Two songs by Pantha du Prince, a book by Carl Wilson, and an Italian you tube video.
Follow this link to a site where you can stream the whole album. But for the purpose of this post, just play track #1 “Lay in a Shimmer” and track #9 “Welt am Draht.”
I had never heard of [...]
Time files, doesn’t it? Sure it flies, but it also files. It files the past away for the future. It files down the present until the future emerges.
It seems like I just made last year’s mix, so I felt a little unprepared when other contributors started posting theirs.
Here’s mine.
Many of you know my [...]
Here we go again. Thank you Rachel for kicking off the TGW best-of season with such a great mix. These here are not the songs that got played most, that framework is finished (with a five year old in the house, that would mean way too much Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and the [...]
Although the calender-makers may quibble, summer feels like it has arrived. And so the time has come for this: the third and final installment of our Thursday playlist project. It’s been fun crafting our most-played songs into a few themed mixes. Today’s installment is the best of them. And [...]
Remember the theme mix? Used to be something you crafted over days or even weeks, linking up lyrical motifs and musical patterns into a coherent whole that explored an idea or told a story. Searchable databases have changed all that. Now I can type any word into iTunes—say, “book”—and get a perfectly [...]
Imagine, it’s 1977 and Stella looks back on her first decade of music appreciation. Once she moved past “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Away in a Manger,” she was ready for the popular music all the kids were enjoying, served up on a weekly basis by Top of the Pops.
Stella was swept up in various [...]
A list of lists:
Leftob has an audio stream of really nice minimal/ambient stuff from all over the web.
Music to Play in the Dark is a lovely podcast of dark ambient and other experimental stuff.
This is a thread on the monome.org discussion board where various monome artists give the coordinates of their soundcloud streams. There’s a [...]
So since I’ve only been posting a lot of music here on Thursdays, my playlist today is a series of other things I’ve been “diggin” lately. And I suppose some music. Here follows a rather personal peak into some of my recent pleasures. Be kind.
Shows:
Top Chef (Season 5) – Nothing to say, it was just [...]
Sunday mornings are lovely, no?
Around these parts, there are few things that we enjoy early on a Sunday more than than a hot french press of strong coffee, the Sunday Times, and a decent soundtrack.
To be honest, we never really listened to these songs all together, much less in this sequence. But they are listenable [...]
This week’s playlist forces me to write about something I know very little about. That’s not entirely unusual, of course, since this is after all a blog, but I want to be clear that I’m not even remotely an expert on this subject.
The subject is how different musicians interpret Bach in performance. OMG, you say. [...]
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