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DOMINIC VALVONA’S PLAYLIST

In danger of repeating myself forever, but for newcomers to the site here’s the premise of my playlist selections. Previously only ever shared via our Facebook profile and on Spotify our regular Monolith Cocktail Social playlists will also be posted here on the blog itself.

With no themes or demarcated reasoning we pick songs from across a wide spectrum of genres, and from all eras. Selection #32, chosen as always by me, Dominic Valvona, includes a couple of tributes to those we’ve lost over the last month (Mark E Smith, Hugh Masekela) plus no wave New York sazz from Konk, Kosmische Baroque synth dreamy classicism from Rick van der Linden, troubadour diaphanous from Catherine Howe, plus the usual ‘unusual’ voyages in jazz, Turkish electronic music, Britpop dreamers, psych, Afrobeat, soul and progressive rock.

Tracks:

Gökçen Kayatan  ‘Doganin Ötesi’
Basil Kirchin  ‘Silicon Chip’
Konk  ‘Elephant’
Medium Medium  ‘Hungry, So Angry’
Mr. Oizo  ‘Jo’
MF DOOM  ‘Bells Of DOOM’
Arawak  ‘Accadde a Harlem’
Heavy Cluster  ‘Gotta Get Away’
The Fall  ‘Rollin’ Dany’
The Spyrals  ‘Save Yourself’
Maxayn  ‘Gimme Shelter’
Moses Boyd  ‘Drum Dance’
The Jazz Epistles, Hugh Masekela, Dollar Brand  ‘Uka-Jonga Phambili’
Binker And Moses  ‘The Valley Of The Ultra Blacks’
Sundays & Cybele  ‘Saint Song’
East Of Eden  ‘Song For No One’
Curtiss Maldoon  ‘Man From Afghanistan’
Sory Bamba  ‘Kanaga 78’
Mor Thiam  ‘Kele Mumbana’
Horseface  ‘No Niin, Jääkausi’
Zazou Bikaye  ‘Dju Ya Feza’
Jah Wobble  ‘Long Long Way’
Embryo  ‘Sango’
The Olivia Tremor Control  ‘A New Day’
Octopus  ‘Your Smile’
Margo Guryan  ‘Something’s Wrong With The Morning’
Dean & Britta  ‘Night Nurse’
Vanishing Twin ‘Telescope’
Dwight Sykes  ‘Mystical Lady’
Terry Callier  ‘Baby Take Your Time’
Living Voices  ‘Eve Of Destruction’
Catherine Howe  ‘Up North’
Rick van der Linden  ‘Clouds’