I remember the first time I heard the Daniel Lanois tunes From Eno's Apollo album, I didn't really care for them. I didn't like the pedal steel guitar. I absolutely hated country music back then and I associated the sound of pedal steel with country and nothing else.
Eventually, the tunes grew on me and I've come to love the sound of pedal steel guitar. I also came around on country-tinged music as I fell in love with indie-folk which can make great use of traditional instrumentation minus the pickups trucks, girls & booze of crappy country.
This brings me back around to pedal steel in ambient. There's not a ton of it out there but definitely enough for a good mix. There are four main practitioners of ambient twang - Daniel Lanois, Chuck Johnson, Bruce Kaphan and Chas Smith. I think they all have appeared in earlier Low Light Mixes. All four are in this mix as well as Eno/Lanois tunes, some oddball selections, and some YouTube recordings. Many of the tracks here use an actual pedal steel guitar and some use lap steel.
Up next - synth sequencer heaven.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
Maps Without Edges - 90s Tribal Ambient
Stranger Synths 2022
Tears in the Rain - A Tribute to Vangelis
Fractal Panorama - Guitar Space Rock
A Faint Resemblance - Tapes & Topographies mix
Space Requiem - A Tribute to Klaus Schulze
Totally Ambient
Severance - and alternative soundtrack
Listening in the Dark (Mystical Ambience #4) by Paul Asbury Seaman
International Piano Day 2022
rainfall meditation ’22
I dreamed I had to take a test...
The Power of Memory by Altus
Meditation Zone
Being Human by Fragile X
somewhere else by Michael McGarrity
Between These Breaths
Unfold the Universe
Hymns & Voices
Jazz 2021
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