This week we'll examine a life at sea. Joseph Conrad wrote that "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving." More troubling is what lies beneath the swells and awful stirrings of what Melville called the "hidden soul beneath.
Hoisting the main sail for us on this Downtempo Electronica episode of Idyllic Music are Band of Mad Women IOTA MMPSUF Sleepy Town Manufacture beat.dowsing and Leon Somov. I'm Jim Nye.
We'll begin in Bulgaria with a group we heard from on Episode 134. Here is Band of Mad Women with "Water Song.
That was Iota and "Revolution Canape" Find more at archive.org/details/ZST003 and Band of Mad Women at freemusicarchive.org/music/Band_of_Mad_Women
This is MMPSUF with "The Sailors"
That was Sleepy Town Manufacture reflecting on the paranoia of isolation in "Sea Sickness" More at www.last.fm/music/Sleepy+Town+Manufacture and MMPSUF at archive.org/details/sute031
Every crew needs a mate called "Swervie" Here is beat.dowsing.
That was the hallucinatory "Crosses" from Leon Somov with Jazzu. Discover more at archive.org/details/sute018. All the show notes, links to the artists and more are at idyllicmusic.com
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.