- Field Recording
- Folk
- Soundscape
- Atmospheric
- Dreamy
- Melancholy
long for warmth as the lights seem to be a huddle of hoards, a snug multitude
– Feist
The Ear Has To Travel returns to the airwaves with a show dedicated to Longing – that feeling coloured by the blue of distance, binding pleasure and pain, present and future.
After two years marked by isolation, The Ear Has To Travel dedicates its contribution to Intimate Connections to the way songs can make us feel connected across all sorts of distances and how those distances themselves can be owned and cherished in lyrics about longing.
Send your ears on a journey inwards with a collage of songs, field recordings and readings featuring music by TEHTT mainstays like Feist, Tiny Ruins and Nick Drake, as well as new discoveries like Midwife, Julie Byrne and Eliza Edens, all framed with field recordings from places not traveled to in the past two years.
The Ear Has To Travel is a journey in song, a series of sonic peregrinations, sounding out songwriting as a „small form“ of literature.
Playlist
Bruce Peninsula – Weave Myself A DressTiny Ruins – Reasonable Man
Nick Drake – Place to Be
St James's Park 6am
Feist – The Park
Laura Jean – Missing You
Eliza Edens –I Needed You
Jen Cloher – The Longing Song
Minnehaha Avenue, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand - On the edge of lake and sea
Holly Throsby – Damn That New Body
Julie Byrne – Sleepwalker
Gemma Hayes – Bones Longing
Tokyo, Chiyoda, Yurakucho - bustling alley
Midwife – Christina’s World
Feist – Lost Dreams
Broken Social Scene w/ Emily Haines – Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
Montreal: Rosemont Metro
Long Beard – Someplace
Inom Vallgraven, Gothenburg, Sweden - Listening to the tram signals outside Pustervik
A Seated Craft – Celestial Mechanics
Holly Throsby – On Longing
Downtown Chicago, River bridge under lakeshore
Epilogue: The Blue of Distance (from the essay by Rebecca Solnit)
Excerpts from the following field recordings were used in this episode (in order of appearance):
St James's Park 6am – Ian Rawes/London Sound Survey
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Minnehaha Avenue, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand - On the edge of lake and sea – summerxc/Radio Aporee
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Tokyo, Chiyoda, Yurakucho - bustling alley – Maciej Janasik/Radio Aporee
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Montreal: Rosemont Metro – Julian Stein/Radio Aporee
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Inom Vallgraven, Gothenburg, Sweden - Listening to the tram signals outside Pustervik – Paul Whitty/Radio Aporee
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Downtown Chicago, River bridge under lakeshore – samprekop/Radio Aporee
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