22/18 - I Wanna Soak Up The Sight Of You

After last week's sonic onslaught, I here offer you pure solace:

Mike Oldfield - Weightless

We start off on some dad-music with a perfectionist studio nerd production to make you feel like everything is being taken care of.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - ubi

Next, a sentimental piano and electronics composition by a white haired Japanese man to build the illusion that the future smoothly overlaps with the past.

 

The Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday

In place of a bedtime story, a melting pot of soothing exotic sounds, painting a picture of a big and beautiful world that somehow hangs together despite all.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - To Feel Your Best

Now, a multitude of voices undressing you, carressing your naked body, ruffling your hair, scratching your back and tucking you into bed with utter devotion.

Samaris - Gó∂a Tungl

And now you're sleeping. And now you're dreaming. And now fluffy animals circle around you in the woods, following every moss-embraced step you take with their gentle eyes. And now they speak to you... in Icelandic!
Thanks go out to my mate Phoebe, AKA Penniless Cove, for turning me on to this track.

21/18 - We Dance To All The Wrong Songs

The world is obscene. Donald Trump is POTUS. The Saudis are dismembering journalists inside embassies and getting away with it. The Tories are somehow still in power. European politicians of all ilks are tackling fascists by adopting their premises. And the planet is on a fast track to become uninhabitable within the next century. I'm good though. Almost obscenely so. So the following tunes are not a cry of anguish, rather a sort of happy anger. I just remembered I really love heavy music, too.

Refused - New Noise

Righteous explosions in your chest.

Rage Against The Machine - Roll Right

Clenched fists, open hearts.

Mastodon - Circle of Cysquatch

A disorientating storm clearing a path through tangled thoughts. With one-eyed monsters.

Slayer - Payback

Not that I would ever condone revenge as a reasonable reaction to anything, but if we're talking triple-digit-million-bonus-receiving CEOs of corrupt government-contracted building companies, racist teenager-harrassing police thugs, empathy-devoid multi-billionaire misogynist hypocrites, or any of the other worthless slugs and slimeballs that monopolise the news, then I'll look between my fingers if you choose to simply sing along to this catchy chorus.

Besides all that.... SLAYER!!! \m/ (ò.ó) \m/

You know who else loves Slayer? Audrey and Kate. You don't want to argue with Audrey and Kate now, do you?

Ennio the Little Brother - Bunk Beds

https://youtu.be/z-dPrOdSYHg?t=428

20/18 - I Could Avoid Wasting My Life

Crispy cold autumn nights. Then infinitely high blue skies. I've felt conspicuously happy this week.

Leonard Cohen - Love Calls You By Your Name

Perhaps I'm between the peanuts and the cage.

James Blake - Don't Miss It

A respite from the cyclical thoughts James sings about. A calm eye on the afternoon sun's play with the litter on the street. A few seconds pause to take in the smell of home before entering the house. A coffee in the garden surrounded by titmice. Perhaps I'm getting old. Don't miss it.

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Sugarfoot

And now for one, two, three shots of caffeine straight into your bloodstream.

Gal Costa - Vou Recomeçar

Ok, so it's only two lists since the last Gal Costa tune. But I sure can't get enough. So catchy it almost trips you up.

Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream

I learnt this week that Elvis insisted on and fought for closing his 'Comeback Special' with this performance as a tribute to Martin Luther King only a few weeks after MLK was murdered. And damn, was he right to.