Kenji Kihara / Sphontik

https://www.discogs.com/artist/6620736-Kenji-Kihara

Strahlenkranz, Pt. 2

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Lumen 15, Part 2/3
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p440
Limited Select release on May 16, 2025
FRISKY CHILL broadcast from May 24, 2025
Wide release on October 23, 2025
Releases covered up to December 31, 2023
Image by Lukáš Kulla

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 As Seas Exhale Keyframe Passages 2022 As Seas Exhale
02:53 02 Good Weather For An Airstrike & 94 Skies Algonquin Anxiety / Hope 2023 Ambientologist
04:36 03 marine eyes lessons in letting go lessons in letting go – sketches + b-sides 2023 marine eyes
07:32 04 City of Dawn Sol Triste Scattered Colours 2023 Aural Canyon
12:50 05 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara El Bosque de la Niebla Komorebi 木​漏​れ​日 2022 Home Normal
18:28 06 Origin ST Affirmations Generations 2023 Healing Sound Propagandist
22:38 07 Hollie Kenniff Momentary We All Have Places That We Miss 2023 Western Vinyl
26:58 08 Robert Farrugia Sustained Ċipress 2023 rohs! records
30:11 09 Jónsi, Sin Fang, Alex Somers, Kjartan Holm Vallhumall Sounds of Fischer Vol. 1 2022 I N N I
33:33 10 Joe Hisaishi The Last Smile The Boy and the Heron – Original Soundtrack 2023 Studio Ghibli Films
36:11 11 moshimoss Chasing butterflies Stones of Paradise 2023 night cruising
38:39 12 Francisco Sonur Momentary miracles Then the light comes all over the land 2023 Mahorka
45:09 13 Hammock UnTruth Love in the Void 2022 Hammock Music
48:31 14 Hollie Kenniff Embers Healing Together: A Compilation for Mental Health Recovery 2022 Past Inside the Present
51:55 15 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem Magnolia Hall Restful Spaces 2022 Polar Seas Recordings
59:21 16 anthéne beneath the trees Held 2021 oscarson
1:02:42 17 IKSRE & Party Store Thursday Night, Friday Morning Northwest & Southeast 2022 Stereoscenic Records
1:07:08 18 Andrew Heath & James Osland Everything Was Faded and Warm Once We Were All Here and Nowhere Else 2022 Shimmering Moods Records
1:10:33 19 The Magnetic Sea Reopened Uncertain Seasons 2022 Xebeche Records
1:14:29 20 Pruski Moment I Moments of Immersion 2022 whitelabrecs
1:19:35 21 Marie Awadis Children Luys 2023 piano and coffee records
1:22:18 22 Hatsü Dreams of Distance Echoes in the Valley Vol. 7 2023 Echoes in the Valley
1:26:22 23 zakè & City of Dawn They Know Not Ash 2023 Azure Vista Records

03, 11 and 21 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2023, Pt. 1.
17 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2022, Pt. 2.
01-07 and 23 are not part of the FRISKY Radio broadcast.

Strahlenkranz, Pt. 1

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Lumen 15, Part 1/3
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p429
Limited Select release on December 27, 2024
Wide release on June 14, 2025
Releases covered up to December 31, 2023
Image by Casey Horner

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Alaskan Tapes Of Woods and Seas Who Tends a Garden 2023 Nettwerk
03:20 02 As Seas Exhale Forsythia First Breath of Spring 2022 As Seas Exhale
06:33 03 fields we found Lay Expanse 2022 fields we found
12:10 04 Jogging House Something Joggers Vol. 3: A compilation for humanitarian aid 2023 Jogging House
17:45 05 lycoriscoris Morning Light Sketches From Memory 2022 lycoriscoris
21:27 06 Will Samson Beatrijs’ Theremin Harp Swells 2023 12k
28:04 07 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara Silver Grass in Koajiro no mori Komorebi 木​漏​れ​日 2022 Home Normal
30:50 08 anthéne The Conversation Colors 2022 Hidden Vibes
34:00 09 Jogging House Detour Face 2023 dauw
37:22 10 Silent Travelers Summer Wind Noctilucent 2023 Valley View Records
41:34 11 Cat Tyson Hughes feat. marine eyes Another Daylight Roses in the Casement Window 2023 quiet details
44:59 12 Marie Awadis Free Your Mind Luys 2023 piano and coffee records
49:17 13 IKSRE & anthéne Seasons Shifting Seasons Shifting 2023 Polar Seas Recordings
53:07 14 Jogging House Athletes Weight 2022 Seil Records
58:08 15 cash forlorn forlorn 2022 Cash
1:03:41 16 Hammock Absorbed in Light Love in the Void 2023 Hammock Music
1:08:01 17 Bålsam Luz Lenta Subtropic Year 2021 Unknown Tribe
1:12:55 18 Flore Laurentienne Navigation IV Volume II 2022 RVNG Intl.
1:16:20 19 Marc Méan Scirocco Winds 2023 Shimmering Moods Records
1:19:47 20 Delectatio Adrift Songs to Walk With 2023 Delectatio
1:26:21 21 Tomo-Nakaguchi Snow Covered Pastel Town The Long Night in Winter Light 2023 Audiobulb Records
1:33:06 22 Delectatio Silent Reverie Silent Reverie 2023 AmbientMusicalGenre

07 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2022, Pt. 1.

Ornamente, Pt. 2

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Lumen 14, Part 2/2
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p418
Limited Select release on August 26, 2024
FRISKY Radio broadcast on September 15, 2024
Wide release on December 27, 2024
Releases covered up to August 15, 2022
Image by Sporisevic

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Lullatone Like Pebbles in a Stream Shapes & Time 2022 lulla-label
04:09 02 Six Missing Find It Moods, Which 2022 Sea Level Sounds
08:05 03 Henrik Meierkord Quiescis Pacification 2022 Chitra Records
12:58 04 Alaskan Tapes O Woods O Woods, Wake 2022 Nettwerk
23:36 05 fveld & Boterspin Purslane Living Drone Edition 3 2022 fveld
29:18 06 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem Montague’s Creek Restful Spaces 2022 Polar Seas Recordings
37:41 07 Slow Clinic & Matt Atkins Pause Earthtides I 2022 Whitelabrecs
45:27 08 Felipe Ayres Perdas Diárias Trazem a Dor Eterna Nepenthe 2022 Mystery Circles
48:41 09 Six Missing Painted Canvas In Other Lifetimes… 2022 Nettwerk
53:56 10 marine eyes cedarwood chamomile 2022 Past Inside the Present
57:43 11 Vanyashi Here in All Ways Always in the Midst of Infinity 2022 Vanyashi
1:07:48 12 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara Grazalema Komorebi 木​漏​れ​日 2022 Home Normal
1:12:22 13 Bedroom feat. Secret Gardens We Lost Our Way We Lost Our Way 2022 Bedroom
1:15:00 14 Sontag Shogun & Lau Nau Leikkikalu Valo Siroutuu 2022 Ricco Label
1:19:33 15 Sontag Shogun & Lau Nau Dusk Bells, Valo Siroutuu Valo Siroutuu 2022 Ricco Label
1:26:52 16 Tim Linghaus Saturn Days Realismo Mágico 2021 piano and coffee records
1:28:46 17 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem Central Park Restful Spaces 2022 Polar Seas Recordings
1:35:14 18 Illuminine Take 9 – Planes (Barry Hudson-Taylor Rework) Dear, Piano 2 2022 FerryHouse
1:37:03 19 Michael Scott Dawson Witness Marks Music for Listening 2022 We Are Busy Bodies
1:40:14 20 Sophia Jani & Darian Donovan Thomas Tulips String Layers Vol. II 2022 7K!
1:44:37 21 William Ackerman Passing Baldo’s Tower Positano Songs 2022 West River Records

14 and 17 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2022, Pt. 1.
FRISKY broadcast only contains tracks 09-21.

Ornamente, Pt. 1

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Lumen 14, Part 1/2
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p407
Limited Select release on March 9, 2023
FRISKY CHILL broadcast from March 23, 2024
Wide release on June 30, 2024
Releases covered up to August 15, 2022
Image by Jet Kim

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Lullatone shapes in time Shapes & Time 2022 lulla-label
03:25 02 Morimoto Naoki mode sleeplaboratory3.0 2022 Whitelabrecs
07:29 03 As Seas Exhale Peony First Breath of Spring 2022 As Seas Exhale
14:23 04 Rhucle Chiffon Scenes 2020 Stereoscenic Records
18:07 05 Black Brunswicker High Peaks High Peaks 2022 Ramble Records
20:32 06 Gallery Six Stunned Gradual Transition 2022 Gallery Six
25:44 07 haruka nakamura Atarashiki Hikari – 新しき光 Atarashiki Hikari / 新​し​き​光 2021 Kitchen. Label
32:06 08 marine eyes filler of hearts chamomile 2022 Past Inside the Present
34:43 09 Yasmin Williams I Wonder (Song for Michael) Urban Driftwood 2021 Spinster
40:00 10 Russ Daniels Delaware Adagio 2019 Russ Daniels
42:53 11 Andrew Tuttle Filtering Fleeting Adventure 2022 Basin Rock
48:54 12 Channelers Seeker and Finder Time, Space, and Thought 2022 Inner Islands
53:50 13 Rosa Beach-Mason & Sean Conrad Wished Wake 2022 Inner Islands
57:14 14 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara The Space of Kuruwa Ground Komorebi 木​漏​れ​日 2022 Home Normal
1:01:34 15 Saúl Guanipa Memories Awake Emanations 2022 Saul Guanipa
1:04:26 16 OrageOrange Antillean Interlude Last Year’s Bloom 2022 Shimmering Moods Records
1:06:54 17 Marisa Anderson & William Tyler News About Heaven Lost Futures 2021 Thrill Jockey
1:10:36 18 Marisa Anderson & William Tyler Lost Futures Lost Futures 2021 Thrill Jockey
1:13:26 19 Caleb R.K. Williams Leaning Against the Barn The Old Heart Still Has Its Wings 2021 The Eagle Stone Collective
1:16:01 20 The Phonometrician B El Mar Convertido en Oceano 2021 Lost Tribe Sound

09 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2021, Pt. 3
11 additional credits: Claire Deak, Tony Dupé, Isasa, Padang Food Tigers, Voltfruit.

Best of Planetarium 2022, Pt. 1

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Yes, you read that right. The Planetarium clock is a year behind everyone else. It’s still hard to catch up to recent releases, but a thorough search hopefully resulted in a best-of selection that captures the essence of Planetarium, ambient, modern classical and atmospheric electronic music in 2022. These 22 tracks are all from the first half of that year. Six of them are debuts, the rest are replays from previous or forthcoming, already produced mixes.

Best of Planetarium 2022, Part 1/2
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p405
Limited Select release on January 17, 2024
Wide release on May 31, 2024
Releases covered up to June 30, 2022
Image: Daniele Franchi

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label PA
00:00 01 Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau Badminton Motif, Leikkikalu Valo Siroutuu 2022 Ricco Label
06:59 02 Hollie Kenniff feat. Goldmund Remembered Words We All Have Places That We Miss 2022 Western Vinyl J19b
11:48 03 Hollie Kenniff & Anna Phoebe Ways of Seeing For Ukraine (Volume 1) 2022 Headphone Commute B13
15:14 04 Hammock Displacement For Ukraine (Volume 1) 2022 Headphone Commute J19b
19:34 05 As Seas Exhale Sun Through the Mist First Breath of Spring 2022 As Seas Exhale
22:54 06 Harry Towell & Guy Gelem Central Park Restful Spaces 2022 Polar Seas Recordings
29:30 07 Willebrant Cowwarr I-II Cowwarr___ 2022 Willebrant N81b
40:10 08 Tapes and Topographies Countenance Modalities 2022 Simulacra Records J19b
43:34 09 T 1 D 3 S Gracefully Fading A Fraction Above 2022 Dewtone Recordings L13a
47:03 10 Loneward Mellow Solace Pallid Memories 2022 Altus Music J19b
53:59 11 zakè & City of Dawn Wanderlust Agape 2022 Azure Vista Records J19b
57:39 12 Eternell oroki Mira 2022 LILA लीला J19c
1:03:52 13 Rosa Beach-Mason & Sean Conrad Dimension Wake 2022 Inner Islands J19b
1:09:47 14 Vanyashi Aiyana Aiyana 2022 Vanyashi J19c
1:21:19 15 City of Dawn Amorphous Anoesis 2022 Heart Dance Records J19c
1:25:22 16 Gang Violins Greater Forces Greater Forces 2022 Gang Violins G19b
1:28:02 17 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara Silver Grass in Koajiro no mori Komorebi 木​漏​れ​日 2022 Home Normal
1:30:37 18 Saúl Guanipa Leaving Home Emanations 2022 Saul Guanipa
1:33:45 19 Julia Gjertsen All Within Formations 2022 Moderna Records N81c
1:37:43 20 Tim Linghaus Dusk Caressing Your Hair Provenance 2022 1631 Recordings
1:40:25 21 Tim Linghaus Dawn Caressing Our Street Provenance 2022 1631 Recordings B14a
1:46:04 22 Tom Rogerson Oath Retreat to Bliss 2022 Western Vinyl B13

PA = Previous appearance in a mix.

Klare Sicht, Pt. 1

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Lumen 13, Part 1/2
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p386
Limited Select release on July 5, 2023
FRISKY CHILL broadcast from July 23, 2023
Wide release on September 24, 2023
Releases covered up to January 31, 2022
Image by : Arsene M Øvrejorde

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Spacecraft Sunset from the Ethereal Shore (Lauge Alternate Remix) Nothingness (Remixed) 2021 Valley View
06:03 02 AstroPilot Sunrise at the Summit Earthwalk 2021 AstroPilot
09:14 03 Hammock Elsewhere Elsewhere 2021 Hammock
12:51 04 Leaves in Motion Sun, Slowly Rise Sun, Slowly Rise 2020 A.M. Davis
17:30 05 Signal Hill Goodbye, 2020 Hawk Moon Records: Volume X 2021 Hawk Moon
19:39 06 Ben Holton (Birds In The Brickwork) January (Over Frozen Farmland) Twelve Months 2021 Wayside and Woodland
22:19 07 The Lifted Index Suffused with the Light of the Stars Hosts of Living Forms 2021 Past Inside the Present
26:23 08 Slow Clinic St Andrew’s Day St Andrew’s Day 2021 Slow Clinic
31:51 09 Startle the Heavens Breathe Breathe 2021 Startle the Heavens
35:31 10 Ersin Waves Waves 2021 UFM
37:35 11 Biloba Green #4F7942 Biloba Green 2021 Élan Vital
42:31 12 Mint Julep Pulse In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep 2021 Western Vinyl
45:49 13 Hollie Kenniff Flourish (Helios Remix) Flourish (Helios Remix) 2021 Western Vinyl
50:45 14 City of Dawn & Asukrai Leaflet Kinetic Paranoia 2021 City of Dawn
59:08 15 Vanyashi Sizeless Sky Aisthesis 2021 Vanyashi
1:05:27 16 T 1 D 3 S Gracefully Fading A Fraction Above 2022 Dewtone
1:08:55 17 Kenji Kihara Nautical Twilight Gentle Places 2021 Sphontik
1:13:37 18 Alaskan Tapes The Sky Sings Its Chorus (For Us Alone) (Pt. 1) For Us Alone 2021 Alaskan Tapes

15-18 are not included in the FRISKY broadcast.

Gischtwellen

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Neptunian 69
FRISKY CHILL broadcast from February 28, 2021
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p321
Limited Select release on February 25, 2021
Wide release on March 23, 2021
Releases covered up to December 31, 2020
Image by : https://alierturk.deviantart.com/

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Ryosuke Miyata Nalu Mokupuni 2019 Organic Industries
03:33 02 David Cordero & Miguel Otero Polvera Salinas 2020 Archives
06:30 03 Rahikka Elegy IV Abstract Elegies 2020 Stereoscenic
10:42 04 Hotel Neon Oct 12 Moments 2020 Sound In Silence
15:29 05 Pawel Pruski The Sound of Oars Between 2020 KrysaliSound
22:30 06 David Cordero & Miguel Otero Sagrado Corazón Salinas 2020 Archives
24:53 07 Joshua van Tassel Conjuror-er Dance Music, Vol. 2 (More Songs for Slow Motion) 2020 Backward
30:28 08 Steve Good Ruby Nothing is Ever Created or Destroyed 2020 Steve Good
38:38 09 Awakened Souls Pause How We Heal : Addendum 2020 Stereoscenic
44:04 10 SVLBRD Overseas Inland 2020 Faint
47:14 11 Luis Miehlich Mirror, Pt. 1 & Komori, Pt. 1 Home Diaries 030 2020 whitelab
57:11 12 Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg Los Océanos Los Océanos 2020 Ambientologist
1:02:51 13 Helios Our Distance Domicile 2020 Ghostly
1:08:06 14 Jogging House Ago Names 2019 Jogging House
1:11:56 15 Purl Shards Seraphine Wings 2020 Purl
1:18:51 16 Túrion Leap Low Spirits 2020 Shimmering Moods
1:21:44 17 City Of Dawn Quiet Dreams Metaonia 2020 City Of Dawn
1:26:00 18 Hotel Neon Tidal All is Memory 2020 Facture
1:30:57 19 David Cordero La Tristeza de una Ciudad Honne (本 音) 2020 dronarivm
1:34:42 20 Luis Miehlich Timecuts III Timecuts 2019 whitelab
1:41:25 21 Kenji Kihara Hayama Ambient 019 Hayama Ambient 019 2020 Sphontik

01-04, 10-11 and 19-21 are not part of the FRISKY CHILL broadcast.

Muschelschalen

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Muschelschalen (Neptunian 65) [FRISKY CHILL broadcast from October 25, 2020]
01 Hakobune – Furiko [Polar Seas, 2020 | “Solitude”] {00:00}
02 SineRider – Four Years Away [Sound in Silence, 2018 | “Four Years Away”] {06:28}
03 SineRider – Echeveria [dronarivm, 2020 | “Moonflowers”] {09:36}
04 Sven Laux – Fragment 3 [whitelab, 2020 | “Scattered Fragments of Separation”] {13:41}
05 Jani R – Motion 2 [Jani R, 2020 | “Still Motions EP”] {17:05}
06 Jens Pauly – Tynne [whitelab, 2020 | “Sleeplaboratory2.0”] {23:07}
07 Piotr Michałowski – Phoenix [dronarivm, 2020 | “Gap in Time (Charity Compilation)”] {27:16}
08 Kenji Kihara – 日日是好日 (Today is a Good Day) – 3 [Sphontik, 2019 | “日日是好日”] {31:04}
09 Jogging House – Breaks [dauw, 2019 | “When”] {34:26}
10 Jens Pauly – Below [whitelab, 2020 | “Below”] {38:01}
11 Endless Melancholy – Caught in a Memory [Sound in Silence, 2020 | “A Perception of Everything”] {42:33}
12 Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – North Wharf [Stereoscenic, 2020 | “Music for Artificial Islands 1989”] {47:17}
13 WMD – Watching Boats Through the Fog [Hush Hush, 2019 | “Young Angry Love”] {53:34}
14 Jogging House – Balance [Seil, 2019 | “Lure”] {56:50}
15 Jogging House – Left [Jogging House, 2019 | “Names”] {1:01:21}
16 Jordan Christoff – Iron Goddess [Past Inside the Present, 2019 | “Liminal”] {1:04:45}
17 The Green Kingdom – Sanctum [Verdant Spaces, 2020 | “Sanctum”] {1:12:37}
18 Purl – A Brighter Dream [Archives, 2020 | “Renovatio”] {1:19:10}
19 Poemme – Lacustrine [Facture, 2019 | “Place Language”] {1:21:58}

01-02, 14-16 and 18 are not part of the FRISKY broadcast.

Releases covered up to 2020-07-15.

Image by: https://unsplash.com/@igorrodrigues

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p304
Select exclusive until 2020-11-12

Ruhige See

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Celebrating 5 years of Neptunian with the first episode that is not aired on FRISKY Radio: 100 minutes of “calm ocean” ambient.

Ruhige See (Neptunian 61)
01 Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson – Onism [Soft Wired] {00:00}
02 Luca Longobardi – Clouds [The Ambient Zone] {03:30}
03 Bing Satellites – A Crimson Sky [Bing Satellites] {06:31}
04 Exist Strategy – For All Eternity [Exist Strategy] {14:34}
05 Malibù – Lost at Sea [UNO NYC] {17:34}
06 Ann Annie – In Motion [Ann Annie] {21:51}
07 Halftribe – Two Teaspoons of Wishful Thinking [Sound In Silence] {24:52}
08 Constant Shapes – Your Colors [Constant Shapes] {28:41}
09 Hammock – Life Is Life [Hammock] {32:48}
10 Steve Good – The National Anthem [Steve Good] {36:27}
11 Antendex – Everyone Is Sleeping in My Dreams [Antendex] {43:06}
12 Test Card – Data Taken Over Under Rating [Sound In Silence] {50:11}
13 Jogging House – Stay [Jogging House] {56:58}
14 Sphontik – Late Summer Blue [Sphontik] {1:18:34}

05 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2019, Pt. 1.

Releases covered between 2019-04-19 and 2020-04-19.

Image by: http://unsplash.com/@matreding

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p293

Grasdecke

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Grasdecke (Lumen 4)
01 Marquess Evergreen – Summit Mantra [Theosophy] {00:00}
02 Olive Is The Sun – // Cocte◆Abstr07 [OliSUn SteREo] {11:56}
03 Channelers – A Quiet Invitation [Inner Islands] {18:20}
04 Ecovillage feat. Ludvig Cimbrelius – New Life [dronarivm] {23:15}
05 Slow Dancing Society – Woven [Hidden Shoal] {29:00}
06 Chihei Hatakeyama – Buddha Statue Without Roof [Room40] {32:56}
07 Valotihkuu – Evening Breeze [Hidden Vibes] {36:15}
08 Ian Hawgood + Stijn Hüwels – 畳 (Tatami) [Home Normal] {42:16}
09 synkrotron – Hillside Path [Naviar] {48:38}
10 Jogging House – Rust [dauw] {57:48}
11 Delectatio – Unsure [Silk] {1:03:25}
12 Kenji Kihara – Hayama Ambient 004 [Sphontik] {1:06:06}
13 Russ Daniels – Quarters [Russ Daniels] {1:10:40}
14 Russ Daniels – Tam [Russ Daniels] {1:13:43}

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Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p284
Select exclusive until August 11, 2020.