Right now, outside my window, thousands upon thousands of juicy buds are aching to unfurl. Newness in electric green, swaying violently as they contend with the changing wind. A harrowing moment to emerge, to open yourself up again, to take on a new shape, but that’s the way of Spring, right?
This is an episode of Something Like that looks at newness in its revelatory, ritualistic form, but also in its anxiety, the stress and also the exhilaration of meeting a moment, of opening oneself up to a moment.
- As always, thank you to my dearest friend Roger 3000 for providing Something Like’s jingle
- The music under my voice today is Larkin’s O’Cean (1980)
Tracklist
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra, Promises, March 2021
Brother Ah, Transcendental March, Sound Awareness: Move Ever Onward, 1975, reissued in 2016
Theatre of Nature, Anna von Hausswolff, All Thoughts Fly, 2020
Popol Vuh, Kyrie, Tantric Songs/Hosianna Mantra, 1991
Wojciech Rusin, Dance, The Funnel, 2019
Rachika Nayar, The Trembling of Glass, Our Hands Against the Dusk, 2021
Dialect, Yamaha Birds Pt. 2, Under ~ Between, 2021
Everything Play, 君に輝く太陽を感じよう (Feel The Sun), Everything Play, 1992
Kendra Smith, Iridescence, The Guild of Temporal Adventurers, 1992
Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi, In the Garden, Melodies in the Sand, 2021
Laurence Brisset (Hildegard v. Bingen), Hodie Aperuit, Gemme, 2015
Maggie Payne, Shimmer, Ahh-Ahh, 2020
Leona Hirota (広田玲央名), Flower, Leona, 1985
Mad Music Inc. 11, Mad Music, 1977, reissued in 2016
Koh-Tao, Moon in the Lake, Tayu Tayu (たゆたゆ), 1997
Alice Coltrane, Spring Rounds from Rite of Spring, Eternity, 1976