I was recently introduced via @greenwoods to ‘Sleeps with the Fishes‘ a 1987 collaboration between Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook. I’m immensly grateful to her for enlightening me. If you love ambient, this is a must have album.

One track in particular I love is Several Times II, but at just over two minutes, its beauty is all too short for me. To help me sleep last night, I stretched and layered it with a little bit of additional reverb into an 11 minute aid to allow you to drift gently off. Here is the result of that.

Only available as a stream for copyright reasons. That said, there is every chance I might be asked to remove it. I sincerely hope not.

I implore you to track the album down and buy it.

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I’m stuck in a dronespace right now and although it’s not the most popular sound I make, it’s a rewarding one to work on. These often fill me an inner peace. I can’t say why, but they seem to be in harmony with my innermost feelings.

I wonder if anyone can spot the excerpt of music that this piece is born from?

Lights out, headphones on, volume at 50% and gently slumber…

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Frith.mp3
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Sorry that this batch of ten tracks has taken so long to create, but the move and work have had a major impact on my creative time.

There are two zip files, one for lower bitrate MP3s and the other for the rather better 320kbps files.

All of the tracks here are free for you to download and distribute.

201 to 210 – 96kbps – zip file (27Mb)
201 to 210 – 320kbps – zip file (77Mb)

Sleep has been hard to come by the past few nights. So I’ve found myself trying to create at 2 or 3am. Often the results of this tend to be something simple but relaxing, something that will finally send me off to dream.

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Lucubrare.mp3
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This little thing was born out of late night noodling. Sometimes I find myself making something that I can use to reach sleep. This piece, with its slow outro, did a good job doing just that.

Feeling a lot better today.

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