WILT_2024-23

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 2 Jun 2024 to 8 Jun 2024.

1. El Condor Pasar – Banda Musical Estrella Andina
2. Ñustas – Processional Band From Carhuaz
3. Wikkeda!! – General Levy, Hard’n’Pure
4. Presence (Little Dragon Remix) – Brittany Howard, Little Dragon
5. Wait & See (Yukimi Nagano) – Jaffrosax, Yukimi Nagano

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-23

Notes

As I was reading/listening to Death’s End by Liu Cixin, there was a narrative plot about sending a probe to meet the Trisolarian fleet. From there, I was reminded of the Voyager projects in the late nineties. In particular, I was curious about the message that humanity had embedded in the probe in the event that extra terrestrial life chance upon the probe in outer space. The contents were embedded on The Golden Record and included a greetings from 55 different languages, as well as some music, sounds and images from earth. I found an approximation of the playlist that someone had put together on Spotify and was quite transfixed by El Condor Pasar by Banda Musical Estrella Andina, which then led me to explore more music from that particular compilation.

At this point, I was still slightly uninspired with my listening choices as I was both listening to the audiobook, or playing the new Destiny DLC, The Final Shape. However, to stay somewhat focused and varied, I decided to listen to some Jungle to both hold my attention while I worked, as well as listen to any new sounds that might be out there.

Finally, I saw that the members at Little Dragon would be pursuing some of their own solo projects, and it spurred the urge to see if Yukimi Nagano had been doing anything new lately. Instead, I came across a compilation of some of her collaborations with many others, and I landed on Presence for its great synth arrangement, and Wait & See for a very captivating beat arrangement to allow both the saxophone and Nagano to shine.