Ambient Soundbath Podcast

“You are the music, while the music lasts…”   -TS Eliot

The inclusion of Paul Beaudoin’s Shakti here on the Soundbath started curiously, when a variety of Paul’s tracks showed up in my inbox. Either from a series of Twitter posts or from a Reddit/Ambient conversation, Paul knew I was looking for longform works and sent me some things. I was instantly smitten with Paul’s beautiful…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #121 – Paul Beaudoin’s Shakti

Still space journey the known world’s eye focusing on forever Original music by Matt Borghi – Spotify – Bandcamp

Our life is a reflection of our self. Let the poetry of meaning wash over the experience of living… Anthene – For the First Time in Years Shape of Things – Alaskan Tapes Sunset form the Ethereal Shore – Lauge Rework – Spacecraft/Lauge An Ode to Fring – Good Weather for an Airstrike Reflection of…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #94 – Reflection of Self

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast is dedicated to the memory of Harold Budd. Harold Budd has been featured many times on this podcast and has played a prominent role in my musical life. I believed that Harold Budd was America’s greatest living composer; and now he has passed on to the next plane.…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #92 – Eye of God in Infrared

I’m very pleased to announce that Ambient Soundbath Podcast #91 was put together by somebody new to me, who reached out via the website – Alaeddin Hallack – You can learn more about him below. This mix is very nice; Alaeddin really captured the essence of what an Ambient Soundbath is and programmed an excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #91 – Alaeddin Guest Mix

It’s about time… but isn’t it always…  

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, number 89 is special and one that I’m particularly excited about. While I’ve created original music for dozens of Soundbath episodes myself, this is the first time that I’ve pulled in another artist, in this case, it’s my long-time friend and collaborator, Michael Teager. We have a new…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #89 – Vanishing Point – Audio Post

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, number 89 is special and one that I’m particularly excited about. While I’ve created original music for dozens of Soundbath episodes myself, this is the first time that I’ve pulled in another artist, in this case, it’s my long-time friend and collaborator, Michael Teager. We have a new…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #89 – Vanishing Point

I haven’t done a multi-artist Ambient Soundbath, that didn’t include my own work, in quite some time…. years, maybe. But with this program, I’ve put together a playlist of some tracks that I’ve been listening to a lot… tracks that I added to the Restful Drones and Ambient Spaces playlist on Spotify. It’s pretty excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #88 – Midsommer – Audio Post

I haven’t done a multi-artist Ambient Soundbath, that didn’t include my own work, in quite some time…. years, maybe. But with this program, I’ve put together a playlist of some tracks that I’ve been listening to a lot… tracks that I added to the Restful Drones and Ambient Spaces playlist on Spotify. It’s pretty excellent…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #88 – Midsommer

*Update – My apologies, the mp3 of the Podcast didn’t seem to come through. Hopefully, this fixes that. Enjoy. – Matt — Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 comes from a live YouTube streaming performance that I did on 5/30/2020, as part of World Drone Day. I did a little post-production to clean it up, but mostly…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 – World Drone Day

Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 comes from a live YouTube streaming performance that I did on 5/30/2020, as part of World Drone Day. I did a little post-production to clean it up, but mostly this performance and the video are the same material. If you want to check out future performances, please subscribe to my YouTube…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #87 Audio Post – World Drone Day

Sedona, Arizona-inspired deep sound meditation piece. Enjoy.

I don’t normally change up the versions of the podcast, unless there’s a glitch, but with this one, I wanted to try a straight low-end drone, but also keep the binaural beat version, which is ASB #81 – Beta Fold Binaural

Sleep is the focus of this program… deep delta sleep. Enjoy.

This episode was inspired by a recent, day-long, lecture that I attended with Dr. Gabor Maté; the title is a reference to his book, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, which he also talks about here.

“Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #79 – Shadow Work

Catacombs in mind, the distant quiet of dreamstates far-afield seems only right to contemplate the comings and goings of being against the red brick sunrise.

Archaeoastronomy was on my mind when I made this piece. I was thinking about the earth, spirituality and the connection to the sky in pre-historic cultures. I don’t spend a lot of time looking at the sky (though I’d like to do more), but drones, mine or others, for me, have always provided a portal…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #75 – Orbit Series Drone

Good salutations, Soundbath listeners… I’m really excited for this program as it’s the first to feature a guest host. I actually got this idea from Dave Michuda, host of Low Light Mixes, after he asked me to do a mix for him (you can hear it here). This program features longtime reviewer, podcaster, proponent and…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #73 – This Quiet Place

I’m finally getting around to mining all the creative inspiration I gained from a recent trip around Lake Superior, both through western Ontario on the north side and on the southern side through Michigan’s UP (upper peninsula) by way of Duluth. What an amazing trip! For a trip that’s literally a day’s car ride away…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #72 – Agawa Bay

With this episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast, we’re featuring David Naegele’s Journeys Out of Body, another vintage new age cassette from the early 1980s. What can I tell you about this release? Not a heck of a lot, but I can tell you, people seem to love it and really want to get their…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #71 – Journeys Out of Body

Ambient Soundbath #70 is another original work in the vein of Parallax Drone; a piece inspired by Philip Glass’ Early Works where I’ve experimented with some compositional devices called parallel and contrary motion that he worked with on that recording… You can hear it in the criss-crossing of the sounds as they move from speaker…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #70 – Helical Drone

Upper Astral is an interesting artist that I found when scouring YouTube for vintage new age cassettes releases. I found a variety of Upper Astral recordings, but when I looked at how I could put them together for a single Ambient Soundbath program I couldn’t get many of them to work well together. I played…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #69 – Upper Astral

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features the evocative sound worlds of electronic musician and sound synthesist, Max Corbacho. Max’s work, more than any other artist I know of, reminds me of the work of Steve Roach, but Max journeys a bit more deeply into the tension of discord and sweet resolve. I’ve been…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #68 – Max Corbacho

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features two artists that are new to the genre, prepared piano and drone synthesist Durango Budd and my long-time collaborator and oldest friend, Michael Goldapper (fans of Ghostly International may remember the KOSIK project that we had together). This is a carefully curated Soundbath consisting of tracks from…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #67 – Strings and Drones

Ambient Soundbath Podcast #66 is an original work that I (Matt Borghi) created expressly for the podcast. This composition, that I’ve titled: Morning dew gathered on weeping cherry limbs, came about as many of my tracks do. I was meditating and contemplating sound. I began to ‘play’ with some synthesizer sounds that went with my state…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #66

This Soundbath, #65, and the first of 2018 is brought to you by the kind generosity and support of Soundbath listener, Roland Jehring, who’s tuning in from a small town outside of Berlin, Germany. It’s crazy to think that this podcast, which I create in the quiet midwestern environs of East Lansing, MI is being…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #65 – Huronic Minor Trilogy

I discovered the music of Juta Takahashi on the SomaFM DroneZone internet radio station; I hear a lot of great music there and I try to bring some of it to the Soundbath from time to time. Juta Takahashi is one such case. Juta Takahashi was born in Miyagi, Japan in 1959, and produces music, primarily,…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #64 – Juta Takahashi

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features something that I haven’t done before here, a remix/remaster of sorts in the form of reworking the music for Geoffrey Chandler’s 1980 synthesizer space recording, Starscapes. Who is Geoffrey Chandler, I don’t know. Did he do other recordings? I don’t know that either, except I can’t find…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #63 – Geoffrey Chandler – Starscapes

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features a new original work by Matt Borghi (me) called Infinite Resonance. It’s a single track, long-form work that I’ve found works great for rest, relaxation, sleep and meditation. It probably works pretty good for yoga, too, but I haven’t tried it out in that capacity yet. This…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #62 – Infinite Resonance

https://ia601303.us.archive.org/26/items/AmbientSoundbathPodcast/asb61.mp3 I’ve featured Off Land before on the Ambient Soundbath, but I’ve never dedicated an entire program to Off Land, the work of Tim Dwyer. This program features the tracks from the first two of, an ever-growing collection, known as, the (Drone Variations). I struggle to write about these tracks, not from a lack of…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #61 – Off Land

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath Podcast features the work of my favorite living composer, Harold Budd. I have listened to, meditated with and analyzed no music more (save, maybe, Claude Debussy) than I have the work of Harold Budd. His music is like being a hugged by an old friend after a long journey.…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #60 – Harold Budd

I first stumbled upon Moby’s Long Ambients after they were released in early summer of 2016. As a long-time fan of Moby’s ambient work I was excited by this free release, which is still available here: http://moby.com/la1/ – The complete 4-hour collection instantly became a meditational and relaxation go-to recording for me, as it’s calming…Read more Ambient Soundbath #59 – Moby – Long Ambients

I’ve wanted to do an Ambient Soundbath that featured Manitou for a long time, but just never got around to it. I think that I finally did it, at least, partially because an upcoming performance that I’ll be doing called Leelanau Uncaged, in Northport, Michigan, where I’ll be featuring Manitou live for the first time…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #58 – Manitou

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath features an original work called Parallax Drone. It’s a work that I created after spending time listening back to previous episodes of the Soundbath, something that I’ve never really done before. For some, I imagine, the track might be a little too noisy, or droney or abstract, maybe even…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #57 – Parallax Drone

Ambient Soundbath #56 features the music of Canadian composers, Mychael Danna and Tim Clement, who, for a time in the 1980s and 1990s created a series of sublime recordings bringing together field recordings and acoustic-electronic sound synthesis. For me their music typified the best that new age music could be combining the natural sounds with…Read more Ambient Soundbath #56 – Danna and Clement

This episode of the Ambient Soundbath is comprised exclusively of the work of Altus (aka Mike Carss). Altus has put out many recordings (nearly 30+ recordings in fifteens years) of lush, well-crafted and superiorly composed music. All of which are free to listen to and download on his website. I once tweeted that ‘Altus is the music that I imagine…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #55 – Altus

Last “Origins” program for a while, as I wanted to capture some of the early tracks that inspired me, particularly Ocean of Tenderness and God Moving Over the Face of Waters… Steve Roach, Harold Budd and Jason Sloan all had an early impact, as well… Whereas Offland is one of the great new artists that continues…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #54 – Origins 2

Keeping it short and sweet for this episode with a handful of tracks that, for me, are part of the origin story of the Ambient Soundbath. Artist such as Harold Budd, Jason Sloan, Diatonis and Kit Watkins have inspired me at every turn. These are only single selections, but if you were to explore these artists…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #53 – Origins 1

So, I have to go way back for this one… It was late 1999, early 2000 maybe, there was a wonderful experiment going on with a website called Mp3.com… The internet bubble was happening and Mp3.com was trying to create and capitalize on a site for bedroom artists and would-be producers, such as myself, looking…Read more Ambient Soundbath Podcast #52 – Kelvin L. Smith