WILT_2020-05

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

1. In the Jungle (Instrumental) – The Hygrades
2. Motherless Child – Romare
3. This (Radio Edit) – Modeselektor, Thom Yorke
4. Rolling – Michael Kiwanuka
5. Every Season – Tony Allen, Damon Albarn, Ty
6. Silly Me – Sleafod Mods
7. Allah Wakbarr – Ofo The Black Company
8. Cosmic Echoes – Lord Echo
9. arms aloft, – Telefon Tel Aviv
10. Urantia – Deftones
11. Matter of Balance – Theo Alexander
12. Corner Painter – Tal Wilkenfeld
13. Bottoms Up – Peter Green
14. Electro – Sungazer
15. Another Day – West End Motel
16. I’ll Stay – Funkadelic
17. Door of the Cosmos – Sun Ra
18. Moonshake – CAN
19. Home Is Where the Hatred Is – Gil Scott-Heron
20. Counterfeit – Tal Wilkenfeld
21. Haunted Love – Tal Wilkenfeld
22. A Go Go – John Scofield
23. Strand – Agent Blå
24. SoLong – School ’94

Hyperlink to the Spotify playlist: WILT_2020-05

Notes

This week’s feels like why I started this playlist series in the first place. A bit of a passive curation that comes from exploring different playlists and different discoveries, collected in a somewhat chronological fashion of what stood out these past seven days.

Rhythms feature a lot in WILT_2020-05. I think it has something to do with the amount of deep focus work I’ve been doing the past week, that the rhythms help put me into a state of movement that let’s me feel some of the words coming out of my person. Almost like I’m coaxing something from within onto a screen.

If you can picture it, I’m currently working from home using a standing configuration. I put my earphones or headphones on, and I’m enveloped in a sonic blanket that pulls my focus to what I want to put on screen. As I’m typing, and reading back the words and data, my head is bopping, my feet are pulsing, and there’s movement in my body. Sometimes you have to break out of the confines of sitting at a desk. Sometimes the mind is trapped in the prison of a body. Sometimes the body needs to free the mind. Do what works for you. Enter different states for different results.

Almost every track in this playlist is a standout, and I full recommend listening to this playlist standing up.