Starting to have the energy again to think about posting here, which is nice. I’ve been down the grindstone for a very very long time, and now, faced with some unexpected downtime, I’m going to use the opportunity to catch up on a few things.
Starting with this. I completed something other than regret, my 33rd mix in the modern era, on the 10th of November, and it’s all over the map, but with some pretty strong thematic material running through as well. I especially love the way that Laura Marling excavates on the three tracks from Once I Was an Eagle, which is my favorite album of 2013; the woozy, witchy, R&B-driven silliness of “Nommo (The Magick Song)” (“All praises due to the Black man,” indeed); the light touch of Antony’s “Crackagen”, and the way that John Fahey’s riff on Clarence Ashley’s “The Coo Coo Bird” fits so seamlessly with gospel. I’ve definitely got something other than regret.
- Song-Song – Brad Mehldau Trio (The Art Of The Trio Volume 3)
- Nommo- The Magick Song – Gary Bartz And NTU Troop (I’ve Known Rivers And Other Bodies)
- Is That Enough – Yo La Tengo (Fade)
- Blue Light – Mazzy Star (So Tonight That I Might See)
- Life & Soul – The Sundays (Blind)
- Take The Night Off – Laura Marling (Once I Was An Eagle)
- I Was An Eagle – Laura Marling (Once I Was An Eagle)
- Crackagen – Antony and the Johnsons (Another World)
- Everybody’s Heart’s Breaking Now – Lavender Diamond (Incorruptible Heart)
- Variations On The Coocoo – John Fahey (The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites)
- Where Shall I Go? – Sister Marie Knight (When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51)
- Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel (So (Remastered 2012))
- Incinerate – Sonic Youth (Rather Ripped)
- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes – Sun Kil Moon (Tiny Cities)
- We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning – Gram Parsons (G.P. / Grievous Angel)
- Breathe – Laura Marling (Once I Was An Eagle)
- Turn Your Color – The Men (Campfire Songs)
- I’ll Fly Away – Southern Sons (When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51)