Hectic City 8e - Burned In A Feathering Pyre

It’s 1:30 am on a mild but damp San Francisco winter night. Friday. It’s dark and I’ve just walked the streets of Hayes Valley and Mission Dolores, heading home after a night with great friends. On my iPod plays the final (fifth) mix from Eric Kleptone’s review of 2008. The set list is below, but I urge you to play it. It’s a set of sublime, truly moving beautiful music. It touches you and, should you be playing it in isolation as you wander the streets of a city you love, you’ll find it enhances everything around you.

Something about this mix, at this moment, defines what it is to love music. To love a place. To love people near to you. It’s just right. Perfect, somehow. Mixed seamlessly, and yet not a dance beat to be heard.

If you have the time to be absorbed into something, or even if you don’t, I urge you to listen to this. It’s a fragment of last year’s music presented in a way that’s simply timeless.

 Set list

1. Pacific UV - Alarmist
2. Shearwater - Rooks
3. Bon Iver - Blindsided
4. Evangelista - The Blue Room
5. Thomas Brinkmann - Words
6. Portishead - The Rip
7. Peter Broderick - Stopping On The Broadway Bridge
8. James Blackshaw - Echo And Abyss
9. The Caretaker - Long Term (Remote)

Eric Keltone’s Hectic City podcast #8e