Ohrenschmaus

A heart-rending tune,

humour and understatement

could not bring her back.

[Matching Mole – O’Caroline]

First concert after

more than two years: Power Pop.

The Beths are the best.

Sit down and relax.

Have a beer and smoke a joint.

Forget all around.

[Tom Waits – Opening Intro]

Small shining jewel

of cosy finger picking

helped by pedal steel

[Vetiver – There Comes a Time (Bert Jansch)]

Hey hey hey – hey hey

Cool soundtrack to crazy times

in the melting pot

[Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy, BBC Radio 4 Soul Music]

There is a blanket

made of infectious rhythms

and sweet harmonies.

[Khruangbin – So We Won’t Forget]

Post-Punk from Dublin

in two thousand twenty-two.

Cool, dry guitar sound.

[Silverbacks – They Were Never Our People (no free audio) ]

Why are songs about

breaking up so much deeper

than on love itself?

[Snail Mail – Speaking Terms]

On the motorway

I turn on the radio

and she turns me on.

[Snail Mail – Glory]

post-punk guitar swirl

spoken everyday thoughts

album of the year

[Dry Cleaning – Her Hippo from New Long Leg]

power in quiet:

piano meditations

in winter landscape

[Phil Cook – All These Years]

With your voice you have

put me under your spell again.

Depth, sadness and joy.

[LUMP – Climb Every Wall]

A warm light guides us.

Bright but not dazzling at all.

Just a trumpet tone.

[Mathias Eick – Begging]

A joy ride around

the mighty, pulsating bass.

Champagne for the ears.

[David Sylvian – Red Guitar]

Twelve kilometers

below ground temperatures

reach hellish levels.

[The Mountain Goats – The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower]

Indie heaven lies

a generation later

still deep down under.

[The Goon Sax – Psychic]

From harmonic chant

to clipped microphone signal

to floating in space.

[Low – Days Like These]

Kevin Shields‘ guitar

on Loveless stirs up the clay

and it sticks for good.

Why the heck do I

continue to buy books on

Dillon, the show-off?

[Look Out Kid, Bob Dylans Lieder, unsere Geschichten]

After a second

all the memories are back.

The fire crackles.

[Teenage Fanclub – Home, the single edit from the new album Endless Arcade]

Crossing the desert

in a dark convertible

during the late night.

[The Colorist Orchestra & Howe Gelb ft Pieta Brown – More Exes]

Dreamy tenor sax.

Impressionist piano.

Waves lapping the shore.

[Joe Lovano – Chapel Song from the new album Garden of Expression]

Woke up in clean sheets.

Bed made of jangly dream pop.

Fluffy ear candy.

[The Luxembourg Signal – The Morning After from the album The Long Now]

Sweaty, murky sound.

Primitive, demonic groove

from Danish cellars.

[Iceage – Vendetta from the album Seek Shelter]

Let’s bounce and have fun.

Smile and stare into the sun.

Wait, what did you say?

[Girl Ray – Show Me More from the album Girl]

Some music sends chills

down my spine, other music

sends down waterfalls.

[Meshell Ndegeocello – Waterfalls (by TLC) from Ventriloquism]

Please sing me to sleep

with your soft, gentle whisper

full of serene love.

[Joan Shelley – Teal from the wonderfully named album Just Like the River Loves the Sea]

Luscious chamber pop.

Everything falls into place.

Warming my cold ears.

[Lo Moon – This Is It]

When they don’t rock out

their knack for sweet melody

is unstoppable.

[The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers]

Ready for a trip?

A descent into the night

where noises abound.

[CS + Kreme – Mount Warning from the album Snoopy]

How rage is transformed

into vibrant energy.

A guilty pleasure.

[Hayley Williams – Simmer from the album Petals for Armor]

Listening to this

wil make you a better mensch.

Trust me, dear reader.

[Alabaster DePlume – Visit Croatia from the album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1]

Lost in tuneful noise

from heavy guitar riffing

with ramshackle drums.

[Hum – In the Den from the album Inlet]

Anyone a lift

into the big open space

without return ride?

[Ana Roxanne – A Study in Vastness from the album Because of a Flower]

Slow food for the soul.

Bass driving into the night.

Sudden, open end.

[Sault – Wildfires]

During all our lives

we are searching for something.

Is it just a note?

[Keith Jarrett – Budapest Concert, part VIII]

More soul than disco.

Killer bass line, strings galore.

Seventies‘ comeback.

[Sault – Fearless]

A lullaby by

a reborn Arthur Russell.

Slow, soft, soothing, sleek.

[Westerman – Blue Comanche]

There is a flower

blossoming in the heavens.

This is how it sounds.

[Roger and Brian Eno – Spring Frost from Mixing Colours]

I hope they play you

your floating music when you

knock on heaven’s door.

[Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd – Perfect Fire]

Good vibes. Joy of life.

Dancing to the Afrobeat.

What a horn section!

[Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy]

Take the late Talk Talk

and transplant them to Texas.

Somnambulistic.

[Loma – Ocotillo]

Polyrhythmic trance

in the Senegalese night

to forget the world.

[Paradise Cinema – Possible Futures]

Such an upbeat song

on a rather downbeat album,

a real miracle.

[Laura Marling – Strange Girl]

Thank you, Bernard for

making me feel half as old

as I really am.

[New Order – Be a Rebel]