guest session
02.08.25
Francis Morning is a Mountain West-based sound artist, musician, and composer known for crafting gently textured sonic environments using a simplified palette of musical hardware, including analog tapes and cassettes, field recordings, synths, pedals, pianos, and acoustic and electric guitars. His work embraces imperfection, human quality and touch, and the transient nature of life.
His music began to take shape as simple, personal daybreak rituals with no audience or expectations. Each piece recorded live in single takes, with the original elements eventually discarded or recorded over, as a statement and exercise in impermanence and letting go.
I recently spent a week alone in the desert of southern Utah, secluded and surrounded by towering red rock cliffs and vast cloudless skies. My mornings were spent drinking coffee and meditating outside as the speakers from inside resonated with these tracks – a perfect accompaniment to my joyful solitude. Breathe in, breathe out, let go.
Tracklist:
Thme – Wisdom of Restraint Chihei Hatakeyama – Flowers Blooming In The Swamp Francis Morning – Essence Taylor Deupree – air Cat Tyson Hughes – Caught in a Breeze Shuta Yasukochi – Repeater Federico Durand – Postal de las Islas Feroe Elin Piel – Tunnlar Lamasz – Intro (Corrélation) Ian Hawgood & David Cordero – Fragile Whispers in the Snow kita kouhei – Morning Fills The Meadow IDRA – Ritual IV Francis Morning – Toward marine eyes – call and answer Almanacs – Optimistic expectations Scott Campbell – Innermost Jogging House & The Lifted Index – Grasp Francis Morning – Channels