The YouTube channel of Orbital Patterns is always worth returning to. Over a year has passed since the Michigan-based musician’s [*The Lonely Orbit*](https://orbitalpatterns.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-orbit) album, and in advance of news of a follow-up, there’s a steady stream of live ambient jams to fill the void. The latest is trademark Orbital Patterns: glitchy atmospherics, shimmery foundational sonics, slushy melodicism. He mixes in vocalizing and field recordings with a sublime sense of balance. The music is at once oceanic in its swelling, and wondrously detailed in its production.
This is the latest video I’ve added to [my ongoing YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAgCxRbmR1MJxihgJkCPEnehAPvjoF71-) of fine live performance of ambient music. Video originally posted at [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-birIF59g0).