While I enjoy my mixtapes — they tend to be current stuff which is all well and good, but don’t really give a good picture about what I listen to most weeks. Ergo, this new haphazard series.
- Regina Spektor — been listening to a lot from her discography on transits lately because I remembered how good she is and wondered what happened to her.
- Mitski — her new singles made me want to listen to her entire discography
- Harold Budd — Always listen to Harold Budd.
- David Sylvian — Harold Budd and David Sylvian go together like turkey and cranberry sauce.
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- João Gilberto
- Ellis Regina
- Cocteau Twins
- Grouper
- My Bloody Valentine — shoegaze girl forever
- The New Pornographers
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- The Shins
- Destroyer
- Broken Social Scene
- Band of Horses
- Of Montreal
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- David Bowie
- Father John Misty
- Chihei Hatakeyama
- Takashi Yoshimatsu
- LOTR soundtracks by Howard Shore
- Enya (bite me)
- Anuna
- Dead Can Dance
- Tori Amos
- Fiona Apple
Classical Music Addendum
I listen to more classical music than anything else, these days. A whole lot of baroque and renaissance music from knowns and unknowns, the depth and breadth of classical music/guitar repertoire, new composers and old. I don’t have time to list everything today but at some point (hopefully!) I’ll do more detailed lists of a classical nature. Because I’m a classical guitarist in training, this is mostly dominated by classical guitarists old and new.
I’ve got one more Growing Fins post to do after this, mostly a round up of the latest 2021 music I’ve been enjoying. But after that, I’m posting only sometime in 2022. No energy to maintain blogs on top of everything on my plate. It’s 2021 and my 2022 is already looking overcommitted!
Bossa Nova Addendum
Bossa nova is life. And my 2021 obsession, totalling many, many hours. But I’ve loved bossa nova forever, it’s just that this year I’ve been listening dedicatedly and systematically through bossa nova “canon”, learning of its indigenous connections and also the political backstory behind a lot of its main proponents. A lot I hope I’m absorbing about the rhythm and system especially since I want to have more bossa nova and other latin american forms of music (particularly the tango, the milonga and the maxixe) in my classical guitar repertoire. Also why I’ve been learning Portuguese this year.