Wherever You Will Go- The Calling-

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Coldplay - Magic (AlunaGeorge Remix)

In My Place - Coldplay

This is the 399th SoundCloud Exclusive Interbay track...the 399th consecutive daily posting of never before heard Interbay music.  

"It all seems like a dream..."  

I am prone to getting lost in nostalgia.  I have emptied the well of the comfort that nostalgia once offered me, long ago.  I have become suspicious of my own desire for legacy, for leaving something behind that could be valuable to someone.  

...but, then I think about photo albums.  Once precious and treasured family heirlooms, in a world where there seems to be an infinite amount of storage space for the uncountable number of photographs we each accumulate day after day, and how devalued and impermanent those images now seem...I'm not entirely sure what role photo albums hold in our modern society.  

I don't have many photo albums myself--I think I have two.  The rest of my physically photos are spread between two shoeboxes.  I used to look at them all the time, but less so as those are portals to a very specific and unchanging time.  

My more recent photos are stored in the cloud--ephermera defined.  I don't seem to look at them the way I used to repeatedly peer into the boxes of Kodak prints and Polaroids.  

When my wife died, she left behind a bunch of photo albums...none of them have any photos of me or our kid.  These are all photos from before I knew her...and I only know the stories of a sliver of the photos collected here.  As the last curator of my wife's life, I'm frustrated that I can only properly tell part of her story--and I fear that no one will bother to tell mine, when I'm gone.  

Stranger still, I know that I exist in numerous photo albums of people I no longer know.  Could they have thrown those photo albums out?  Are they ever looked at?  What sort of feelings do those photos dredge up for them...and would my own feelings be different than theirs?  

That's the state of mind that this latest Interbay track was born out of...a distrust of nostalgia blended with the echoes of the lure and comfort of nostalgia, and wanting to know how or even if one is remembered.  

I thought about taking a photograph of one of my own photo albums or one of my late wife's for the thumbnail image, but eventually settled for a generic photo of "a" photo album, rather than anything that too specifically ties this story to me...because I would be surprised if I'm the only one who thinks about this sort of thing.  

I went for an mellow, chillout, triphop vibe for this...with pizzicato violins, deep vibraphones, scoring strings, a flute that sounds more like a saxophone, a trombone that might be out of tune--but that adds a risable tension that I decided to embrace rather than erase.  

There are drums, but this track is not drum-centric.  (There's one partricular set of percussion that I think gives off a reggae vibe--well, reggae as played by The Police, perhaps.)    

I do like this track.  It feels different than what I normally do (but that also seems impossible because I often hop from style to style, genre to genre--often in the same song.)  I could hear this as bumper music for an NPR show (although, NPR show producers need to hurry up and use it for that purpose, as Orange Man Bad seems intent on eliminating most good things about America, NPR being one of them.)  

Give this a listen and let me know what you think.  
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"Yellowed Pages" *SoundCloud Exclusive*

Coldplay - Everglow (Live At Belasco Theater)

oh they say people come, say people go
this particular diamond was extra special
and though you might be gone, and the world may not know
still I see you, celestial

like a lion you ran,  a goddess you rolled
like an eagle you circled, in perfect purple
so how come things move on, how come cars don’t slow
when it feels like the end of my world
when I should but I can’t let you go?

but when I’m cold, cold
oh when I’m cold, cold
there’s a light that you give me when I’m in shadow
there’s a feeling you give me, an ever glow

like brothers in blood, sisters who ride
and we swore on that night we’d be friends til we die
but the changing of winds, and the way waters flow
life as short as the falling of snow
and now I’m gonna miss you I know

but when I’m cold, cold
in water rolled, salt
I know that you’re with me and the way you will show
and you’re with me wherever I go
and you give me this feeling this ever glow

oh- I I I I
what I wouldn’t give for just a moment to hold
yeah I live for this feeling this ever glow

so if you love someone, you should let them know
oh the light that you left me will ever glow

Coldplay - Everglow with lyrics

Coldplay - Hymn for the Weekend

 Coldplay perform "Paradise," from their album "Mylo Xyloto."on The Colbert Report  10/20/11

"Paradise" - Coldplay(live)

Coldplay performing Fix You for remembrance of the Manchester attack.

Coldplay Fix You Live 2017 One Love Manchester

Coldplay -  Yellow (Acoustic Version)

Help Oxfam make a video for this acoustic version of In My Place in support of the charity's campaign to raise awareness of land grabs - head to http://www.oxfam.org/inmyplacefilm to take part. 

This acoustic version of In My Place is from a performance recorded at Absolute Radio’s studios in One Golden Square in 2002. Courtesy of Absolute Radio.

Coldplay - In My Place (Acoustic, for Oxfam Land Grabs video)

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