I’ve been maintaining a looong playlist spanning jazz, folk, ambient, r&b/doo-wop, shoegaze, soundtrack scores and more, I’m sure. The main theme is imagining tracks that would sound good in an empty old dusty bar, or maybe walking along a foggy river bank on a still night. Sonically, I’m aiming for interesting textures, catchy melodies, or sparse production. Throw it on shuffle and see what catches yr ear.
Sampler of artists: Mary Lattimore, Eno/Fripp, Cassandra Jenkins, Harry Nilsson, Beach House ✨
Jul 24, 2024
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Man, these wildly varying sample-based tracks are a journey through sonic possibilities.
Bop out to the blues trance of Robert Johnson 2.
Get lost in the nature of Hubert Fichte 1.
Transcend to the strings of John Cassavetes 2.
There is so much to talk about with this project. Ekkhard Ehlers revolutionized what it meant to sample someone in music. Try it out (ambient requires patience) but I promise you will hear something you have never heard before.
Feb 14, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Only one album out rn (The Moviegoer), yes this is my husband’s music project! I play on it too now and more coming soon :))) if you’re in LA (or anywhere) keep an eye out on our insta— we’re playing more and more shows and some shows in NY and hopefully Manchester on the map too!!
“Introducing a revisionist exotica for these times…aquatic synths & drum machines, slide guitars & santoors, stray trumpets and accordion...ethno-industrial, dub, and samples from a fifty-year old suitcase of cassettes...
The major catalyst was a suitcase of twenty cassettes my father unearthed from his teenage years in Iran, recorded between 1972-1975, taping DJ monologues off the radio, lines of movie dialogue off the TV, radio plays, spoken word translations of European pop...
That made it a kind of excavation of a bygone time, a travelogue to a place accessed only through cultural artifact & collective memory. An imaginary soundtrack to a half-remembered movie from a faraway place.”
Apr 30, 2024
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Get a haircut, get rid of some clothes you haven’t worn in years, get a new houseplant, get in touch with the changing season, get grounded, get stoned, get in touch with some old friends, get some ice cream, get going
Mar 25, 2024
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Overnight low of 62° and it’ll start raining soon :)
Apr 12, 2024
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Friends you met out in the neighborhood at a bar or park or cafe or wherever a couple times and struck up a rapport with.
You don’t have eachother’s phone numbers, no social media info.
I have a couple friends like this and it’s been such a nice social change up. Always a pleasant surprise to bump into them out and about.
Jan 24, 2024