WILT_2022-49
A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 4 Dec 2022 to 10 Dec 2022.
- Unfolding (Momentum 73) – BADBADNOTGOOD, Laraaji
- Monument – Portico Quartet
- TECHNICOLOUR – The Comet Is Coming
- Next Stop – Portico Quartet
- The Spoon – Oscar Jerome
- Hold On, Pt.2 – DARGZ, James Chelliah, Moses Boyd
- Imagineering – Nightmares On Wax
- Wave Decay – GoGo Penguin
- Never – All The Luck In The World
- Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins) – Father John Misty
- Boys Will Be Boys – Stella Donnelly
- QADIR – Nick Hakim
- In-Best – Mr. Ho
Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2022-49
Notes
I was feeling rather uninspired with listening the whole week, and if I’m being honest, I suppose I was dragging my feet a little. I was not willing to put in the work to uncover new pieces of music, and it might be due to the general lethargy of the year-end festivities kicking in.
I then decided that it had been awhile since I put on the Jazz UK playlist, which was where I received a lot of inspiration in the past and it helped me uncover many jazz artists that I love listening to today.
If you’ve been following my playlists, you’ll likely find the first eight songs presented by familiar musicians. Still they each had something intriguing that made me add them to this week’s playlist. For the most part, the drums and percussion is what usually grabbed my attention first, but here and there you will also find interesting bass, horn, or keyboard / synth parts as well. Overall, it’s a good re-visit into the genre.
From there, I loaded up Erased Tapes’s Staff Picks playlist, and came across Never by All The Luck In The World, which is such a product of its time. It is a very nostalgic sound that I did not think I would hear again in recent times, but I decided to add it for some posterity.
Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins) by Father John Misty had a whimsical tune and trumpet arrangement that made me intrigued enough to add to my curios of listening. I had heard of the artist, but I suppose I had moved on from the folk genre prior to adding this in.
Boys Will Be Boys by Stella Donnelly had the kind of song title that I felt I ought to pause and listen to, just so I could keep my privilege in check. It’s a heart-wrenching song, and it’s even sadder that there had to be a song about it.
QADIR by Nick Hakim just sort of gripped me with a simple beat that is allowed to reverberate through the mix while ethereal samples pepper the clouds and Hakim’s smooth whispering vocals permeate through the mix like an incense of poetry and catharsis.
I changed the listening after QADIR, and loaded up TOKiMONSTA’s LUMPIN playlist because I wanted something with more tempo and dynamics to take me through the next phase of the evening. In-Best by Mr. Ho came on and the techno beat and bass immediately grabbed my attention. It was not going to be the perfect closer for this playlist, but it makes for a fantastic contribution to my techno curation.
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