Here it is folks - the mix you probably didn't know you were waiting for!
It's been quite a year. I started grad school, the Pope started talking sense, and our Dear Ol Earth started a new era called the Anthropocene (OK, maybe that started hundreds of years ago - but I heard about it THIS year.). I've been making music mixes as gifts and annuals for a long, long time. Recently an old friend showed me a mixtape I had given him on his 16th birthday. An actual tape, handwritten liner notes (in my ridiculous teenage penmanship), lots of Jimi Hendrix and a creepy androgynous picture for the cover that was definitely cut out of an AdBusters magazine. Some old habits die hard. This year's compilation is sadly lacking any Jimi - nor does it do any justice in reflecting the countless hours I spent singing along to Bonnie Raitt while driving around the Santa Cruz mountains in my Corolla. This year's mix is instead a reflection of where I've been and where I'd like to go. It's a list of my favorites - each one chosen for lots of reasons and arranged in a (hopefully) good-time down-home wave-flow style.
Two nights ago I said goodbye to a dear, dear loved one. Another mother. My oldest and best friend's loving, vibrant, hilarious, silly-in-all-the-right-ways, and absolutely brilliant mom flew off on that other wind after a three year fight with colon cancer. So that's in here too. We're having a Fuck Cancer dance party in everybody's honor and we're all invited on both sides of the veil.
You can stream the mix at the link below or download it as one long track to your computer.
With a heavy heart and lots of love I wish you all a bright new year. Bring on 2015.
All my love,
pussymuscle
song list:
Feels Like Rain - Mychael Danna
Near Death Experience Experience - Andrew Bird
Shiny On the Inside - Leona Naess
Topknot - Cornershop
You Wish - Nightmares on Wax
The Doffing Mistress - Anne Briggs
Iris's Song for Us - Vashti Bunyan
The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake
Separator - Radiohead
Seeds of the Pine - Martha Scanlan
Hotel Catatonia - William Tyler
Dress Sexy At My Funeral - (Smog)
Goin' Out West - Tom Waits
Quiet Dog Bite Hard - Mos Def
Deja Vu - Cibo Matto
Hey Life - Tune-Yards
Kabaluere - Antonio Carlos e Jocafi
I Sing Just To Know That I'm Alive - Nina Simone
Exactly Like You - Nina Simone
Cordeiro De Nana - Joao Gilberto
Soon This Space Will Be Too Small - Lhasa de Sela
Pellucidity - Yaima
