I put together a mix entitled EVERYONE IS BORED during my first weekend social distancing, and was soon after approached to create a Spotify playlist for Wolves & Vibrancy Records, a German label specializing in “dark and dreamy music,” including the kind of ambient and drone artists who are our bread and butter here at ACL. The only parameters given for this social distancing mix was to combine new releases with old favorites.
I don’t use Spotify, so I decided that my approach here should be somewhat conceptual. I pulled a bunch of vinyl records from my shelf, went into my living room and played the B-sides in full, improvising the order based on loose thematic associations. I figured since we’re stuck at home, what’s the rush? Might as well play long tracks. So that makes up the first half of the mix. The second half of the mix switches to digital and moves more quickly, though there are still many long, unhurried tracks, drawing on music from the 1960s to today.
But what I played in my living room that day is not what is not exactly what it one the Spotify playlist, nor exactly what is included here. The Spotify playlist is a little bit different from what I played at home that day, becayse not all my vinyl editions are available on Spotify. For instance, Matthewdavid‘s rework of Ahnnu‘s “Gala” is only available on vinyl. So I was interested to see how those limitations changed the mix from my media at home to what was available on Spotify.
But I also wanted to make a mix that I could share here, drawn from the same general tracklist. Rather than record from vinyl, when I recreated the playlist for Soundcloud, I made some minor changes based on what I already had available digitally, and added a little Ras G intro. I also somehow neglected to include some tracks from the Sun City Girls’ Funeral Mariachi simply by accident. I made some edits here and there for a variety of reasons, but mostly to keep this mix at 3 hours total, which is still pretty long and unhuried. But again, when you’re feeling blue time doesn’t seem to pass as normal, so just sink in and get lost. (Joseph Sannicandro)
acloserlisten · the new objective presents ‘KINDA BLUE’ part i [mix]
acloserlisten · the new objective presents ‘KINDA BLUE’ part ii [mix]
TRACKLIST
| ARTIST | TRACK | ALBUM | YEAR | ||
| Ras G | Track 2 | My Kinda Blues | 2017 | ||
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Nervous, Sad, Poor… (H&P 100 years) |
f# a# oo (vinyl version)
|
1997 | ||
| Gabriel Saloman | Gagaku |
Movement Building Vol. 2
|
2016 | ||
| Tim Hecker | Harmony In Blue I-IV |
Harmony In Ultraviolet
|
2006 | ||
| Mal Waldron Steve Lacy | Azure/Smada | Sempre Amore | 1987 | ||
| Ahnnu | Gala/Monica Swept | World Music | 2013 | ||
| Inventing Masks | 3’19”/4’17″/3’54” | 2nd | 2017 | ||
| Kali Malone | Sacer Profanare |
The Sacrificial Code
|
2019 | ||
| The Drift |
Inconsistency Principle/Fractured Then Gathered (reprise)
|
Noumena | 2005 | ||
| Weather Report | Harlequin | Heavy Weather | 1977 | ||
| Vladislav Delay | Rampa | Rakka | 2020 | ||
| Matana Roberts | All Things Beautiful |
Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
|
2019 | ||
| Aho Ssan | Simulacrum III | Simulacrum | 2020 | ||
| Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi | Burrata | Hotel Record | 2017 | ||
| TWO | |||||
| Earl Sweatshirt | Eclipse |
Some Rap Songs
|
2018 | ||
| Henry Flynt & the Insurrections | Goodby Wall St. (loop) / Corona Del Mar | I Don’t Wanna | 1966 (2004) | ||
| Henry Flynt | Sky Turned Red |
Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1
|
2002 | ||
| Catherine Christer Hennix | The Well-Tuned Marimba | Selected Early Keyboard Works | 2018 | ||
| Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie, Sam Shalabi | Oglon Day 2 | Oglon Day | 2019 | ||
| Ka Baird | Symanimagenic | Respires | 2019 | ||
| Oren Ambarchi | Palm Sugar Candy | Simian Angel | 2019 | ||
| Weather Report | Herandnu | Black Market | 1976 | ||
| Circuit des Yeux | A Story of This World Part II |
Reaching for Indigo
|
2017 | ||
| Nurse with Wound |
B2 – NWW – The Tumultuous Upsurge (of Lasting Hatred)
|
Homotopy to Marie LP
|
1982 | ||
| Félicia Atkinson | Des Pierres |
The Flower And The Vessel
|
2019 | ||
| Cole Pulice | Lymns | Gloam | 2020 | ||
| Stefan Christoff & Osama Shalabi | 2. To Sophia | Rodina | 2013 | ||
| Charlie Haden | War Orphans |
Liberation Music Orchestra
|
1969 | ||
| dakim | persists/freyed/Guatama’s Resolve | sleeptight | 2020 | ||
| Pan Sonic | Corona | Gravitoni | 2010 | ||
| Egberto Gismonti & Charlie Haden | Dom Quixote | Em família | 1981 | ||
| Angel Olsen | Unfucktheworld |
Burn Your Fire For No Witness
|
2014 | ||
| Vladislav Delay | Kenno |
The Kind Of Blue
|
1997 | ||
| Henry Cow | Ruins | Unrest | 1974 | ||
| The Incredible String Band | Dandelion Blues |
The Incredible String Band
|
1966 | ||
| John Fahey | Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday Blues |
Blind Joe Death [re-recordings]
|
1964 | ||
| Victoire (Missy Mazzoli) | India Whiskey |
Cathedral City
|
2010 | ||
| John Oswald | Bell Speeds | Electro Clips | 1991 | ||
| Ka Baird | Teaching Lodge of the Arrows | Respires | 2019 | ||
| SING SINCK, SING | Fight The Good Fight |
are SING SINCK, SING
|
2019 | ||
| Earl Sweatshirt | Riot! |
Some Rap Songs
|
2018 |
a closer listen 