1,000 Dreams
October 2004
This mix accreted itself around the song “To Whom Can I Tell My Pains”, which I discovered while randomly surfing through the iTunes Music Store, and which reduced me to tears on the first listen. As a setting for it I pulled together other songs with the right levels of sadness, distance, exoticness or thrilling dissonance.
This also gave me a chance to attempt something I’d wanted to do for a while: add “serious” 20th-century classical music to a mix. This ended up as the most varied mix I’ve ever done: it also has folk music from several cultures, rock, electronics, and unclassifiable experimentation. I hope it works for you.
Track List
- 00:00 Sylvester Weaver — “Guitar Rag” US
- 26:00 Cindytalk — “In This World” UK
- 185:00 Huun-Huur-Tu — “Eshten Charlyyry (It's Hard To Be Parted From A Friend)” Tuva
- 565:00 Marika Kanaropoulou — “To Whom Can I Tell My Pains” Greece
- 723:00 The Velvet Underground — “Venus In Furs” US
- 1028:00 Blind Willie Johnson — “Dark Was The Night” US
- 1225:00 Underworld — “Shudder” UK
- 1265:00 :Zoviet*France: — “Alchemagenta” UK
- 1382:00 Biosphere — “Houses On The Hill” Norway
- 1455:00 Rachel's — “4 Or 5 Trees” US
- 1513:00 The Rustavi Choir — “Tsmindao Chmerto” Georgia
- 1660:00 Rachel's — “4 Or 5 Trees” US
- 1707:00 Henryk Gorecki [Poland] / Kronos Quartet [US] — “Already It Is Dusk (mov. 1)”
- 1768:00 Rachel's — “The Voyage Of Camille” US
- 1997:00 Henryk Gorecki [Poland] / Kronos Quartet [US] — “Already It Is Dusk (mov. 2)”
- 2051:00 Samuel Barber [US] / Kronos Quartet [US] — “Adagio For Strings”
- 2354:00 Somei Satoh — “Ruika” Japan
- 2474:00 Lustmord — “Strange Attractor” UK
- 2704:00 Stars Of The Lid — “Lactate's Moment” US
- 3165:00 Muszikas — “Kati-Kata” Hungary
- 3369:00 Dog Faced Hermans — “Wings” Netherlands
- 3610:00 Dead Can Dance — “Frontier (1987 version)” Australia
- 3784:00 Do Make Say Think — “It's Gonna Rain” Canada
- 3912:00 Sylvester Weaver — “Guitar Rag” US