A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 12 Sep 2021 to 18 Sep 2021.

WILT_2021-37

1. Springtime – Linying
2. Wrong on Right (Acid Rain over Berlin Mix) – Kai Tracid, A*S*Y*S
3. Girl in Amber – Nell Smith, The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave
4. Vortex – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Sundays (Just Piano Version) – FKJ
6. You Can’t Fail Me Now – Joe Henry
7. Litany of The First Encounter – Nicholas Lens, Nick Cave
8. Litany of The Yearning – Nicholas Lens, Nick Cave
9. Litany of Transformation – Nicholas Lens, Nick Cave
10. Khidr + Ilyas (Dub) – Mehmet Aslan
11. Demedim Mi (Pt. 1) – Insanlar, Cem Yıldız, Barış K
12. They Were Here Before Us – Klopfgeister
13. In My Heart feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Khidja Remix) – Tapan, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Khidja
14. Maasai (Dr Flake Remix) – Kutiman, Dr Flake
15. Crenshaw – Black Nile, Tru
16. Your Saint – Oscar Jerome, Brother Portrait
17. Empty Hands – Ishmael Ensemble
18. Haha – SAULT
19. London Gangs – SAULT

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-37

Notes

This playlist did not shape up the way I thought it would shape up.

At one point, I thought it would go down a road of hard trance because I needed something to perk up my work productivity, but that musical energy dovetailed when I started exploring the other creative pursuits of Nick Cave, such as the litanies he wrote for Nicholas Lens’ chamber opera, or his replies to fan questions on The Red Hand Files.

The path may fork at any turn, and you have to decide where you would like to commit.

After the litanies, I realised that trance was not what I was looking for. I dabbled in listening to some techno, but ultimately settled on deep house to be my productivity fuel. From there, Spotify has a playlist titled Organica, and that informs the entire second half of the playlist, save the final two songs. The music from Organica is described as deep tribal sounds combining electronic elements and organic instrumentation, and it was the ideal hypnotic and drone-ish arrangements and beats to pound out some writing and productivity.

SAULT rounds out this week’s playlist with the first two tracks from their 2021 album, Nine. It is a little poetic that the final tracks here suggest a continuity somewhere else because I do not feel that this week’s playlist truly ended. Who knows why? Perhaps it is the way that this week’s final days bled into each other, and you feel like today is still yesterday.