Monthly Mix - Winter magic
Music to add twinkling magic to your days.
Hello Dear Friend,
I started making this playlist back in the depths of Autumn (and my broken brain has been getting in the way of giving it to you ever since). Golden leaves falling from the trees and a crisp chill to the air carried in on the breeze. Thoughts turned to frosty mornings and the first fall of snow and I knew I wanted to make something magical for you to soundtrack those days.
Whilst the first fall of snow has come and gone, Winter is still the reigning seasonal champion. I write to you with a jumper over my knees and a blanket draped over my shoulders, in a room with an Aga. And I still have the pinch of winter’s cold in my skin and through the layers of whatever it is holding together.
Whilst I’ve mostly made peace with the season, because as a friend once said “it’s six months of the year, you might as well not hate it” (or some variant thereof), the grey days and cold of the last week or two are starting to make it feel like an endurance test. Brutally cold blue sky days good. Grey mizzle days permissible for the shortest of times possible because, well, they suck. And so this feels like the prefect time to add some twinkling magic into the mix.
My husband helped put this one together for you because my head hasn’t been great lately. He worked really hard on it to blend something to the flavour profile I gave him to work with. I think he did a super job, let him know what you think of it in the comments.
If you love a list or don’t have Spotify, the playlists are below as always.
With love and many blanket layers of warmth until Spring decides to make an appearance,
V.V
P.S If you are in the UK and looking to treat yourself, I’m running a big sale over on my website for those in the know, i.e - you! I don’t shout about my art site, ever actually, but head over to victoryvictory.co.uk for some flowers that last and use the ever so inventively titled code BIGSALE for 55% off. Apologies to those not in the UK, the postage thing has always outfoxed me for delicate items that need to not be bent and are too thick to roll, but also the environmental impact never sat quite right either - please support your local artists!
Winter magic
A collection of mostly uplifting, occasionally melancholy, but always serene songs to savour through the cold days of winter.
Winter magic
Flight from the City - Jóhann Johannsson, Yuki Numata Resnick, Tarn Travers, Ben Russell, Clarice Jensen
The Departure - Max Richter
Because This Must Be - Nils Frahm
We Move Lightly - Dustin O'Halloran
Happiness Does Not Wait - Ólafur Arnalds
As If She Was Still Here - Anne Nikitin, Jessica Jones, Tim Morrish
Magnetic Perturbation - Niklas Paschburg
Time To Forget - Sophie Hutchings
Una Mattina - Ludovico Einaudi
Vleurgat - Oskar Schuster
Sleeping Lotus - Joep Beving
The Gift - Joep Beving
Bardo Finale - Bryce Dessner, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Yuki Numata
The Moon - Anne Nikitin, Jessica Jones
Snow - Fabrizio Paterlini
The Illusionist: Finale - Philip Glass, Michael Riesman
part viii - nothing is lost - Jon Hopkins
Polaris III - Peter Sandberg
Lunar Ice Flows (Prelude) - James Heather
Luminal Hill - Federico Albanese
Vision - Peter Gregson
Balcony Hotel - From 'Miss' - Lambert
Pièces froides: II. Danses des travers, No. 2 Passer - Erik Satie, Lavinia Meier
Frost - Stephan Moccio
Anima - Hania Rani, Dobrawa Czocher, Kornelia Gradzka
Le Tunnel - Sylvain Chauveau
Éphémère - Tony Anderson
Marazion (50.127932, -5.474548) - KEYNVOR, Sebastian Plano
As the Darkness Falls - Maxence Cyrin
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