12/13 - Soothe me

It is the final week before exhibition-deadline, and I'm pressing on through anxiety-ridden mornings, jampacked days and physically exhausted evenings. I'm making art, but this is the part I don't like. All I need is some music to calm my nerves and caress my soul, and here it is:

Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel
By the end of it, it all makes sense.

Molly Drake - Do You Ever Remember?
One of the beautifulest recordings I know, and it should come as no surprise that it was Nick Drake's mother who made it.

Time was ever a vagabond
Time was ever a thief
Time can steal away happiness
Time can take away grief

Martha Wainwright - These Flowers
Lovely.

Lambchop - Women Help To Create The Kind of Men They Despise
When I'm feeling this stressed, it's nice to know that there are old odd men like Kurt Wagner out there, probably sitting in a backyard, with a beer, writing silly but ingenious little songs like this.

Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
This is when exhaustion once more lets go and you gradually build up the feeling that darn it, I'm actually going to pull this off. Maybe.



I'm also quite glad that Sigur Rós new material sounds booming and yes, actually new. A far cry from the bland rehash that was Valtari. Say what you will about the Sin City-colourscheme.

I actually like this song even more: