Playlist 01 - First Hour

Our playlist series will unfold as both mood-setting and music curation, a way of translating moods, atmospheres, and interior states into an auditory form. The preamble acts as a meditation that names the condition and draws the reader into the sensorial world the music occupies.

The series opens with Playlist 01 as the first entry. Its theme, “First Hour” points to the earliest stretch of morning before the day asserts itself.

Essence - The tenderness of a new day and the fragile clarity of dawn before the world intrudes. The listening posture is simple: receive, do not extract.

Scene - You’re sat, in the first hour, first sip, first line, first note: your pulse aligns to a quieter clock. The day has not yet claimed you, and the music reminds you that it does not have to.

Tracks:

Ginger me - somi

Dance me to the end of love - Leonard Cohen

Eledumare - Taledalase

Into my arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Riverside - Agnes Obel

My love will never die - AG, Claire Wyndham

Weighty ghost - Wintersleep

Feeling good - Nina Simone

Sundays - Ryan Harris

Morning man - Asa

Stay alive - Jose Gonzalez

Grateful - Asa

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