Dreamticket #18

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PS - lovely use of the Juliana Barwick piece.
I'm not up on her very latest stuff, but like Furio Frakes below, I would recommend Healing Is A Miracle.
my starting point was her 2011 one The Magic Place (gorgeous, rapturous).
I'd also strongly recommend her collab with Helado Negro (here: https://ombremusic.bandcamp.com/album/believe-you-me ) - believe you me indeed...

Hey Papa, how's tricks?

Also been meaning to connect with you and COS, if only to say how chuffed I was with all the positive feedback we got for the last Music For Being set. But, yeah...where does the time go?

Enjoyed listening to your latest Blind Mango Jam this morning. You're my trusted mediator for that kind of set because I know you'll keep it fresh and inventive and it won't get too headbanging, although I've got much more of an inclination for the (slow/loose/syncopated) than the (uptempo/metronomic) in music.

I liked the textures in that set that felt like dub or psychedelia, or like those early acid house tracks with a genuinely psychedelic vibe. Nice work.

Hope 2024's been treating you and yours right despite the initial acceleration.
Look after y'selves, LBH

Oh, and thanks for the Juliana Barwick tips!

"dub or psychedelia, or like those early acid house tracks with a genuinely psychedelic vibe" - 🤩🙏

I too had to look up "hygge" and I agree with papamango that the word is most fitting for this mix. I wonder if "hygge" is related to the dutch "gezellig," since they have similar meanings and seem at least somewhat similar...

Hi @Vodem welcome along.

So I had to look up "gezellig"! Maybe every other cold dark country in the northern hemisphere has a word like that? Is "gemutlich" in that ball-park? Should probably check with Furio Frakes...

(Maybe I was misusing "hygge"? I was tuning into the aspects of not fighting the winter, but going with it and cocooning into a deep warm fug with sofas, blankets and hot beverages. But maybe "hygge" has to include the conviviality bit?)

Went down a rabbit hole last night on the Vintage Postcards page of your https://wonderings.net/ site. Some outstanding curation there, mate. Good gear!

I think you're right that most of the Northern European countries have some version of the word. We have a Dutch friend who used to talk about gezellig a lot. I think she said "cozy" was the closest in English, but that "cozy" felt too narrow. It looks like it covers both cozy moments like you describe, but ALSO convivial times. So it seems like you probably used "hygge" right!

And that's so cool that you checked out the postcards on wonderings.net and thanks for your kind words about the curating. One of the fun things about collecting vintage postcards is that there aren't really set categories, so the collector just starts to see patterns and then decides to collect based on those patterns!

Hi Andras,

Happy new year! Glad you liked it.

I like what I know what I know of Mark Murphy but haven't heard his Angel Eyes so I'll definitely be checking that out. Got any recommendations for Julianna Barwick favourites? I've only just started dipping around in her back catalogue.

Music: so many ingredients on the shelf. And they never run out!

Have a good time all the time,
John

John, I wish you a happy New Year too! Julianna Barwick has many great pieces. Her albums “Nepenthe” and “Healing Is a Miracle” (I like the track "Nod" on this album for example a lot) are outstanding in my opinion. I also bought the latter on vinyl.

Thanks for the tips Andras.

Thanks PJL, appreciate your support.

No mxing chops, no super rare records, no exclusive pre-releases - "range" is all I've got! :)

*mixing*

Happy 2024 to you Rob! Glad you liked it.

Looks like Lisa O'Neill and Horus All Stars are leading the field for this set...

And I had that "separated at birth" buzz when I put Mogwai next to Julianna Barwick - these tracks feel like two halves of the same piece of music.

Vincent Price was a bit of serendipity. I was looking for a track to knit together the end of Jessica Lauren with the start of Yussef Dayes and settled on Soul Scratchers. But I had a nagging feeling that a vocal track would have worked better at that point so I decided to find a spoken word or accapella to layer over the top. Ozymandias was the first thing that came into my head so I went looking for versions. The moment that I found Vincent Price I thought "that's the one!".

TBH I was inspired by Citizens Of Sound layering Ivor Cutler over Colourbox in the last Music For Being set - but his hybrid was so effective that it was a hard act to follow.

Must be time for a new set from you soon, surely?

All the best,
John

Thanks! This is the first time that one of these sets has been compared favourably to a winter Olympic sport of limited appeal.

*applauding your originality*

That version really works, doesn't it? Salute to Horus.
Thanks for listening Voyager.

Thanks Patrick. I love Old Note.

"And there I met another note long buried
And sat upon its shoulders was a memory"

Well, we all know that feeling.

Thanks Reade, really appreciate those comments.

Julianna Barwick and Lisa O'Neill are both pretty new to me as well. I started listening to Julianna Barwick after hearing a track on a recent Voyager show called Storm Bird (recommended). And Lisa O'Neill came up in conversation with a second generation Irish mate a few months ago. I hadn't heard of her back then, but she turned up on TV not long after, among those singing at Shane McGowan's funeral.

I was wondering whether Old Note would get a bit of a Marmite reaction, but I think it's really moving and beautiful, and both you and Patrick have singled it out so far.

Cheers,
John

I always preferred:
I met a traveller in an antique land
Who said 'Six vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert
And on the pedestal these words appear
My name is Ozymandias, King of Ants
Look on my feelers, termites, and despair
I am the biggest ant you'll ever see
The ants of old weren't half as bold and big
And fierce as me'

The unexpurgated version? By Mr Amontillado? :)