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Song for Frustrating Times (I can't remember from whom or when this photo came to me, but thank you. Also, if you are the photographer, I apologize for not being able to give you credit.) Be easy, you are my brother. Download: Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together?Buy the Album: ...

BIG SOUNDS TO MOVE A BIG ASS.Download: Baby Huey and the Babysitters - Mighty MightyBuy the Album: The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend

Songs for Best Days I love you, Alton Ellis. Today was another ecstatic sunny day, and I smiled at everyone, and they smiled back. I felt like they could see inside me, and I was unafraid. It's the first time I've felt like that in a long long ...

I celebrate the life of the late Robert Moog by uploading a track from the sadly forgotten Moog supergroup Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. Before Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, ELP, and on and on, there was Mother Mallard, the first all-synthesizer band. They worked closely with Moog, ...

Back-2-Skool Tribute I start school tomorrow- no butterflies in my stomach. Download: Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin / Bjork - Bukolla Buy the Album: Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson

A fantastic sun-shiny Seattle day + sitting in the cafe eating the most kick ass tempeh reuben sandwich ever + reading hand-made comic interpretations of The Raven + writing letters on xeroxed menus + listening to pop songs on headphones + everything was bright + I was just so happy. Download: +/- - The Queen of DetroitBuy the ...

Lotus Series, Part Seven Today I hid in the elevator and took big gulps of air to collect myself, still wrapped up in my head. I was still in bed, smiling because we had spent some time. I woke up and the whole world was streaming through my blinds. I was cloudy, ...

Lotus Series, Part Six I am becoming how I long to be. Download: Innocence Mission - Look for Me as You Go ByBuy the Album: Innocence Mission - Befriended

Aside from being one of the all-time ambient classics, Steve Roach's 1988 album Dreamtime Return is also his best-known work. Inspired by Roach's wide travels on the Australian continent, Dreamtime manages to sound ancient and modern all at once, with a seamless blend of Aboriginal instruments and "western" electronics. For ...

Lotus Series, Part Five Lotus amongst Reeds by Bo Yun Still healing from a fracture, I am in a soft place. I want everything to slow down, like honey into a bowl of tea. I want everything to slow down, like watercolor. Download: Rachel's - 4 or 5 TreesBuy the Album: Rachel's - Systems/Layers

Songs for Remembering Your Oprah-Spirit

Download: a silver mt. zion - 13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed, cocorosie - terrible angelsBuy the Album: a silver mt. zion - he has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms, cocorosie - la maison de mon rêve ...

Lotus Series, Part Four Take off your shoes, you are desecrating the sacred ground. Download: Donovan - Catch the WindBuy the Album: Donovan - Catch the Wind

I am trying to unite my eyes when looking at the world. Download:Frank Sinatra, Day by Day / Mam'Selle Buy the Album: Frank Sinatra - 16 Most Requested Songs

Lotus Series, Part Three I am working on compassion. Download: AGF - downBYtheLAKEBuy the Album: From AGF's site: for AUDIOLAB. soundinstallation in commission for POMPIDOU PARIS. encounter with a man late in the evening. at the lake close to my parents place.

Because I appreciate that Mister Eden is not the type of nut to feverishly seek out each and every compilation track, I told him I would post this Alio Die track from the comp Funeral Songs, on Relapse, that he hadn't heard. The abum is pretty good overall, a decent ...

I am posting this track because Sara NH was looking for more dark ambient picks. I secretly believe (now publicly) that her kind of dark ambient is way too spooky for my Candyland life, but I will attempt to surmount this fear. So I present a track by Viridian Sun, ...

Wooden Wand is one of my favorite collections of people making music today. Their semi-improvisational aspect means I have never seem them play the same show twice, which is refreshing. Their sets and music stay diverse and fresh, while maintaining the haunted nostalgia that their unique amalgamation of experimental electronic ...

"Jede Menschengestalt belebt einen individuellen Keim im Betrachtenden. Dadurch wird diese Anschauung unendlich, sie ist mit dem Gefühl einer unerschöpflichen Kraft verbunden, und darum so absolut belebend. Indem wir uns selbst betrachten, beleben wir uns selbst."-Novalis Download: The Eaves-BirdlawyerBuy the Album: The Eaves

Lotus Series, Part Two Vishnu sleeps on the cosmic serpentthe cosmic serpent floats on the the cosmic seaand Vishnu, in that sleep, dreams the dream that is This Universefrom His navel, the lotus of This Universeon the lotus, sits Brahmaand everytime Brahma opens His eyes a world age comes into beingHe ...