WILT_2023-51

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 17 Dec 2023 to 23 Dec 2023.

1. Showdown – Nate Smith
2. Owned By Lust – Church Chords, zzzahara, Nels Cline, Ricardo Dias Gomes
3. Beautiful, Pt. 1 (Instrumental) – Syrup, Twit One
4. Kabarettrevue – Marco Monteverde
5. Big/Little Five – Nate Smith
6. Mysterious Girls Always Look Good – In Dust We Trust
7. COBB COUNTY – J57
8. Chasing the Drum (A COLORS SHOW) – Yussef Dayes
9. Alone w/u – Testiculo y Uno, Twit One
10. Stomping Gamay – Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Jahari Massamba Unit
11. Chillin In The Bed – Twit One
12. Meditation: Prelude – Nate Smith

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2023-51

Notes

It is a day before Christmas and typically we would be rather busy with festive preparations, but unfortunately, Jenna is down with COVID so we have had to postpone the majority of our gatherings. Even so, the end of the year is still impending and as I get older I am increasingly aware that our time in this world, and this life we have is increasingly finite. Answers that I had two decades ago need to be updated to compensate for my own updated worldview, and perhaps we are different people today than we were twenty years ago. 

On the musical front, I came across Nate Smith through a sponsored Instagram post. The title of his latest album caught my attention, Pocket Change 2, indicating both an earlier album with the same name, and the same great pun. With my interest piqued, it was also rewarded with stellar percussion work courtesy of Smith.

From there, the rest of the playlist flowed as algorithmic recommendations as they touched on beat-driven pieces like legos to hip hop compositions. Lashings of jazz, latin and soul all come together for a schizophrenic playlist that is both genre defying and exciting.