Who would have thought that I’d be saying this after my 5 year adventures in Cyprus? Back here in Holland we’re having a heatwave! I escaped July in Cyprus – which was full of heatwaves – and now it’s a bit the same in Holland, which I think is highly unusual for the country.
6 Days straight in a row, temps 30C.
Coming down no sooner than Tuesday next week.
~TC
Back in Holland – this is a Sessions artist special! Featuring Christian Wittman, one of the founding members of the French band Lightwave – known for it’s electronic and ambient music since the 1980s. Christian is publishing his solo music productions, he has a Bandcamp page with over 50 releases. The genre is at the crossroads of ambient music and cinematic music, with a strong emphasis on sound design and atmospheres.
Good to be back in the studio, thank you all for your support and your wishes on my socials and through e-mail! ~TC
Music in this episode comes from the albums:
* Windy Lands (Jan. 2023)
* Music for Art Gallery 1 (Dec. 2022)
* Shadows of Fading Time (May 2023)
All music available on Christian Wittman’s Bandcamp page:
https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com/
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How you can recognise crazy times?…. when double albums are released on vinyl and you find side A,B and C to have content and side D to be empty/unplayable. The most stupid way of releasing 2xLP in my opinion.
Have found such items, like “Amazonia” by Jean-Michel Jarre, “Collections from the Whiteout” by Ben Howard and the upcoming new release by Anouk “Deena & Jim”. Side D is empty and can even be tricky: if it’s unplayable it means there’s no groove printed. Imagine putting the stylus on the record at night , trying to play side D….
Have artists become scared of putting at least some sound on side D ?
Why release double vinyl if there ain’t enough songs?
Crazy times!
😉
After my arrival back in Holland things went bad. Issues with fever, throat, muscles, pain and a lot of sleep. An insane amount of sleep! Have experienced flu in the past but this time the shit really hit the fan. Could not keep my eyes open longer than a minute orso, boom back to sleep. But with fever past 39C .. thoughts, dreams and visions become a bit distorted. So tiring. After 4 days the fever stopped. Thank God! Soon after I got out of bed, the next family member was down. Mum had picked it up as well. In short : we’re here but we’re not there yet! Fighting a virus that needs no name, feeding our bodies with natural boosters, care and a lot of patience.
As soon as I could accept music coming into my ears again – believe me , this took time – I started collecting tracks for a new podcast. Show 15.08 is a wonderful ‘Dream Machine’ type of listen, playing music pretty much in a nonstop mode. I could not do a LIVE recording at this time. I want you to focus on the tunes and go out there and support the wonderful artists!
Featuring: Aaron Marshall, Eleon, John Gregorius, Sean O’Bryan Smith, Jim Ottaway, Nathan Speir, N:L:E, Kiphi, Blue is Nine, John Reidar Holmes, Orbital Patterns, Off Land, Johan Agebjörn, Spacecraft.
Feedback at Ambient dot Zone 4 anything you want to say or mention … thank you for being here, stay well, enjoy life, the max!
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Hi guys! Wanted to share this documentary with you all … as it really reflects very well the process of creating all kinds of music and experiencing music as a listener. There’s much in it. Enjoy!
The Art of Listening is a documentary film about the journey music takes to reach a listener’s ear, from the intent of an instrument maker and composer, to the producers and engineers who capture and preserve an artist’s voice. This journey is narrated by intimate conversations with artists, engineers and producers about the philosophy of their work and the intent behind each musical note they create.
“You Need To Love It More, Not Love More Of It”
// AZ
July 2023 … Early Sunday morning scene – hear the village I stay. Sporty people of all kinds, crickets and birds, cars and motorbikes, wind and vibes. Let’s play a variety of tunes to get you started today!
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Music in this episode comes from :
First Result – KELMEN
The Dream Collider – ELEON ft DAVID HELPLING
Nice and Quiet – NICO LESS
Hydrostatic – MYSTIC CROCK
Flow – IAN BODDY
Rustling Souls – CHRISTIAN WITTMAN
Through A Cave into Another World – RUDY ADRIAN
Station 5 – SOLAR FIELDS
As the Sun Sets Across Wide Open Fields – FOREST ROBOTS
Nordic Seas – CARL LORD
Talisman: Endless Rose – OFF LAND
Ending – ANDREW HEATH
“I have a dream… and I’m saving it”
We need to have dreams and never stop doing it. This place is where my dream became reality, and somewhat unexpectedly ended. Or let’s say, the dreams been put back to sleep — Some day, some time, there it will be again, that feeling, that energy, and will be happy for saving it — Never stop dreaming. Peace!
SUBMITTING YOUR MUSIC — Since 2020 the world has experienced strange, difficult, dark and crazy times. Musicians have been ‘locked-down’ like every other human being and have created a lot of music. Oh yes! Several albums that were made during that time still find their way to our inbox and artists ask me to listen and consider airplay on the show.
There are certainly fantastic albums out there and they sound professional and full of hope with a lot of ‘light’ in it! 
There’s also a lot of albums that sound rather dark. Dark ambient, dark times, uncertainty, sad feelings and quite a few of them are not about the light whatsoever. Forgive me for saying what I’m about to say and I hope you do understand:
The dark music that reaches us – the deep down sad drone dark ambient – will not make it to the show. This has nothing to do with your skills or your music production itself. It’s about the choices I make: I want to play music in the podcast that is about Light, Positive thinking, Hope, Good Energy & Love.
Sound explorations and ambient experiments that make us feel curious, SPACE and intrigued. Sometimes mystique, sometimes a bit random, but always a useful guide. Music about new times, better times, new initiatives, opportunities, beautiful themes and wonderful spacescapes 
Music that reflects such themes can count on a high ranking and big chance it will be featured on the podcast! After 3 years of difficult times and the unthinkable worldly situation, I feel it’s time to put that period into the archives. Never to be forgotten of course (!) but not to be played and replayed time after time on the podcast. We’re ready for the NEW!
I hope this decision makes sense to you. At least I hope! Feel free and share your new tracks / upcoming releases with me in the Ambient Zone
I’m more than happy to check it and who knows … I can feature you!! 
Cheers!
~TC
In Cyprus , I ask myself: why aren’t there any sunshades attached to flats, houses and windows in general ? In The Netherlands we have plenty of those in all kinds of colours: it helps to keep away direct sunlight, it helps to prevent a room / building from warming up and have too much bright light coming in. In Cyprus I have not seen those. While the heat is extreme and rooms are quickly heated to a 35C and higher. Obviously, Cypriots prefer switching on the AC and let the device do the hard work and rob their bank account. “Oh…we put up some curtains, that will do” type of thought. Something I will probably never understand.
sunshades everywhere in Holland
Is it because they don’t know about proper sunshades? Is it they don’t know how to install them? Perhaps the concrete won’t hold? That’s another topic – haven’t seen proper concrete anywhere that lasts longer than one year. So yes, that could be part of the issue. Cracks appear everywhere and some parts of the road have been repaired a hundreds times while the same holes and cracks keep coming back.
Change of scenery … breathing Fresh Air!…. breathing the heatwave 🙂 This is your host TC coming to you LIVE from the beautiful sunny island of Cyprus. It’s a holiday in the Eastern Mediterranean, Yassas! Lounge, downtempo, chill-out and Spacemusic in one go, featuring:
Andrew Heath, Gold Lounge, Pat Keista, Gullen, Jazzy System, Cosmic Cadence, Blue is Nine, Irresistible Force, Klangstein, Artenovum, Michael E, Seifert and Steinbuechel, Jonathan E. Blake, Gary B.
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Can you hear the ocean?
Can you feel the sun?
Enjoy the show and remember to slow it down …. sega sega!
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