The Hydrogen Cafe

The title of this mix is taken from a book by Jack Kerouac which covers his exploration of Buddhism and the search for Truth. With this mix I wanted to expand on the ethno-ambient feel of one of my other mixes, Tea Time at Brian Eno's House. The Dharma Bums was also greatly inspired by the amazing field recordings done by The Quiet American and the superb ethno-ambient music of Loren Nerell. Loren Nerell uses his own field recordings from Java and Bali in his work. My hope was to create a Pan-Asian soundworld using music inspired by, or artists from the Middle East, India and Indonesia.

This is the most complex, multi-level mix I have ever done and I am quite happy with the results. If you look at the music mix score (a jpeg contained in the Dharma Bums Cover Art and Score Zip file in the post above), you will see that at any given time, there are at least two and sometimes up to seven different pieces of music or field recordings playing simultaneously. I used a total of 32 different Quiet American field recordings in the mix (on the music score, all Quiet American field recordings start with "QA"). I even made a small field recording myself. I hope you enjoy it.

T R A C K L I S T I N G

1. 32 Quiet American field recordings (entire mix) 2. Brian Eno + David Byrne - Arabic Sample #1 3. Gamelan Madu Sari - Dreams He is a Ball of Fire...or a Hummingbird (ii) 4. Alio Die & Festina Lente - Movimento Nel Cielo Sotto 5. Soundtrack - Little Buddha - Raga Kirvani 6. Loren Nerell - Indonesian Soundscapes Track 2 7. Ravi Shankar - Raga Malkauns Alap 8. Al Gromer Khan - Mumtaz 9. Daniel Lentz - Lascaux 10. Alio Die & Festina Lente - L'orlo, La Fune, Il Niente 11. Jon Hassell - These Times 12. David Parsons - Lahaul Valley 13. Djivam Gasparyan - Apricot Tree 14. Loren Nerell - Hiasan (Ornament) 15. Peter Gabriel - Open 16. David Parsons - Darshan 17. Jon Hassell - Emp 18. L. Subraminiam - Wandering Saint 19. Soundtrack - Little Buddha - Nepalese Caravan 20. Steve Roach and Loren Nerell - Texture Wall 21. The Year of Living Dangerously Soundtrack - Kwan 22. Jim Cole and Spectral Voices - Nuage 23. Peter Gabriel - Disturbed 24. Jon Hassell - Power Spot 25. Jon Hassell - Malay 26. Gamelan Madu Sari - Thinly Roundly 27. Robert Rich - Calling Down the Sky 28. Marsen Jules - Eillet en Delta 29. Mawlawiyah Music of the Whirling Dervishes - Na't-i Sherif 30. nrvnet field recording 31. Michael Stearns - Baraka Finale

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