Mixtape: Viking's Pearl
The photo above was taken by me, not a professional photographer, with a slightly busted camera phone at Rhizome, a beloved community space in Washington, D.C. That's Jon Mueller (Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Volcano Choir) behind a series of gongs, bells and bass drum. He performed a version of The Future is Unlimited, Always for a small, but rapt audience — an exercise in existence, drifting between spatial tones while floating on reverberating gongs. Loud, calm, spirit-filling music. —Lars Gotrich
Stream the Viking's Choice playlist via BNDCMPR. Follow my Bandcamp collection. Tracklist below:
Arthur Russell, "The Boy with a Smile"
Halim El-Dabh and Ron Slabe, "Cirrocumulus"
African Head Charge, "Microdosing"
JARADA, "Me and You (Will Tear the Regime Down)"
KA'TZON LA'TEVACH, "Accomplice for Destruction"
PLEAZURE AND PAIN, "Dead Words"
DJ Finale, "Pitschu Debou"
Graham Lambkin, "Limp Test"
ShrapKnel (feat. AKAI SOLO) (prod. Kenny Segal), "Slick Watts"
7F0, "Healing Sword"
KC Rae, "Blockbuster"
Carl Stone, "Morangak"
Aidan Baker / Stacy Taylor / John Colpitts, "Trydydd"
Anna St. Louis, "Phone"
Daisies, "Goin' in Circles"
Cian Nugent, "Pass the Time Away / How the Time Passes"
Asher Gamedze, "Sometimes I Think to Myself"
Kinlaw (feat. Yao Bobby), "Effected Signaller"
Nathan Micay, "Fangs"
Baskot, "Esh 3arrafak? (You Know Nothing)"
The Ophelias, "He Cried"
Brontez Purnell, "Jaboukie"
PYREX, "Neptune"
Maxine Funke, "Call on You"
Ted Leo, "Coming Back to Bloom"
Alex Sadnik, "Donna Lee"
Naomi Yang, "Never Be a Punching Bag for Nobody"
Shirley Collins, "High and Away"
Shizuka, "Lunatic Pearl"
Danny Paul Grody, "Light Blooms"
Godflesh, "Nero"
Morgul Blade, "Beneath the Black Sails"
Maya Ongaku, "Nuska"