Kiss of The Phoenix”
4. Melissa Pons “Cows in Space / Heart Cluster”
5. Melissa Pons “Essay on Uncertain Layers of Self”
6. Chris Yan “Wechselwirkung (interazione)”
7. Jeremy Hegge “My first dawn outside our new home in the bush”
8. Patricia Wolf “Dawn Chorus One Alternate Mix”
9. TOMOKO HOJO + RAHEL KRAFT “Melted Into Darkness”
10. TOMOKO HOJO + RAHEL KRAFT “The Hours Descend”
11. Paulo Dantas “02022020”
12. Melissa Pons “Binaural Bird Feeder / Incredibly Close”
13. Ian Wellman “Extraction”
14. Ian Wellman “Gusts of Wind”

Today’s guest deejay is Darren McClure.

I met Darren when I asked Soundwave guest deejay Gert De Meester (listen to his mix here), who he thought would share a mix on the show. Gert highly recommended Darren. After listening to a couple of Darren’s albums, I couldn’t agree with Gert more, and I reached out to Darren, who delivered today’s fantastic show.

I’m fond of today’s show because I listened to it while working from home earlier this week. It was a rare rainy San Diego, and while the rain pelted my rood and windows and the wind shook the palm trees, Darren’s mix played in the background, making it a magical day.

 

Before I get out of Dodge, Gert is releasing his new Distant Fires Burning album, Inperspectycon Vol.2 Wednesday, April 6. I’ve been listening to the preview tracks, and Inperspectycon Vol​.​2 is quite the musical journey. I encourage you to give his preview tracks yourself and maybe pre-order his album.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Melissa Pons.

1. Ulla “smile”
2. Yui Onodera “Substrate 3”
3. Taylor Deupree “Live in Yamaguchi (June 25, 2004)”
4. Tim Hecker “Kaito”
5. Pole “Paula”
6. Jan Jelinek “Do Dekor”
7. Microstoria “Zuhause”
8. Christophe Charles “Taegu”
9. Pita “Fvo”
10. TIBSLC “Glime”
11. Tetsu Inoue “Curve”
12. Huerco S. “Promises Of Fertility”
13. Fennesz “Odessa”
14. Simon Scott “Oaks Grow Strong”
15. Janek Schaefer “Tale Of Two Angels”
16. CV & JAB “Hot Tub”
17. Federico Durand “Recuerdos en Super 8 (Memories on Super 8)”
18. Motion “London Thing”
19. Shuttle358 “Sea”
20. Celer “Walking Above Walkways”
21. Johann Johannsson “Mandy Love Theme”

Subscribe to SOUNDWAVE on iTunes, Overcast, Castro and Pocketcasts.

Logo by Rik Oostenbroek