Earlier this week listened to
A Secret Life as I went on a walk to a local mining museum, formerly a colliery, in one of the ex-mining towns in the area, (perhaps I was inspired by Birdsongs album review in the
ASL thread
). Never listened to
ASL outside before, and on a mild, but windy day, ‘parts 1 & 2’ really sounded good at the start of my journey as I cut across a wide open field, it felt just like one of those European film scenes, (cue Art House sub-titles
).
Can’t say I did actually go into the museum listening to the music, but there is a very tiny garden near the entrance and ‘part 6’ certainly added to the Zen-like feel of it all, fitting very well with nature, weather, and the like, which surprised me a little, as I’ve always felt
ASL to be quite an interior album.
Finished the trip by walking around the area outside of the old buildings listening to the last three tracks from the Stars Of The Lid album:
Gravitational Pull Versus The Desire For An Aquatic Life, some of which shares a similar feeling of emergence or transition to
ASL (or so it seems for me)
This afternoon, a few tracks by Faithless, and Sylvian,
- the more downtempo and reflective tracks from the album
Outrospective:
Crazy English Summer,
One Step Too Far, and my all time fav’ Faithless songs, the very beautiful
Code/Evergreen, and
Liontamer.
followed up sweetly by Sylvians
Nostalgia,
Let The Happiness In,
Darkest Dreaming, and
Silver Moon.
