Today’s guest deejay is Pierre Laplace.
I invited Pierre to share a mix on Soundwave after hearing his 2019 album, You Disappeared. Since then, Pierre has released a new album, Sundown. Where You Disappeared felt like the soundtrack to a China Miéville novel, Sundown felt like a Koyaanisqatsisque soundtrack for a doomed planet. The album notes for Sundown tell a tale of desperate conflict in Rome in the year 2062. That works, too. The album drips with foreboding.
The first mix Pierre shared was an unexpected delight. Then I could hear the influences of someone like, say, Ennio Morricone, in his music, Pierre’s mix didn’t convey the feeling of his own music. Pierre’s mix for today’s show is further from his albums. His mix is more unexpected and just as delightful.
Aside from three artists, I’m unfamiliar with the musicians who appear in Pierre’s mix. I’ve gone down the listening rabbit hole on Spotify because all the music in his mix is brilliant. I’m sure you’ll be doing the same.
Join us next week when our guest deejay will be KMRU.
See you then.
- Alexi Murdoch “All My Days”
- Mark Kozelek “Find Me, Ruben Olivares”
- Alela Diane “About Farewell”
- Hayden “1939”
- Townes Van Zandt “Kathleen”
- Spain “Easy Lover”
- Adrian Crowley “Some Blue Morning”
- Grandaddy “He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot”
- Elysian Fields “Next Year in Jerusalem”
- Jackson C. Frank “Marcy’s Song”
- Bill Fay “Big Painter”
- Antony and the Johnsons “Hope There’s Someone”
- Richard Hawley “Cole’s Corner”
- Nina Simone “Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair”
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