These past couple months have been trying to most of us. Even as an introvert, there have been times that I struggled with the imposed changes in routines and other impacts on daily life.
One of my coping tools this entire period, like mentioned in my mental health blog entry 427, has been listening to music.
I've listened to many cds - as I prefer them in general as mentioned in my previous entry, but also online, simply because a preference of discs doesn't exclude digital and online.
Whilst on PC, I often multi task, blogging or chatting and also listening to youtube, be it video clips or coming to listen to live performances and dj sets from musicians who gracefully offered us extra music to enjoy, both as part of their own coping, and for our listening pleasure.
Today, I want to share links to those I listened and enjoyed, to thank these musicians for their/your time, energy and presence in our lives and ears, giving us melodies, fast beats or slow and mellow, giving us the feels, joys and sorrows, taking in song requests, and so on.
Online, the one musician (and producer) I listened to most often is ZOYA, already introduced on this very blog. Youtoube had suggested one of her cover songs, nearly 4 years ago ; later on, also her original music, her trance music podcasts, and occasional Facebook live. Lately, she gave us more of these lives but also DJ Sets. Links : Her official Facebook, and official Youtube. Genres : trance, techno, melodic techno. I suggest you follow at least her Facebook or Twitter, if you want early warning on interviews, and these performances, especially that some of them premier on a different channel on which she is a guest.
Still in trance and techno genres, I also followed most of Paul Van Dyk, who have done 3ish hour dj sets on his official youtube. They are live every Sunday, 7PM CET/6PM BST and I find his Facebook the best source of early warning on events, including additional sets outside of these Sunday sessions.
Thursday evenings, I tend to listen to A State of Trance. Their official Youtube is here, where they added extra long sets or even continuous play on the 24/7 ASOT radio, shown at the top of that window. Most often, I get the warning and listen to their live over Armin Van Buuren's channel, even when he had to take a break, and where the rest of the team alternated their presence, during the stricter period of lockdown. Most of ASOT sets last about 2 hours, and many of the individual songs are later also presented, cut from the rest of the show, at least on Armin's channel.
Last one in this genre, that I listened to on youtube, is Alexandra Badoi, first discovered a few weeks ago in ASOT 945. Ever since, she started her own dj sets for about an hour, and has 3 of them available on her official channel.
After all the above trance and techno beats, sometimes I want something calmer.
Pop, pop rock and adult contemporary artist Detla Goodrem has several live sessions, mostly on piano, over her official Facebook and which I found quite enjoyable, though I hadn't really listened to her before FB suggested this content.
Kate Havnevik, already introduced in this blog, and whose cd albums are also in the electronica universe (actually, her genre also include alternative dance, trip hop, and pop), had acoustic mini concert and one long concert over her Facebook.
Mila Ziska was suggested to me on Instagram (hers is here), for her photography. Then, through comment exchanges, I discovered her youtube, where she shares mostly her solo music as well as travel videos. She just finished her music studies in a Berlin uni and thus, the music she shares, the fruit of 6 years of passion, is listening to an emerging talent, and also has a few songs with her classmates, and a duo project with one of her friends, thus far with only one song on youtube - their duo has the poetic name Tales of the moon. This friend, and second half of the tales is Judith who posted a mini live over her Instagram, in the same mellow, more acoustic style. Judith also started a youtube channel, here.
Hope you all enjoy some of all of these, depending on your own musical tastes, and expect a second entry on the same topic, with cds that I pickd up in the recent weeks.
Music is life, and it helps make it more bearable when it's tough, isn't it?
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