Things we’ve been listening to this week…
Our sad songs post on Tuesday got us thinking about what music we’d been playing recently. It’s been a week of headphones in the office, as everyone’s busy preparing for our new RE:Imagine season. But what’ve we all been listening to? After a very quick and entirely unscientific survey, here is this week’s somewhat eclectic CLS playlist…
PL: I’ve been listening Stan Getz – The Bossa Nova Albums (trying to prolong a holiday feeling…!)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or5qBh8Xbpc]
AL: I’ve had Tomasz Stańko Quartet’s ‘Song for Sarah’ on repeat this week. It’s beautifully melancholy, and takes me back to fantasies of sequined gowns and smoky jazz clubs.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIrMXivU1pk]
ZH: Chicago-based rapper Mick Jenkins has a new album Wave[s] and it’s very good.
PM: This week I’ve been mostly listening to ‘I Get Along Without You Very Well’ by Chet Baker. It’s a jazz standard that I’d never heard before until the recent John Wilson Orchestra prom, where Seth MacFarlane sung in the style of Frank Sinatra at a packed out late night concert.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbPHTBiAVQ]
MS: This has been a week of ‘concentrating on papers and presentations’ music on headphones, so Palestrina, Bach, Electronica, and some good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. And of course the BBC Proms…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I42akKnvUw]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te6mOEUuvk]
GHG: I haven’t been listening to much music lately, but with a fussy baby comes a lot of walking, so I’ve been doing lots of listening to podcasts to keep me entertained. These are a few of my favourites:
This American Life: A great podcast with a different theme each week and a variety of stories on that theme.
Scummy Mummies: A comedy podcast on parenthood, co-hosted by a good friend of mine
The Moth Podcast: Storytelling podcast with fantastic real life stories
Serial/Undisclosed: I loved the popular Serial podcast about the case of Adnan Syed so much that I’ve been listening to a follow-on podcast called Undisclosed which is following the story as it continues to unfold