Today’s guest deejay is Corey Parlamento who comes to use by way of my old friend, Steven Howard (check out Steven’s SOUNDWAVE mix here).
I’ll be honest, I know absolutely nothing about Corey but when Steven Howard suggested I have Corey on SOUNDWAVE I didn’t ask any questions. Steven’s taste in music is impeccable and if he recommends a band or a deejay I will not hesitate to take him up on it. Corey is no exception.
Corey will talk about his music but I will spoil one thing here. Corey is a deejay at AshevilleFM and the focus of his show is soundtracks. The instrumental soundtracks. The atmospheric soundtracks. The foley work used in soundtracks. This resonates with me because as long as I can remember those are the parts of the soundtracks I love the most. Before I even knew there was such a thing as ambient music I desired to hear music that consisted of those moments of the soundtracks that filled me with wonder or gave me the chills. That’s exactly the kind of show Corey produces and the mix you are going to hear on today’s show. I know you’re going to love it.
Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Strictly Kev, aka DJ Food.
This mix is a blend of my current preoccupation with film music and a new found affinity for South Florida. I live in Asheville, North Carolina and have a radio show called Scores For You and Yours where I broadcast film music for an hour on the weekend. I have been doing it for about three years and have learned a whole lot about film music. As far as South Florida goes, I grew up in Boynton Beach, not too far away from Miami. A stone’s throw from Mar-A-Lago (going to save that title for my Jimmy Buffet songwriting phase). I’ve never particularly liked South Florida. The landscape is overdeveloped and the weather is insane. However, when I visited last for Christmas I found myself mesmerized by what remained of the natural landscape and even some of the remnants of 70’s South Florida architecture. I felt a connection to it that I had not felt in the past. I made this mix imagining my connection to a South Florida that no longer exists. Maybe it does exist somewhere underneath all of the condos and sugar cane factories just waiting for its time to return.
The mix contains six songs from different films, a song that I wrote and produced for an art installation for the artist Sarah Knobel, and a track from my band Thought Relief (which was previously released on tape under the name Livingdog and Mike Johnson via Constellation Tatsu Records). In between each song I added in field recordings from my most recent trip to Florida and a clip of audio from an old home video. I hope that you enjoy it and create your own fictional landscapes from it.
- Livingdog “Burning Weather”
- Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryn Kluge “Foreboding Sea”
- Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç “Su Nereye Baksan Yine Su”
- Mica Levi “Monos”
- Jung Jae Il “Water, Ocean”
- Alberto Iglesias “Matin du miracle/Cimetière”
- Anthony Partos “Motel”
- Thought Relief “heart the size of a ____”
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