This is for a girl. It always is isn't it. This is for a dream i want us to have and I hope she can hear how it would be like within these 55 or so minutes. It would mean the world to me if she could be in this dream with me forever, there in the shade of the mountain with the ocean to our backs refusing to wake up.

Tracklist is in the file under lyrics if you are using iTunes, but I'm sure the AOR fan knows all of this stuff. i did cheat a bit. first and last tracks are not AOR but were chosen for artistic reasons.

The artist name i used for the mix is a long story best told on another day.

Heidi Snyders - Dreaming

Inspired by @good-vibes also known as La Homage and his mix titled "La La La...Means I Love You! (Journey Along The Riviera)".

His mix led me down the very deep rabbit hole of library music. every new KPM or De Wolfe album spoke of a time and place i never lived in but had been through tv, movies, documentaries, commercials, or public service broadcast. The musicians are all but unknown but they consistently churned out music that covered so many different genres, and textures while always explaining a time and place. (i did cheat a little as one song is not necessarily Library or Soundtrack music)

So listening to hours of it i wondered how a session musician could live with that. So many albums but so little recognition. Your music will never really be front an centre. It will be relegated to the background while someone is selling the newest something. 

So this mix was about finding those musical moments that may speak to the sadness of that thought and contemplating what it all means. While you dream of being on the Riviera you realise that even if you were there, you would only be alone.


Libo Matshazi