Songs for Listening: Week by Week
April 29 thru May 3

Monday, April 29:
Cameron Thompkins

A playlist featuring Nils Frahm, Sevdaliza, Mansur Brown, and others

'My Friend the Forest' by Nils Frahm from ‘All Melody’
'That Other Girl' by Sevdaliza from ‘The Suspended Kid’
'Mashita' by Mansur Brown from ‘Shiroi’
'Smooth Operator' by Meshell Ndegeocello from ‘Ventriliquism’
'One Nation Under a Groove' by Funkadelic from ‘Da Funk!’

 

Tuesday, April 30:
Heena Patel

A playlist featuring Javed Bashir, Abida Parveen, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and others

'Naina Morey' by Javed Bashir, Akbar Ali & Aamir Zaki from 'Coke Studio Pakistan' 
'Chaap Tilak' by Abida Parveen
'Kaun Aayenga Yahan + Kabhi Yun Bhi To Ho' by Jagjit Singh from 'Live in Mumbai'
'Sajdaa' by Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Richa Sharma from 'My Name is Khan'
'Minds Without Fear' Dewarists: Vishal Shekhar & Imogen Heap from 'Sparks'
'Bhavani Dayani' by Parveen Sultana from 'Par Excellence'

Wednesday, May 1:
Josh Jackson

A playlist featuring Charles Mingus, Anton Bruckner, Olivier Messiaen, and others

'Fables of Faubus' by Charles Mingus from 'Ah Um'
’Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Mvt. 4, Finale: Feierlich, nicht schnell' by Anton Bruckner, performed by Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
'La Nativite du Seigneur: 9. Dieu parmi nous' by Olivier Messiaen, performed by Olivier Latry from 'Messiaen: Organ Works'
'Song for Aretha' by Bernard "Pretty" Purdie from 'Soul Is ... Pretty Purdie'
'Never Grow Old' by Aretha Franklin from 'Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings'

 

Thursday, May 2:
David Kyuman Kim

A playlist featuring Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, and others

'As' by Stevie Wonder from 'Songs in the Key of Life'
'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell from 'Clouds'
'Landslide' by Fleetwood Mac from 'Landslide'
'Des Baches Wiengelied' from 'Die Schone Mullerin' by Schubert, performed by Sanford Sylvan
'A Love Supreme, Pt. IV: Psalm' by John Coltrane from 'A Love Supreme'

Friday, May 3
Tift Merritt

A playlist featuring Sylvan Esso, Hiss Golden Messenger and Miles Davis

'Funeral Singers' by Sylvan Esso & Collections of Colonies of Bees from 'Funeral Singers'
'As the Crow Flies' by Hiss Golden Messenger from 'Heart Like a Levee'
'Florence sur les Champs-Elysees' by Miles Davis from 'Ascenseur pour l'echafaud'