(March 2011) Easy Music for Difficult Ears Spotify Playlist

Swift dissipation, whilst flickering memories caress the dirt-tainted concrete – rain sodden under an ashen brazen sky. It isn’t just cold; it actually feels cold… and desolate… and desperate.

These smoky lives wither and lie in wait – colourless and featureless thanks to the persuasion of modern life. Identikit people and every single one of them billowing with nonsense – is it any wonder existence feels fit to ignore?
To tempt such shallow brethren into one’s wake would be akin to inviting death himself to dinner, only to have realised you forgot the poison and what worse fate is there in life, than to be one of the walking dead?

March 2011 Playlist

1. Lizzy Mercier Descloux “Wawa” (Press Color, 1979, ZE Records) Buy it here
2. The Raincoats “The Void” (The Raincoats, 1979, Rough Trade) Buy it here
3. The Lounge Lizards “Wangling” (The Lounge Lizards, 1981, Virgin Records Ltd) Buy it here
4. Was (Not Was) “Wheel Me Out” (Out Come the Freaks, 2004, ZE Records) Buy it here
5. Duet Emmo “Or So It Seems” (Or So it Seems, 1983, Mute Records) Buy it here
6. Au Revoir Simone “Anywhere You Looked” (Still Night Still Night, 2009, Au Revoir Simone) Buy it here
7. Nico “Frozen Warning” (The Frozen Warning: 1968-1970 Recordings, 2007, Rhino Entertainment) Buy it here
8. Marina Rosenfeld with Christoph Kurzmann “Sweetest Sensation” (Plastic Materials, 2009, Marina Rosenfeld) Buy it here
9. Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic “Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op 7: Allegretto” (Shostakovich: No's 5 & 9, 1959, Sony BMG Recordings) Buy it here
10. Sir Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (et al) “Apollo – Ballet en deux tableaux, Deuxieme tableaux: Variation de Polymnie” (Stravinsky: The Ballets, 2009, EMI Records) Buy it here
11. New Tango Orquesta “The Down” (Vesper, 2009, Hoob Records) Buy it here
12. Beirut “My Family’s Role in the World Revolution” (The Lon Gisland EP, 2007, Ba Da Bing records) Buy it here
13. Animal Collective “Kids on Holiday” (Sung Tongs, 2004, Fatcat Records) Buy it here
14. Camille “Janine 3” (Le Fil, 2005, Virgin Music) Buy it here
15. Andreas Dorau und Die Marinas “Fred vom Jupiter” (Blumen und Narzissen, 1981, Ata Tak Records) Unavailable apparently for now...

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