All the Playlists

Bruised and Bleeding – Okada

23 April 2018

Okada is the musical brainchild of Gregory Pappas, with a focus on an ambient electronic sound edging on drone/loop based/meditative music but with enough development to keep one interested throughout the track that is 15 minutes long…

Daydreaming – Radiohead

23 April 2018

There had to be some Radiohead on our playlist, it was inevitable and long overdue, it was just indispensable to add to our playlist some of the music these great musicians from our time have produced.

Time Won’t Wait – Jamiroquai

23 April 2018

After some rock weeks, let’s bring the funk back to our lives and I couldn’t find anything better than this bloody amazing track.

Just… Just…. Just listen to that beginning… Drummer counting, Bass with the best groove setting the atmosphere, background keys completing the scenario. Later drums building up a bit more and strings for the explosion…

To Be Young, Gifted and Black – Bob and Marcia

23 April 2018

Bob Andy and Marcia Griffith’s joyful ska version of this powerful civil rights anthem was brought to the world by the hugely influential British-based Jamaican record label Trojan – an offshoot of Island Records – reaching No.5 in the UK charts in 1970 at a time when Jamaican music was just beginning to make its irrevocable mark on British culture.

Hannah Hunt – Vampire Weekend

23 April 2018

A beginning, a middle and an end. The three essential (but not sufficient) components of a good story. Ezra Koenig gets it right in Hannah Hunt from the Vampire Weekend’s album Modern Vampires in the City. 

Kaçamak – NADAS

23 April 2018

With Fırat Ağacık (vocals – guitar), Haluk Fırat Özdemir (drums) and Doğa Dikbayır (lead guitar)’s close friendship turning to the desire of making music together, Nadas was formed…

Part 21 – Given Circumstances

23 April 2018

‘Twenty overs gone, one hundred and nineteen for no wicket.’ St George’s scorer scurries off to the board rattling numbers. ‘Cruising it. All over soon.’

 Miserably, I peek at his scorebook. There are three red rings that indicate dropped catches. I’ve given up on humming “Riders on the Storm.” Can’t help feeling the melancholy of Roy Harper instead. 

“When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpire’s pocket away…”

‘Catches win matches,’ remarks Giant Beard…

La Deriva – Manuel Zito

23 April 2018

Sweet, evocative, touching. One of the sweetest melodies I ever heard. Piano, strings and electronic music melts perfectly in this ballad.

Manuel Zito began playing and studying classical music at the age of five. In 2002, after listening to the Coldplay album “A rush of blood to the head” he also dedicated himself to listen and play “non-classical” music too…

Let’s Go Crazy – Prince

23 April 2018

I’m a huge Prince fan. I’ve got memories of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World being on heavy rotation on MTV one summer during my youth. I was also enthralled by his album covers when I came across them in my dad’s vinyl collection…

Paradoxo – Rimas e Melodias

23 April 2018

Tássia Reis, Stefanie and Tatiana Bispo are already a part of the Music to Dali & Jay-Z Lovers playlist, with three awesome tracks: “Meu rap jazz“, “Eu preciso ir” and Sorry Drummer’s “Perto de mim“.

There’s no doubt left that these three ladies make amazing music, right? It can get even better when they collab with more bad ass women!…

The Desert Babbler – Iron & Wine

23 April 2018

Immediately the scene is set after the drum fill as a comforting “ooos” and “ahhs” glide overtop of a mid-tempo rhythm, accompanied by a surprising groovy bass and precisely placed piano. The feeling of longing on a road trip starts to set in, a journey has begun and you’re along for the ride…

Brighter Than The Moon – The Color Wild

23 April 2018

This week I borrow my words from The Color Wild, as they describe exactly why their track is perfect for this playlist. “This song is driving without direction in the middle of the night, realizing that one person can fill your entire frame of vision…