Playlist 540 - June 2023: double summer

aka Massive Summer Backlog Mix

Lots of cello going around at the moment. Not sure why. But always welcome.

Enjoy.

x



Playlist
1. Decisive Pink – Destiny (Fire Records)
2. Bruce Haack – Cherubic hymn (Columbia)
3. CV Vision – Die frommen wanderer (bureau b)
4. Mera Bhai feat Stealing Sheep – Evil butter (Morning Raga Recordings)
5. Air Waves – Star earring (Planningtorock’s Planning to Star Version) (Fire Records) (playing The Shacklewell Arms, London, June 19)
6. Modern Cosmology – Le train ne passera pas (Duophonic UHF Disk)
7. The Chills – Party in my heart (Fire Records)
8. The Chills – Double summer (Fire Records) (playing Whelan’s, Dublin, June 22)
9. Caoilian Sherlock – Push the oil away (bandcamp) (playing The Green Room, Cork Opera House, July 1)
10. MD Pallavi & Andi Otto – Flute boy (Pingipung)
11. Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island (Trunk Records)
12. Minwhi Lee – Borrowed tongue (Morr Music)
13. The Saxophones – Boy crazy (Full Time Hobby)
14. M Ward – Supernatural thing (Anti)
15. Tony Njoku – Rhododendrons (Solo piano version) (PRAH Recordings)
16. Henrik Lindstrand – Klangland (Transformer Session) (One Little Independent)
17. Yann Tiersen – Ker al Loch (Mute) (playing Live at St Lukes, Cork, June 18)
18. Flaer – Follow (Odda Recordings)
19. Boa Morte – Hard to know (bandcamp) (playing National Sculpture Factory, Cork, June 16)
20. Synthia – So low (Big Crown Records)
21. Lael Neale – I am the river (Sub Pop)
22. Chalk – Conditions (Dutch Tilt)
23. Sprints – Adore Adore Adore (City Slang) (playing Button Factory, Dublin, Oct 6)
24. Naked Lungs – Pressure (Naked Lungs)
25. Nation of Language – Stumbling still ([PIAS]) (playing KOKO, London, June 14)
26. Current Affairs – Right time (Tough Love) (playing Stereo, Glasgow, July 20)
27. Splint – Awaiting hills (Nice Swan)
28. The Bonk – Future 87 (bandcamp)
29. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Murkit gem (Big Crown Records)
30. Weedway – Not yet (bandcamp)
31. Slow Moving Clouds – The house must burn (bandcamp) (playing Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, June 17)
32. August Cooke – Flying swimming dredging (Poets Studio)
33. Black Duck – Second guess (Thrill Jockey)
34. Brigid Mae Power – Counting down (Fire Records) (playing Tower Records, Dublin, June 29)
35. Carol Keogh/aka The Wicc – A pair of packed valises (before The Dunbrody), 1849 (Dimple Discs)
36. Kristin Hersh – Dandelion (Fire Records) (playing Spirit Store, Dundalk, Oct 23)
37. Chromacolor feat Annie Garlids – Sunday (Arbitrary)
38. Sara Wolff – Homesick (Small Matter Records)
39. Cormac O Caoimh – I gave my word (Shadow of my northern star) (bandcamp)
40. Symbol Soup – Appetite (Sad Club Records)
41. Elaine Malone – Moontread (Pizza Pizza Records)
42. Half Japanese – It’s ok (Fire Records) (playing Deaf Institute, Manchester, Sept 23 w/ Go-Kart Mozart)
43. Special Friend – Selkie (Skep Wax)
44. Tom Ashbrook – Dusk (The Other Songs)

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