Wil Bolton (The Angling Loser / Le Moors / Ashlar)

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Mittagsgold

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My contribution to Piano Day 2023 could not make it in time, because I needed longer to catch up with releases (in fact, I’m still lagging one year behind at this point). The result, “Mittagsgold” (Gazania), has a staggering 31 pieces, though, which are mostly piano-led, but this new personal favorite Planetarium set also contains some cinematic ambient and light post-rock tracks ringing in the spring season. Hopefully, you’re as excited as I am about this mix!

Botanik 13
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p383
Limited Select release on April 12, 2023
FRISKY CHILL broadcast from April 23, 2023
Wide release TBD
Releases covered up to March 31, 2022
Image by David Clode

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Alaskan Tapes Wake O Woods / Wake 2022 Nettwerk
02:12 02 Hideyuki Hashimoto Shin Shin 2021 nlart
05:47 03 Nils Frahm Todo Nada Old Friends New Friends 2021 LEITER
08:10 04 Nils Frahm Then Patterns Old Friends New Friends 2021 LEITER
11:27 05 Hideyuki Hashimoto Melody Fragment 2021 nlart
14:33 06 Blurstem Dreamtales Lucid 2022 Anthem Falls
17:17 07 Motohiro Nakashima The End Isn’t the End Gathering the Light 2021 flau
21:48 08 Vanyashi interstice interstice 2020 Vanyashi
28:14 09 Exist Strategy Sanctuary Harness Oblivion 2022 Exist Strategy
31:09 10 Wilson Trouvé & Wil Bolton Floating in the Air Escape 2021 1631
34:38 11 Foam and Sand Circle 23 (Slow Meadow Rework) Full Circle Reworks 2021 Trees & Cyborgs
39:46 12 Tim Linghaus Song for E Keepsakes, Pt. I 2021 1631
42:07 13 Tim Linghaus In the Swirling Bubbles of the Lake I Saw Bonds and Molecules memory sketches II 2021 Schole
46:44 14 Frances Shelley Song of Possibility Songs of Possibility 2021 Manners McDade
49:15 15 Luke Howard A Collective Destiny All of Us 2021 Mercury KX
53:12 16 Lambert Amsterdam Piano Day Vol. 1 2022 LEITER
56:25 17 Anna Yarbrough Somewhere in a Wooden Cabin Sojourn 2021 Rhodium
59:27 18 swoof Adrift ALLEYS & CAMPS 003 2019 Mango Alley
1:01:56 19 Tom Ashbrook Solitude III Solitudes 2021 The Other Songs
1:05:53 20 Stray Theories Be the Light This Light 2021 n5MD
1:10:58 21 Peter Gregson Don’t Wake Patina 2021 Deutsche Grammophon
1:14:42 22 Hollie Kenniff & Anna Phoebe Ways of Seeing For Ukraine (Volume 1) 2022 Headphone Commute
1:17:59 23 Tony Anderson Midway Midway 2022 Tony Anderson
1:24:27 24 Wings for Louise Pluviam Pluviam 2022 Wings for Louise
1:26:50 25 Tom Ashbrook Peter Solitudes 2021 The Other Songs
1:30:35 26 Koshun Nakao little happiness… daily life… 2022 Koshun Nakao
1:33:32 27 Jean-Michel Blais murmures aubades 2021 Arts & Crafts
1:38:34 28 Eydís Evensen Deep Under Bylur 2021 XXIM
1:43:06 29 Melaine Dalibert Prayer Shimmering 2022 Ici d’ailleurs
1:46:47 30 Matt Emery Mizu Spotlight Series: Harp 2022 Matreya
1:49:17 31 Tom Rogerson Oath Retreat to Bliss 2022 Western Vinyl

01-15 are exclusive to the Mixcloud edition and not part of the FRISKY Radio broadcast.
04 and 11 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2021, Pt. 3.

Beryll, Pt. 1

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Planetarium had its 9-year anniversary this week. I took some deep dives into 2021 releases again (almost finished finally!) and discovered some real gems for a new Geophon trilogy. The meditative album by Jon Hopkins stood out to me in particular. I took almost every track from it and combined it with a potpourri of autumnal ambient. The three parts of “Beryll” will be released over the course of the winter.

Geophon 18, Part 1
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p372
Limited Select release on November 6, 2022
Wide release on January 21, 2023
Releases covered up to November 30, 2021
Image by USGS

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Color of Time Brand New Sky Color of Time 2021 Past Inside the Present
03:46 02 Kit Monteith & Al Sundvall Garden of Glass Garden of Glass 2021 Cities and Memory
11:39 03 Jon Hopkins Love Flows Over Us in Prismatic Waves Music for Psychedelic Therapy 2021 Domino
16:30 04 Jon Hopkins Deep in the Glowing Heart Music for Psychedelic Therapy 2021 Domino
23:39 05 As Seas Exhale New Dawn New Rites 2021 As Seas Exhale
34:04 06 City of Dawn Absquatulate Tacenda 2021 Aural Canyon
38:04 07 pagination month in the life indicia, vol. II 2021 Privacy
43:19 08 Color of Time Cold Air Color of Time 2021 Past Inside the Present
46:04 09 Tapes and Topographies semantics Amplitudes 2021 Whitelab
52:16 10 Tapes and Topographies everyone is far away Amplitudes 2021 Whitelab
57:37 11 Drifts In Autumn Feel the Space (Wil Bolton Remix) Feel the Space 2021 Distant Noise
1:05:23 12 Jon Hopkins feat. 7RAYS Ascending, Dawn Sky Music for Psychedelic Therapy 2021 Domino
1:13:59 13 Jon Hopkins feat. 7RAYS Arriving Music for Psychedelic Therapy 2021 Domino
1:16:34 14 The Green Kingdom Lullaby Lantern Imaginary Habitats 2021 Hand drawn hand
1:20:41 15 The Broken Cradle The City Gates Gilead 2021 The Broken Cradle
1:25:51 16 Alex Smalley Optimal Care Vanaprastha (The Man Who Went Into the Woods to Find Himself) 2021 Past Inside the Present
1:32:07 17 Andrew Heath Nothing Forever Glimmer 2021 Disco Gecko
1:40:25 18 Gray Acres Spectral Dreams and Phantoms 2021 Archives

Amethyst, Pt. 2

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Geophon 17, Part 2
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p362
Limited Select release on June 16, 2022
Wide release on July 30, 2022
Releases covered up to September 12, 2021
Image by Katriona McCarthy

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Blank Gloss Rags Melt 2021 Kompakt
03:24 02 Corey Fuller Crease Receding Tides 2021 VAAGNER
09:36 03 Andrew Tasselmyer Within Piano Frameworks 2021 Disintegration State
14:32 04 Francis M. Gri Part 3 Stille 2021 mailbox
18:06 05 Black Brunswicker Austro-Hungarian Blues (Extended Version) In the Age of Aristocracy: 2nd Anniversary Extended Edition 2021 Stereoscenic
24:05 06 Lamasz Dernière Succession Successions 2021 giraffe tapes
27:46 07 Alaskan Tapes Open For Us Alone 2021 Alaskan Tapes
31:28 08 Ambalek Where I Shelter Joggers Vol. 1 – A Communal Compilation 2021 Jogging House
35:44 09 Tomosla Springs A Small Town in the Mountains 2021 Shimmering Moods
41:04 10 Anushka Chkheidze, Eto Gelashvili, Hayk Karoyi Sleeping Glacier Glacier Music II 2021 Establishment
45:13 11 Sebastian Plano Agos Save Me Not 2021 Mercury Classics
48:30 12 Wayne Robert Thomas Whitney Canticles of B-Sides 2021 Past Inside the Present
54:27 13 Jens Pauly & Stijn Hüwels The Leaves Will Fade When the Night Ends 2021 VAAGNER
1:06:01 14 Wil Bolton Lavender Layer Cumulus Sketches 2021 Home Normal
1:13:00 15 David Granström Sapphire Visions Empty Room 2021 Hallow Ground
1:17:12 16 anthéne & Simon McCorry Lucid The Equation of Time 2021 Whitelab

06 and 16 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2021, Pt. 1.

Eklipse, Pt. 3

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Nox 14, Part 3
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p361
Limited Select release on June 5, 2022
Wide release on July 13, 2022
Releases covered up to August 22, 2021
Image by Anna-Maria Snow

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Rinnovare & Julia Gjertsen Natural Unfolding Sustain Series, Vol. 2 2021 Ambientologist
03:42 02 r beny Cardinale Thesis Drive2 2020 Thesis
16:29 03 Alex Roldan Soft Sill Soft Sill 2021 Alex Roldan
21:30 04 Yann Novak Silence Will Hang in the Air (When We Are Gone) Lifeblood of Light and Rapture 2021 Room40
30:06 05 Carlos Ferreira Black Sunday (Postcard One) Six Postcards & Other Stories 2020 Past Inside the Present
34:26 06 Innesti Eventually In Letters 2021 Innesti
42:50 07 Spacecraft The Great Conjunction Evening Star 2021 Valley View
45:44 08 Silent Travelers Daydream Moonlit Quilt 2021 Valley View
50:36 09 Andrew Tasselmyer Farewell Impulses 2021 Home Normal
56:05 10 zakè & City Of Dawn Lunar Ambient Sleeping Pill 5 2021 Stereoscenic
59:59 11 City Of Dawn In the Stars Ambedo 2021 Healing Sound Propagandist
1:04:32 12 Spacecraft Departure Evening Star 2021 Valley View
1:09:26 13 Ludvig Cimbrelius Atmospheric Presence, Pt. 1 Atmospheric Presence 2020 Eternell
1:18:47 14 Tapes and Topographies When I Would Watch You Sleep In Muted Forms 2021 Shimmering Moods
1:23:15 15 James Osland Stars Spark Rusted Tone Recordings: Sampler Vol. 4 2021 Rusted Tone
1:26:14 16 Wil Bolton Unravelling Cumulus Sketches 2021 Home Normal
1:32:07 17 Andrew Tasselmyer Collected Notions Impulses 2021 Home Normal
1:35:19 18 Andrew Tasselmyer Nara Sunset Surface Textures 2019 eilean
1:38:54 19 zakè & Marine Eyes Forever Unfailing Love 2021 Past Inside the Present

Eklipse, Pt. 1

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Nox 14, Part 1
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p358
Limited Select release on May 11, 2022
Wide release on May 25, 2022
Releases covered up to August 22, 2021
Image by Rafael Garcin

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Wil Bolton Carousel Dreams Above the Neon Glow 2021 Hidden Vibes
04:59 02 The Lifted Index Strangler Fig Sanctuary 2021 Seil
08:59 03 Jogging House There When 2019 dauw
13:28 04 Delectatio Selcouth Onism 2021 Delectatio
17:48 05 Wayne Robert Thomas And Then Came the Evening Canticles of B-Sides 2021 Past Inside the Present
20:40 06 Graham Van Pelt Stark Road Salt Spring: Sun and Shadow 2021 Arbutus
29:33 07 Spacecraft Evening Star Evening Star 2021 Valley View
35:01 08 Wayne Robert Thomas Hidden Sanctuary Canticles of Bliss 2021 Past Inside the Present
40:01 09 Dave Griffiths Wind in the Laurel, Playtime Far Away Wind in the Laurel, Playtime Far Away 2020 Tweed Jacket
43:45 10 Eternell Imagined Distances Imagined Distances 2020 Sound In Silence
51:12 11 Spacecraft & Lauge Celestial Evening Star 2021 Valley View
55:33 12 loscil Orta Clara 2021 kranky
1:02:28 13 Halftribe Solutes Lucent Forms Travelling 2021 Hidden Vibes
1:06:26 14 Eluvium Touch Returned Virga II 2021 Temporary Residence
1:16:08 15 Bedroom Pirouettes A Thousand Harmonies in Silence 2020 Past Inside the Present
1:19:32 16 Naal feat. Bedroom Phases 7: Ivy Phases 7: Ivy 2020 Chroma Artist Collective

10 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2020, Pt. 1

Phantome

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Nox 13
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p344
Limited Select release on October 23, 2021
Wide release on November 26, 2021
Releases covered up to May 2, 2021
Image by Lucas Marcomini

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 Transient Sounds Smoke Burn 2020 Transient Sounds
13:02 02 Jon Hopkins 1/1 Singing Bowl (Ascension) Meditations 2020 Domino
30:16 03 Moss Covered Technology Wind Shaped Seafields 2021 dronarivm
36:14 04 Wil Bolton Cumulus Sketch Cumulus Sketches 2021 Home Normal
42:05 05 Black Brunswicker Silent Cobbled Streets In the Age of Aristocracy: 2nd Anniversary Extended Edition 2021 Stereoscenic
46:37 06 Gray Acres Material Forces Material Forces 2019 whitelab
49:48 07 Innesti Filament and Place Filament and Place 2021 dronarivm
53:33 08 Innesti Indelible Filament and Place 2021 dronarivm
1:00:34 09 36 Void Lights Music for Isolation (Suite) 2021 3six
1:04:40 10 Naal feat. Shannon Penner Phases 9: Elder Phases 9 – Elder 2020 Chroma
1:18:57 11 Ross Gentry The Carriers Prism of Dust 2021 Polar Seas
1:23:24 12 Ian Nyquist The Drift Endless, Shapeless 2021 laaps
1:28:50 13 Slow Dancing Society Nerves Meridians Murmur 2021 Hidden Shoal
1:33:48 14 Tony Anderson Nightingale Nuit 2021 Tony Anderson
1:43:21 15 Sven Laux Fragment 17 Scattered Fragments of Separation (The Complete Story) 2021 whitelab

Harmattan

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Jovian 14
Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p337
Limited Select release on August 3, 2021
Wide release on September 5, 2021
Releases covered up to February 28, 2021
Image by Henry Dick

Start # Artist Title Album Year Label
00:00 01 City of Dawn Convalescence Ambedo 2021 Healing Sound Propagandist
02:37 02 Illuminine Take 3 – Ways Baptism of Solitude 2020 Ferryhouse
04:33 03 Penguin Café Chinstrap Handfuls of Night 2019 Erased Tapes
10:10 04 Rinnovare Fluor Aperturia 2020 Rinnovare
13:35 05 Wil Bolton In Flight Cumulus Sketches 2021 Home Normal
22:34 06 Andrew Lahiff Plateau of Many Colours The People Under the Stars 2020 Andrew Lahiff
25:40 07 Michel Banabila with Stijn Hüwels & Cok van Vuuren Across the Sky Across the Sky 2021 Tapu
32:07 08 Hammock Spinning Through Us Spinning Through Us 2020 Hammock
44:00 09 Spuntic In Colour Silent Escape 2020 TXT
47:22 10 Black Brunswicker Meages Smiles for a Better Tomorrow Hidden Amongst the Trees and Foothills 2019 Past Inside The Present
54:15 11 Slow Clinic Distance Music for Another Sky 2021 mailbox
59:02 12 Illuminine Take 7 – Aurealis Baptism of Solitude 2020 Ferryhouse
1:01:13 13 Ashan Light Phase Sacred Spring 2021 Inner Islands
1:07:45 14 4lienetic Samsara Ascending 2020 Blue Lies
1:09:53 15 Hotel Neon A Possible Past All is Memory 2020 Facture
1:15:33 16 The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard Off Camera I Suppose I’m Your Future 2019 dauw
1:20:28 17 Grandbruit Vallon Naufrage 2020 Grandbruit
1:24:20 18 zakè & City of Dawn Galassia The Silence Beneath the Bark 2021 Compilation 2021 Elm
1:28:55 19 Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea Drala Liberamente 2020 Azure Vista
1:36:19 20 Andrew Tasselmyer & anthéne Part Three Distant 2020 hibernate

19 previously appeared in Best of Planetarium 2020, Pt. 1.

Fanal

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Planetarium took a short summer break at 2020’s half-way point. Now we’re venturing into a new phase in which the Lumen and Nox formats are combined with the other three major ones, Geophon, Neptunian and Jovian. First off, we have the Jovian-Lumen set “Fanal” (beacon).

Fanal (Jovian 5 – Lumen edition)
01 Andrew J Klimek – A Minute Before Sunrise [Past Inside the Present] {00:00}
02 SineRider – Portage [SineRider] {02:09}
03 Sean Curtis Patrick – I Think the Sign Said ‘River Crossing’ [Past Inside the Present] {05:09}
04 Hideo Nakasako – DSC8133 [Hideo Nakasako] {07:53}
05 36 – Music for Isolation (Part 2) : Social Distancing [3six] {13:50}
06 City of Dawn – Solus [Past Inside the Present] {18:45}
07 AUSKLANG – Abschied [Past Inside the Present] {26:19}
08 T.R. Jordan – Bruised World [Past Inside the Present] {31:47}
09 Wil Bolton – Overlap [eilean] {36:41}
10 Sven Laux & Spheruleus – Until We Fall [Facture] {41:04}
11 Follow The Compass – Sputnik [Follow The Compass] {49:30}
12 100 Day Delay – A Fault Line to Call Home [City by Night] {54:06}
13 100 Day Delay – A Hymn for Mountains [City by Night] {58:15}
14 Olan Mill – The Golden Ratio [dronarivm] {1:02:02}
15 Bobby Krlic – The Blessing [Milan] {1:05:59}
16 Michiru Aoyama – Hidamari (Kaito Version) [Mango Alley] {1:08:50}
17 Message To Bears – On Reflection [Message To Bears] {1:13:44}

Releases covered between 2019-04-12 and 2020-04-12.

Image by: http://pedromgabriel.com/

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p291

Ästuar

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Ästuar (Neptunian 57) FRISKY CHILL broadcast from March 22, 2020
01 Voga feat. Alaskan Tapes – Husk [Voga] {00:00}
02 Wil Bolton – Saltings [Facture] {04:02}
03 Hollie Kenniff feat. Goldmund – Unfolding [Unseen] {08:55}
04 Michael A. Muller – Elyria (Daigo Hanada Rework) [1631] {11:40}
05 Hollie Kenniff feat. Goldmund – Under the Loquat Tree [Unseen] {15:18}
06 Tony Anderson – Particles [Tony Anderson] {19:08}
07 Daniela Orvin – Sudden Farewell [dronarivm] {26:06}
08 Andarctica – Last Summer [Élan Vital] {27:50}
09 Steve Good – Nothing Is Ever Lost [Steve Good] {31:49}
10 Fading Language – Unworthy [Fading Language] {37:10}
11 Robert Farrugia – Wading [Lontano] {43:22}
12 Jogging House – Grounds [Jogging House] {46:06}
13 Stefano Guzzetti – Waterfront [Stella] {50:02}
14 Tone Color – Dunham [Dewtone] {52:29}
15 Snorri Hallgrímsson – Imperial [Moderna] {55:14}
16 Kinbrae – The River Awakens [Truant] {58:40}
17 Stray Theories – Mercy [Stray Theories] {1:03:55}
18 Cash – In Aeternum [Cash] {1:11:56}
19 Steve Moore – Beloved Exile [Temporary Residence] {1:19:16}
20 David Norland – To Shasta Mill [Denovali] {1:23:57}

02, 07, 08, 11, 16, 19 and 20 are Mixcloud exclusives (not part of the FRISKY broadcast).

Image by: Forrest Mankins

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p278
Planetarium Select exclusive until June 9, 2020.

Calm Pills + Planetarium

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For 2020, I planned to invite more guests to my regular shows than usual. A perfect opportunity just happened, as I was approached by my Mixcloud neighbour Calm Pills aka Alaeddin Khalik. His mixes appeared on FRISKY under his DJ Seroton moniker. However, the Calm Pills series on Mixcloud is a new, a bit slower, but still very harmonious direction. I think his 25th set which he submitted as my FRISKY entry for February is stunning and captures the Planetarium vibe very well.

Calm Pills + Planetarium (Neptunian 56 | Calm Pills Guestmix) FRISKY CHILL broadcast from February 23, 2020
01 Poemme – A Path Between the Clouds [Stereoscenic] {00:00}
02 Steve Good – Moon River {05:04}
03 Wil Bolton – Ropes [Audiobulb] {11:47}
04 Good Weather For An Airstrike – A Quiet Day [Sound in Silence] {22:20}
05 Ben McElroy – Ocean Left Unspoken [eilean] {27:37}
06 Jon Hopkins with King Creosote – Immunity [Domino] {30:10}
07 Slow Meadow – Helium Life Jacket [Hammock] {34:08}
08 Alio Die ≈ Antonio Testa – One Nairb [Hic Sunt Leones] {37:17}
09 Brother Saturn – As Empty as I Seem (Way Out Here) [We Are All Ghosts] {44:15}
10 Ashot Danielyan – C-Meditation [Easy Summer] {49:04}
11 Good Weather For An Airstrike – Storm Fronts [Sound in Silence] {52:03}
12 Pepo Galán – Bleeding Eyes (Shuta Yasukochi Remix) [Archives] {55:59}
13 Blake Ewing – North {1:00:08}
14 Stars Of The Lid – Articulate Silences, Pt. 1 [kranky] {1:01:36}
15 Gallery Six – Awayuki [Stereoscenic] {1:06:07}
16 Moby – Homeward Angel [Mute] {1:09:58}
17 Slow Meadow – Lonesome Summer [Hammock] {1:18:25}
18 Violeta Vicci – Long Farewell [Painted Word] {1:22:10}

01-03 and 18 are Mixcloud exclusives (not part of the FRISKY broadcast).
“Immunity” appeared on Vergänglichkeit and eins.

Image by: Alaeddin Khalik

Planetarium Mixes Catalogue ID: p274