This did not start as a contribution. It started as a text message Jimi sent to me, apropos of nothing: “made this with two people in mind, you are one of them.” The best kind of message, no questions asked.
The playlist has been light, easy company to me these past two weeks. It has a lo-fi groove. Lullabies for working, or for the pockets of evenings between work and sleep. Strings, cymbals, twinkly sounds, trumpets. It’s giving sitting in a white-walled loft, doing the Lord’s work day in, day out. Light streaming in, you floating slightly above it all. When I told Jimi this, he said he had been playing it at work a lot too and “it really makes me feel so comfortable even when I’m doing something that I hate.”
The playlist travels, drifting across sound-scapes (from Argentinian folk to French soft rock; different languages- Spanish, Portuguese, French, English…)
Jimi’s list of favourite songs and mine had one song in common: ‘La Mer’ by Feu! Chatterton. When I sent a message to another friend earlier this week with just the link to ‘La Mer’, the friend replied simply, “I agree.”
Here is the playlist (55mins), the song list is at the bottom. For Apple users, Chizuru helped create the playlist for you.
Cementerio Club— Pescado Rabioso
La mer— Feu! Chatterton
La Pastorcita Perdida— Atahualpa Yupanqui
Naranjita— Manduka
Blue Sands— Elysian Spring
Rua Dois— Jose Mauro
Sábado Morto— Erasmo Carlos
Giulietta- Interlude No 2— Smoke City
É Preciso Perdoar— Stan Getz, João Gilberto
String Feelings— Robohands
You need to cry— Ronald Langestraat
Bebés— La Lá
Sereia Sentimental— Sessa
Sweet— Mansur Brown
Excited to sink my teeth into this tonight. Love Jimi’s taste in anything.