Tonight I’m Drowning — Ego Ella May Thrill — Future Islands New Future Islands is always a cause for joy! Video Game — Sufjan Steven Lots of great new singles this week. One of the highlights for me was of course new Sufjan. Great song, and it’s inspired this week’s Friday Mixtape (the next post … Continue reading Friday φρέσκο 14/10/2020
Ocotillo — Loma Strange Overtones — Whitney Cover of the song by David Byrne & Brian Eno I Want to Change — Nana Adjoa via Gorilla vs Bear. Good stuff! Rooftop Dancing –– Sylvan Esso In Light — Juliana Barwick ft Jonsi Back to the Sky — Ólafur Arnalds, JFDR It’s All So Unbearably Loud … Continue reading Tuesday Tonalities 10/08/2020
Please Don’t Make Me Cry — Lianne La Havas Don’t sleep on either this album or this songstress! Whole New Mess — Angel Olson Anima — Sophia Loizou Gitu’an — Alena Murang Alena Murang has a series of live online performances and talks upcoming if you’re interested in great music by an indigenous musician. Reinvent … Continue reading Monday Mixtape 10/08/2020
Hello! For Sundays, I thought I’d feature full-length things with some shorter pieces: concerts (not necessarily just classical), ballets, operas etc which are available online. We’ll start with a ballet. Note: for ballets, sometimes the pieces are choreographed dances by notable ballet choreographers set to music. I’ll place the tag (choreography) for people new to … Continue reading Sunday Matinee 09/08/2020
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. I’ve been too overwhelmed by life and deadlines. Today’s Saturday Soiree is inspired by the heat wave. It makes me want to listen to music that’s the equivalent of shards of ice and crystal with slabs of obsidian thrown in here and there, evoking cold, wind and the … Continue reading Saturday Soiree 08/08/2020
This Saturday’s selection is dedicated to the beautiful Tango, which inspired this short story of mine, A Long Tango Across A Canopy of Whispering Leaves. All of these pieces are on classical guitar because that’s my current obsession right now, wanting to learn more tango pieces on the classical guitar. Hey, if you can’t dance … Continue reading Saturday Soiree 19/07/2020: Tango (via Classical Guitar) Edition
The theme for tonight’s Friday Night Mixtape is “Bittersweet Mellow”, mostly because I started the day listening to Jesca Hoop, and because I injured my knee and therefore am hardly in the mood for dance-y type music. But there’s more than one kind of Friday Night jam. This one is for sleepy, low-energy Friday evenings … Continue reading Friday Night Mixtape 17/07/2020
Everything Has Changed — Best Coast When I Grow Up — Yaeji sorry i unfollowed you — Yaya Bey Love is Everywhere — Yellow Days Breathe Deeper — Tame Impala Wildfires — Sault Specters — Lisel This Is What You Did — This Is The Kit Continue reading Midweek Playlist 16/07/2020
Lilacs — Waxahatchee Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud (2020) is now my favourite Waxahatchee album. My Rajneesh — Sufjan Stevens This is the B-Side to America, that dropped a little over a week ago, but this is a masterpiece. It’s like Age of Adz meets Illinoise meets Seven Swans (which was my Sufjan gateway drug). So good. … Continue reading Monday Mixtape 13/07/2020
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Elegie by Sergei Rachmaninoff Giovanni Sollima & Solisti Aquilani, Concerto in Sol maggiore per violoncello e archi G.480 by Luigi Boccherini Alisa Weilerstein, Amorarmor by Osvaldo Golijov Eleanor Kelly, Dedicatoria by Carmen Guzman Did a quick play-through of Carmen Guzman‘s Dedicatoria from the Trinity Grade 5 2020-2023 exam book earlier. Found it lovely, … Continue reading Saturday Soiree 11/07/2020
Tonight’s “mixtape” is inspired by this old pitchfork list of 1980s albums. I’m partially a child of the 1980s. I was born in 1975, which means that I spent most of my childhood and some of my teenhood in the 1980s — so I could recognize some of the albums, but some others made me … Continue reading Friday Night Mixtape 10/07/2020
Concrete Pony — Ghostpoet Morning Dew — Kelsey Lu Unmoved (A Black Woman Truth) — Ayoni Let’s See — Devendra Banhart Yemaya — Mexican Institute of Sound & Gaby Moreno Can’t Do Much — Waxahatchee I’ll Haunt You — Tennis Continue reading Midweek Playlist 09/07/2020
