Soundscape #62: “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”
November 16th, 2007Not too long ago, men were nomads roaming the great expanse in search of food and water. Mongolians live in gers which would fit on the back of a horse when packed. It’s the epitome of minimalistic living! Before long, we learnt to cultivate our own food and rear domesticated animals and we settled down in farms and barns. Soon more and more people stay living together and villages and towns and cities are formed.
get down. London, 2006
It’s nice to have a place of one’s own and belong to a community. Men are social animals after all, no? The danger comes when our roots become too entrenched in the soil that has long since been sucked dry of any nutrition. Staying in one spot also means that we’ve lost the art of minimalistic living and become consumerists instead. We begin amassing things, whether we need them or not and become so brittle with the weight of all the things we own that they are starting to own us instead.
Playlist:
1. (0:00) Portishead - Wandering Star (Dummy)
2. (4:56) Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
3. (10:22) Beth Orton - How Far (Trailer Park)
4. (14:42) Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
5. (20:28) Beirut - Nantes (The Flying Clup Cup)
6. (24:20) The Weakerthans - Anchorless (Fallow)
7. (28:11) Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away (You Can Have It So Much Better)
8. (31:48) Jason Collett - We All Lose One Another (Idols Of Exile)
9. (36:09) The Mendoza Line - It Helps To Leave The House (30 Years Low + The Final Remarks Of The Legendary Malcontent)
10. (38:55) Pavement - Grounded (Wowee Zowee)
11. (43:11) José González - Time To Send Someone Away (In Our Nature)
12. (46:03) M. Ward - One Life Away (Transistor Radio)
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