Cheer Me Up Thank You
Happy Long Weekend and Thank God It’s Mixcast Friday! Today I am pleased to present another guest Mixtape, this time by Andrew Lee of The Ruffled Feathers. Andrew and I met during the 2010 year of the PEAK Performance Project (where he was playing with 41st and Home) and have kept in touch (of a fashion) since then, through random tweets and Facebook comments. Andrew was another one of the large amount of amazing folks I met, but didn’t have the time to really get to know as well as I’d like. It’s hard with so many people on such a whirlwind schedule, but the beautiful part of the internets are that you can maintain contact with people.
Music has always been very important to me and, to my understanding, many if not most people should and do feel the same way. I crave music. It temporarily feeds this insatiable, creative hunger in me. It, at time, expresses crucial feelings and emotions with and for me when I may not know how. It’s a release after a long day, or a way to foster positive vibes right from the start. Even musical tastes are somewhat individual and, in that sense, speak to us about who a person is.
Basically, music as a nice way to get to know people? I’m in. So I asked Andrew if he’d like to share with me a Mixtape, that I, in turn, would share with you. A way for all of us to pay-it-forward, and get to know each other a little more while listening to some new music. Maybe we’ll find new favorite bands or even make friends?
Andrew submitted to me his personal mix, a human touch to a digital age. Passed on in the same way we may have (or still ironically do) a well-timed and deftly planned and executed mixtape. Imagine my complete delight when the theme of this Mixtape sprung from past lovers, the way a good Mixtape should:
These are some of my very favourite songs, but the happy/sad thing is that each song is connected in my memory to ex boyfriends. So, I put them all in this playlist for you as some sort of therapy I guess. I hate when songs I used to love get a little tainted, so I’m repatriating these ones while teaching myself that past relationships can be thought of fondly, not just in spite! Most, if not all of them include a lot of the classical instruments that I love so much (as a trumpet player).
This spoke to me so clearly as I can still remember a time I didn’t listen to Death Cab for Cutie’s brilliant “Transatlanticism” after a break-up in ’05. But time passes and you realize you still really fucking love that song, so you take it back. Thank you, Andrew Lee (and Ben Gibbard).
- Good Intentions Paving Company by Joanna Newsom
- Black Rainbow by St. Vincent
- Scandal at the Parkade by Owen Pallett
- Time of My Life by Patrick Wolf
- Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens
- Beijing by Patrick Watson
- Bottle Rocket by The Go! Team
- That’s All by Clare and The Reasons
- We Say No by Great Aunt Ida
- Masterswarm by Andrew Bird
- Cheer Me Up Thank You by New Buffalo
- Rut & Nuzzle by Snowblink
- I Didn’t Know That by The Books
- Misread by Kings of Convenience
Photography by anonymous and Hunter Desportes.
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