Sunday 1 September 2024

The Listening Club - 1st September 2024

Greetings folks, pinch and a punch and all that.

Hope all is good for you all. Alas, September est arrivé, along with the end of the summer holidays, although the 28 degrees celsius I feel and the skate park block party round the corner that we will soon be attending are both begging to differ. It's been a fun week or two, as the remains of the summer and the start of the Dutch "cultural season" collide, providing opportunities to see odd bits of classical and jazz being performed for free around the city, which is really very nice indeed. Add meeting up with a few old friends here and there for food, drink and fine conversation, and well, what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, Cornelius is playing the Paradiso on Tuesday. So yes, I'm in musn't grumble mode right now, for sure.

Last Sunday, as befits the last of the month, saw us in #vortex mode, this time a #OneLastTuneVortex, which as predicted was quite evenly split between mellow finishes and balls-to-the-wall moments, with only one or two crowd-clearers in attedance. Thanks to everyone for chipping in tunes, and the mighty @Saucer for the tough job of stitching it all together!

Looking back to our regular program, we find it's me, @kleptones, that has the frisb, so let's get italic for tonight's intro...

"Right then. 

Around the turn of the year, if I have time, I bookmark a few "best of year" music lists, particularly for genres of music that's I'm not particularly au fait with or a fan of, just to have a listen to what is considered new and great, on the off chance that something will catch my ear. Most of it gets binned after 20-30 seconds of listening, but occasionally something slips through and makes its way into the permanent collection.

Here's one that slipped through from last year's lists. It's epic, It's Scandinavian and that's probably nuff said for now. Looking forward to seeing what you think...."

Okidoke. Download's here, stream's below:

See you 20:00 BST (GMT+1) tonight.

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