Sunday 22 July 2018

Pressure drop

After yet more frantic work intensity, I found myself relaxing into music that was familiar and welcoming. Chasing down YouTube videos, I was reliving tracks (ancient and modern) I adored but hadn't listened to in ages … or finding myself suddenly seduced by more recent discoveries, all over again.

A playlist of sorts emerged, and if there's a theme, it is that 'release' I was searching for. All of these selections push whatever internal button I have that lets some pressure escape through the valve - whether it's through sheer beauty, infectious joy, distraction and agitation, highly-wrought emotion or catharsis … you'll probably realise which tunes belong to which category! But all of them rocket me out of my universe and into theirs, which was very much the point.

I hope you enjoy the line-up. YouTube videos come and go from time to time, so I've also added a Spotify version of the playlist at the end.


Let's go: "It is YOU..."

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Toots and the Maytals: 'Pressure Drop'


ABBA: 'Arrival'.


Schubert: 'Impromptu D899, op.90, no.4' (performed by Maria João Pires).


Laurie Anderson: 'O Superman'.


Duparc: 'Chanson triste' (performed by Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin).


Portico Quartet: 'Clipper'.


Debussy: 'Reverie' (performed by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet).


Belle and Sebastian: 'Play for Today'.


Arvo Pärt: Fratres (performed by the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra).


Amayenge: 'Munise Munise'.


Olivia Chaney: 'IOU'


John Adams: 'Phrygian Gates' (performed by Ralph van Raat).


Procol Harum: 'Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of)'.


Miles Davis: 'Shhh / Peaceful'.


Radiohead: 'Staircase'.


Wagner: 'Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1' (performed by Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Andris Nelsons)


Daft Punk: 'Giorgio by Moroder'.


Paul Simon: 'Hearts and Bones'.


Spotify version:







1 comment:

  1. Chill... chilll...
    https://youtu.be/OVU9MvSqnhE
    All the best,
    Doods

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