The Listening Club - 24th October 2021

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. A regular kind of week in Amsterdam, bit wet, bit grey, but regular is okay all things considered (watches infection numbers warily). Very pleasant to be spending time listening to the vast list of performers playing at Le Guess Who in a few of weeks - yes, finally a festival! So I'll be needing a caretaker manager here on Sun 14th Nov if anyone fancies it, let me know...

Last Sunday we had @myemuisemo sending one in from about as far into left-field as you can get, in the shape of Randy Vanwarmer's "Terraform" from 1980, which boggled the assembled in the finest of ways. Many thanks to Eilonwy for the impressive pick, and for sailing the frisb across to @unmannedfuture, who's here with tonight's intro...

"So I did not know this of all things is what we were going to listen to, but it feels like a good soundtrack for trudging towards November, lying prone staring at ceiling, that sort of thing.  Perhaps contemplating the sonic landscape (there's a diagram in the liner notes I’ll post at the end) or perhaps the Artist’s Statement:  

All seasons are cyclical, like real life shit. We adapt and venture through each phase with intentions of engagement, embracing mistakes and chances that eventually become the foundation of identities and roles we take on in life. All pain is temporary, as in joy, anger, doubt and all human emotions. Nothing is forever. Just a constant cyclical randomization processed in patterns and algorithms. We can’t predict life, but we can try to brace ourselves for the ever changing tides of time.

Some dreams are worth breaking your limbs for.

 Dedicated to ALL the young gods out there."

Right then. Download's here, stream's below:

See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1) for the last time, clocks change next week!