I am missing Amar quite a bit right now. Or maybe the idea of Amar - we'd drifted in and out of closeness over the years, but he represented something more broadly wrt the zeitgeist. Being connected to the Culture. He'd like that I think.
He did an annual music list which served as a touchpoint for a lot of people. The rest of the distribution list is keeping it going this year which is both wonderful and heartbreaking. It is still a little surreal and shocking for someone to just be gone like that.
Anyway - here is what I posted on that thread:
Been a very strange year - everything seems a bit fractured and all over the place.
Some things
- Kid Cudi made a Netflix rom com (or extended music video) which somehow served as comfort food - https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=nxL6gzYls7Y - Porridge Radio's Back to the Radio ended up being a bit of an anthem in our house - feels like it could have belonged on a playlist from 25 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NDw9nTQKGd4 - Casisdead - From a few year's ago - vaguely UK rap adjacent and makes me think of Amar - https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=AKSGhZi8SLU - I discovered that it is in fact called a chaise lONGue and not a lOUnge - https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ - Ezra Furman - https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=sqUTcb368kM
+1 on the Sudan Archives, Dry Cleaning
Also digging into old Ska/Rocksteady stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
I'll think of more later ... let's keep this going ..
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