I accidentally found this forgotten sequence in my library. Nothing extra-ordinary, just a fine collection of 'travel music' of different sorts. Once a pilgrim, always a pilgrim.

Functional Music - Backpacking 2022

Soundtrack list :

- Natalia Ivanova - Shamanic song tribe
- Istanbul Dubphonics (Drumspyder Remix)
- Drumspyder - Psychic Vampire 
- L'ENTOURLOOP - Le Bonheur Ft. Panda Dub (Official Audio)
- Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Mr. Rabbit It Is (Foxall Edit)
- Intiche - Rios - Intiche & Rodrigo Gallardo & Jkson
- Sulette - P'tit Courage (Souleance Edit) {Official Audio}
- Souleance - Mais Um
- Baiana (CloZee Remix)
- J∙PØØL - Causa Sui EP - 03 Lacuna (Original Mix)
- David Starfire - Primal - 01 Jungle
- J∙PØØL - Causa Sui EP - 02 Moh Maya (Original Mix)
- Souleance - Segrados Do Samba
- Amazonia Bird Tribe · Sunny Solwind · Auralponic
- I've Been Voodoo'd
- the Prodigy - Breathe (Victor Ruiz Bootleg)
- J∙PØØL - Causa Sui EP - 01 Anatta (Original Mix)
- Helucze - Black Spectre
- metahesh - i might be dead
- Jon Hassell - Blues Nile

COURAGE

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Two Mirrors Centred on a Star

The third in the Holy TrinTity of issues focusing on Hellenic mythologies. Really can’t promise it won’t become Tetralogy next year. But yeah, it became a tradition to do Grecian olive-hued melange before heading to Crete each June.

This season won’t be an exception. There’s always a moment during a rather long flight to Greece when you can no longer binge on unwatched TV, impersonate working on your laptop or solve puzzles. These selecciones are for that moment. As well as for subsequent imbibing of tsikoudia while taking in Aegean vistas and car rides to the ancient Aptera or one of the Lefka Ori’s gorges.

This time around I was triggered by the story that one Heraklion-dwelling historian once told me. A hypothesis that the myth of Atlantis might have been inspired by the catastrophic volcano eruption and subsequent tsunami around 1500 BC. The one that destroyed most of the cities and villages on Crete and Ancient Thera (modern Santorini). Effectively precipitating the decline of the Minoan civilization.

Long story short, that's a tiny fraction of diverse music that has to do with lost islands/continents, sea-bound mythology, civilization-destroying natural cataclysms and yes, the ever-terrifying story of Atlantis.

I said diverse, but what does it mean? Well, there’s some authentic traditional Greek music (actually Cretan one); some less authentic approximation of the ancient one (Paniagua’s reconstruction of the ‘Hymn to the Sun’); a few thematic extractions from Robert Ashley’s ouvres; some sun-lit jazz-adjacencies (Sun Ra, Hasell, Hosono, Vallon); a bit of olden synthy/proggy library music (Benoît Widemann, Joel Vandroogenbroek); a pinch of avantgarde (George Crumb); a drop of disco and vintage popular fare (John Forde); a dollop of aquatic new age (Toshifumi Hinata, J.D. Emmanuel)… Something like that. I think it worked out ok. Should pair nicely with watermelon and raki.

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-let-me-take-you-to-atlantis

Hermetic Journals: Let Me Take You To Atlantis

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