Apr 14, 2007
Snow Don’t Fall On Summers Time
Photo: Minimal Winter by mark.os
Last winter was unusually mild here where I live. Almost now snowfall at all. I remember days from earlier years where heavy snowfall prevented people to go to work. Where the roads where frozen and turned into a hazardous skating rink. Although these circumstances can be highly uncomfortable I did kind of miss them this year. Especially now with the temperature picking up and with summer already around the corner.
One of my favorite songwriters Townes van Zandt sings the line: “Snow don’t fall on summers time” on his record “The Late Great Townes Van Zandt”. Well, that might be true in reality but fortunately with the right music we can at least pretend. When the temperatures again reach record breaking highs this summer I can always turn to these songs and dream a little. It is no coincidence either that some of my favorite records of 2007 so far are among this list.
- Townes van Zandt – Snow Don’t Fall
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Tomato, 1972) - Cahier – Pluie (Jour 2)
Jour Ouvrable (Foxglove, 2005) - Eluvium – New Animals From the Air
Talk Amongst the Trees (Temporary Residence 2005) - Frode Haltli – Psalm
Passing Images (ECM, 2007) - Rafael Anton Irisarri – Wither
Daydreaming (Miasmah, 2007) - Jóhann Jóhannsson – Jói & Karen
Englabörn (Touch, 2002) - Rameses III – Theme Five
Honey Rose (Important, 2007) - Greg Haines – Snow Airport
Slumber Tides (Miasmah, 2006) - Arve Henriksen – Glacier Descent
Strjon (Rune Grammofon, 2007)
thanks as ever for a great mix – yr collection must be HUGE & eclectic – am looking forward to playing this one especially since there is some ecm label gear on it.
“Jóhann Jóhannsson – Jói & Karen”‘s link doesn’t seem to be working. Thanks a lot for all this music -I truly enjoy it. fede said
Thank you both. :)
The Jóhann Jóhannsson link should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up.
Maudlin. And beautiful music. It’s still cold, cloudy and ocassionaly rainy where I’m living right now so this songs are the perfect fit for me.
Those 4 records from 2007 sound good, are the whole albums as good as the songs in the post? I’m considering on doing some record shopping on sunday.
All 4 records are very strong releases I believe. If you like these songs you will definitely like their respective albums also. Although I do admit that in the case of Arve Henriksen this track is clearly the most easily accessible on his album.
Have fun record shopping, I just might do the same thing myself. :-)
Portuguese greetings!
Your blog is amazingly interesting! Good work (and equally good musical selections)!
Pedro
I can’t stop listening to this mix. “Whither” is particularly haunting and transitions seemlessly into “Jói & Karen”. Thanks for the great post!
Gee, thank you so much Liz! :big smile: