Thanks for your kind words. In some ways, you inspired this mix, because a very helpful comment you made about another mix of mine got me thinking of returning to this more traditional simple mix, with its segues from one thing to another. I love the magnatune catalog (I am rather a devotee of the label altogether), so I set myself a project to take 10 magnatune samples and integrate them together to achieve an ambient score, rather like past mixes of mine called “Park Hill Prairie” and “Ending the Drought”.
Unlike those two mixes, I did not write an “individual” melody on my synth to weave in, but instead used time and pitch shift to alter the samples that were there.

It’s a wondeful thing, of course, when Robert Rich has great backing drones at magnatune ready for the remixing. Victor was so kind to update the magnatune sample pool a few months ago—I must remember to ask him when he is less busy to update it again. The Eternal Jazz Project album is so wonederful it would be an ambient sound artist’s dream—gentle Swedish jazz with lots of great stuff to morph into drones.

Thanks for suggesting a change of pace—I had fun doing this one during an insomnia burst last night.

Lately, I’m very taken with Christina Rosetti’s poems. She’s someone to whom I can relate, and I was delighted when I found that this one fit what I was trying to do and even came with a “title lent right into the verse”.

I’ll be delighted to read your comments, when/if you have a chance, but I’m grateful for the kind words. I’m re-listening to it to figure out how I would edit it differently next time, so in a way I’m in a similar comment phase with it myself. Right now, though, the self-critical part and the self-congratulatory part is really subordinated to admiration for the acoustic guitar samples available in the magnatune library.
You could do one of your great vocals to a lyric written to accompany any of those tunes.

It might be literal,but I like the idea of having a voice, perhaps a bit disembodied, with a Rossetti-like accent, speaking the poem in an interlude in the middle. That would work well. I try to paint these things as images, sometimes, but I like your idea a lot. Thanks for the review, and for sharing your ideas! I hope you are doing well.

What a kind offer! I’ve love to you to read it, and I’ll filter it into this mix here and there.

Christina interests me because she understood the ramifications of her choices, made them anyway, and then lived long enough to write about them, but sadly, not long enough at all. I’m pleased that her set is having a bit of revival these days.

tis done better late than.. use if you want, its part of a reading plan i have laid.