For Late-Night Reflection
Traversing ambient, new age, and film music since the 1980s, Ken ISODA crafts a sonic landscape set in the deep stillness of a night interrupted by a sudden awakening at 3 a.m., where memories emerge like delicate pointillist strokes.
Streamed on 15.7.2026
Archive available from 2.8.2026
Interview
What is the concept behind this Showcase?
This mix is intended as background music for those quiet moments of solitary reflection late at night.
Since I'm getting older myself, I imagined it as the kind of music that plays when you wake up unexpectedly at three in the morning.
It's designed as a soundtrack for tracing fragments of memory during the deepest hours of the night.
Since I'm getting older myself, I imagined it as the kind of music that plays when you wake up unexpectedly at three in the morning.
It's designed as a soundtrack for tracing fragments of memory during the deepest hours of the night.
What are the highlights of this Showcase?
- 1.John Cage : In A Landscape (1948)— Stephen Drury
- 2.Clouds (1982)— Hiroshi Yoshimura
- 3.Meiso Ongaku 2 (2024)— maya ongakuThe first half of the mix quickly traces the path from classical music, through contemporary composition, to the emergence of ambient and new age music in the early 1980s, with the piano serving as its central thread.
The second half consists entirely of contemporary works, illustrating how that musical "backbone" continues to resonate in the present day.
On the genres and styles featured in this Showcase
The mix centers on ambient, new age, and related musical styles.
I hope listeners enjoy the remarkable breadth and diversity of the music within these genres.
I hope listeners enjoy the remarkable breadth and diversity of the music within these genres.
Play List
- 1.Claude Debussy : La Cathedrale Engloutie (1913)Michel Béroff
- 2.Erik Satie : Gymnopédie No.2 (1888)Yuji Takahashi
- 3.John Cage : In A Landscape (1948)Stephen Drury
- 4.Six Pianos (1973)Steve Reich
- 5.1/1 (1979)Brian Eno
- 6.First Light (1980)Brian Eno & Harold Budd
- 7.Still Park - Piano Solo (1982)Satoshi Ashikawa
- 8.Clouds (1982)Hiroshi Yoshimura
- 9.Grasshoppers (1982)Ryuichi Sakamoto & Danceries
- 10.Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (1981)Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- 11.TALKING あなたについてのおしゃべりあれこれ （1984）Haruomi Hosono
- 12.La Pliocena Marbordo (1984)Haruomi Hosono
- 13.BGM ONE (2026)H.Takahashi
- 14.eight (2025)Loris S Sarid
- 15.Aida (2024)aus
- 16.Meiso Ongaku 2 (2024)maya ongaku
- 17.Stunning Fragility (2025)Tatsuro Murakami
- 18.Múscailte (2025)Gareth Quinn Redmond
- 19.summer iv (2025)Felbm
- 20.Higher Road (2024)Bremer/McCoy
- 21.Fri. 20:15 (line block reproduction) (2026)Aiko Takahashi
- 22.Better Sleep (2025)The Zion Curtain