Can't Feel At Home

(oystered 59)

1. His Name Is Alive "~intro~ 'Last One' (excerpt)" Stars On E.S.P. (4AD)
2. The Howling Hex "Words" Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum)
3. Psychic Ills "Never Learn Not To Love" Never Learn Not To Love/ Cease To Exist (Sacred Bones)
4. Sonic Boom "Just A Little Piece Of Me" All Things Being Equal (Carpark)
5. Sun Araw "78 Sutra" Rock Sutra (Sun Ark)
6. France Jobin "p" Death Is Perfection, Everything Else Is Relative (Editions Mego)
7. Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker "Vocoder Divorce" I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often (self-released)
8. Kyle Bobby Dunn "Cescon (field version)" Selected Ambient Expansion Pack (self-released)
9. Tom James Scott "Hapax" Mine Is The Heron (Students Of Decay)
10. Marcus Fischer "Arctic 3" Arctic/ Antarctic (Luxus-Arctica Int'l)
11. Rafael Anton Irisarri "Vanishing Points" Peripeteia (Black Truffle)
12. CV & JAB "Stone Circle" Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic)
13. Christopher Bissonnette "The Desire To Destroy Beauty" The Wine Dark Sea (Dronarivm)
14. Élodie "Heure Dorée" Le Nid d'Ivoire (La Scie Dorée)
15. Simon Scott "Fen(ce)" Migrations (Touch)
16. Federico Durand "Jardin de Musgo" Alba (12k)
17. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma "Door With No Sign" Door With No Sign (Mexican Summer Looking Glass)
18. Corey Fuller "Sanctuary (b neptune's 'radio edit')" Sanctuary (self-released)

Arcing like a siren's blat that suddenly softens, skimming on water; buoyant in dusk's dimming light.

2020 coronavirus quarantine mix Q2. All songs released or reissued in 2020, except track one, 1996, His Name Is Alive.

So Far Away, From My Friends

(oystered 58)

1. ~intro~
2. Zelienople "America" Hold You Up (Miasmah)
3. Vladislav Delay "Raakile" Rakka (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
4. Beatrice Dillon "Workaround Four" Workaround (PAN)
5. Stephen J. Malkmus "The Greatest Own In Legal History" Traditional Techniques (Matador)
6. Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello "Transparent As A Hanging Glass" Slow Machines (12k)
7. Fabio Orsi "Vibra 02" Vibra (Fluid Audio)
8. Botany "Fourteen 45 Tails" Fourteen 45 Tails (Longform Editions)
9. Jan St. Werner feat. Mark E. Smith "VS Cancelled" Molocular Meditation (editions Mego)
10. Jeff Parker & The New Breed "Build A Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)" Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem)
11. Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki "Natsukodachi" Thanking You (Black Truffle)
12. Britton Powell "If Anything Is" If Anything Is (Catch Wave Ltd.)
13. Califone "By The Time Starlight Reaches Our Eyes [b. neptune edit]" Echo Mine (Jealous Butcher)
14. Six Organs Of Admittance "Two Forms Moving" Companion Rises (Drag City)
15. Matt LaJoie "Showers Over Birch Point" Everlasting Spring (Flower Room)
16. Richard Skelton "The Oracle Bone" The Oracle Bone (Aeolian)
17. Keith Fullerton Whitman "Broadcast's 'Echo's Answer'" Resonators (1) (self-released)

As worldly pleasures wave goodbye, music is and always has been an ideal vehicle for social seclusion; the perfect getaway tool. The unfortunate circumstance impacting all of us right now has provided me a little extra time to curate this rather wildly disparate set of restless isolationism and deep melancholy alongside more joyful tones, campfire pop and microdot escapism. Stay down.
[all songs Q1 2020 except ~intro~]