WILT_2024-00

A playlist of songs that intrigued me every week from Sunday to Saturday for 52 weeks. Year of 2024.

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-00

Notes

The end of another calendar year is upon us, and that means another 52 entries have been written into this music listening and journaling project. Doing this has helped me make sense of the music I listen to, but more importantly, it has helped me make some sense of the time that I’ve lived through.

Doing this for the past year has shown me that music is still a fascinating medium with plenty of amazing artists and craft-folk pursuing a standard that only they know and only they keep. That there is still any number of pathways to experience and enter, any any number of pathways to express and innovate. To compose and perform is one part of the communion as the the act of listening and moving comprise the other part. If for a brief moment, the air between us electrifies, and stirs the spirit toward something more than just survival and maybe to something that wrestles with chaos and imposes our own imprint of order toward this haphazard universe.

Thank you for the support of your readership and listenership. If you’re here yesterday, today, or tomorrow, may we all find joy in the things that lift us and others up.

According to Spotify’s 2024 Wrapped–

I listened to:

• 5,938 songs
• 30,500 minutes of music
• 3,679 artists

My top songs:

1. POPPER! – AKRILLA, TAICHU
2. How Do I Know? – Body of Light
3. Finish In Silence – LSSNS
4. Under The Magnolia Tree – Pale Jay
5. Blue Tuesday – Francis of Delirium

My top artists:

1. Sam Gendel
2. AKRILLA
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto
4. Whitney Houston
5. The Smile