Basic Nest Architecture is one year old today, or hereabouts. Hasn’t it grown? And what a lot of teeth.
Way back before I ever held it in my arms, I said I’d share my BNA playlist, so I thought it was about time.
As with all my playlists, the basic rules are just that they have to be made from songs I already have. Some of the songs here actually appear in some way or other in the poems, but some are quite oblique connections that probably only really make sense to me. There’s a couple where I couldn’t choose one song over another eg. ‘Strength in Winter’ has Basia Bulat’s ‘Once more for the dollshouse’, which was instrumental (boom boom) in the writing of it, and used to give it its epigraph until it got squished off the page, but also ‘Lion with me’, which I can’t separate from it since Jenn played it at the book launch. Some are cheating slightly: two of the rabbit poems have a variant mix of one song, not because I don’t have other rabbity songs in my music banks, but because that song and those poems are really wrapped around each other for me.
There are a lot of repeats of artists here, just like there a lot of people I listen to a lot, and were listening to a lot during the writing of the book, who don’t appear. I had difficult decisions to make over for eg. which songs I love that feature deer to choose. It probably says something about the collection and/or how I think about it that the playlist is strummy and a bit melancholy on the whole.
Colony Collapse Disorder – To the Country, Laura Veirs
Buzz Pollination – Honey, Tori Amos
The New Path – The Wrong Side, Thea Gilmore
Jack Daw – Magpie to the Morning, Neko Case
A short history of the moon – Calling the Moon, Dar Williams
Heron/Snow – Follow the Heron, Karine Polwart
Kindling – Cloud on my tongue, Tori Amos
Stay Apparatus – White Horses, Jenn Grant
Roadkill Season – Pheasant feather, Josh Rouse
Miracles of Light – Woman King, Iron & Wine
Lake Fever – Lake Fever, The Tragically Hip
When I lived alone – Sound and Vision, David Bowie
Sister, Running – Run, Basia Bulat
Rabbit in morning – Rabbit Heart, Florence + The Machine
Athena Glaukopis – This Tornado Loves You, Neko Case
Illustrations of Grasmere Church – The Bell, First Aid Kit
Potnia Theron – Crystal Creek, Dar Williams
Waking the Well – Cool water, Laura Veirs
A history of flooding – The Water, Feist // Flood, Rae Spoon
In the city I was born in – Field Below, Regina Spektor
Moon Salutation – I wish I was the Moon, Neko Case
Strength in Winter – Lion with Me, Jenn Grant // Once More for the Dollshouse, Basia Bulat
Moving – If it Rains, Basia Bulat
Dreams – In My Dreams, Jenn Grant
Tiny Glass Horses – Tiny Glass Houses, Amelia Curran
Rabbit in Twilight – Evening, Wilderness of Manitoba
Other People Dream of Foxes – Portions for Foxes, Rilo Kiley
– Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
– Fox in the Snow, Belle and Sebastian
– Foxes Mate for Life, Born Ruffians
Doll Parts – Doll Parts, Hole
Perihelion – Night Still Comes, Neko Case
Dreaming the Organ – Playing to the Firmament, Dar Williams
Gloria – Paradise Mountain, Jenn Grant
Sky, falling – Heavy Ceiling, Said The Whale
Solistitial – Summer Fires, Wilderness of Manitoba
Begin – In the Blue Moonlight, Joel Plaskett
The Centre – Mtn Song, Evening Hymns
Rabbit in hiding – Rabbit Heart (Jamie T and Ben Bones remix)
Cannulation – Adventures in Solitude, The New Pornographers
Causeway – On My Way Back, Tony Dekker
Imaging – Heavy Ghost, Kashka
Fog/Fox – Red Fox, The Choir Practice
The Glorious Fellowship of Migraineurs – Pray Headaches away, Diane Cluck
Free Night – Galaxies, Jenn Grant
The Test – When Under Ether, PJ Harvey
With Feathers – Heart of my own, Basia Bulat
The Canon of Proportions – Man, Neko Case
The Invisible – Leave My Body, Florence + The Machine
Untethering – The Fighter, Jenn Grant
Hope Cove – The Cape, Martha Tilston
Basic Nest Architecture – Wasps of Rain, Laura Veirs
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