WILT_2024-16

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 14 Apr 2024 to 20 Apr 2024.

1. A Figure In The Surf – Mount Kimbie
2. BerwynGesaffNeighbours – Fred Again.., Berwyn, Gesaffelstein
3. Storm Crystals – Four Tet
4. You are the Eyes of the World – Phét Phét Phét
5. TrashKat – Special Feelings
6. Down Goose – Special Feelings
7. Zone Black – Emil Amos
8. Insecurities (feat. Moses Sumney) – Shabaka, Moses Sumney
9. Body To Inhabit (feat. E L U C I D) – Shabaka, E L U C I D
10. I’ll Do Whatever You Want (feat. Floating Points, Laraaji) – Shabaka, Floating Points, Laraaji
11. Living (feat. ESKA) – Shabaka, ESKA
12. Breathing – Shabaka
13. Feels so Far Away – Amanda Whiting
14. we’re still at the underpass – Ganavya
15. Pedra Negra – Benjamim

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-16

Notes

First, let’s talk about Shabaka, whose album, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace was introduced to me on Spotify as a recommended listen. Drawn to its cover art consisting of a portrait photograph of the artist, I was immediately drawn to its intensity and intention. What greeted me were explorations into free-wheeling spiritual jazz through masterful performances of the flute and a host of jazz-centric instruments. However, on songs like I’ll Do Whatever You Want (feat. Floating Points and Laraaji), the boundaries of jazz are pushed further along by synth textures and pulses, creating more ethereal expressions by the musicians versus something more centred or coloured with percussion. The result is a wonderfully vivid galaxy of awe and wonder, a negotiation between finite and infinite. 

But before I was given the opportunity to listen to Shabaka, the listening week was already starting with first encounters with electronica and its peripherals. Mount Kimbie and Four Tet always offer what is on the knife’s edge of taste, but there are also deep bangers that perhaps only more commercial producers like Fred Again.. can envision or put together. Then there’s a 20 minute piece from Phét Phét Phét because it happened to grip me during a particular cycle of work.

The playlist then closes with three short compositions that through sheer happenstance, explore disciplines of classical jazz, sound design, and electronica each on their own, but somehow summarises what this listening week was all about.