Echoes of September: Sonic Postcards

🍁 September Echoes: Journeys, Raindrops & Unexpected Tunes 🎶"

I hope this note finds you dancing into October with high spirits! It's that time again when I share a concoction of musical gems in my monthly mixtape, fashionably dispatched a tad late on October 1st. Please accept this symphonic selection of September, a month of travel, adventure, and rhythm!

As always, this month's cover art was created by cutting and pasting the tracklist into mid-journey to see what it thinks this collection of songs looks like. Your guess is as good as mine as to how we got there from here or here from there....

🌍 Travel Diaries 🌍

September unfolded with a trip to London, where I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at a conference, discussing the effects of generative AI on the event industry. London's energy and vibrancy were both invigorating and inspiring, painting each moment with a different hue of exhilaration.

Next stop was a whimsical weekend in Amsterdam, a city filled with charming canals and captivating architecture. The city embraced me with open arms, rain showers, and warm food at my friend’s new restaurant, Stack's Diner. There's nothing like good friends and good food to make any city feel like home.

Lastly, despite the relentless rain of NYC, I was fortunate to experience a day of outstanding live music at the not-rained-out Sound on Sound festival in Bridgeport, CT. With performances by my buds Lord Huron, Trey Anastasio and the formidable Red Hot Chili Peppers, the festival was nothing short of a dry sky miracle.

While you wouldn’t catch me paying to see the RHCPs, Flea can genuinely rock that bass, John Frusciante is a whammy wizard, Chad Smith's drumming is as remarkable as his resemblance to Will Ferrell, and Anthony Kiedis managed to pronounce at least two actual, discernible words!

🎵Click HERE for my September Mixtape 🎵

1. Alex Winston - Hot One

2. San Cisco - Too Much Time Together

3. Ball Park Music - It's Nice to Be Alive

4. Saint Motel - Cold Cold Man

5. Jaakko Eino Kalevi & Alma Jodorowsky - Palace In My Head

6. Miynt - A bite of papaya

7. Bahamas - Done Did Me No Good

8. Santigold - Shake

9. Mansionair & NoMBe - Guillotine

10. The Chemical Brothers & Beck - Skipping Like A Stone (feat. Beck) - Extended Mix

11. NEIL FRANCES & Raffaella - On the Lookout

12. Kowloon - Come Over

13. SAULT - Why Why Why Why Why

14. Duran Duran - The Chauffeur - 2009 Remaster

15. Mavis John - Use My Body

16. NEIL FRANCES - Dumb Love

17. Mindchatter - I Can Change

18. The Avalanches, MGMT & Johnny Marr - The Divine Chord

19. LISP - Good 2 Yourself

20. Biig Piig - Feels Right

21. Girl Ray - Show Me More

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    If you haven't listened to previous months:

    • August 2023

    • July 2023

    • June 2023

    • May 2023

    • BONUS: Guilty Pleasures Summer Playlist

    • April 2023

    • March 2023

    • February 2023

    • January 2023

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    P.S. I'm a Spotify kind of guy, so these are Spotify links. You can use this free service to import the playlist into Apple Music if that's your jam: playlist-exchange.com
    
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