I live in San Diego but I hail from Boston. San Diego has been my home for the last 11 years but at heart, I\u2019m a New Englander. As much as San Diego is a paradise to live in, it will never quite feel like home to me like Massachusetts does. After all this time I\u2019m still amazed to see big, cowboy skies and palm trees every day.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever get used to it because I\u2019ll forever be comparing it and contrasting it to New England. It\u2019s just something that\u2019s been imprinted on me.<\/p>\n
With winter fast approaching I feel even more bewildered. I\u2019m used to gloomy, biting cold and endless days of snow, not going about in t-shirts, shorts and sandals. And while I don\u2019t miss any of that I do miss other things about winter, like how snowfall seems to mute sound, while sub zero temperatures seems to crystallize it. And I miss the way winter can bring on a kind of bittersweet frame of mind.<\/p>\n
Living in sunny San Diego I have to really go out of my way to tap into that state of mind and today\u2019s show is a sonic touchstone to that place, in only that magical way that music can reach.<\/p>\n
When I was gathering the songs for today\u2019s show over the last couple of months I didn\u2019t have any of that in mind. Quite honestly, I was just setting aside songs in a folder in iTunes that just seemed to fit together well. It wasn\u2019t until I began working on the mix for today\u2019s show that it became apparent what the show actually wanted to be.<\/p>\n
I remember one winter night when I was a boy. I was an angry and unhappy kid because my parent\u2019s marriage was falling apart. I had all these intense emotions and conflicts that I didn\u2019t know what to do with. But I remember one night where I left the house after a terrible argument with my mom. I walked around for a while and then found myself at a local pond that was frozen over and covered with snow. It calmed me. So I walked to the center of the pond, lay down and watched the snow fall from sky.<\/p>\n
It was late, and I was far away from any roads. It was quiet and I was completely alone and all the confusion and anger just melted away.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what today\u2019s show wants to be: a touchstone to that moment.<\/p>\n
At least, that\u2019s what it is for me. It will be something entirely different for you. And that\u2019s part of the magic of today\u2019s show.<\/p>\n
Join us again next week when we\u2019ll showcase music from Immigrant Breast Nest<\/a>. Dan Abatemarco is one of the founder\u2019s of Immigrant Breast Nest and he also performs under the name of Speak Onion<\/a>. Speak Onion is an experiment in noise and you can experience Speak Onion\u2019s live set here<\/a>.<\/p>\n See you next week!<\/p>\n