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Delicate

Acoustic. Texture exercise list.

01. The Bad PlusLithium
For All I Care (Heads Up, 2008)
02. Songs: OhiaThe Body Burned Away
Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian, 2000)
03. Iron & WineLove Vigilantes
Around The Well (Sub Pop, 2009)
04. BarzinSoft Summer Girls
Notes to an Absent Lover (Monotreme Records, 2009)
05. Hope Sandoval & The Warm InventionsBlanchard
Blanchard (single) (2009)
06. Kings of ConvenienceMrs.Cold
Declaration of Dependence (2009)

note: A short acoustic list that MdM likes to post. It is about voice, instruments in the background, story to tell, and million memory flooding in a conversation. I like these pieces. Lithium is a nirvana cover with acoustic free jazz. remember grunge and Nirvana? Well, the memory now creeps back. Song:Ohio on the other hand deserves more recognition. His work around 2000 uses incredible detail on accoustic like noone else. The body burns away is an epic incantation from a deeply spiritual album. The rest are delicious pieces from standard acoustic lover vault.

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Category: Acoustic, Bedroom playlist

9 Responses

  1. squashed says:

    btw. Lithium really does sound like somebody on lithium. the beat change is unnerving.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_pharmacology

    Lithium pharmacology refers to use of the lithium ion, Li+, as a drug. A number of chemical salts of lithium are used medically as a mood stabilizing drug, primarily in the treatment of bipolar disorder, where they have a role in the treatment of depression and particularly of mania, both acutely and in the long term. As a mood stabilizer, lithium is probably more effective in preventing mania than depression, and may reduce the risk of suicide.[1] In depression alone (unipolar disorder) lithium can be used to augment other antidepressants. Lithium carbonate (Li2CO3), sold under several trade names, is the most commonly prescribed, while the citrate salt lithium citrate (Li3C6H5O7), the sulfate salt lithium sulfate (Li2SO4), lithium aspartate and the orotate salt lithium orotate are alternatives.

  2. el smokeador says:

    thanks for the intro to barzin. wow, that is some fantastic sounds.

  3. MellowDia says:

    Big one, Kudos! Just one thing bout Kings of Convenience…should read like that:

    Kings of Convenience – Mrs.Cold
    Declaration of Dependence (2009)

    Iron & Wine just get better with every release, wow.

  4. Marion says:

    i never leave comments
    but i have to say: thank you!
    this playlist is very beautiful and pleasant to listen!

  5. squashed says:

    Heya,…

    thanks. Glad you enjoy it. It’s a short and very direct list. Up lift direction, chaos in the beginning, slowly end with happier note. The list itself is a bit temperamental with “volume”. It needs to be played at softer, radio in empty room volume. I guess people just have to use the volume button.

    the hook is “hey baby, What is love? ..” I think I like that end hook very much. The pseudo bossa nova beat does the trick.

    sq

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    random tube…

    [HD] Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold (New Song #4), Seoul 2008 Part 5

  6. Ample Sanity says:

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  7. Lee says:

    squashed, this is an amazing playlist/mix. thank you.

    - Lee

  8. squashed says:

    Eya Lee,

    yeah used to post a whole lot more acoustic than now. They are a great change of pace.

    sq

  9. David says:

    I think I 4 and 5 starred every song on this list. Lithium was a great cover although I think it falls apart toward the end. I LOVE Songs: Ohio (which I was introduced to on a previous post), apparently I have another album to go buy, a very powerful track. “Love Vigilantes” is wonderful and makes me yearn for college when I used to see POI DOG PONDERING perform it. BARZIN was new to me and wonderful. Although I’m very behind, this is why this is my favorite blog.

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]