Winter 2021//on my hill, I wait for wind

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This mix was crafted for my friend, Glenna Jean Fitch, who I have not seen in years.

This is a mixtape for a pandemic winter! It contains themes about the new year, windows, play with ideas of inside and outside, loss, loneliness, isolation, grief, death, civilization being at a crossroads, nature, seeing people you haven’t seen in a long time, economic and emotional depression, waiting for difficult things to change (I managed to make PJ Harvey’s “Fountain” about waiting for the pandemic/Trump’s presidency to be over and I am really proud of that), patience, things being better eventually…oh, and I used both the opening and closing tracks from Tracy and the Plastics’ Culture for Pigeon as a frame for this, as it is a record Glenna and I both liked as younger people slowly getting more into dance music (how we eventually met) and also very perfect for the mood of the present moment I was documenting.

Interestingly, this mixtape helped me get my first assignment at Bandcamp reviewing the 20th anniversary reissue of Mary Timony’s Mountains, so thanks mixtapes! Also, while “Palimpsest” is technically by Bill Callahan, it was created under the Smog moniker.

You can stream or download it for free on Currents.FM or at this link.

© COME AWAY WITH EMD 2021

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Born at Fairview General Hospital in the Year of the Reformation of Pere Ubu, when Jane Scott still ruled the Land. Born of the cybertronic union of Planet E and Channel Z, "getting nothing but static" and techno liberation thru space. I try to imbue music journalism with meaning beyond moving units and I am working on a book about the development and enormous influence of punk and art rock in Northeast Ohio. Hard Femme, more than a bit of an iconoclast. she/her/Miss Sir.

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