the heart is so easily manipulable. it is fooled by emotion, it is involuntary, it is hardly a machine at all. when it falters we call the event an attack, an arrest of the cardiac pulse, and when it is problematic we listen for murmurs… yet the heart goes unnoticed otherwise. its rhythm becomes part of the body, a mellow, internalized, forgotten tha-thump…

and so for our hearts to skip a beat is to remind us of the beat lost. the reminder resonates in our ears, it pulsates to the ends of our fingertips, we are at the same time both mortified by its corporeality but soothed in knowing that it is, in fact, still there.

notes: a loosely folk/folktronica-inspired mix for march, otherwise known as chill, laid back songs for the insomniacs and the wanderers.

track listing

devendra banhart – now that i know
the decemberists – an interlude
jackson c. frank – milk and honey
azeda booth – be it
death by panda – around the circle
other lives – black tables
juan stewart – los dias
wixel – outside your locked heart
barzin – won’t you come
stephen fretwell – darlin’ don’t

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