A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 16 May 2021 to 22 May 2021.

WILT_2021-20

1. FAITHFUL SERVANT FRIEND OF CHRIST – Lingua Ignota
2. DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR – Lingua Ignota
3. Rebirth – Hélène Vogelsinger
4. Auദen – Lambert, Tre B. Mal
5. Viola – Acra
6. Total Falsch – Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
7. Sabbat Schwarzer Highway – Bohren & Der Club of Gore
8. Be Like Water – Mark Pritchard
9. Reminiscence – Ólafur Arnalds, Alice Sara Ott
10. Frost (C) – Sunn O)))
11. The Silent Flight Of The Owl – Manu Delago
12. The Walk With Me (feat. Asheber) – Joe Armon-Jones, Asheber
13. Pot au Feu (BBC Version) – Delia Derbyshire
14. Phaser – Superdrag
15. Roatating In Unison – HAAi
16. Broke – Girls in Airports
17. Malagueñas 2 – Javier Segura

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-20

Notes

I don’t think anything prepared me for Lingua Ignota’s performance in DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR. As she wails the lines “I don’t eat! I don’t sleep!”, one wonders at what terror has gripped this individual so, that she exorcises her inner demons in such evangelical terror that you wonder if she witnessed the doors of heaven closing on her very existence. One cannot say, and one can only assume.

The rest of the playlist was built on this exploration of other experimental arrangements and performances. I think almost every other entry in this playlist does not have a discernible melody apart from Superdrag’s Phaser (which has an amazing guitar intensity and hook that evokes some form of shouting into the wind.)

I think you have to be in a sort of mood to spend time with this playlist, but I think it is also worth spending a bit of time with this playlist, which by extension is spending a bit of time with yourself and allowing the cosmos to wash over you and bathe you in the intoxicating fragrance of randomness.

Also, Bohren means “drill” in German. And I love that.