1979

1979 / SELECTOR DORFMAN

Some cities stay perfectly sharp in our memory.

Others leave behind only an atmosphere.

A rooftop after rain.

Distant lights.

Buildings dissolving into mist.

Something we may have seen once, or perhaps only imagined over the years.

The selection moves somewhere between modern ambient, microsound and digital melancholy:

Agnes Obel, Mark Van Hoen, Taylor Deupree, Christopher Willits, Shuttle358 and The Boats all reveal different sides of the same story.

This is not a place.

And it is not a moment in time.

It feels more like a memory of how memory itself works.

Edges soften.

Details disappear.

The feeling remains.

1979.

Maybe a year.

Maybe a beginning.

Or perhaps just a note typed onto the corner of an archive folder containing a story that never really ended.

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