Musicians Ekin Fil, Lawrence English, and Chihei Hatakeyama join forces to create a sonic tapestry that explores the intersection of sound and atmosphere, yielding a deeply immersive listening experience.
16 Dec 2024
Episode 15 - Dross
Masayoshi Fujita, Jonny Nash, Suzanne Kraft, Dei Kjenslevare, and Mary Lattimore among others share haunting sonic landscapes that evoke a sense of eerie intimacy and emotional depth.
8 Dec 2024
Episode 14 - Paraselene
Electronic music artists James Plotkin, Brent Gutzeit, and Gustaf Hildebrand share their unique approaches to sonic experimentation and ambient soundscapes that evoke otherworldly experiences.
1 Dec 2024
Episode 13 - Taiga
Taiga explores the eerie landscapes of soundscapes, revealing how ambient music can evoke a sense of place and atmosphere, transporting listeners to mysterious worlds.
24 Nov 2024
Episode 12 - Gibbous
Ambient music composer Kate Carr and producer David Cordero explore the intersection of sound and human emotion in this haunting episode of Spooky Action At A Distance.
18 Nov 2024
Episode 11 - Edifice
"Perfectly silent apart from the vast sighs or rumbles of intestinal fermentation or the soft hiss of urine or diarrhea, she sits motionless atop a mound of old tires."
Minor Angels - Antoine Volodine
1) The Seance/Search for Muspel-Light - Circle Temple
2) Kima Šuškalli Ukattimanni Šittu - Herbst9
3) Wegwerpwee - Bas van Huizen
4) Each Named (remastered) - Bonini Bulga
5) Flowering Vibratory Clavicle - Scott Gibbons
6) Moat - Howlround
7) Here - The Star Pillow
8) Radicle Ether - A Year In The Country
9) Subspace - Lustmord
10) Wastelands - Theoroth
11) Adrift - Desiderii Margins
12) The Eternal Course Of The Sun - Sun Through Eyelids
13) Coumpletion 4a - Psychic TV
14) The Hole Behind My Heart - Controlled Bleeding
15) Mausoleum - Yannick Franck
16) Unearth - Tony Buck
10 Nov 2024
Episode 10 - Apophenia
1) Gene Wilder - Chelsea Wolfe
2) Unrasiert - Bohren and Der Club of Gore
3) Killing For Company - Swans
4) Holy Rollers - Zelienople
5) Acid Head - White Manna
6) Concerning The White Horse - Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch
7) Lagrimas Negras - Hermanos Gutierrez
8) Sleeps With Dice - Old Saw
9) Please Let Me Come Into The Storm/Luke - Radare
10) Undoing A Luciferian Towers - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
11) Misandrist - Hawthonn
12) Reason - Midwife
13) Vital - Grouper
14) Open Your Heart -Six Organs Of Admittance and Shackleton
15) Little Ones Run - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
16) Damage - Yo La Tengo
17) Roi - The Breeders
18) Spirit Ditch - Sparklehorse
19) Ricordando Il Giorno - Abel Mogard and Grand River
20) Upstairs Dan - Throwing Muses
21) Troubled Air - Sunn O)))
3 Nov 2024
Episode 9 - Vergessenheit
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
1) Romantic Threat - Pinkcourtesyphone
2) An Intention - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
3) Nival - Thomas Koner
4) Suspiria - Goblin
5) Soaked pt. 1 - Phillip Jeck and David Kierkegaard
6) 16 : 9 - Microastoria
7) Kirilian Auras - Lichens
8) Polaroid - Leyland Kirby
9) Semblance - Siavash Armini
10) Perdonare - Alessandro Cortini
11) For Terry - White Rainbow
12) dlp 2.1 - William Basinski
13) Maypole - Paul Giovanni and Magnet
14) Dragging The Harrow - Siavash Armini and Saaad
15) Demeures Aquatiques - Beatriz Ferreya
16) Ambient Otaku - Tetsu Inoue
17) Atmpospheres Touch - Lucretia Dalt
18) Lyndon Tree - Shuttle358
19) Summerdata - Emeralds
20) Mesa - Emily A. Sprague
27 Oct 2024
Episode 8 - Augury
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
1) Go Dig My Grave - Lankum
2) Gwaed Am Gwaed - Gwenfier Raymond
3) A Circle Without Having To Curve - Ian William Craig
4) Or Something - Sarah Davachi
5) Raw Silk Uncut Wood - Laurel Halo
6) Thirsty Boots - Oren Ambrachi
7) The Letter Burning - Alison Cotton
8) The Observatory - Seabuckthorn
9) And Time Has No Wings Unto It - The Inward Circles
10) First Movement - Lori Goldston with Aiden Baker and Andrea Belfi
11) A Year And A Day - Belbury Poly
12) Spectacle Of Ritual - Kali Malone
13) Leaves Lying On Each Side - Daniel Bachman
14) Accumulations - Lea Bertucci
15) Mirage Du Temps - Delphine Dora
16) The Earth Under The Sea - Laura Cannell
17) Occam River II (pour violin et violincelle) - Eliane Radigue
19 Oct 2024
Episode 7 - Anagnorisis
"In the Midst of Winter, I found there was within me, an invincible Summer." - Albert Camus
1) The Impossible Room - Randy Greif and Robin Storey
2) A Darkness Of Snow - Rapoon
3) Irkutsk - Mika Vaino and Joachim Nordwall
4) End Of The 80s - Brighter Death Now
5) Cold-War Creeper - Reformed Faction
6) The End Of Us - Mushio Funazawa
7) End Of A Cycle - Raison d'Etre
8) Rats, Cats and Dogs - Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers
9) Excursioner Angel - Deutsch Nepal
10) Image Of Progress = Alberich
11) A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed - Reformed Faction
12) Garden Of Luxor - Cyclobe
13) Teilmange 35 C - Ausmus Tietchens
14) Curious Yellow (Featuring Little Annie) - CoH
15) Noolare - Nocturnal Emissions
16) Cairopraktar - Muslimgauze
17) Crustaceans Rise From Seawater For Vengeance - Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
18) Black Sun - NON
19) Corvus - Chris Carter
13 Oct 2024
Episode 6 - Susurrus
1) Divine Objects (Part 2) - Jóhann Jóhannsson
2) Paus - Le Lendemain
3) The Happy Dead - Virgin Prunes
4) Abandon - Laurel Halo
5) Tristesse - Library Tapes
6) Bad Dream - Kevin Richard Martin
7) Cast To The Bottom - Scanner
8) Over The Bend - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
9) Envol - Ocoeur
10) Nod- Juliana Barwick
11) Rose Wreath Crown (for CW) - Kali Malone
12) Hoppipolla - Sigur Rós
13) Gnossienne number 3 - Murcof x Wagner
14) Keep It Dark, Deutschland - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
15) Sleeping Lotus - Joep Beving
16) Sweet Little Lie - Nils Fahm
17) Arc - Echo Collective
18) Fiction Dawn - Deaf Center
19) Erupting Light - Hildur Guðnadóttir
20) Alash-Kala -Galya Bisengalieva
21) Vessel - Adam Hurst
22) It Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Tight - Múm
23) Signal To Noise II - Robert Henke
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8 Oct 2024
Episode 5 - Resurrection
1. Temples - Visions
2. In The Midst Of Eternal Ice - Parhelion & Zac Keiller
3. Forest Floor 1 - KTL
4. Hellraiser - Coil
5. Bestiae Clamor - Nocturnal Emissions
6. The Poisoner Part 1 - Controlled Bleeding
7. The Wheel Of Fortune - William Basinski
8. White Ashes - Phelios
9. Tideshaper - Lacus Somniorum
10. Tremors Within The Void- Svartsinn
11. Tidal Transmissions - Rapoon
12. There Never Was - HEXA
13. Aporrheton - New Risen Throne
14. Journey Through Underworlds- Lull
15, Mind Tunnel - Vidna Obmana
16. We Glowed - Final
17. 79° S 83° W -Sleep Research Facility
18. Light Trap - Scorn
29 Sept 2024
Episode 4 - Deluge
In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke.
1. Two Sides of Myself (part one) - Tarentel
2. Blown-Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole - A Silver Mt. Zion
3. Kids Will Be Skeletons - Mogwai
4. On Ships Of Gold - The Black Heart Procession
5. Burial At Sea - MONO
6. Tish nign - Black Ox Orkestar
7. A Gallant Gentlemen - We Lost The Sea
8. À L'Aube - Oiseaux-Tempête
9. The Lion-Daggers of Calais - Efrim Manuel Menuck
10. Lunacy - Swans
11. A Murder of Thoughts - Do Make Say Think
12. Shortwave Nights - Hiss Tracts
13. Losing You Charm - Hangedup
14. The Moth & The Flame - Grails
15. Wearing Sadness and Regret Upon Out Faces - Planning for Burial
16. Some Things I Just Don't Want To Know - The Dirty Three
17. The Long Shadow Falls - Current 93
18. I thought It Was Us - Saltland
19. And Still They Move - Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld
20. Bright Angel Park - Frankie Sparo
21. Bibi a nice, 1921 - Fly Pan Am
22. Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear - Set Fire To Flames
21 Sept 2024
Episode 3 - Harbinger
Step on a crack,You’ll break your mother’s back;Step on a lineYou’ll break your father’s spine.
1) Twilight: Los Alamos - Lustmord
2) Sun Drugs - Stars Of The Lid
3) Chimeras - Tim Hecker
4) Night So Close To The Tongue - Apocryphos, Kammerheit, Atrium Carceri
5) Ruins of a Failed Utopia - Gustaf Hildebrand
6) Bascule Bridge - Cities Last Broadcast
7) Pre-Launch Deep Space Mission Brief - Ruptured World ft. In Quantum
8) Finsl Refugium - Protou & Hilyard
9) The Atom of Existence - Alio Die
10) Gray Havens - Eternell
11) End of Cycle - Raison d'Etre
12) Shards of Umm el-Qaab - Ager Sonus
15 Sept 2024
Episode 2- Flux
Do not deceive yourself. We are always inhabiting a "season of change". Here is a soundtrack made for both acceptance and resistance.
1. Nearer - Bing and Ruth
2 La Ballade D'Alain Georges - The Dead Texan
3. An Obediant Ear - Olan Mill
4. Scattering Light - Hammock
5. Sleeper - Eluvium
6. Heavy Heart Some More - Eraldo Bernocci, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie
7. Piano ABG - Brian McBride
8. Nothing From No One - bvdub
9. A Stream With Bright Fish - Harold Budd, Brian Eno
10. Blue Calx - Aphex Twin
11. Tape Hiss Makes Me Happy - Stars Of the Lid
12. Ambre - Nils Frahm
13. STS - Grouper
14. Proportions In Motion - Chistopher Bissonnette
15. Calling By Stormlight - Robert Rich
16. Instrument 4 - Fennesz
17. Sirens - Windy and Carl
18. Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears - A Winged Victory For the Sullen
19. Their Helicopters Sing - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
8 Sept 2024
Episode 1 - Loam
Dog day afternoons elicit calcification and stagnant wonderings and wanderings. Let this sonic blanket be your comfort as you stumble through the solar assault of late Summer.
1. Slowness - Anna Roxanne
2. Bombardment - Less Bells
3. Ocean To Ocean - Chihei Hatakeyama
4. Ocean's Disconnect - Midori Hirano
5. Sonuna Kadar - Ekin Fil
6. Know Your Exit - Lawrence English
7. Reprisal - Rafael Anton Irisarri
8. Nonadaptive Layers 4 - K. Leimer
9. Bellows - Loscil
10. Scene 2 - France Jobin
11. Envol - Ocoeur
12. In the Middle of the Moving Field - Celer
13. Photo With Grey Sky, White Clouds - Johnny Nash and Suzanne Kraft
14. Fingerless Gloves (Skylarker) - Matt Jencik
15. A Promise - Madeleine Cocolas
16. Transfiguration - William Basinski
17. The Spiral Arm - Dallas Acid
18. Buhrstone - Sarah Davachi
19. Well - KMRU
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