Track list:
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - Make Me Stronger (Featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow)
Damon Aaron - Floating
Nitai Hershkovits - Sattelite Dish feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
The Skull Eclipses - Take My
Jaubi - Time: The Donut Of The Heart
homeshake - Just Like My
RC & the Gritz - Good Day To You Sir
Cleo Sol - 23
SAULT - Foot on Necks
Leroy & The Drivers - The Sad Chicken
Saun & Starr - Look Closer (Can't You See The Signs?)
Radio Citizen - Everything
Vex Ruffin - I’m Still At It
Salami Rose Joe Louis - Sitting with Thoughts
Bullion - Loop The Loop
Nautic - Freedom of the Floor
Dina ögon - Tombola 94
Shawn Lee - Fade Up (Feat. The Superimposers)
Mizan K - Thru
Khruangbin - Evan Finds the Third Room
Scrimshire - Thru You feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
fleet.dreams - EKG (Club Mix)
Panama - How We Feel
Nino Moschella - Something Like
Paper Tiger - Weight In Space feat. Shafiq Husayn (Radio Edit)
Little Simz - No More Wonderland
Reverend Sam Dixon - Anyway
The 30th of March came around and I couldn't sit by and continue to feel sorry for myself because I wasn't doing radio anymore. That never stopped me from sharing music before. And finding out that Andrew Jervis had been fired from his curatorial and hosting duties at Bandcamp was just the spark that I needed to finally set up shop and hit record. This trial run is really just an excuse to say thank you to Andrew, to show love for all of the artists and music that he represented for proudly during his time at Bandcamp. Not only that, but I figured I could also play some selections from the vast catalog of Ubiquity Records. It's one of my favorite independent labels and also where I first came to learn of the discerning ear and impeccable taste of Mr. Jervis.
I only played a handful of Ubiquity selections during this session, but any time is a good time for the sounds of Shawn Lee, Radio Citizen, Bei Bei, and Nino Moschella. "Floating" by Damon Aaron is a sleeper hit in the Ubiquity catalog: dreamy, pastoral soul that's warm and heartfelt. And that funk joint from Leroy & The Drivers is entirely too tough. I lean heavy on the Bandcamp side of things and with good reason: Jervis was the perfect host for Bandcamp Weekly, always putting the listeners on to new sounds and reminding us of choice selections from the past that still hold up today. The list of artists that I discovered on that show is too long to mention, but this show is jam-packed with them. Cuts from Cleo Sol, SAULT, Khruangbin, Little Simz, and Jaubi are just a few examples. Then there are artists that I didn't see coming like Swedish sensation Dina ögon or the introverted R&B/pop song hybrid that is homeshake. Andrew put me on to Salami Rose Joe Louis years prior to her signing to Brainfeeder Recordings. And I'm always up for some leftfield gospel to add to my unconventional hymnal, so I had to close things out with Reverend Sam Dixon's "Anyway" (another Bandcamp Weekly jewel).
I can't say with certainty that I'll be back on a monthly basis to do this, but that is my heart's desire. Then again, this life has a way of reminding me that my creative displays will be shared with the world when it's time and not a moment before then.
The first installment of Shielded By Headphones is here. And for that, I am grateful. Hope you enjoy it.
