#suzanne kraft

[disease]

SUZANNE KRAFT // WAITING [ABOUT YOU, 2021]

[momentsinlove]

Moments In Love #17

Andrew Wasylyk - ‘Last Sunbeams Of Childhood’ (Parallel Light version)

The Avalanches - ‘Ghost Story pt1′

Phil Lynott - ‘One Wish’ (demo)

The Avalanches - ‘Dial D For Devotion’

??? - ‘More Than A Man’

Laura Groves - ‘Red’

Eddie Chacon - ‘Wicked World’

The Blue Nile - ‘Seven AM’

The Zenmenn - ‘Homage To A Friendship’

Scribble - ‘Mr. Calico’

Andrew Wasylyk - Adrift Below A Constellation

Prefab Sprout - Desire As (Acoustic)

Suzanne Kraft - Waiting (Single version)

LYR - Winter Solstice

[antronaut]

Suzanne Kraft – Talk From Home

[ludvigovzec]

Moscow Syndrome/ Black Plastic Mix 1.Love Object-Holodnoe Solnce 2.Girls On Top AKA Richard X-I Wanna Dance With Somebody 3.Dubfire feat.Miss Kittin-Exit(Original Mix) 4.Sana Garic-Sobe 5.Kim Wilde-Suburbs of Moscow 6.Special Interest-Street Pulse Beat(boy Harsher Remix) 7.Yazoo-Goodbye Seventies( Dark Side Extended Mix) 8.Light Asylum-Heart of Dust 9.Boy Harsher-Electric(Kris Baha remix) 10.The Human League-The Sound Of The Crowd 11.Double Mixte-Tirage En Croix 12.Perfume Genius-Your Body Changes Everything(Boy Harsher Remix) 13.Kedr Livanskiy-Yourt Name/Imya tvaya 14.Ladytron-Black Plastic 15.Blue Hawaii-I Felt Love)Suzanne Kraft Remix)

[dustedmagazine]

A Year in the Life of a Mole: Arthur Krumins’ 2020

What a ridiculous year to try to sum up. The effects of the pandemic continue to be devastating to so many, both the virus itself and the isolation and weirdness of life with its effects. Time became a different element, and left the usual ways I counted the days to one side, in favor of a new routine. As I luckily worked from home, and tried to be a good parent to my one year old for most of the rest of my waking hours, the days took on a new rhythm.

I used to listen to a lot of new music on my hour-plus bus commutes to and from work. But now, I listen to it as background music with my work day at home, and more subdued old favorites in the early morning hours taking care of the baby for the morning shift. As well, because of all the changes and shifting realities I found myself turning to more calming and mostly instrumental works, although tempered with the occasional blast of cathartic noise or a pulse that inspires movement.

I paid more attention to pieces of music that create a sense of direction or flow, as they build on the particular highlights of each smaller moment they contain. I think in a sense, this was the year I truly entered middle age, for the good (reserving judgement a little more) and the bad (more aches and pains and an absolute need for coffee). Some records grew on me that initially seemed too sweet or even tempered to be true favorites. There’s also the pleasure in coming back to things that initially seemed interesting, but that I had left to one side in the course of the year.

Here’s the albums I ended up counting on, occasionally spurring me to write reviews, and often causing me to find a moment to be quietly thankful that they exist.

Records I listened to on the bus pre-shutdown, and that helped pull me through the work week:

Gil Scott-Heron and Makaya McCraven — We’re New Again (XL Recordings)

Earth Cult — NATCH 11 (Black Dirt Studios)

Jeff Parker —  Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)

The Giving Shapes —  Earth Leaps Up (Elsewhere Music)

Settling into pandemic life, and letting my headspace get blasted and then soothed:

Temple of the Roses by Ash Brooks

Ash Brooks —  Temple of the Roses (Flower Room)

Tough Age - Which Way Am I? (Mint)

White Poppy —  Sound Meditation Vol 2 (Self-released)

Rootless —  Docile Cobras (Flower Room)

Joan Shelley —  Live at the Bomhard (No Quarter)

Matt Lajoie —  Everlasting Spring (Flower Room)

Keeping me grounded as the pandemic just goes on and on:

Between No Things by Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft

Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft — Between No Things (Music from Memory)

Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson — Chicago Waves (International Anthem)

Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers — Get in Union (Alan Lomax Archive)

North Americans —  Roped In (Third Man)

I came to revisit things that I overlooked, or caught on to albums towards the end of the year reading the writing of others and now intend to keep listening to:

Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain by Gwenifer Raymond

Gwenifer Raymond —  Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (Tompkins Square)

Lisa/Liza —  Shelter of a Song (Orindal)

Arthur Russell —  Sketches for World of Echo: June 25, 1984 live at Ei (Audika)

Brother Theotis Taylor —  s/t (Mississippi)

Benny Yurco —  You Are My Dreams (PIAPTK)

Qu’ran Shaheed —  Process (Preference)

Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection —  s/t (YK)

Nathan Salsburg —  Landwerk No. 2 (No Quarter)

Allysen Callery — Ghost Folk (cosirecords)

Gordon Koang —  Unity (Music in Exile)

Arthur Krumins

[persimmonlions]

cuushe — not to blame (suzanne kraft mix)

[musicforprogramming]

Never Heated by Suzanne Kraft from the album Talk From Home (2015) on Melody As Truth.

Check our #Spotify playlist for more: https://bit.ly/music-4-programming

[burlveneer-music]

Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft - Between No Things - my kind of ambient album, i.e. with enough movement to keep my interest (Music From Memory)

MFM048 sees the release of a special collaboration between two unique voices within the ambient landscape, Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft, with their collective debut album ‘Between No Things’. Whilst having first connected at a Gaussian Curve release show in Amsterdam back in 2017, in which both musicians also performed, the two really got to know each other during a three day recording session that followed immediately after; “We would have good chats and laugh setting up and in between long takes but, for the most part, we almost didn't talk when recording.” An instant apparent chemistry between both was present and which, via effortless experimental jams, resulted in over 30 hours of raw material that would sit silently untouched until the tracks were slowly narrowed down to a potential album in late 2018. Treated with overdubs and edits by the duo at Suso's studio in Madrid in 2019, the album slowly began to take on it’s final form. It would eventually be completed when Suso sent one final piece, resulting in something of a remote jam session between the two, which would become the closer of the record as well as the title song. Fully improvised, ‘Between No Things’ is an honest musical reflection of a new friendship between two kindred musical spirits, in its purest form.