The Lost Wardens music
I do not write songfics, nor do I purposely assemble "soundtracks" for my fics. But when I write, there is this weird whirlpool of serendipity, coincidence, and/or magic involving the music I listen to. Sometimes there are themes I'm working on in the story that pop up in a new song that gets released that week. Sometimes I hear a song, and I think, What this song is making me feel about love/loss/potential/my characters making out/etc. is what I want to feel in the story. This is the collection of what that whirlpool has pulled in.
Joanna Newsom doesn't like Spotify, so the vocal tracks are in a YouTube playlist. The mostly instrumental albums are linked separately. Delete Tumblr's pesky href-dot-li from the URLs as necessary. After the jump: personal/author-y playlist notes for myself; not required reading.
🌊 The Osprey (main playlist; 17 songs)
🌊 Instrumental/atmospheric albums:
Windswept Adan - Ichiko Aoba
Invisible Island - Midori Hirano
Minor Planet - Midori Hirano
Broken Circle - scntfc
If The Lost Wardens had a score, it would sound like the above. Windswept Adan captures a lot of the joy that Alex finds in magic, while Midori Hirano's darker work makes me think of Jonathan and his secrets, or Alex waking up in the middle of the night after a troubling dream.
🌊 Fall of the High School Star Running Back - The Mountain Goats
This song appears twice on the playlist: first with the original, and towards the end with a cover by Loamlands. Alex does not share William's fate, thankfully, but I thought the fallen star athlete theme struck a chord given Alex's insecurity about his future.
🌊 Carry This Picture - Dashboard Confessional
Lovestruck youth, nautical motifs, mention of working-class dads.
🌊 Porcelain - Ichiko Aoba
Just a sample off Windswept Adan for the playlist. Video is full of ocean magic.
🌊 The World We Built - The Wild Reeds
At the end of Chapter 6, I mentioned that this song had sort of become the theme song of the fic, "from several characters' points of view, at different points in time." It's mostly the old wardens. Sometimes, the suitcase lines make me think of Jonathan. Sometimes, they make me think of Leslie, waiting.
🌊 Redwood Tree - Jamie Drake
Flower Dance vibes, lanky young Cathy in the woods vibes.
🌊 This Town - Trixie Mattel (feat. Shakey Graves)
I grew up in a town where half the kids in my school left for bigger cities and half ended up at Big-Company-without-whose-presence-the-town-economy-would-collapse. It's one of the reasons Stardew Valley's own themes speak to me in the first place, and it's definitely the reason this song ended up on this list after it was released.
🌊 Ozean - Annenmaykantereit
@flowerandthesongstress recommended me this song, and I loved it. After looking up a translation, I decided it was for Chapter 16 Jonathan. I tear up just listening to it sometimes.
🌊 I Think We're Alone Now - The Wild Reeds (Tiffany cover)
There's a parenthetical memory in Chapter 8 where Alex remembers jumping into the lake with Leslie while a party is going on at Sebastian's house. It's a scene that hasn't been written, only imagined; I imagine it's one of those early moments Alex realized he was falling for the new farmer.
But also, the themes of escape and secrecy ("Children, behave") fit with the feeling of relationship obstacles set by a previous generation.
🌊 Training Montage - The Mountain Goats
One of those neat coincidences: this song came out while I was working on the Zuzu City / training camp chapters, which were themselves meant to show time passing while Alex was away from Pelican Town.
🌊 Video Games - Trixie Mattel (Lana Del Rey cover)
Journey of the Prairie King vibes, lazy romantic vibes.
I also deleted a scene where Alex and Sebastian talked about video games (Sebastian building one, Alex having played very little). Might add it back if it ever fits.
🌊 Divers - Joanna Newsom
I'll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom of my life.
Very ocean, much deep. Men going off to / into the sea, women waiting on the shore.
You don't know my name, but I know yours.
🌊 Watermelon Sugar - Harry Styles
Look, just because I don't write smut doesn't mean my characters aren't horny.
🌊 Capelton Hill - Stars
If we treat this playlist as a soundtrack to the fic, then this song starts a sequence we'll call "too many options for end-credits songs". By itself, I thought Capelton Hill was a nice reflection on having a place where you can go back to the past, for a while.
🌊 Fall of the High School Star Running Back - Loamlands (Mountain Goats cover)
See above.
🌊 Good Intentions Paving Company - Joanna Newsom
A song about being on the road with someone you're afraid to admit you're falling in love with, and eventually going home.
🌊 Spectacular Views - Rilo Kiley
Screaming for happiness from some ocean cliffs.
🌊 Time, As a Symptom - Joanna Newsom
Joanna has a talent for songs that sound like incantations. I felt this one with the nature imagery and the themes of birth, death, and rebirth was a great way to close out this playlist for my little fic about magic.
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Wednesday 25 October Mixtape 389 “Cinammon Flower EXCLUSIVE”
Ambient Drone Sleep Experimental Electronic
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Trevlad Sounds-Welcome in you wonderful listener 00:00
How to Levitate-How to Levitate 00:31
La French-These Peculiar Anecdotes 04:51
Minimal Drone*GRL-Northward Bound 08:27
SILENCE & THE UNWINKING MINDS / T 1 D 3 S-Murmur 12:09
Jarguna-Congo Spirits 15:26
Leandro Fresco-Buenos Amigos 21:13
Curved Light-XII (Obsidian) 28:33
Phillip Wilkerson-Cinammon 37:23
Cate Brooks-III 41:43
arovane-ylassu 46:25
Ozbolt-The Diver 47:40
Sebby Kowal-Days Go By 53:16
Ylia-El Único Adiós Posible 59:10
Jean-Michel Jarre-Thème de l'argent 1:03:04
Mind over MIDI-Division 1:04:02
Field Lines Cartographer-Silver Moon of the Mind's Eye 1:07:03
Midori Hirano-Strings of Memories 1:15:59
The Future Sound Of London-Lost in The Mists Of Time 1:18:52
Darkroom-A Million-Petalled Flower 1:20:33
Ashra-Code Blue 1:35:11
nthng-Some Clouds are Destined to Break 1:49:32
Tyneham House-The Ragged Cat 1:52:33
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[Album] Teodor Wolgers veröffentlicht zweites Album "Dialogues"!
Der schwedische Pianist und Komponist Teodor Wolgers veröffentlicht sein neues Album "Dialogues" am 19. Mai digital über [PIAS] Nordic.
Die neuen Songs sind inspiriert von den Werken des belgischen Surrealisten René Magritte, die sich auch in den Titeln, dem Artwork und den Visuals des Fotografen Adam Falk wiederfinden. Jeder Track ist dabei auch ein Dialog und eine Zusammenarbeit mit einem anderen Act. Für sein zweites Album, das auf das Debüt "Distractions In A Capitalist World" folgt, lädt Wolgers einige der interessantesten Künstler*Innen der neoklassischen Welt ein, wie z.B. Niklas Paschburg ("Reconnaissance Without End"), Fejká oder Midori Hirano. Aber auch zu anderen Genres werden Brücken geschlagen, darunter Sara Parkman (Folk) und Bear Garden (Jazz), mit dem er die aktuelle Single “Song Of The Storm” einspielte.
Wolgers begann bereits mit 14 Jahren mit dem Studium des klassischen Klaviers. Acht Jahre später wurde sein Sinfonieorchesterstück "Dreams" in den Berwaldhallen in Stockholm aufgeführt – und Teodor mit 22 der jüngste Student der Königlichen Musikakademie, dem dies jemals gelang. Im Jahr 2021 veröffentlichte der junge Schwede sein Debütalbum, ein höchst ambitioniertes Konzeptalbum, das die Strukturen des modernen Kapitalismus und die menschliche Verfassung in Frage stellt, gefolgt von der EP "Our True Nature" in 2022, eine Sammlung von Werken, die die Beziehung zwischen der Natur und dem Menschen erforscht.
Tracklist "Dialogues":
01. Reconnaissance Without End ft. Niklas Paschburg
02. The Pleasure Principal ft. Midori Hirano
03. The Art of Conversation ft. Tom Ashbrook
04. Nocturne ft. Felix Rösch
05. Song of the Storm ft. Bear Garden
06. The Dominion of Light ft. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres
07. The Human Condition ft. Fejká
08. The Flavour of Tears ft. Timo Krantz
09. A Taste for the Invisible ft. Sara Parkman
10. The Healer ft. Violeta Vicci
11. Angelus ft. Luchs
12. The Misanthropes ft. Abul Mogard
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