Admittedly, this is one of my darker, more fragile mixes, but despite the description, it’s mostly hopeful. A while back, I shared a Fennesz album with my friend Myrrh, and he later expressed joy in discovering that David Sylvian was a guest vocalist on one of the tracks. So, with this episode, I made a mix around that particular song that has since been tinged with Myrrh-ness, weaving in a narrative of a kind of surrealistic dream state in which you might awake feeling a little closer to finding your answer, whatever that may be.

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48:44

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To be honest, this mixtape had been sitting around since the first episode was published; the holidays felt like a perfect blur, and this mix felt more like summer than winter, causing me to reflect upon it longer than necessary. My good friend Shawna (whom this mix was made for) has been ever so patient and passing the time making pretty stuff as usual. In an interview from Convention Magazine, she discussed how music influences her work:

“Music influences every part of my work! Depending on what I listen to, the drawing is shaped by that sound. My earlier work, a self portrait series called Phases, was created solely from one day of serious claustrophobia, being sick, and listening to the words of Cocorosie. My Girl-Animal pieces were inspired by songs with samples from sounds of nature – such as Yeasayer and Fever Ray. You can throw me some crazy electro-pop-dance shit and I will get feisty – well, my art does. I bet my viewers can pinpoint what genre of music I was listening to with each piece.”

With any luck, this mixtape will result in more similarly-influenced work from not only Shawna, but anyone else listening. Be sure to check out her website for more inspiration, and enjoy the mix!

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41:46

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In the spirit of mixtaping, especially for the inaugural episode, I figured it’d be a good idea to make this one out to my dear friend Liz who, through our many delightful interstate exchanges, unintentionally helped shape the idea of Colortones. I already discussed the idea and process in my last post, so I won’t go into much detail here. This particular mix ends with Pantone 292 (and the hope that the imagined sounds of blank cassette tapes hissing in the night will be replaced with a much better reminder).

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