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It has become some kind of tradition: on the Winter Solstice night (December 21-22 in the Northern hemisphere), the Dutch radio station Concertzender Nederland presents the fifth all-night 8-hour ambient night from 23:00 until 07:00 (CET). Four radio hosts create a 2-hour set each - I am honored to contribute the final part.
For those who can't stay awake all night: the full 8 hours will stay available for on-demand streaming afterward!

Thís page here on Ambientblog presents my contribution to this night, a mix that you can enjoy and/or download if you wish. Additionally, I have also made a surround version which you can find on the Surround page.
(And if you want to check out the previous 4 contributions: be my guest!)

For this fifth Winter Solstice mix, I chose fragments (most of them heavily edited) that are all more or less in the same key. In the first hour all tracks are in B-minor, in the second hour the tracks are in F-minor (first half) and A-minor (closing half). These chords define the overall atmosphere: from 'solitary, melancholic' to 'obscure, funereal', and finally 'tender, soothing'.
At least, that's what the theory says. In the end, it's the listener that associates his emotions with the soundscapes. But one thing is clear: these two hours definitely fit the darkest and longest of nights.

 

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TRACKLIST:

Start time Sample length Artist – Title
Album Title, Year, Label

• 00:00 2:25 Svartsinn - Traces Of Nothingness (Kammarheit Mix)
  Elegies For The End, 2009, Cyclic Law






• 01:12 5:42 Max Richter - Movement Study
  Voices 2, 2021, Decca






• 07:41 3:15 Keosz - Trust No One
  Neven OST, 2023, Cryo Chamber






• 08:28 2:35 Illuminine - Dualismus 3
  3, 2018, Ferryhouse Productions






• 10:38 2:14 David Cordero - All Your Silences
  Among Pale Trees, 2023, Lontano Series






• 12:21 2:29 The Broken Cradle - The Oracle
  Gilead, 2021, self-released






• 14:29 1:16 Cliff Martinez - See You In Four
  Drive (OST), 2011, Invada






• 14:59 2:35 Sleepingdog - Kitten Plays The Harmony Rocket
  With Our Heads In The Clouds & Our Hearts In The Fields, 2011, Zealrecords






• 17:17 2:19 Dean Hurley - Eastern European Symphonic Mood No. 1
  Anthology Resource Vol. 1, 2017, Sacred Bones Records






• 18:36 2:43 Underwater Sleep Orchestra - Abandon
  Insomnolence, 2023, Cryo Chamber






• 20:49 5:39 Ian Hawgood, Stijn Hüwels, James Murray - Day Falls
  Day Falls, 2021, Home Normal






• 24:45 2:23 A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Minor Fifth Is Made Of Phantoms
  The Undivided Five, 2019, Ninja Tune






• 26:25 3:42 Oren Ambarchi - The Strouhal Number
  Intermission 2000-2008, 2009, Touch






• 29:25 1:54 Elisa Luu - Piano
  Underwater Noises, 2010, Ephre Imprint






• 30:36 3:17 Michel Banabila - Des Traces Retrouvées 2 - II
  Trespassing/Marilli, 2017, Séance Centre






• 33:24 3:30 Michel Redolfi - Nocturnal
  Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987, 2021, Sub Rosa






• 36:16 4:21 Loscil - City Hospital
  City Hospital,2012, Wist Rec






• 39:18 2:43 Kate Carr - Shy, Typically Alone Or In pairs
  A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds, 2023, Room40






• 40:46 3:41 Galya Bisengalieva - Moynaq
  Aralkum, 2020, One Little Independent Records






• 44:08 1:40 Freya Arde - Shimmer
  String Layers II, 2022, 7K!






• 45:26 1:15 Hammock - Elsewhere
  Elsewhere, 2021, Hammock Music






• 46:28 2:18 Benedicte Maurseth - Snø Over Sysendalen
  Hárr, 2022, Hubro






• 48:32 3:27 Erik Wøllo - Echotides No. 2
  Echotides, 2015, Projekt






• 51:32 1:51 Marielle V Jakobsons - Shale Hollows
  Glass Canyon, 2012, Students Of Decay






• 52:22 2:08 Mahsa Vahdat, Kronos Quartet, Marjan Vahdat - My Tresses In the Wind
  Placeless, 2019, Kirkelig Kulturverksted






• 54:08 3:00 Mi