wandering into sound forests

Sitting alone quietly simply listening to music is healing. It had been a while since connecting with music that connects with me until the other night when I got sidetracked on the computer and followed the rabbit hole. Here's what stirred up..

Bon Iver uncovers his hauntingly romantic homage to Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This is the first time I've seen Justin Vernon sing live, and its like the sound floats out of his mouth and melts all over. I'm also so excited for his new self titled album that releases at the end of June, he snuck out a preview track which really grew on me.

© Andrew Whitton

I never heard of Elbow before hearing the song Lippy Kids on Morning Becomes Eclectic, a morning NPR music show that's pretty great. There was dead air for a few seconds after the host played this song, introducing it as the preview track off the new album 'Build a Rocket Boys'. It was kind of a nice moment in radio. While this is a great video, I prefer to just listen and not watch. Which is tough, because it's such a nice studio session video. Here's what you do, listen to it once without watching, and then again watching. You'll say thank you.

While I'm rounding up sultry male voices, I can't forget James Blake, with his intoxicating rendition of Joni Mitchell's A Case of You it's like hearing it for the first time again.

Thanks for zoning out with me, its a favorite thing to do.