... darkness is your candle (22)

 

Originally number 22 in my 'Year of Music' series, I've given this a new cover image and the title '... darkness is your candle'.

The musical content of this mix straddles the space between ambient and neo-classical / modern classical. To me it has a melancholic feel with elements of hope within in periods, so I've borrowed a partial quote from Rumi, if you don't know his works, then I'd encourage you to spend some time with him. The quote, as I remember it is 'What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle'. For me it says that we learn from the things that hurt us, the pain we go through shows us the way forward. It's not an easy path, but everyone must walk it at some points of life and it felt like the music on this mix sat very well with this.

 

The cover is a mix of using Ai and my own tinkering / design inputs, I think it turned out really nicely.

 

You can find out a little more on my 'Year of Music' series over [HERE] and you can find a Soundcloud player for this mix over [HERE].

 

 

Tracklist

01. Joe Trapanese - Introspection (Headphone Commute)
02. Vega Trails - Red Moon Rising (Gondwana)
03. Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Central Park (Polar Seas Recordings)
04. A Model Kit - In Silence We Speak (Hidden Vibes)
05. Hania Rani - Sun (Gondwana)
06. Antonymes - Coming Into Silence (DRONARIVM)
07. Red Sun - Honey From The Baka (Leng Records)
08. So I'm An Islander - Symfoni A' Rændråfe (Symphony Of Raindrops) (Hidden Vibes)
09. Olan Mill - Disempowered (Serein)
10. LTJ Bukem - Point Of View (Goodlooking Records)
11. Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Eisenach (Erased Tapes)
12. Cinematic Orchestra - The Workers Of Art (Ninja Tune)