HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ LJOS
* Providing the A's to the 5 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Q's today is Ljos — a music-maker out of Warsaw, Poland who recently put out a lovely album called ‘A Foreward’ (and you can hear the track ‘Naive’ on the HI54 Mix CD ‘DO YOU ¿ YOGA’).
#1 - WHAT IS THE ONE ALBUM (OR EP OR SONG) THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE THE VERY NEXT MUSICAL THING THAT EVERYONE PRESSES PLAY ON THE NEXT TIME THEY FIND THEMSELVES THINKING “WHAT SHOULD I LISTEN TO NOW”?
'Goshen' by ot to, not to, released on Other People label in 2016.
A very unique piece of experimental RnB with sparse, collage-like production based on cello and guitar samples. I also have a soft spot for vocal harmonies, and the ones in here are especially pretty.
#2 - WHAT IS THE ONE MOVIE OR TV SHOW THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE NEXT IN EVERYBODY’S NETFLIX QUEUE (OK, DOESN’T HAVE TO BE NETFLIX, WE’RE ALL INTERNET ADULTS HERE AND KNOW HOW TO FIND ANYTHING ONLINE, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER)?
'Inside Llewyn Davis'. A week in the life of a folk singer in the 60'.
He gets his ass kicked throughout, and the movie isn't really trying to make a point of anything - it's just a bleak but funny portrayal of a musician that doesn’t want to compromise.
#3. I (AND BY “I” I MEAN “THE PERSON THAT IS READING THIS”) AM GOING TO THE LOCAL BOOK STORE (OK, MAYBE THE LOCAL LIBRARY FIRST) TO FIND THE VERY NEXT BOOK THAT I WILL BE PUTTING SOME EXTREMELY VALUABLE ‘ME-TIME' ASIDE FOR. WHICH BOOK WOULD YOU GET, IF YOU WERE ME (AND, I SUPPOSE, YOU HADN’T ALREADY READ WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO SUGGEST)?
'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius.
Not really a novel choice, so I won't bother with yet another review, but I feel like it really helped me in coping with day to day dissapointments.
#4 - WHAT IS THE ONE WEBSITE (OR JUST ANY OLD INTERNET THING: APP, GIF, SERVICE, WHATEVER) THAT YOU WOULD GET REALLY DOWN IN THE DUMPS ABOUT IF IT WERE TO SUDDENLY GO AWAY?
KVR audio. I'm probably addicted to VST plugins, and at one point browsed through the hundreds of them available at KVR, downloaded all of them, and tested any that worked on my system.
Or now that I think of it, if it suddenly went away, I'd finally get some music done.
#5 - AND FINALLY… PLEASE GIVE ONE COMPLETELY UNAIDED RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU THINK EVERYONE SHOULD START DOING / USING / WATCHING / EATING / THINKING / QUITTING / ETC-ING TO MAKE THEIR LIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE BETTER AND/OR BEARABLE.
Go for a run once in a while. It's always a pain to get out the door, but each and every time I feel better and am glad that I did.
For me, it's a form of meditation. That, or turn off your social media notifications and just check it once in a while.
