Music to Stay up Late
let the soothing sound fuse into the silence of the night with henry gonzalez
featuring artists like
James Blake • M83 • Phoenix • Bonobo • Radiohead • Arvo Pärt • Arcade Fire • Beirut • Benjamin Clementine • Ekhtronic
Love to stay up late at night browsing the web, reading a book or just listening to music? This might be the perfect playlist for you, the nocturnal individual who just loves the special feel staying up late gives you, away from the excess of stimuli of the day.
So just sit back and relax and let the music join you on your nights.
Gymnopédie # 1 – Erik Satie
31 July 2018
It had been an hour of an incredibly exhausting piano recital, I was graduating. It had taken me five years of really hard work but it was finally ending.
I knew I was going to be so emotional I would not be able to speak at the end, had just finished playing Pierre Boulez’s “12 notations”, one of the most difficult pieces I had ever played…
Short Leave – Alamo Race Track
17 July 2018
I honestly don’t feel well enough to do much right now. Sometimes it feels like life swallows you and there’s not much to say or not much you can do but wait for those little breaks when you can just let your mind have a rest for a while.
Sailing to Nowhere – Broken Bells
2 July 2018
Music is so special to me. There was a time around my college years when almost everything I did was accompanied by music, I had these little speakers and played everything loud enough to make people around me change their mood for a few moments. I loved to musicalize moments and feel like the vibe changed according to the music I played, I also liked to find the perfect music to express what I felt at the moment, it was one of the ways I connected non verbally with the people around me, some people felt the same way I did and what I played allowed them to really connect to it and express it, for a moment…
Night Terrors – Leonie Kingdom
27 June 2018
This week we have another wonderful track that was submitted to the playlist on musicto.com. The talented Leonie Kingdom sent us “Night Terrors”, from her debut EP. A song about those difficult nights when you prefer to stay up to avoid bad dreams..
Lighthouse – Patrick Watson
19 June 2018
Unconditional love. It’s the substance all humans are made up beneath those thick layers of fear.
Sometimes I can feel my true essence very close to me, sometimes I can tell there’s huge amounts of endless love pouring out of myself…
After The Storm – Mumford & Sons
12 June 2018
I have cried so many times listening to this song. Sometimes I look back and suspect I’ve endured too many dark times, maybe I’m just exaggerated, who knows?
There is an “after” the storm, I’m sure of it, I’m sure there have been times when I’ve felt I’ve passed the storm, I’m sure. It’s just that this storm, this particular storm is especially strong, and a little blinding, because it isn’t only personal…
Youth – Daughter
30 May 2018
There are tiring days when one doesn’t have many words, this is one of those days. I feel tired and not really in the mood to say much. Sometimes you feel compelled to stop expressing yourself to avoid trouble and I’ve have to do that for a while, maybe that has blocked my words a little.
There Is Nothing I Can Do – The Organ
22 May 2018
Sometimes you come across with little musical jewels that change your life a bit. The Organ is one of those for me, I hadn’t mentioned this in a long time but there’s a special place in my heart for people who introduced me to music I love…
Starting Over – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ben Bridwell
17 May 2018
“Being human hurts. We try so hard to avoid this fact…”
I was reading the other day this blog entry from a doctor called Lissa Rankin, someone I admire very much and consider a very wise person. She was talking about how we tend to avoid pain constantly and it always ends up being worse for us,…
Clarity – Ellipsis
8 May 2018
This week on the Music to Stay up Late playlist we have a very special track, the very first song signed by the Music to music label! This is a huge first step for all of us and worthy of celebrating.
The Rip Tide – Beirut
1 May 2018
This song was part of my life during one of the most difficult times, it was before I lived these last two months.
Going back in time to 2012 I was living something similar to what I lived these last two years, my father had to go through surgery to have a brain aneurism removed and my family and I had a very difficult time coping with the fear of losing him.
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.