12 mixes taggedsoft sounds

20 tracks to sing you to sleep on a restless night. Bon Iver, Iron&Wine and Joshua Radin amongst some.

The clock at City Hall strikes 3 o'clock and around the corner, a milk-starved cat fleet-foots across an empty parking lot. The wet tarmac shimmers. Lovers lean into each other, pausing underneath the streetlamp to touch lips. Someone is dreaming of lions and lambs and the dark sky covers the streets like a flannel blanket. This is the new frontier. This is the night.

Soft. Flowery. Airy. Beautiful. Occasionally Haunting. 60's & 70's era folk, singer/songwriters, soft psychedelia, psychedelic folk, etc. 26 tracks featuring Lee Hazlewood, Jean Redpath & The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. [TRT: 1:17:24] Cover art is a detail of a stock art image called "fabric4."

30 tracks including music by The Format, Mumford & Sons and Bayside.

lullabies to fall asleep in a forest under clear skies....
11 tracks. Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass Ensemble, Yann Tiersen

Pop this potent sleeping pill for your ears. Do not operate heavy machinery or try to drive while listening to this mix. Relax your body... Take a deep breath... Slowly count to three... Your eye lids are getting heavy...

Fifteen tracks including music by Sufjan Stevens, S. Carey, and Ólafur Arnalds.

Serene, soporific music for the evening glow.

Most of these songs are available on last.fm as free downloads! Check them out if you like them!

Artwork: © Amy Sol

Back when I was in college radio, we were asked to televise our shows over the campus' closed-circuit television. One day, I had the idea to run a show full of instrumentals similar to those you heard when your favorite shows experienced "technical difficulties" - the joke being that I would be broadcasting live, but with the camera off, making announcements that I was "experiencing technical difficulties". I'd like to think this is what I would have sounded like.

"My baby wants to sleep, but I can't wake 'em up, no."

oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
my spirit not awakening, till the beam
of an eternity should bring the morrow.

tease my ears, ease my tears

Reminds me of breezy days with your windows open and the freshness of Summer. Ten tracks including music by Beirut, Bob Dylan, and Royksopp.