A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 6 Dec 2020 to 12 Dec 2020.

1. Welcome to the Hills – Yussef Dayes, Charlie Stacey, Rocco Palladino
2. Floating Island – Matthew Halsall
3. Flight 19 (In Isolation) – Danny Keane
4. Sun and Clouds – Richard Koch Quartett
5. Kingsfold – Jane Mark, Arve Henriksen
6. Melody Day (Four Tet Remix) – Caribou, Luke Lalonde, Adam, One Little Plane, Four Tet
7. The Limit To Your Love – Feist
8. Recomposed By Max Richter: V – Max Richter, Daniel Hope, Konzerthause Kammerrorchester Berlin, Andre de Ridder
9. Time Is the Enemy – Quantic
10. The Pit – Public Service Broadcasting
11. Ma mère l’oye, M. 60 (Version for Piano Duo): III. Laideronette, imperatrice de pagodes – Maurice Ravel, Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier
12. In a Landscape – Murcof, Vanessa Wagner
13. She’s The Star/I Take This Time – Arthur Russell
14. 18 – Moscow Apartment

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2020-11

Notes

This week’s list pretty much started when Spotify’s Release Radar playlist highlighted that Yussef Dayes had a new song. I had to listen to it immediately, and from the onset of audience cheers, I knew it was going to be amazing, because I always love a good live performance.

It starts off with a generous and skittish drum pattern, and immediately brings into foray the sensitivities of the other members of his trio, Charlie Stacey (Guitars) and Rocco Palladino (Bass). I do enjoy this new movement of jazz, as they explore even more elements of subculture and electronic music, while also combining many romantic elements of the great standards as well as the rare happenstance geniuses that make up the rich profound history of this celebrated musical style.

There’s a lot more drumming and beats in this week’s playlist because that’s how profound the first track can be. It could potentially set in motion a journey different from what you’re used to making. For this, one song held my attention for a playlist, and it led me down several paths. Smatterings of jazz, electronic, indie hip-hop and classical all combine to a journey that doesn’t seem to end anywhere.

But it stops, on the last song. Something that was born from a conversation by my bandmates in Shelves, asking if our individual versions of the Shelves Radio Playlist was personalised. And I think it was. I listened without intent till I heard Moscow Apartment’s 18, and the innocence and aching-ness shone through the music, and for a moment I was transported back to being 17 years old, remembering the simple, dumb and youthful emotions you torched for your crush. The awkwardness, the wishing you were older, the unfocused bravado that we used to have because we knew so little.

Funny how this last week went by.