Ambient Soundbath – Music for Thinking and Being: Recent Episodes
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‘Embrace of Familiarity’ A longform ambient journey with two variations is out today. This is part of my ongoing bi-weekly longform series exclusive to Bandcamp. Give it a listen.
I was listening to Altus’ Sleep Theory, Volume 1 and I felt like I was floating. This isn’t an uncommon experience when listening to the best of what the drone ambient genre has to offer; when the artist has resolved to focus on artistry and experience, letting the compositions be rather than shoe-horning knob twiddling and strange incompatible dissonances into a work to just to showcase some antique synthesizer or obscure vintage noisemaker. Why did Jackson Pollack add a faint white smudge to Lavender Mist? Was he in the rapture of the muse, or felt that it needed that just to shift the focus a bit or perhaps it was just an errant paint drop left for time immemorial. Who can know why an artist does what they do? Often, we ourselves don’t know but when we run the creative gauntlet and come out the other side with a work that endures, well the heavens part and universe becomes a bit brighter than it was moments before.
I feel like this gets to the mission of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast. This thing was never meant to be a money-making endeavor, like some would-be silicon valley entrepreneur, at best or some myopic tech bro, at worst, trying to build the next big something or other. No, this was always supposed to be more like a public service, freely available for those who needed it, subsidized by a handful of generous souls who believed in it, too. I ran things as lean and as efficiently as I could to ensure availability and accessibility, but at the same time I was still an artist, working, living and being buffeted by the muse to and fro.
At the same time, when I started the Ambient Soundbath, podcasts were novel and fringe, so too was streaming as a mechanism for delivering music; two fringe areas that have now become front line earning channels for artists such as myself and Bruce Springsteen, alike, to say nothing of billion dollar pay days to podcast producers; an idea that seemed preposterous only a few years before and now was making podcasting a bit of a gold rush.
One name has come to truly dominate music streaming and podcasting – Spotify.
Ahh, Spotify and their insidious approach to being available everywhere, being dead-easy to use and having a veritable monopoly on the streaming market. Sure, there are others, just like there are alternatives to Google (wink,wink, nod, nod) but their market share is so vast that, well…why bother going anywhere else. Spotify’s availability, free or premium, on your phone, desktop, smart TV or in your car has absolutely changed listening habits, first with music and then more recently with podcasts. Things aren’t going well for them on that front, but having a monopoly gives them some latitude to play around with things, throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
Spotify, initially, was great for the Ambient Soundbath – It acted as an aggregator getting the podcast episodes in the Spotify app, where folks were already listening to music, but then they changed their policies and music-only podcasts started getting kicked out; that’s what happened with the Ambient Soundbath. This wasn’t great for the podcast or the listener’s on that platform, but another change that was occurring simultaneously, albeit quietly, was the glut of new Spotify-created editorial playlists for sleep, meditation, relaxation, study, reading etc. that started showing up and even being featured on non-customizable frontpage of Spotify. These thinking/being-related playlists became an immediate threat to the podcast since pods like ours had been kicked off/excluded from the platform, those users intent on sticking with the ease of Spotify just did a quick search and found some other playlist that fit the bill. To be fair, Spotify is killing it and giving folks what they want, but, and this is probably why I’m drafting this long screed. Spotify is marginalizing artists and podcasts like the Ambient Soundbath out of existence by pulling listeners in en masse, altering the service offerings and then changing things up just enough, almost imperceptibly, to keep listeners engaging with the platform.
It’s this last bit that’s the kind of evil genius that Henry Ford, J.D. Rockefeller or Thomas Edison would have been pleased with because it wasn’t enough to marginalize and significantly undermine and under pay these artists and players, but then seeing the issue of scale they decided to create their own music that sounded like popular ambient, downtempo, jazz, you name it. Spotify then used these ‘works for hire’, a copyright term for a music composition or recording that’s purchased outright vs. licensing, which is pay per use. The producers who created this music have become colloquially known as ‘fake artists’ and Spotify uses these ‘fake artist’ created tracks to populate their big exclusive editorial playlists with these ‘wholly owned ‘works for hire’ so that they didn’t have to pay royalties for the streams. These ‘fake artist’ tracks were then just slid into a playlist (no surprise Spotify often suggests using shuffle mode) next to your favorite Moby or Brian Eno track. Even the best of us were none the wiser to this and many of these tracks are great, such is the case with the sometimes generic nature of the Ambient genre.
Fake artists have created a lot of ethical issues, but more concerning still is the major investments Spotify has made in AI and machine learning. A time will come when a $.0001 royalty per stream is too much and they’d like to get it closer to $.0000001, or maybe why are we even bothering with humans? We can pay zero $$$’. Spotify has worked to kick some AI-generated music off, but they’re heavily invested in AI and I believe it’s only a matter of time before they begin investing in the fledgling AI music generation industry, investing in and purchasing companies that could generate tracks to fill these exclusive editorial playlists, something I’ve heard rumors that they’re actively experimenting with and I believe, they’re close to beginning to implement.
The philosopher in me says none of this matters and this race to the bottom will continue until user listeners get fed up or more likely move on to some other option that builds on what Spotify has created. At the same time, who could’ve imagined vinyl would make a comeback? In this period of late stage capitalism, nobody could have anticipated that so I believe Spotify and maybe even podcasts will run their course and be outmoded, that’s just the natural process.
For me, however, I feel like there’s still something to do here. Do I act as a human arbiter and curator separating the wheat from the chaff, a lone citadel on the edge of a dying frontier being consumed by The Nothing? Perhaps. I won’t lie, I was ready to pack it in, sell the podcast off or just dump and run, but after so many thoughtful notes, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was throwing something away that didn’t make the world a little brighter, something that folks valued in their own individual ways. Maybe.
I need community, something I’ve talked about before, as working alone in a dark cellar, looking at stats and imagining somebody in Bulgaria enjoying the soothing tones of the most recent episode of the podcast isn’t nearly enough to keep me going. I need the exchange of energy that occurs in a positive interaction, hell, any critical interaction.
At the same time: Where have all the music journalist’s gone? Why did I give up a moderately successful music journalism foothold? A question I’ve asked myself over and over. In a world with music journalists acting as way finders, ‘fake artists’ and AI-generated music doesn’t stand a chance. So, where are they? Here and there, but mostly lost in a sea of tweets, social media posts and so-called micro reviews. More and more is being said about how social media killed the Internet; this seemed an unlikely perspective, as social media is of the Internet, right? It was until stand-alone apps became exclusive channels unto themselves as apps on your phone, outside of the browser, divorced from the rest of the World Wide Web. Sadly, I think folks are right – Social media did kill the Internet. And with the death of the Internet came the death of the last stronghold of music journalism.
Well, as a long time music journalist, it might just be time to pick up the pen again and get to work. I stopped because the ephemeral nature of my writing felt unimportant, lost to the winds of time and culture change, but anymore: What isn’t ephemeral and what doesn’t change? Hell, even much of Mark Twain’s writing has been lost to time… and cultural change. If his work can be lost to the ages then I guess I’m Ok with mine being lost too. The important thing is what we do now, in our particular place in time. So with that said, there will be more reviews and commentary popping up on the Ambient Soundbath Podcast and/or website, both the written word and audio voice posts that Spotify might even even let into their black box, but either way, as T.S. Elliott said: You are the music while the music lasts.
If the Ambient Soundbath is going to keep going, like anything, it needs to change, it needs to evolve. As artists, we’re always looking for someone or something that will showcase our work and put it in the best possible light? We want attention and we want recognition. I want those things. I don’t know an artist who doesn’t want those things, otherwise, why bother creating anything and putting it in the world.
I’m going to stop short of saying the Ambient Soundbath is back, because every time I make such a declaration life interrupts the plan and I do something else; such is the mystery of unseen forces, what Alan Watts called the law of reversed effort, sometimes called the ‘backwards law’.. I can say, however, that I see the value in what has been built here and even if I work on it inconsistently that’s still a net positive that might make the world a little brighter.
Thanks for reading and/or listening to all this.
Composed and performed on synthesizers and processed bass guitar, Thorny’s Flood is a tense wash of evocative soundscapes that pulses and writhes across the face of an unsuspecting landscape. Not surprising then that Flood is a sonic journey born from the depths of central Vermont’s devastating floods in July 2023.
JD Ryan says it best when he says that Flood reflects the duality of nature—its splendor and wrath—encapsulating the raw power, the ruin, the sorrow, and ultimately, the resilient spirit of hope. Flood manages to capture this sentiment perfectly without the use of a single sample of falling rain or rolling water, a literal aspect that takes away from the creativity too often, JD Ryan doesn’t indulge that tired ambient music trope. In fact, he took the hard road: Building that flow into the compositions from the ground up – You just listen and you can hear the unyielding fluidity, as sound is possibly the only thing that can move, with the flowing, forward-moving urgency of water.
Flood is a wholly original work and one where JD Ryan has created his own unique and moving sonic vocabulary. Never one to miss the opportunity for a pun, I dare say the floodgates are open on JD Ryan’s unique musical vocabulary. Fans of Steve Roach’s more earthy soundscapes and VidnaObmana’s early works will truly enjoy Flood.
More info:
https://witherwillow.bandcamp.com/album/flood-2
https://www.witherwillow.com/
Matt Borghi
Ambient Soundbath
I’ve enjoyed the work of Nimanty for some time and it’s with great enthusiasm that I present this exclusive mix created just for Ambient Soundbath listeners. Enjoy!
Tracks mixed from two albums: ‘The StarNight Process’ and ‘Time Space Light’
Artist: Nimanty ( www.nimanty.com )
Label & release Venonza Records. Digital copies only
Distributor: AWAL / The Orchard Group
Mix total playtime: 1 hour, 24 minutes, 31 seconds.
Tracks in mix Starts at
1. Galactic Whispers (00:00)
2. A Lightyear Old Message (05:37)
4. The StarNight Process (13:41)
5. Time (36:00)
6. Space (48:07)
7. Light (01:00:50)
8. Nebula Of Life (01:15:37)
Albums and tracks available on Bandcamp.
Nimanty is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nimanty
It’s always my pleasure to feature the work Allister Thompson. Through the years, Allister has become a friend, collaborator and kindred spirit. I was tickled when he released Autumnal,” his first long-form ambient piece. In order to bulk up the program, I added the wonderful track “After Us” from last year’s Primordia. This is a great deep listen. Enjoy and go check out my friend’s Bandcamp page.
Allister Thompson makes ambient, post-rock, psychedelia, and new age under the names The Gateless Gate and Khan Tengri. His newest release, “Autumnal,” is a long-form ambient piece inspired by the cloudy, windy, mostly wet days of fall where he lives in Northern Ontario, Canada near the shores of Lake Nipissing.
For those Ambient Soundbath listeners who prefer a visual background, listen regularly on YouTube or just like a little bit of ambient television designed for relaxation and calm – This for you.
Please comment and like the video and also share your comments about what can be improved.
The inclusion of Paul Beaudoin’s Shakti here on the Soundbath started curiously, when a variety of Paul’s tracks showed up in my inbox. Either from a series of Twitter posts or from a Reddit/Ambient conversation, Paul knew I was looking for longform works and sent me some things. I was instantly smitten with Paul’s beautiful collection of longform works. I kind of collect longform works like I do deep dish pizza experiences. Folks close to me know that two of my favorite things are deep dish pizza (specifically) but really and kind of pizza and ambient music, specifically longforms. A strange corollary, perhaps, but discovering Paul’s music was not unlike discovering a new pizzeria with a variety of delicious pies. Paul’s work demonstrates a masterful artistry with careful attention to restraint. This won’t be the last time you hear Paul’s work on the Soundbath.
Enjoy this two and a half hour beauty.
-Matt
About Shakti:
Shakti was created in 2015 while Paul was in Tallinn, Estonia on a Fulbright Scholarship. While in Tallinn, Paul experienced a major shift in his life, and began to reexamine nearly every aspect of his personal and creative. Paul’s interest in Indian culture and Hinduism, in particular, led him to imagine Shakti, the Indian goddess involved in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the universe – a goddess of both good and evil. As in life, the movement in Shakti is extremely slow and almost imperceptible. It was made from a series of 10 chords played by a Mexican accordionist that seems lost. And, as in most Indian raga, Shakti is meant to be heard at a specific time of day – the end of the piece should coincide with the sunset. Shakti is dedicated to the Estonian dancer Kaspar Aus, who used it in his evening-length performance “Solo: from nothing to nothing.”
About Paul:
Paul Beaudoin (b. 1960, Miami, FL, USA) – is an academically trained composer who received a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from Brandeis University. He is an award-winning educator and published author on John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, and the history of American music. For decades, Paul lived in Boston, MA, where he conducted, played clarinet, and taught music and art history at several universities. As an educator, he was a leading advocate for online learning and spent a decade traveling the globe to train teachers to teach with technology.
In 2015, Paul was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship that brought him to Estonia. During this period, Paul’s inner creativity was reawakened. He began painting, making experimental video art, and writing poetry. During this time, Paul experienced a radical shift in his creative work as he reflected on his academic career and inner spiritual transformation. Paul’s music moved away from the dissonant, angular music he felt was expected of an academic composer in New England. Paul’s music softened, expanding into long, slowly evolving soundscapes living somewhere between ambient music and the long drone music of composers such as La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, and Eliane Radigue. Paul’s recent music parallels his visual work, where soft backgrounds are etched with foreground gestural mark-making.
Paul is a globally recognized composer, visual artist, experimental video maker, and writer who lives in an Estonian neighborhood formerly occupied by the Soviet military.
To hear more of Paul’s music, please visit his Soundcloud page at
www:soundcloud.com/paul-beaudoin
and to learn more about his work in the visual and literary arts please follow him over at Instagram: www.instagram.com/paulbeaudoin
Finally, you can support Paul by downloading his music – all for free – over at his Bandcamp page: www.paulbeaudoin.bandcamp.com/
The Ambient Soundbath Podcast is seeking longform ambient drone works to be featured on the podcast.
Tracks can be unreleased, one-offs, remixes, exclusives, etc.
Individual tracks need to be at least 60 minutes in length; longer is better up to about 2-3 hours!
Music should fit the podcast tone, i.e. no beats, no vocals, no dissonances, no abrupt sounds, no field recordings unless tastefully integrated into lulling drones.
Questions, music, etc… contact us here or at this email: thesoundofambientguitar at gmail dot com
With episode #119, I’m really proud to present the work of Ceramic (aka Daman Hoffman). I enjoy the pure and reflective drones of Daman’s work and therefore profoundly grateful to present them and share them with you; even more exciting is that Daman allowed me to create an extended drone using one of his original works at the end of this program that is exclusive to the Ambient Soundbath. Please consider supporting Ceramic (Daman) on Bandcamp.1. We’re Not Lost – Now That You’re Here 2. Clean Sheets, Cricket Legs – Imaginary North Transmission 004 3. Waterfall of Human Ambivalence – Sound Vessel 4. Still, This Untended Hearth Remembers Blue Blazes – Sound Vessel 5. Now That You’re Here – Now That You’re Here 6. It Takes Some Time – Now That You’re Here 7. Clear Coast – Sound Vessel 8. Cast Your Breath Upon the Waters – Sound Vessel 9. The Enduring Warmth – Sound Vessel 10. It Takes Some time (Matt Borghi Extended Re-Edit) – Ambient Soundbath Exclusive About Ceramic (Daman Hoffman)
Daman Hoffman is a soundbath facilitator and musician based in Little Rock, Arkansas, although that’s all come about somewhat recently. After achieving sobriety four years ago he began to explore his fascination with sound and received training in meditation and vibrational healing. Creating healing music for soundbath sessions led him to explore his love for ambient and new age music. Daman plays a variety of instruments but for his project Ceramic, he utilizes only synths for his compositions that swell, evolve and cascade in a meditative and sometimes cinematic way. His first album, “Now That You’re Here,” is out on September 22nd. Other musical and meditation projects include Embassy of Sound, Ethereal Planes, The Passive Fire, and Natural State Vibes. You can also hear him on the radio, hosting “Rivulets & Reveries,” a weekly program devoted to dreamy ambient music on 103.3 KOBV in Bentonville, Arkansas.https://www.facebook.com/ceramicsoundshttps://instagram.com/ceramic.soundshttps://ceramic.hearnow.com/https://linktr.ee/ceramicsounds
This guided Soundbath Meditation, Calming the Inner Storm, was not originally created for the podcast. I created this as a free/pay what you want program for my Bandcamp fans, but I decided that fans of the podcast might like it, as well. If you want the music only, you can get that here, as this is based on an oldie, Ambient Soundbath Podcast #30
As always, enjoy and please share your thoughts.
The Ambient Soundbath, Sound Meditation and what is Soundbath Meditation®? The Ambient Soundbath has its roots in the practice of sound meditation. Sound meditation was something that I began exploring as an undergrad at Goddard College in Vermont some 25 years ago. With a combined goal of having a deeper music listening experience and pursuing a natural, heightened state of awareness, I blended my vipassana, or insight meditation, practice with a self-discovered deep listening and sonic awareness practice.
Where the Ambient Soundbath was created as a sonic break from the everyday routine, a space for thinking and being; the Soundbath Meditation® is meant to go deeper. Where the Ambient Soundbath can create a temporary state of well-being, Soundbath Meditation® aims to create a more permanent feeling of well-being and inner peace.
Soundbath Meditation®, on some level, is not different from mindfulness meditation, in this regard. With mindfulness meditation, the purpose is to become aware of what is currently happening around you, rather than focusing on something different than the present. With Soundbath Meditation®, you become aware of what is happening around you, sonically, and focus on that. In this way, Soundbath Meditation® is a hybrid of mindfulness meditation and vipassana (insight) meditation, where you are both aware of what is currently happening around you (mindfulness) and focused on what is happening as it happens (vipassana/ insight).
When the Ambient Soundbath Podcast first came online there was little reference to sound meditation that didn’t, eventually, lead back to the work of, Deep Listening pioneer and composer, Pauline Oliveros. However, since then, many new websites and articles have popped up talking about the benefits of sound meditation, sonic awareness, even “live” soundbaths. I believe that we’ve reached a new era for sound as a way to create sustainable heightened states of awareness and consciousness and I believe the time has come to begin to talk about and teach the benefits of Soundbath Meditation®. I will be talking about this more in the days, weeks and years to come.
If you’re interested in being a part of a virtual Soundbath Meditation®, please contact me here.
For now, please continue to enjoy the Ambient Soundbath Podcast and Soundbath Meditation® as a gateway to sustained inner peace.
Hey Friends and Soundbathers,
Tomorrow, March 1, we begin monthly episodes of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast…
And -dot-dot-dot… We almost didn’t make it.
Some of you noticed that our audio feeds were down for a couple days; thank you to those who reached out to me to let me know. Basically, we have/had a problem that anybody who ever starts a website wants, but doesn’t believe they’ll ever have: Too much traffic and too many users!
A dozen years ago when I started this thing and we started down this path together, I never imagined ‘too much traffic and/or too many users’ would become a thing, but in fact that has happened. It’s at this point that I have to thank everybody who’s donated over all these years. Basically, I squirreled away that money hoping that I’d never have to spend it on technical upgrades, but, well, I did… So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you a thousand times to all who have donated to the podcast through the years; literally, at this point, we wouldn’t not be up and running right now if it wasn’t for your kind, unsolicited generosity. The entire Ambient Soundbath community is indebted to you.
This isn’t a message to ask you for money. I’ve always accepted donations (and I’m glad I did), but I’ve never solicited them. Nor, do I plan to now.
However, we, as a community of listeners, are likely going to be coming to a critical juncture that I’m not interested in visiting or contemplating: Either throttling usage, i.e. cutting listeners off or forcing a ‘premium’ membership. I’m heartily opposed to both of these things, but the answer is either going to have to come from those considerations or from the community.
I can say this: If everybody who regularly listened to this podcast donated a dollar per year, throttling or premium would never need to be considered or contemplated.
I’ve always tried to be transparent about the goings on at the Ambient Soundbath and as we enter this new chapter I’ll let you know what’s happening. In the future, if you notice our audio feeds down again, please let me know. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep the ship afloat, but as this thing grows so, too, does everything needed to keep it going, freely for all.
Thank you, friends,
Matt
Hello Friends and Sound bathers – First off thank you for the comments and emails regarding the frequency of new episodes. Far and away, monthly episodes were give a thumb’s up by you. So, with that said, I’ll be posting episodes monthly, on the first day of every month.
Next New Episode Coming on March 1st
I was touched by how many people responded and the personal asides that you shared. Feedback like that is what keeps this thing running. I’ve said this before: I create the Ambient Soundbath and well, all of my music, in a room far away from any listeners and any immediate feedback, so hearing from you and sharing your stories is the energy exchange I need to keep to keep this going.
Anyway, you’re here for good sounds, not to hear me talk.
Many thanks, my friends!
Matt
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I’m looking for feedback from you, the listeners and ambient soundbathers…
A few years ago I did a survey around how often you’d like new episodes of the Ambient Soundbath podcast. At that time, it was an even split between bi-weekly and monthly with a few folks wanting weekly. I opted to do things bi-weekly and have for the last bit of time. However, I’m seeing that the listening and usage patterns around respective episodes seem to be more monthly.
So, here’s my question: Would you be for or against moving to new episodes monthly? Please answer in the comments below or via the contact form.
Thank you!
Matt
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SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT – Audio Only
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Low Sun Equinox – A longform ambient journey by Matt Borghi
Low Sun Equinox is a celebration of the spiritually-rich winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. Dark has taken over the land with only a few hours of daylight and very little in the way of sunlight for days, weeks at a time. It’s a time for reflection, contemplation and the moving forward into renewal or departure. The low sun, if it emerges, casts beautifully icy hues of orange, yellow and every shade in-between against a dark gray sky and a disappearing horizon. I wrote this poem to try and capture its essence, however impossible that might be:
The emerging light
falls against the dark
dreams of yesterday
holding to tomorrow
the faith
in the hope
and the hope
for faith as the cascading light
dissipates
absorbed into the darkness.
The longest night
upon us,
we look into ourselves,
conscious of breath
and the power
of an unfolding
eternal now.
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Fire Mother Descends on Galant Pass – A Longform Ambient Journey by Matt Borghi
The longform ambient tracks that I create serve a couple purposes for me. For one, once these pieces are complete, I use them for my own meditation and yoga practices as well as for sleep. However, when I’m working on them I’m focused on creating the sounds of imaginary worlds. These imaginary worlds take many forms from fantastical landscapes to elusive horizons on the open sea and space journeys where the listener is invited into a world of interstellar travel and discovery. I’m inspired by fiction I’ve read, but also I just like to imagine these worlds and the feeling of what it would be like to inhabit these worlds.
For this release, Fire Mother Descends on Galant Pass, I was imagining a soundscape of a sun-worshiping society that lived in the mountains, somewhere deep in the northern hemisphere, maybe the pacific-northwest meets the Aztec culture. With the second longform work, ‘Seasonal Rains’ I was imaging seasonal rains and the cave dwellers carving pictographs into the cave walls awaiting the Fire Mother’s seasonal return.
I would be remiss if I didn’t include that I had just binge-watched Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse series when I worked on this recording. I spent time with Graham Hancock in Sedona, Arizona several years ago so I was quite familiar with his work, but the Ancient Apocalypse program brought things to life in a way that I hadn’t envisioned them in his writings or presentations.
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I’ve been enjoying the work of theAdelaidean for some time, but when his record focused on sleep, with a longform track, from Projekt Records came across my desk, I knew I had to feature it on the Ambient Soundbath Podcast for all of you to enjoy. One thing that I really love about the mix I’ve put together here is the open sonic space of the rising and falling. I usually do present very dense sonic tapestries, but with this there’s a very nice space for the ebb and flow of breath. I’m listening as I write this and it’s instantly relaxing.
Here it is – This entire episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features: theAdelaidean: In the Key of SleepMore about the artist and this recording:
In the Key of Sleep’s hour-plus title track is a gentle, minimalistic-ambient hymn to the art of slumber, a practice that doesn’t come easily to everyone. An insomniac for most of his life, Australian composer theAdelaidean’s eighth Projekt release draws on a limited palette of sustained synthesized strings, rippling electric piano and muted bass that chart a course through tranquil harmonic progressions, via a series of subtle transformations and gently surprising abstractions, to sleep.
Getting to “In the Key of Sleep” is a journey in itself through five re-imaginings and remixes on the core theme, beginning with a self-contained homage to the perfect afternoon nap, “Floating,” an abbreviated reworking of one key moment from the larger work. A series of near-complete reinventions follow, the first of them “Falling,” its brittle, diamond-sharp synths evocative of the random detours our minds sometimes take before giving in to slumber. “Flying” follows, capturing through wide-spectrum sequencers and intermittent bass stabs the adrenaline rush of a good dream, rushing like a river over the events of the day. “Free” brings the listener/dreamer to a state of pure release, adrift against a soundtrack of cinematic ambience, avoiding both defined melodic statements and resolution alike. The final variation, “Flux,” concludes in a locus of complete separation from time and space, beyond consciousness, beyond thought. Here at the centre of sleep, there are no dreams, just a slow pulse of being.
The final track, concluding what is in effect a double album, brings all these elements together, patiently repairing the mind from its daytime travails.
Please consider supporting the artist and Projekt records here.
In the Key of Sleep invites the listener to surrender to the inevitable, knowing that what awaits is both familiar and unpredictable. This state of mind is familiar to deep appreciators of ambient music, who use it as accompaniment to states both of higher consciousness and of unconsciousness. For theAdelaidean, this album is both an exploration of that tension and a cure for his own sleeplessness.
| | Track Listing 1. Floating 09:162. Falling 04:303. Flying 03:444. Free 13:255. Flux 06:596. In the Key of Sleep 65:30 | “In the Key of Sleep (excerpt)”video at YouTube |
Artist Bio
For over three decades bestselling Australian author Sean Williams has recorded experimental music undertaking deeply personal aural explorations that draw heavily on sources and techniques following the great spiral of life.
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SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT –
Beginning with Ambient Soundbath Podcast #110 – December 16th, 2022, we’ll be switching to new releases every other Friday rather than every other Tuesday.
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Aurora Tidewater at Felwood Rock – A longform ambient journey by Matt Borghi
Aurora Tidewater at Felwood Rock is a longform ambient music journey that takes the listener deep into the heart of being. There are two mixes for this recording, the Horizon Mix is more open and spacious as if you’re looking to the horizon, the other, the Ice Caves Mix, with more of a deeper and cavernous resonance, a mix that fans of Steve Roach’s longform works would likely enjoy, particularly his recording A Deeper Silence, a frequent touchstone for me.
When I created Aurora Tidewater at Felwood Rock I was trying to recreate the still space that exists around large bodies of water, majestic mountainscapes and the otherworldly experience of watching Aurora Borealis. All of these things are natural elements that so few of us get to experience in the natural world in their natural states, instead our experience is relegated to one of simply ‘watching’ on a screen. Having an experience through a screen is something that almost any of us can do now; with Aurora Tidewater at Felwood Rock – A longform ambient journey, my hope is to bring the listener closer to realizing that space as they meditate, do yoga, drift to sleep or simply listen. Each of these activities require a peaceful and relaxed state of mind; my hope is that Aurora Tidewater at Felwood Rock brings you closer to that inner calm that we all carry with us but sometimes struggle to access.
In peace,
Matt
mindfulness #meditation #sleep #yoga #relax #relaxation #stressreduction #anxiety #study #concentration #focus #ambientmusic #dronemusic #ambient #innerpeace #calm
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #108 is a longform ambient journey dreaming in light. You can purchase this track here.
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #107 features the work of 58918012 with tracks taken from several of his recordings, including:
- Escape – Away
- Pressure – Lost Album
- Skies – Milestone
- Comfort – Away
- Rest (no p) – Lost Album
- Burial – Milestone
From the artist:
“First of all, I’d like to remind people around the world that the terrorist state named “Russia” is still killing Ukrainians on their god gave land and threatening nuclear weapon usage. Stand with Ukraine! Peace <3
“My name is Yurii Popov. I am a musician from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. 58918012 is my ambient music alias. I had a long road thru the music world to this step. I played and wrote a lot of music from punk-rock and alternative rock, to post / progressive metal. But something inside of me wanted to go out. And this creature found its way out under the name of 58918012.
“Music is one of those few things that makes me truly calm and happy. Sometimes it comes from the outside, sometimes from the inside, but it’s always my feelings. There’s nothing more to say.”
Further links to the music of 58918012:
- Bandcamp: https://58918012.bandcamp.com
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3SocIm1Z2zkHRvPCibwQus…
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/58918012/1500250192/…
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/erringmind/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/58918012Y/
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As Louise Hay writes in her book Mirror Work:
The mirror reflects back to you the feelings you have about yourself. It makes you immediately aware of where you are resisting and where you are open and flowing. It clearly shows you what thoughts you will need to change if you want to have a joyous, fulfilling life.
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The Gateless Gate is a pseudonym of Allister Thompson. Allister and I met on Twitter; a seemingly precarious beginning, but one that’s been fruitful and productive. We’ve worked on a variety of things together, most recently a collection of songs and soundscapes called Lord Introvert, please check it out here. Allister and I are both…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #105 – The Gateless Gate
This episode, Ambient Soundbath Podcast #104, is a, nearly 2-hour sonic journey, featuring highlights from Just Fcking Relax, Season 1. There’s more information on that longform series below. “Just Fcking Relax” – Somebody said this to me recently and it kind of hit me like a Buddhist Koan, which is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle,…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #104 – Just F*cking Relax – Season 1 Highlights
“Just Fcking Relax” – Somebody said this to me recently and it kind of hit me like a Buddhist Koan, which is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment. The Just Fcking Relax series is a companion to the Ambient Soundbath Podcast…Read more Just F*cking Relax – Season 1
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“The richness of a moment comes when it’s both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.” — Ram Dass
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Years ago, I had an epiphany while listening to Eckart Tolle’s Gateways to Now . The recording/talk, Gateways to Now, was given at the Findhorn community in northern Scotland. It was a fascinating and enlightening talk. However, there was one point he made that I found upsetting. This is what I heard: He said that…Read more Gateways to Now
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Recently, I changed the Ambient Soundbath tagline to: ‘A Gateway to Inner Peace’. I realized that a focus of meditation, sleep and even relaxation focused on ways to work toward inner peace rather than being in a state of inner peace. This led me to consider the Ambient Soundbath as a gateway to inner peace.…Read more A Gateway to Inner Peace
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts
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The gift lies not in the receiving, but in the open embrace of kinship and connection.
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Ritual dance. Solstice. Kaleidoscope of life Oranges and yellows of rebirth and renewal.
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The rising wind scatters remnants of memories; forward to the breaking crest.
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First off, thank you to everybody who took the survey. Understanding your preferences as a listener is very important to me. There was a tie between respondents where the frequency of new programs was concerned: 45% of the respondents wanted new programs bi-weekly. 45% of the respondents wanted new programs monthly. 5% of the respondents…Read more Listener Survey Results and Thank You!
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Deep meaning, floating towards fulfillment revealed. This program exclusively features the work of Lauge (aka Henrik Laugesen) and the recording Latitudes. The work of Lauge is a new find for me and the work is some of the best, freshest ambient and drone music that I’ve heard in a while. Lauge also curates a great…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #98 – Aerochord
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There’s mindspace, well-layered motion without reversal moving us beyond
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Hello, thanks for listening to the Ambient Soundbath Podcast… I’ve set up a very brief survey to learn how you listen to the podcast. Click here for the survey. -Matt
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Beginnings unfold Restlessness dreams awake Yearning passes in the folds of time 00:00 – Overwhelmed by Starlight – Altus – @altusmusic_ca 09:30 – The Spiral Heart – Steve Roach – @steve_timeroom 14:20 – Sentinel – Altus – @altusmusic_ca 23:40 – Therapeutic Ambience – cerkit – @cerkit 26:20 – The Room Where You Dream – Tapes…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #96 – Things Not Here Anymore
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Still space journey the known world’s eye focusing on forever Original music by Matt Borghi – Spotify – Bandcamp
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Our life is a reflection of our self. Let the poetry of meaning wash over the experience of living… Anthene – For the First Time in Years Shape of Things – Alaskan Tapes Sunset form the Ethereal Shore – Lauge Rework – Spacecraft/Lauge An Ode to Fring – Good Weather for an Airstrike Reflection of…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #94 – Reflection of Self
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Hello, I’ve updated the RSS feed for the Ambient Soundbath Podcast. Please consider changing it where ever or how ever youyou subscribe to the podcast: https://www.ambientsoundbath.com/feed/podcast If you don’t want to change your feed, no problem, the Feedburner feed isn’t going anywhere, but it’s unreliable, old and doesn’t always comply with podcast services, so I’m hoping…Read more RSS Feed Update – Please Consider Updating RSS Feed – Audio Post
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Hello, I’ve updated the RSS feed for the Ambient Soundbath Podcast. Please consider changing it where ever or how ever youyou subscribe to the podcast: https://www.ambientsoundbath.com/feed/podcast If you don’t want to change your feed, no problem, the Feedburner feed isn’t going anywhere, but it’s unreliable, old and doesn’t always comply with podcast services, so I’m…Read more RSS Feed Update – Please Consider Updating RSS Feed
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Descending Night – This is a track I created when I was tired, for sleep.
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For folks that use Insight Timer, I’m now posting music there. You can access my profile and the music here. The entire Insight Timer system works on donations and it’s a great tool for meditation, relaxation and stress reduction. I’m considering doing some guided meditations there, along the lines of the group meditations that I…Read more Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath on Insight Timer
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast is dedicated to the memory of Harold Budd. Harold Budd has been featured many times on this podcast and has played a prominent role in my musical life. I believed that Harold Budd was America’s greatest living composer; and now he has passed on to the next plane.…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #92 – Eye of God in Infrared
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For fans of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, please follow the Ambient Soundbath – Music for Thinking and Being playlist on Spotify. Some of you may recall that this started life as the Restful Drones and Ambient Spaces playlist, but since it was comprised of a lot of Ambient Soundbath music, I decided to make it…Read more Ambient Soundbath – Music for Thinking and Being Playlist on Spotify
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I’m very pleased to announce that Ambient Soundbath Podcast #91 was put together by somebody new to me, who reached out via the website – Alaeddin Hallack – You can learn more about him below. This mix is very nice; Alaeddin really captured the essence of what an Ambient Soundbath is and programmed an excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #91 – Alaeddin Guest Mix
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It’s about time… but isn’t it always…
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, number 89 is special and one that I’m particularly excited about. While I’ve created original music for dozens of Soundbath episodes myself, this is the first time that I’ve pulled in another artist, in this case, it’s my long-time friend and collaborator, Michael Teager. We have a new…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #89 – Vanishing Point – Audio Post
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, number 89 is special and one that I’m particularly excited about. While I’ve created original music for dozens of Soundbath episodes myself, this is the first time that I’ve pulled in another artist, in this case, it’s my long-time friend and collaborator, Michael Teager. We have a new…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #89 – Vanishing Point
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I haven’t done a multi-artist Ambient Soundbath, that didn’t include my own work, in quite some time…. years, maybe. But with this program, I’ve put together a playlist of some tracks that I’ve been listening to a lot… tracks that I added to the Restful Drones and Ambient Spaces playlist on Spotify. It’s pretty excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #88 – Midsommer – Audio Post
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I haven’t done a multi-artist Ambient Soundbath, that didn’t include my own work, in quite some time…. years, maybe. But with this program, I’ve put together a playlist of some tracks that I’ve been listening to a lot… tracks that I added to the Restful Drones and Ambient Spaces playlist on Spotify. It’s pretty excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #88 – Midsommer
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*Update – My apologies, the mp3 of the Podcast didn’t seem to come through. Hopefully, this fixes that. Enjoy. – Matt — Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 comes from a live YouTube streaming performance that I did on 5/30/2020, as part of World Drone Day. I did a little post-production to clean it up, but mostly…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 – World Drone Day
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 comes from a live YouTube streaming performance that I did on 5/30/2020, as part of World Drone Day. I did a little post-production to clean it up, but mostly this performance and the video are the same material. If you want to check out future performances, please subscribe to my YouTube…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 Audio Post – World Drone Day
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I haven’t posted a Soundbath in a while. I’ve been active, musically, but felt like the Soundbath was no longer relevant to folks. However, with the release of #86, amazingly, there were 1,000 downloads in a single day, I guess it is still relevant. And also, I’ve received some really nice feedback about the new…Read more Thank you and stay in touch
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I apologize for the delay in not having posted a new Soundbath in a while. In the meantime… I’ve been curating a playlist of Ambient Soundbath-like tracks, and some actual Soundbath tracks, on Spotify, in a playlist, I’ve been calling Restful Drones. Really it’s just been for me to have a go-to source for long-form,…Read more Ambient Soundbath-ish on Spotify
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“Physiological responses from person to person will vary, as will their tastes… But for a significant number of people suffering severe anxiety and trauma, the droning, minimal, wordless soundscapes of ambient are more effective than any medication.” I’m sure that many of us know about or have experienced the health and well-being benefits of listening…Read more The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music
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Sedona, Arizona-inspired deep sound meditation piece. Enjoy.
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Recently, I found myself listening to two long-form Harold Budd tracks in succession, on repeat, over and over for several weeks. Those tracks included Dark Star and Abandoned Cities, two sides of the same 1984 recording called, Abandoned Cities. These tracks have been part of a larger 200+ track Harold Budd playlist that I’ve listened…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #82 – Abandoned Cities
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I don’t normally change up the versions of the podcast, unless there’s a glitch, but with this one, I wanted to try a straight low-end drone, but also keep the binaural beat version, which is ASB #81 – Beta Fold Binaural
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Sleep is the focus of this program… deep delta sleep. Enjoy.
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This episode was inspired by a recent, day-long, lecture that I attended with Dr. Gabor Maté; the title is a reference to his book, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, which he also talks about here.
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“Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #79 – Shadow Work
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Catacombs in mind, the distant quiet of dreamstates far-afield seems only right to contemplate the comings and goings of being against the red brick sunrise.
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Hey Friends, Some folks have told me that older episodes aren’t available via certain services. I want to let you know that all of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast episodes are always available, and will be in perpetuity, at Archive.org. You can listen and download those files here: https://archive.org/details/AmbientSoundbathPodcast You can get to all of the…Read more Ambient Soundbath Archived Programs
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Archaeoastronomy was on my mind when I made this piece. I was thinking about the earth, spirituality and the connection to the sky in pre-historic cultures. I don’t spend a lot of time looking at the sky (though I’d like to do more), but drones, mine or others, for me, have always provided a portal…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #75 – Orbit Series Drone
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Hey Gang, Matt here. I’ve been wanting to get a mobile app for the Soundbath going for a long time, but that’s a costly endeavor and this has always been a free, public service, so my question is this: Are there any folks in the Soundbath community that would/could volunteer to help create iOS and…Read more Request for Help – Ambient Soundbath Mobile App
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Good salutations, Soundbath listeners… I’m really excited for this program as it’s the first to feature a guest host. I actually got this idea from Dave Michuda, host of Low Light Mixes, after he asked me to do a mix for him (you can hear it here). This program features longtime reviewer, podcaster, proponent and…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #73 – This Quiet Place
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I’m finally getting around to mining all the creative inspiration I gained from a recent trip around Lake Superior, both through western Ontario on the north side and on the southern side through Michigan’s UP (upper peninsula) by way of Duluth. What an amazing trip! For a trip that’s literally a day’s car ride away…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #72 – Agawa Bay
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I’ve deleted my Facebook accounts, which included a page for the Ambient Soundbath Podcast and I’ll likely be getting rid of other social media accounts. If you’re curious as to why I would delete my Facebook accounts, I highly recommend reading Jaron Lanier’s fantastic Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Please tell…Read more Tell Your Friends and Family About the Ambient Soundbath Podcast
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With this episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, we’re featuring David Naegele’s Journeys Out of Body, another vintage new age cassette from the early 1980s. What can I tell you about this release? Not a heck of a lot, but I can tell you, people seem to love it and really want to get their…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #71 – Journeys Out of Body
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Ambient Soundbath #70 is another original work in the vein of Parallax Drone; a piece inspired by Philip Glass’ Early Works where I’ve experimented with some compositional devices called parallel and contrary motion that he worked with on that recording… You can hear it in the criss-crossing of the sounds as they move from speaker…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #70 – Helical Drone
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Upper Astral is an interesting artist that I found when scouring YouTube for vintage new age cassettes releases. I found a variety of Upper Astral recordings, but when I looked at how I could put them together for a single Ambient Soundbath program I couldn’t get many of them to work well together. I played…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #69 – Upper Astral
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The Ambient Soundbath Podcast website is now ad-free, and I just wanted to take a minute and acknowledge one of our listeners, and now a sustaining member, and thank them for their donation – Thank you. The Soundbath has many listeners (nearly 1,600) and my hope is that the Soundbath becomes the public service that…Read more Soundbath now Ad-Free Thanks to Kind Donation
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features the evocative sound worlds of electronic musician and sound synthesist, Max Corbacho. Max’s work, more than any other artist I know of, reminds me of the work of Steve Roach, but Max journeys a bit more deeply into the tension of discord and sweet resolve. I’ve been…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #68 – Max Corbacho
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features two artists that are new to the genre, prepared piano and drone synthesist Durango Budd and my long-time collaborator and oldest friend, Michael Goldapper (fans of Ghostly International may remember the KOSIK project that we had together). This is a carefully curated Soundbath consisting of tracks from…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #67 – Strings and Drones
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #66 is an original work that I (Matt Borghi) created expressly for the podcast. This composition, that I’ve titled: Morning dew gathered on weeping cherry limbs, came about as many of my tracks do. I was meditating and contemplating sound. I began to ‘play’ with some synthesizer sounds that went with my state…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #66
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This Soundbath, #65, and the first of 2018 is brought to you by the kind generosity and support of Soundbath listener, Roland Jehring, who’s tuning in from a small town outside of Berlin, Germany. It’s crazy to think that this podcast, which I create in the quiet midwestern environs of East Lansing, MI is being…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #65 – Huronic Minor Trilogy
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I discovered the music of Juta Takahashi on the SomaFM DroneZone internet radio station; I hear a lot of great music there and I try to bring some of it to the Soundbath from time to time. Juta Takahashi is one such case. Juta Takahashi was born in Miyagi, Japan in 1959, and produces music, primarily,…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #64 – Juta Takahashi
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features something that I haven’t done before here, a remix/remaster of sorts in the form of reworking the music for Geoffrey Chandler’s 1980 synthesizer space recording, Starscapes. Who is Geoffrey Chandler, I don’t know. Did he do other recordings? I don’t know that either, except I can’t find…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #63 – Geoffrey Chandler – Starscapes
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features a new original work by Matt Borghi (me) called Infinite Resonance. It’s a single track, long-form work that I’ve found works great for rest, relaxation, sleep and meditation. It probably works pretty good for yoga, too, but I haven’t tried it out in that capacity yet. This…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #62 – Infinite Resonance
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https://ia601303.us.archive.org/26/items/AmbientSoundbathPodcast/asb61.mp3 I’ve featured Off Land before on the Ambient Soundbath, but I’ve never dedicated an entire program to Off Land, the work of Tim Dwyer. This program features the tracks from the first two of, an ever-growing collection, known as, the (Drone Variations). I struggle to write about these tracks, not from a lack of…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #61 – Off Land
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features the work of my favorite living composer, Harold Budd. I have listened to, meditated with and analyzed no music more (save, maybe, Claude Debussy) than I have the work of Harold Budd. His music is like being a hugged by an old friend after a long journey.…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #60 – Harold Budd
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I first stumbled upon Moby’s Long Ambients after they were released in early summer of 2016. As a long-time fan of Moby’s ambient work I was excited by this free release, which is still available here: http://moby.com/la1/ – The complete 4-hour collection instantly became a meditational and relaxation go-to recording for me, as it’s calming…Read more Ambient Soundbath #59 – Moby – Long Ambients
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I’ve wanted to do an Ambient Soundbath that featured Manitou for a long time, but just never got around to it. I think that I finally did it, at least, partially because an upcoming performance that I’ll be doing called Leelanau Uncaged, in Northport, Michigan, where I’ll be featuring Manitou live for the first time…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #58 – Manitou
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath features an original work called Parallax Drone. It’s a work that I created after spending time listening back to previous episodes of the Soundbath, something that I’ve never really done before. For some, I imagine, the track might be a little too noisy, or droney or abstract, maybe even…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #57 – Parallax Drone
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Ambient Soundbath #56 features the music of Canadian composers, Mychael Danna and Tim Clement, who, for a time in the 1980s and 1990s created a series of sublime recordings bringing together field recordings and acoustic-electronic sound synthesis. For me their music typified the best that new age music could be combining the natural sounds with…Read more Ambient Soundbath #56 – Danna and Clement
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This episode of the Ambient Soundbath is comprised exclusively of the work of Altus (aka Mike Carss). Altus has put out many recordings (nearly 30+ recordings in fifteens years) of lush, well-crafted and superiorly composed music. All of which are free to listen to and download on his website. I once tweeted that ‘Altus is the music that I imagine…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #55 – Altus
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Last “Origins” program for a while, as I wanted to capture some of the early tracks that inspired me, particularly Ocean of Tenderness and God Moving Over the Face of Waters… Steve Roach, Harold Budd and Jason Sloan all had an early impact, as well… Whereas Offland is one of the great new artists that continues…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #54 – Origins 2
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Keeping it short and sweet for this episode with a handful of tracks that, for me, are part of the origin story of the Ambient Soundbath. Artist such as Harold Budd, Jason Sloan, Diatonis and Kit Watkins have inspired me at every turn. These are only single selections, but if you were to explore these artists…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #53 – Origins 1
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So, I have to go way back for this one… It was late 1999, early 2000 maybe, there was a wonderful experiment going on with a website called Mp3.com… The internet bubble was happening and Mp3.com was trying to create and capitalize on a site for bedroom artists and would-be producers, such as myself, looking…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #52 – Kelvin L. Smith
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #51 – Chuck Van Zyl 0:00 – September Cemetary –Memory Space 11:00 – Saturn – Rituals 31:00 – All Souls Day –Memory Space 37:00 – Sentinel – Cenotaph 51:00 – Memento Mori – Memory Space 54:00 – All Souls Day (Reprise) – Memory Space Where to begin… After podcast #50 I wasn’t sure…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #51 – Chuck Van Zyl
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #50 – Transmission Date: 11/15/2016 Ambient Soundbath #50 is special in more ways than one… This episode marks five years of creating the Ambient Soundbath Podcast. This episode also features a side of my work that’s been omnipresent, but never highlighted, as such, my ambient guitar work, which perfectly coincides with the release…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #50
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #49 – Transmission Date: 10/14/2016
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #48 – Transmission Date: 9/15/2016 All music by Matt Borghi, more information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #47 – Transmission Date: 8/24/2016 All music by Matt Borghi, more information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #46 – Transmission Date: 6/29/2016 All music by Matt Borghi, more information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #45 – Transmission Date: 4/19/2016 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #45 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #44 – Transmission Date: 4/7/2016 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #44 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #43 – Transmission Date: 11/25/2015 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #43 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com Program Note: As we round out our third year, this episode of the podcast is done with great thanks for all of the listeners who’ve joined us in the last three years. With this…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #43
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #42 – Transmission Date: 9/11/2015 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #42 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #41 – Transmission Date:6/19/2015 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #41 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #40 – Transmission Date: 10/03/2014 Special 2-hour, Second Anniversary Podcast Featured artists include: Matt Borghi – ’40’ Opening – Unreleased – www.mattborghi.com Deep Chill Network – Somnambulist – Cyber Sleep 8 – www.darkduck.net/artists/art_dcn_cs8.html Matt Borghi – North Manitou Island Shoal – The Phantom Light – www.mattborghi.com Robert Scott Thompson – Lament – Blue Day (Remastered)…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #40
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #39 – Transmission Date: 09/23/2014 Featured artists include: Joe Frawley – Threshold – Satyrinae – www.joefrawleymusic.info Matt Borghi – Cross Village Sunset Horizon – Unreleased – www.mattborghi.com Joe McMahon – Reflections in the Lagoon – 3AM – https://archive.org/details/earman184 Matt Borghi – Open Water (Relaxation Sequence 1) – Unreleased – www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #38 – Transmission Date:9/12/2014 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #38 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #37 – Transmission Date: 7/16/2014 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #37 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #36 – Transmission Date: 6/3/2014 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #36 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #35 – Transmission Date: 2/27/2014 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #35 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #34 – Transmission Date: 10/27/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #34 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #33 – Transmission Date: 09/12/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #33 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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The Gatherings Concert Series presents Vic Hennegan and Dave Luxton plus Matt Borghi & Michael Teager live in concert on Saturday 19 October 2013 at 8:00PM in the church sanctuary of St. Mary’s Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk on the Penn campus in West Philadelphia. Admission: $20 cash at the door. Advance Tickets are available…Read more Ambient Soundbath Producer, Matt Borghi performing at Gathering and Star’s End in Philadelphia
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For those folks that appreciate some visuals added to their listening experience, I’ve created a video using Ambient Soundbath Podcast #3 with photos from the Hubble Space Telescope… Please enjoy and leave comments if you like this. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmUr59Gw8t4]
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #32 – Transmission Date: 08/09/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #32 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #31 – Transmission Date: 07/06/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #31 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #30 – Transmission Date: 04/10/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #30 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #29 – Transmission Date: 04/02/2013 Entire Podcast is: Matt Borghi – Ambient Soundbath #29 – More information at: http://www.mattborghi.com
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #28 – Transmission Date: 03/27/2013 00:00 – 10:41 – Robert Scott Thompson – Blue Day – Blue Day (Remastered) – www.aucourantrecords.com 10:42 – 39:21 – Deep Chill Network – Noctambulism – Cyber Sleep 8 – www.darkduck.net 39:22 – 60:00 – Altus – Session 2 – Sleep Theory Volume 1 – www.altusmusic.ca
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #27 – Transmission Date: 03/20/2013 00:00 – 10:29 – Gregg Plummer – Mystere – Red Veil – http://www.freefloatingmusic.com/2012/ffm-016-gregg-plummer-red-veil/ 10:30 – 31:42 – Deep Chill Network – Preliminary Motion – Dreams 2 – http://www.darkduck.net 31:43 – 42:03 – Matt Borghi and Michael Teager – Nebula Divide – Convocation – http://www.slobormedia.org 42:04 – 50:43…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #27
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Ambient Soundbath Podcast #26 – Transmission Date: 03/13/2013 00:00 – 03:10 – General Assemblage – 03.24.12 Middle Opening – Unreleased – http://www.myspace.com/generalassembly 03:11 – 24:40 – Altus – Session 2 – Sleep Theory, Volume 1 – www.altusmusic.ca 24:41 – 36:52 – Igneous Flame/Ensueno – Persephone – Pandora – www.luminasounds.com 36:53 – 46:29 – Igneous Flame/Ensueno…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #26
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