Winter Solstice 7 (Mix)

 

 

Since this is the 7th edition of Winter Solstice, you probably know what this is about. But, for the new visitors:
For the 7th year, the Dutch radio station Concertzender schedules an 8-hour ambient all-nighter on the night of the Winter Solstice (December 21). Compiled by four radio producers – Roel Janssen, Harrold Roeland, Bob Rusche, and myself – each of us presenting a two-hour selection. My contribution is closing the night, between 5am and 7 am.
Like always, the entire night can be enjoyed on demand afterwards – but of course it’s more fun to listen in the darkest of nights while trying not to fall asleep!

I’m not sure how many listeners will make it to the last part of the eight hours. That’s the reason I also post my contribution here as part of the Ambientblog Mix series. With a 5.1 surround version download option as a bonus!

This mix is NOT intended to help you sleep! On the contrary, I hope it’ll help you stay awake for a bit, or maybe induce some interesting hallucinating moments in your half-sleep. A two-hour trip through many different soundscapes: sometimes comforting, sometimes nót so comforting, and sometimes confusing.

Winter Solstice 7 is, once again, a collage of many fragments. Only a few tracks are played in full, and even then, they can be mixed from different versions. With the average fragment length of 3’20”, the pieces are only a small part of what the artists originally intended. It fascinates me to hear what happens to the music in relation to other tracks when they are placed in a different context.
The extensive tracklist with the track timings is included to help you check out the originals.

Enjoy the ride – and please let me know if you did (or didn’t).

TRACKLIST:
Start time Fragment length Artist – Title
Album Title, Year, Label

• 00:00 4:39 Mendel Kaelen – Fertile Voids
  Fertile Voids, 2025, self-released
• 03:52 2:47 Ø (Mika Vainio) – Etude 7
  Sysivalo, 2025, Sähkö Recordings
• 06:12 1:50 Nesa Azadikhah – The Wound Where The Light Enters
  Imaginal Soundtracking 3, 2025, Phantom Limb
• 07:32 2:16 Clarice Jensen – 1,2
  In Holiday Clothing, Out Of The Great Darkness, 2025, 130701
• 09:42 4:20 Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill – Reverie
  Dreaming In Gamelan, 2025, Riparian Media
• 12:21 2:44 Meriheini Luoto – Unessa, Lumessa
  Talven uneen vaipuen (Falling Into Winter’s Sleep), 2025, self-released
• 14:02 2:59 Lukas Lauermann – Varve III.2
  Varve, 2025, Col Legno
• 15:49 2:50 Le Code – And If I Left
  Something In The Air, 2025, Chitra Records
• 17:25 2:41 Loneward – Upon These Secluded Hills
  Keepsake, 2025, Altus Music
• 19:34 3:34 Kasper Bjørke – Dynjandi
  Heimr (Music For Landscapes 1), 2025, Sensitive Records
• 21:42 3:53 Annie Bloch & Emily Wittbrodt – III
  The Mendelssohn Project, 2025, Stssts Records
• 25:32 4:07 Louise Rossiter – Fairytale Journey On The Bloodstream
  Der Industriepalast, 2025, Oscillations
• 28:28 2:44 Dave Graw & Blair French – The Van
  So Fades The Light, 2025, Silent Partner Music
• 31:02 0:19 Dean Hurley – Splendor
  Anthology Resource Vol. Ii: Philosophy Of Beyond, 2019, Sacred Bones Records
• 31:13 4:29 Jon Hopkins & Ishq – Part I: Altar
  Ritual, 2024, Domino
• 33:10 4:14 Claire M. Singer – Aisir
  Solas, 2016, Touch
• 36:33 1:05 Cecile Seraud – Errance Cosmique 1
  Xaos, 2023, self-released
• 37:17 1:12 Micah Levi – Bothy
  Under The Skin (OST), 2014, Milan / Rough Trade
• 38:14 4:24 Jon Hopkins – Singing Bowl (Ascension)
  Music For Psychedelic Therapy, 2021, Domino
• 41:18 1:33 Jóhann Jóhannsson & BJ Nilsen – Intro
  I Am Here, 2014, Ash International
• 42:19 2:23 Longswarm – Beyond Words
  Hemispheres, 2024, Elm Records
• 42:37 2:13 Éric La Casa – Le Littoral
  Zones Portuaires 2, 2025, Swarming
• 43:58 4:40 Steve Roach & Soriah – Stars Of Darkness
  Curandero, 2025, Projekt
• 48:06 4:06 Christopher Colm Morrin – 02
  Sketches 1-17, 2024, Stray Signals
• 51:17 5:05 Sonmi451 – A Nice Little Quandary
  The Eighteen Minute Gap, 2023, LAAPS
• 54:29 3:24 Crows Labyrinth & Perry Frank – Daylight Sonata
  Vanishing, 2024, Mare Nostrum
• 57:15 3:21 Michael Grigoni & Pan•american – Blue Tears Never Dry
  New World, Lonely Ride, 2025, Kranky
• 58:42 5:07 Sleep Research Facility – Stealth Source 2
  Stealth Sources, 2012, self-released
• 1:03:20 4:31 Monolake – Inwards (VLSI Version)
  VLSI, 2016, Imbalance Computer Music
• 1:06:08 4:59 Yann Novak – Music For Restaurants
  3 Renditions, 2013, Generosity & Restraint
• 1:10:36 2:34 Alva Noto – Ritual Reprise
  This Stolen Country of Mine (Soundtrack for a Documentary Film by Marc Wiese), 2023, Noton
• 1:12:35 2:50 Brooddark – Fatal pressure
  Overvoltage, 2025, Cryo Chamber
• 1:14:23 3:38 Sam Rosenthal & Projekt Artists – Trip 1 (Instrumental)
  Tim, Where Are You Now?, 2020, Projekt
• 1:17:27 3:24 Fumio Miyashita – See The Light (Abridged)
  Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, 2019, Light In The Attic
• 1:19:50 4:31 Lawson & Merrill – Dark Angel
  Signals, 2022, Neuma Records
• 1:23:28 1:39 Erik K. Skodvin – Alone In The Dark
  From Darkness (OST), 2025, Miasmah Records
• 1:24:47 2:23 Laraaji & Kramer – Immersion
  Baptismal – Ambient Symphony #1, 2023, Shimmy Disc
• 1:26:19 3:20 Multicast Dynamics – Unknown Place
  Continental Ruins, 2017, Denovali
• 1:29:09 3:25 Pinkcourtesyphone – A Stunning Blandness
  Arise In Sinking Feelings, 2024, Room40
• 1:31:04 4:41 Carl Stone – Shing Kee (1986)
  Electronic Music From The Seventies And Eighties, 2016, Unseen World Records
• 1:34:07 5:13 Joachim Spieth – Shine
  Retrace, 2024, Affin
• 1:38:41 3:00 Erik Levander – Avstånd
  Jökel, 2021, Glacial Movements Records
• 1:40:35 4:02 Saapato – Highway At Night (feat. James Bernard & Marine Eyes)
  Decomposition: Fox On A Highway, 2024, Constellation Tatsu
• 1:43:13 3:04 David Cordero & Kenji Kihara – Silver Grass In Koajiro No Mori
  Komorebi, 2022, Home Normal
• 1:45:05 3:20 Jean C. Roche – Guanare-Barinas
  Birds Of Venezuela, 1973, L’Oiseau Musicien
• 1:46:50 4:53 Peter Knight – The Coiling Of The Tide
  For A Moment The Sky Knew My Name, 2025, Room40
• 1:50:56 3:33 Yann Novak – Seeing Light Without Knowing Darkness feat. G. Brenner
  The Voices Of Theseus, 2024, Room40
• 1:54:29 4:46 Yann Novak – Seeing Light Without Knowing Darkness
  The Voice Of Theseus, 2023, Room40
• 1:58:21 1:35 Andrew Heath – Aber Bach (23.04.12)
  Landscape Studies No.1, 2020, self-released
• 1:58:03 1:53 Mendel Kaelen – Fertile Voids
  Fertile Voids, 2025, self-released

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