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Winter Morning Playlist

Thumbnail: Winter view from my apartment

Usually, my playlists are very care­ful­ly planned, and aside from a few orga­nized by genre, are based on emo­tion and expe­ri­ence. However, there was there was one morn­ing when I got up, and found myself out­side on a chilly fall day, with every­thing was cov­ered in an ear­ly win­ter frost. Past the build­ings and the trees, a wall of cloud hung over the riv­er, faz­ing stark whites through pale reds, coloured by the ear­ly sun.

This playlist was inspired by that sin­gle morn­ing. The music is a mix of two moods; the first is a relaxed and beat-ori­ent­ed, while the oth­er is more dreamy and floaty. I rec­om­mend it for long trips by bus dur­ing the fall-win­ter tran­si­tion. The bus real­ly is the best way to pay atten­tion to the land­scape and the chang­ing sky.

Portishead — Glory Box
Portishead — It’s A Fire
Portishead — Mysterons
Portishead — Roads
DJ Clue — Exclusive New Shit (feat. Nature)
Nas — Gotta Love It
Dido — Aria
Pinback — Loro
The Fugees — Ready Or Not
Xzibit — Carry The Weight
DNTEL — Why I’m So Unhappy
Cardigans — Explode
Band Of Bees — Punchbag
Modest Mouse — The World At Large
Bel Canto — Capio
Radiohead — Everything In Its Right Place
Radiohead — Motion Picture Soundtrack
Radiohead — No Surprizes
Sigur Rós — Ágætis Byrjun
Omni Trio — Higher Ground
Sylver — In Your Eyes
Dune — Winter Kills

The Autumn Leaves

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,
Les sou­venirs et les regrets aus­si
Mais mon amour silen­cieux et fidèle
Sourit tou­jours et remer­cie la vie

—Jacques Prévert, Les feuilles mortes

Thumbnail: Autumn leaves

The leaves shuf­fle past on the side­walk, and all I can think about is how, every sin­gle day, the weath­er can be so dif­fer­ent, so unique­ly beau­ti­ful.

An accou­trement, she calls her­self. An intel­li­gent, ener­getic, pas­sion­ate acces­so­ry, what bet­ter bijou? So I wear her on my arm, along with my ribbed sweater and depend­able jeans, while walk­ing along the streets on a com­fort­ably cool after­noon.

The autumn days are ours.