Good Evening, Listen to This
An late-afternoon album recommendation.
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Hello, fellow traveler.
I am enjoying the perfect circumstances for vibing: relaxing in another person’s house (dog sitting), the late-afternoon sun in shining through the west-facing window, and I am having exactly One Beer (Asahi Super-Dry, 16.9 FL.OZ.).
The YouTube Algorithm angels have blessed me with a new series of “people talking about cool records: Gimgbab Records’ “Diggin’ Gimbab Records”. I clicked the first episode they showed me, with a musical artist named Geordie Greep (incredible name).
Joe Henderson, Cannonball Adderley, some great stuff. But one choice lept out of my average laptop speakers: Maneul Göttsching, a German musician and composer, whom I have never heard of. Wikipedia says “His style and technique influenced dozens of artists in the post-Eno ambient and Berlin School of electronic music scenes in the 1980s and 1990s.”
Greep selected the album E2-E4, a 1981 record that is 13 tracks that play as one continuous sound, blending into each other. Big ambient vibes, big dance club vibes, big “guy alone in his room for 20 days pressing different buttons on machines” vibes. This is my kind of vibe. This is elite Music to Work To vibes.
Hardly Working (Interactive)
Hello, and welcome to my first interactive post. Before we officially begin, let’s establish what exactly is going on here. First, if you’re reading this in your email, please go ahead and click on the “view in browser” button, as seen here:
Prepare to do some dishes, take your laundry out of the dryer, open that Google Doc you’ve been putting off, or grab One Beer, click on the following link, and:
Listen to this:
or on Apple Music.
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