Friday Playlists don’t stop for winter break! Hope all the students out there are enjoying some well-deserved time off to cool our brains down before they melt to mush. This week’s theme is wintering. You can find this playlist on the SoCC’s Spotify: thesoundsofcc.
Songs for those majestic winter strolls with snow crunching under your boots and the cold air taking your breath away.
Image credit: Emily Komie
The end of a semester is undoubtedly an emotional roller coaster. It’s the only time of year that you can go to the library and get to see a silently weeping student juxtaposed with the jiggly scrotum of the streaker who had the foresight to take Intro to Nature Sounds and is done with finals four days before anyone else.
Much like the average Fourth Week Experience, the Perfect Study Playlist is hardly one-size-fits-all. I’ve written papers to soundtracks ranging from Death Grips to Vivaldi. Regardless, Spotify playlists are the new mixtapes, and I just want the world to know that I am your secret admirer, I made this playlist for you, and I want it to make you happy and productive.
Godspeed, my children. The end is near.
Loving is a mellow indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia. Their song “Bowlly Going Dancing Drunk Into the Future” is off their 2016 self-titled LP, an album heavy with motifs of delicate nature, letting go, and wandering. Listen to “Bowlly Going Dancing” while sharing a dessert with a friend this weekend.
maybe you could talk freely
speak to me for once so truly
for once so truly
i could know
just where you’re going
just where i’m standing.
that would really be something.
in most ways on most days
i am clearly disappearing
i am clearly disappearing
at the thought of our nearing
an end.
this morning i awoke
and read the words
that you wrote.
they were different from what you spoke
they were different from what you spoke
and it was there you declared
all love is unfair.
Photo credit of Loving from their bandcamp, https://loving1.bandcamp.com/
Happy Friday everyone!! No time to love yourself like the present. So put these songs on, and feel all the good! Just like my dog Gabby.
All the Friday Playlists are on the SoCC’s Spotify: thesoundsofcc.
Image credit: Emily Komie
Breaking the silence
Of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water-
A deep resonance.
-Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Daniel R. Robinson was an acoustic guitarist who changed his name to Robbie Basho in honor of the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. Like Matsuo Basho’s poetry, Robbie Basho’s music captures a beauty and calmness deeply rooted in the natural world. In Robbie Basho’s rendition of Debussy’s piano solo “Clair de Lune,” Basho’s guitar echoes the effects a piano’s sustaining pedal would produce in a typical performance of the song while adding a rugged folksiness and energy to the piece. Take a listen:
Friday Playlist! This week’s theme is morning walk. Find this playlist on the SoCC’s Spotify: thesoundsofcc.
Put this on when you’re walking to class, glance at Tava, and bask in some gratitude. It’s a new day!!
Image credit: Emily Komie
Belated Friday Playlist coming atchu. This week’s theme is night walk. You can find this playlists on the SoCC’s Spotify account “thesoundsofcc”.
Put this playlist on when you’re strolling late at night under the light of a big ole moon.
Image credit: Emily Komie
