Die letzte lange Nacht der Klanghorizonte (Dezember 2021)

thanks to Lorenz Edelmann for archival research and technical support

Michael Engelbrecht: Listening to „Life Of“ you can easily feel something brooding, some darkness, a certain twilight zone. Is the origin for these sensations unknown – or somehow graspable? Echoes from all those „stranger things“ you experienced in Asia?

Steve Tibbetts: There is sometimes a sort of credulous enthusiasm to believe in „stranger things“, as you say, especially in Asia. Nonetheless there does seem to be a certain permeability to the fabric of reality in some places in the world. A friend of mine called it „thinness.“ You can look for that in music and art as well. You listen and there is a quiet collapse of duality, self and other. This might sound terribly exotic or over-thought, but if you watch your mind when you listen to music you might witness a kind of melting.

„FIRST HOUR“ (ends with a jukebox)
Rickie Lee Jones: Show Biz Kids (It‘s Like This, 1991)
Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Theme (Music from Twin Peaks, 1990)
Jon Balke: Kantor (Warp, 2016)
Radiohead: Dollars and Cents (In Rainbows, 2007)
Anna Gourari / Giya Kancheli: Piano Piece No. 15 (Elusive Affinity, 2019)
Mark Hollis: A Life (1895-1915) (Mark Hollis, 1997)
Budd / Eno:  Not Yet Remembered (The Plataux of Mirror, 1981)
Robert Wyatt: Maryan (Shleep, 1997)
Chris Watson: The Sounds of Lindisfarne (In St. Cuthbert‘s Time, 2013)
T. Rex: Cosmic Dancer (from Electric Warrior, 1971)

„SECOND HOUR“ (ends with a darkness)
Steve Tibbetts Life of Alice (Life of, 2018) 
Tunng: Eating The Dead (Tunng presents Dead Club, 2020)
Mike Sammes: Tuc / Timex (Music for Biscuits, 1973)
Brian Eno: This (Another Day On Earth, 2005)
Darren Hayman: Wysall, (Thankful Villages, Vol. 3, 2018)
David Bowie: tis a pity she was a whore (Darkstar, 2016)
John Surman: Trethewy Quoit, (Road to St. Ives, 1990)
Incredible String Band: (a song from Wee Tam & The Big Huge, 1971)
Paul Giovanni: Searching for Rowan (The Wicker Man O.S.T, 1973)
Damon Albarn: Esja, The Tower of Montevideo (The nearer…, 2021)
Jana Winderen: (Spring Bloom In The Marginal Ice Zone, 2017)
Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker (You Want It Darker, 2018)

„THIRD HOUR“ (ends with a celebration)
V.A. – Bayu Bayu (from: West Java – Sundanese Jaipong, 2003) 
Dadawah: Run Come Rally (Love and Peace, 1974) 
Tinariwen: Hayati (Elwan, 2017)
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz: Got Away (Desert Equations, 1986)
Tinariwen: Iklam Dglour (from: Amadjar, 2019)
Keith Hudson (from Flesh Of My Skin…, 1974)
Codona: Que Faser (from: Codona 2, 1981) 
Keith Jarrett:  Long As You Know You‘re Living Yours (from BELONGING)

“FOURTH HOUR“ (ends with 50 words for snow)
Les Baxter: Zambezi (Tamboo, 1955)
Various Animals: Hippopotamus (Animals of Africa)
Burnt Friedman: Mura (from Bokoboko, 2011)
Underworld:  mmm Skyscaper … (dubnobasswithmyheadon, 1997)
Brian Eno: Fractal Zoom (Nerve Net, 1992)
Jon Hassell: Choir Moire (Dream Theory in Malay, 1981)
Jon Hopkins: (Music for Psychedelic Therapy, 2021)
Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow (50 Words For Snow, 2011)

„FIFTH HOUR (part 1)“ (ends with a stranger)
Laurie Anderson: World without end (from: Bright Red, 1994)
Ralph Towner: Entry in a Diary (from: Diary, 1973)
Lambchop: The Last Benedict (from: Showtunes, 2021)
Portico Quartet: A.O.E. (from: Monument, 2021)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Quattro (World Drifts In) (Raise The Roof, 2021)

„FIFTH HOUR (part 2)“ (ends with  a beginning)
The Allman Brothers Band: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Live at Fillmore East (1971)
801 Live: Tomorrow Never Knows (801 Live, 1976)