A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 27 Jun 2021 to 3 Jul 2021.

WILT_2021-26

1. Porsche 944 – Laurent Bardainne, Tigre d’Eau Douce
2. Rogue – Yagi Michiyo
3. Take You Higher – LEISURE
4. Don’t Hold Back – DRAMA
5. 9 – Adeline
6. Liquid Deep – dreamcastmoe
7. Brangelina Fanfiction – Melodiesinfonie, Fiona Fiasco
8. Highly Medicated – Mara TK
9. Will I See You Again – Thee Sacred Souls
10. Inner Rhythms – Koji Ono
11. Haro no Umi (for Violin and Harp) – Miyagi Michiyo, Gidon Kremer, Yoshino Naoko
12. Kazum-zum-zum – Mário Rui Silva
13. Slip Away – Pat Metheny Group

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-26

Notes

I had a lot of fun experiencing this playlist come together. When I first heard Porsche 944, with its earworm of a sax line, I had no idea it would subconsciously set the outlook for the rest of the playlist. While I did seek out more music by Yagi Michiyo, thinking that I would carry on with the previous playlist’s theme of traditional instruments, I also stumbled across the music of LEISURE, which ultimately shaped the majority of this playlist. Nonetheless, Rouge by Yagi Michiyo is a phenomenal koto performance that I need to bring to your attention, for it is full of intense emotion and marvelous virtuosity.

I cannot remember how LEISURE came back into my listening orbit, but Take You Higher was such a joy to listen to with its incredible lightheartedness that I had to check out more of their discography. From there, I listened to their artist-curated playlist, 48 HOUR LEISURE PEOPLE, and was treated to dozens of choice cuts of easy, sundowner music that will put a calm on your heart, and a smile on your face.

Standouts for me include Don’t Hold Back by DRAMA with another melodic synth earworm, Liquid Deep by dreamcastmoe with its cheeky liquid bassline, and Brangelina Fanfiction by Melodiesinfonie and Fiona Fiasco for its seductive and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Finally the soulful Will I See You Again by Thee Sacred Souls caps off our time with LEISURE’s playlist. Follow it, and do not look back.

Our final leg takes us to Kazum-zum-zum by Mário Rui Silva, a track that has recently been re-discovered by crate diggers around the world. And rightfully so, it is full of joyous percussion and swaying organ sounds that will have you enjoying your vice of choice as you watch the world fade to a blur. A surprise bit of poetry that the last track on this list is Slip Away by the Pat Metheny Group.

The notes for this week include more descriptions of the music I came across. I do not know if its a conscious effort, as much as it is an experiment on my part to chronicle my opinions and interactions with the music that I come across, but I think it would be good for some level of posterity that I also capture this aspect of my state of taste, as much as I sometimes capture my state of mind in other posts. And this has been a rare moment in my listening journey since I started this project, in that it does not seem too serious, and it feels like we are finally having some fun. Fun in the sun.