Synesthesia and the Playlists it Produces -or- Welcome to Fall!
I know autumn is near, not from a change in the weather but from the amount of times I’ve been pressing skip on my Summer ITunes Playlist. Around the 3rd week of August, the hot magentas, highly saturated turquoises and scorching blacks of my summer music start to grate on me and I begin to crave golds and browns and rust in my music. Such has been my state of mind the past week, and it seems no coincidence that my summer-scent Yankee candle burned its last on Sunday, the very day I purchased my autumn-scent candles. (Harvest and Apple Cider if you’re wondering).
So along with a wave of desk and bookshelf organizing (the Fall-oriented academic person’s version of spring cleaning) autumn has officially arrived here at The Cottage, with the cool moody Seattle weather cooperating as well. So to celebrate, I’m sharing the palette of my autumn playlists (i have two; one with vocals and one without for when I’m reading*).
Autumn Playlist artists and/or albums:
a non-exhaustive list in no particular order
Neil Young After The Goldrush, Live at Massey Hall
Miles Davis
Counting Crows August And Everything After
Tom Waits
George Winston Autumn
Erik Friedlander Block Ice & Propane
Ralph Stanley with the Clinch Mountain Boys
Csokolom
Zabe i Babe Drumovi
Everything Is Illuminated soundtrack
Dixie Chicks Home
Blind Melon
R.E.M.
Alison Krauss
Old Crow Medicine Show
Joshua Bell Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Simone Dinnerstein
Water soundtrack
Lisa Ekdahl
Fleetwood Mac
Songs from the Civil War
a plethora of Appalachian hammer dulcimer albums
Newest Ingredients this year: Bruce Springsteen and the Harry Potter Film soundtracks
*The guilelessly earnest names for the playlists this year are “Gold Leaf Radio” & “Autumn Hearth”
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