at irregular intervals at various times of day, bouts of wild idleness befall me. i walk. i write. i take too many photographs. and i make amateur mixtapes, which i am sharing here. have a look around, have a listen, get in touch if you like. and yes, i stole the title for this website from an album by wonderful hand habits.
wildly idle
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walking in the dark (magic forest)
memory
adult fantasies - under a steelplate sky / ben bertrand - pygmy song / yo la tengo - james and ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds / humbros - live excerpt (knotwilg festival 2019 at brasserie atlas) / julia jacklin - leadlight / gunn-truscinski duo - some lunar day / william hooker - chain gangs / ksiezyc - mglista / ignatz & de stervende honden - qibo [as idée fixe] / fedora romita - u6 leopoldplatz & seestraße / big blood - a message sent
drinking red wine & speaking french (universal feelings)
avant-pop
will guthrie - nist-nah / constantines - trans canada / aksak maboul - tout a une fin / alabaster de plume - there's always more / mega bog - diary of a rose / aldous harding - weight of the planets / weiland - vakbond / beth shearsby - lung toy / sibylle baier - colour green / steve gunn & cass mccombs - wild mountain thyme
the violin sings with joyful ring, the clarinet goes doodly-doodly-det
jazz
girls in airports - lin / lirra skirra - I / sam sadigursky - sad stories / nihiloxica - supuki / milan kniza - dhk quartet (1973) / alabaster deplume - visit croatia / angel bat dawid - black family / yorey - chia / maria beraldo - helena / ensemble of irreproducible outcomes - this b is for brian
just a few lonely women in search of company
jazz
the double u & glands of external secretion - lonely woman / g. calvin weston (featuring john medeski) - lonely woman / ira ochs - lonely woman / saskia - lips get hot / bill orcutt - lonely woman / sun ra & his arkestra - the lady with the golden stockings / elyse weinberg - greasepaint smile / pale cocoon - sora / molly linen - waited long / aki takase & silke eberhard - lonely woman / arthur russell - i never get lonesome
i sold my car to buy a piano (and my bicycle, too)
piano
miaux - orage impromptu / pak yan lau & darin gray - lost / lucy johnson - piano / keith & julie tippett, capra vaccina, tofani - part 1 / philip corner (with carles santos) - chord: b major - b♭ minor 9
work in the office all day (but it's okay)
attitude
carole et les louis - télécharge / aksak maboul - mercredi matin / jumbled - with pen in hand / nap eyes - it's only life / thurston moore - tape / minimal compact - immer vorbei / tuxedo moon - remote (pralaya) + les halles - golden hours V-VI / les halles - golden hours II-III / tom hamill - they're already on to us / aksak maboul - mercredi matin
i lie awake at night and i write
darkness
ottaven - >>>>>>>>>>>>>> / pédiluve banquise - uv lipolytique / karl fousek - 3 / calhau! - call dunes / cucina povera - salvia salvatrix + les halles - illusion of movement / jerzy mazzoll and jerzy przeździecki - neverago / brecht ameel - stay up all night
nacht, schatten, gewächse
nighttime
benjamin lew - little birds sit on your shoulder / katie von schleicher - caged sleep / keiji haino - even if i break through / kramp - fire from above / papercuts - mattress on the floor / cass mccombs - sleeping volcanoes / kurt vile - wheelhouse / les mutants maha - hasard / daniel bachman - invocation
letting go of one thing doesn't entail grabbing hold of another
afternoon
mind over mirrors - restore & slip / rachel mason - listen forest / kevin morby - i want to be clean / daniel bachman - levee / lady lamb - salt / mary lattimore - quintana / kurt vile - one trick ponies / chuck berry - johnny b goode / the crests - step by step / gunn-truscinski duo - seagull for chuck berry / kevin morby - piss river
trans canada (day 1, ontario)
folk(s)
ian daniel kehoe - prizes through the mazes of the jungle / the weather station - the impossible / the weather station feat. marine dreams - good bread / jon mckiel - mourning dove / the surfrajettes - banzai pipeline / kristofer maddigan - high score / vile creature - glory! glory! / constantines - call me out / luka kuplowski - anew day / alias ensemble - streets of derry / the weather station - came so easy / the weather station featuring baby eagle - mule in the flowers
mama raised us on riddles and trances, papa raised us on
countryfolkrhythmandblues
chris smither - crocodile man / tom rush - galveston flood / bok, muir & trickett - run come see jerusalem / guy clark - dublin blues / gillian welch - one more dollar / dick gaughan - your daughters and your sons / richard thompson - vincent black lightning 1952 / buffalo springfield - a child's claim to fame / the blues brothers - she caught the katy / jerry jeff walker - i feel like hank williams tonight / hank williams - i saw the light
what am i going to do with everything i know
dusk
daniel bachman - song for the setting sun I-IV / brainticket - cosmic wind / julianna barwick - nebula / body/head - last time / ignatz - meadows // named after an album by the weather station
those behind us that we follow
going
mick turner - long way home / ryley walker - the roundabout / nathan salsburg - timoney's / king hannah - meal deal / bryce hackford - round trip / nora brown - old horse and buggy / oneida - rev / bry webb - someplace i'm supposed to be / erik heestermans - 04 / lady lamb - we've got a good thing going / mick turner - we're not going home // named after a track on manes by ben bertrand
and then i wanted to say it all at once
somewhere
aymeric de tapol - dede 10 / eric's trip - beach / kuupuu - mountblow 66 / laut fragen - was wir haben ist nichts / de portables - i'm aim ot yaw / karen eliot - ti posso toccare I / arthur russell - instrumentals volume 1 (part 1) / elisabeth klinck - 04 / daniel romano - where may i take my rest / the ruby suns - kenya dig it / hand habits - nite life
nothing what it seems
compulsive
nova materia - on-av / pseudocode - a.d. (long version) / cabasa - valleyfield / razen - adhîsta ayîk II / steve gunn - for harvest (live at the transfigurations festival) / lauren maccoll - air mullach beinn fhuathais / david toop - rain in the face, “do the bathosphere”, c. 1974 / tolouse low trax - jeidem fall / gastr del sol - bauchredner / adrianne lenker and buck meek - money / marisa anderson & tara jane o'neil - you'd be so nice to come home to