1) Harold Budd: How Dark The Response To Our Slipping Away / Mandan, aus LUXA (BUDDBOX) 3) Simon James Philips, Track 7, aus Chair 4) Johann Johannsson: The Tall Man & The Everyday Bible, aus Prisoners OST 6) Arthur Russell: This Is How We Walk On The Moon / Hollow Tree / See Through Love, aus Another Thought (double vinyl edition, excellent remastering!) 9) Marsen Jules: VI, aus Beautyfear ( with paraphrased passages from an interview with M.J.) 10) Eleni Karaindrou: Ceremonial Procession, aus Medea 11) Harold Budd: Chet & Feral aus Luxa (BUDDBOX)
Yes, yes, this looks like a too typical edition of my show, as if the tracklist would have been trapped in a time loop: so many familiar names, and records that have been played before. But, I think, it nevertheless makes sense. When I played, weeks ago, a piece from Arthur Russell’s ANOTHER THOUGHT, it was not played from the newly remastered masterpiece that has just been released in a brilliant vinyl packaging. The remastering is gorgeous, revealing much more details. Eleni Karaindrou is a guest in the show since her debut album MUSIC FOR FILMS (the title, simple as it is, a very discreet reference by producer Manfred Eicher, towards Eno’s album with the same title). But even old listeners will be surprised here and there: Karaindrou’s spare arrangements show similarities with the aesthetics of Harold Budd (and you can feel strange affinities between a Greek theatre presenting a tragedy of Euripides from ancient times with the deserted area of Mesa, Arizona where Harold Budd produced his album LUXA). Other leitmotifs are part of the show, too, so it would probably keep you awake even in its very early morning appearance on air. It just seemed impossible to include songs from the forthcoming great albums of Rosanne Cash and Doug Paisley without destroying the plot. On the other hand, „destroying the plot“ is a bit to rough to put it. There’s a song on Rosanne’s THE RIVER & THE THREAD, Etta’s Tune, that wouldn’t fall out of place surrounded by Eleni Karaindrou. Two women digging deep, and, to say it with the words of Luke Thorn (in his brilliant review of the Cash daughter’s album): „Every stanza is teardrop territory“. Apart from that, it’s a wide, wide world: Marsen on the hills of Lisbon, Eleni soundtracking Medea in Athens, Simon James playing in a church in Grunewald, Harold strolling through Arizona.