PONDERBEAT - THE PODCAST SERIES FROM LAURIE BROWN’S PONDERCAST FEATURING A CURATED SELECTION OF TRACKS FROM KILLBEAT ARTISTS
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For Episode 8 of PonderBeat, our collaboration with Laurie Brown’s Pondercast, Laurie has curated a playlist that helps us to re-centre in the midst of our current world situation, drawing us in, closer to ourselves, to each other, and to things that might often seem otherworldly.
To begin this episode, the acoustic version of Gord Downie’s “Away Is Mine” brings us closer to the beautiful spirit of Gord than ever before. Luka Kuplowsky is not afraid to write about his own inner reflections which may not be entirely flattering all the time in “Do I Have To Be”, and Braids’ “Here 4 U” explores how part of every relationship lives on beyond the break down.
If there’s an activity that nearly everyone can relate to during lock down, it may be doom scrolling, and Steven Wilson’s “King Ghost” pins down that exact uneasiness of nothing. LAL also works to draw us closer to each with “End Of This World Together”, while Yves Jarvis “Emblem” makes you lean into the gentle, lush feeling of green.
Laurie considers Edwin Raphael’s “Mild Sanity” (ft. Juletta) to be a “second wave saviour”, bringing the listener inside themselves as a “half-conscious body high”. And while we’re in our own heads, The Weather Station’s “Robber” is like our own inner-voice confessing to itself.
Charles Spearin and Josefin Runsteen find each other’s rhythm in “Breathing With You, With Me”, while Matthew Cardinal’s “May 7th” find its own self, the one that shows up in the quiet, underneath everything else that’s going on in this weird world.
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PONDERBEAT EPISODE 8
Gord Downie - Away Is Mine
Luka Kuplowsky - Do I Have to Be
Braids - Here 4 U
Steven Wilson - KING GHOST
LAL - End of This World Together
Yves Jarvis - Emblem
Edwin Raphael - Mild Sanity (feat Juletta)
The Weather Station - Robber
Charles Spearin, Josefin Runsteen - Breathing With You, With Me
Matthew Cardinal - May 7th