… drifting between day and dream…
Tonight with: Jana Irmert, S.E.T.I., Chihei Hatakeyama, Listening Mirror
Jana Irmert
– Monuments To Our Questions
– Inside The Cocoon
Messengers OST, 2026, Superpang
– End Of Absence
End Of Absence, 2016, Fabrique Records
S.E.T.I.
– Flocking
Sleep Environments For Interplanetary Travel, 2018, Power & Steel
Chihei Hatakeyama
– Nangoku
Mist, 2015, White Paddy Mountain
Listening Mirror
– Incandescent Coral (vocal mix)
Rin, 2010, Somehow Recordings
– Black Spring
…From Dreams…, 2011, Entropy Records
In her work, Jana Irmert combines manipulated field recordings and sampled material into entirely new soundscapes. Messengers is the soundtrack for Jeffrey Zablotny’s film of the same name: a poetic exploration of three underground observatories, hidden deep beneath Canada, Japan and Antarctica. End Of Absence was her debut album from 2016.
S.E.T.I. stands for Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (but, in 2024, it changed to Self Extermination of Terrestrial Inhabitants). The title of this 2018 album — Sleep Environments For Interplanetary Travel — tells you everything else you need to know about the music.
The music of Japanese artist Chihei Hatakeyama often draws you into a meditative, Zen-like state. Or, in this case, it feels as though you are being enveloped by dense fog. The track “Ongaku” was originally written for a 24-channel sound system.
Listening Mirror is the British artist Jeff Stonehouse (also known as jffstnhs). The two compositions featured in this broadcast come from his 2010 debut album and from an EP released a year later.
