Isolation Mix Two

A second Bagging Area mix for lockdown, an hour of tunes starting out ambient, taking a turn toward the Balearics and some fizzing electronics before the jetstream sends it back into more ambient, melancholic lands with waves and seagulls. Having the time and space to think about putting these together is one of the upsides of social distancing and isolation.

Private Mountain: Coming Back Home v Eric Cantona ‘When the seagulls follow the trawler…

Nils Frahm: Over There, It’s Raining

Steven Leggett: Bathhouse

Seahawks: Rainbow Sun

Peaking Lights: Beautiful Dub

Circle Sky: Ghost In The Machine

The Neil Cowley Trio: Echo Nebula (Vessels Remix)

Fila Brazillia: Midnight Friends

Mark Peters: Jacob’s Ladder (Ambient Innerlands Version)

Jan van den Broeke: Memories

A Man Called Adam: Easter Song (Gospel Oak FX)

Bjorn Torske: First Movement

Over There

Very much in the vein of what I'm listening to at the moment comes Nils Frahm, Berlin musician and producer who combines piano pieces with classical and electronic music. Sometimes it can be a bit too polite and more background music than ambient (and there's a difference I think) but sometimes he really hits the mark. This one is from his album Spaces, released in 2013, and was made up of collages of him playing the piano, field recordings and reel- to- reel tapes. Over There It's Raining is piano, rain and tape noise. Pensive and atmospheric. Very January.

Over There It's Raining