WILT_2020-04

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 18 Oct 2020 to 24 Oct 2020.

1. Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter – Nina Simone
2. Black Woman – Sean Kuti, Egypt 80
3. We Stayed Up All Night (Matthew Dear Remix) – Tourist, Ardyn, Matthew Dear
4. I Was A Fool (Matthew Dear Remix) – Teegan and Sara, Matthew Dear
5. Clockwise (Matthew Dear Rmx) – Hakan Lidbo, Matthew Dear
6. Gimmie Shelter – The Rolling Stones
7. When the Sun Hits – Slowdive
8. Apocalypse – J Lloyd
9. If I Fall Under – J Lloyd
10. Falling Colour – Vanbur
11. mercy seat – winterreise: Sweetheart Come (Arr. Tobias Schwenke) – Performed by Charly Hübner, Ensemble Resonanz, Kalle Kalima, Carlos Bica, Max Andrzejwski, Written by Nick Cave
12. Lóa (Niklas Paschburg Rework) – Gabríel Ólafs, Niklas Paschburg
13. Loom (Feat. Bonobo) – Ólafur Arnalds, Bonobo
14. (flake) – Jameszoo, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley
15. Low Tide – ISIS, Aereogramme
16. Cremation Ghat I – OM
17. Farewell – Boris
18. Isn’t It Midnight – Fleetwood Mac
19. Over & Over – Fleetwood Mac
20. Kobe – Bossk
21. Febersvan – GAUPA
22. Five Ten Fifty Fold – Cocteau Twins
23. Sugar Hiccup – Cocteau Twins
24. in Our Angelhood – Cocteau Twins

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2020-04

Notes

This past week of listening has been a beautifully lush journey of swirls and lashing of staccato. I remember starting the week starting percussive-ly with a Nina Simone recommendation featuring some alluring and hypnotic afrobeat arrangements, combined with her free-form jazz vocal style.

The rest of the week explored remixes by Matthew Dear, as well as the discovery of a Spotify playlist called “Classical X”, which pulled me into a realm of contemporary classical musicians who were negotiating with the established form. Arresting stuff really. Do listen out to the rearrangement of Nick Cave’s “Sweetheart Come”, as well as the Niklas Paschburg rework of Gabríel Ólafs’s “Lóa”

Somehow or rather, I also went down a path of shoegaze, dreampop and post rock. It’s something that’s always been in the background of my consciousness, but I was a bit more concerted with my listening this week. I revisited the Cocteau Twin’s early work, and was just arrested by how some sounds just stand the test of time, despite being so ethereal sounding.

I realise that there isn’t really much of a narrative to this entry, and I definitely have not been able to anecdote everything, but every song here meant something at the time this past week. I do wonder whether we’ll start seeing repeat songs in the future.