Campfire Stories 78 (Voices of a Decade Past) by Paul Smith by Silent Season

Campfire Stories 78 (Voices of a Decade Past) by Paul Smith (@pabloski)

~ About The Story ~

Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin
And still allows some stirring down within.

I’ve known the wind by water banks to shake
The late leaves down, which frozen where they fell
And held in ice as dancers in a spell
Fluttered all winter long into a lake;
Graved on the dark in gestures of descent,
They seemed their own most perfect monument.

There was perfection in the death of ferns
Which laid their fragile cheeks against the stone
A million years. Great mammoths overthrown
Composedly have made their long sojourns,
Like palaces of patience, in the gray
And changeless lands of ice. And at Pompeii

The little dog lay curled and did not rise
But slept the deeper as the ashes rose
And found the people incomplete, and froze
The random hands, the loose unready eyes
Of men expecting yet another sun
To do the shapely thing they had not done.

These sudden ends of time must give us pause.
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
More time, more time. Barrages of applause
Come muffled from a buried radio.
The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.
- Richard Wilbur

~ Chapters ~

Jan Nemeček - Alone
Atom™ - Spinout Segment
Vangelis - Esper Analysis
Mica Levi - Delete Beach
Colin Stetson - Stages
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo - Isolation
Cubus Larvik - Epiloog
Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (Light Flowers Dark Flowers I )
Leif - River Trip
Duotone - Solace
Peter F Spiess - Sleazy Jazz
Tokyo 27 - Objects Of Illusion
The 7th Plain - Reality Of Space
E.R.P - Into The Distance
CIM - Neve
B12 - Infinite Lites (Primitives Mix )
Voices From The Lake - Max
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Glass
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - There Are Many Powerful Spirits Living In The Hills And Stones And It Is Not A Good Idea To Disturb Them
Svreca - Ebisu (Dasha Rush Remix)
Shlomo - The Other Side (808 Intuition)
De Leon - 02
Laurie Anderson - Walking & Falling
Autechre - Kalpol Introl
Bedouin Ascent - Winter Trees
Erik Van Den Broek - Primerose
300 Degrees - A.M.
ASC - Behind The Veil
Sage Caswell - To The Finder
Holst - The Planets, Op. 32 - VII Neptune, The Mystic (Royal Scottish National Orchestra )
Autumn Of Communion - Streams Pt. 4
Phil Stroud - Yemaja
HOLOVR - Hillraiser
Yoshio Ojima - Entomology (Misfortune )
Russ Gabriel - Agoraphobia
Purl - Slow Poem (Wanderwelle Remix )
Fugue - Contrapoint
Skee Mask - Calimance (Delay Mix )
Zombie Zombie - Hyperespace (Tolouse Low Trax Remix )
Akin - Replacement Source (Original Mix )
Havantepe - Robosoul
Plant43 - Light Pollution
Parris - Bloom
Daniel Stefanik - Reactivity 1
Solitary Dancer - Desire & Apathy
Timothy Leary - The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra )

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Curtis Coscarelly

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