as is my tradition an end of year playlist – live for you. it runs for about two and a half hours.
live for you [2025 tunes] apple music
live for you [2025 tunes] spotify
i also listen to a lot of ambient instrumental music so will post a link to a second playlist in the next post. taste is a strange thing so no idea if it will be of interest to anyone else! some of my favourite albums have been exile by chronixx, joe armon jones double dose of albums: all the quiet, a deeper life by chaos in the cbd. i have also seen some amazing live music this year…
anyway here’s the tracklist
Gnawa – Makaya McCraven
Taka – Pino Palladino & Blake Mills
Coyote, You’re My Star – Dana and Alden
Live For You – Thee Sacred Souls
Hold the Wine – Gianni Brezzo
Disaster – Don Glori
Need to Run – Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
EJS (Shrublife Remix) [Mixed] – corto.alto
Second Wave – 44th Move, Alfa Mist & Richard Spaven
Ghostown! (feat. Tenderlonious) – Yoni Mayraz
Black Narcissus – Knats
El Tigrillo Mono – El León Pardo
Thank You for the Day – Emma-Jean Thackray
Holy Ghost (feat. Brandon Delagraentiss) – Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers
La Ceiba – Antibalas Hourglass
Morning Light – Marla Kether, Naima Adams & Somewhere Soul
Forever – Girls of the Internet, The Voices of Epoch & The Gospel Of Thomas
I Wanna Tell Somebody – Chaos In The CBD & Josh Milan
Tsinguipa – Da Lata & Lenna Bahule
Into Dust (Still Falling) – Four Tet
I’m so Happy to See the Clouds – Gavsborg & Tóke
The Invasion – Jackie Edwards & Prince Fatty
Market – Chronixx
Westmoreland (feat. Asheber) – Joe Armon-Jones
Colourblind (feat. Loyle Carner) – Tom Misch
Beautiful BLACK – Goya Gumbani
Free – Little Simz
Otim Hop (feat. Otim Alpha, Bootie Brown, K.O.G & Tom Excell) – Africa Express
ALE – Tony Allen & La BOA
The Artist – Charles Webster & Bokani Dyer
Bring Summer – Me and My Friends
T.H. – Sault
The Eternal Now – Chip Wickham
Letter To Mars – Jay Electronica
Protest With Love – Lonnie Holley
Forgive the Damages (feat. Daudi Matsiko) – GoGo Penguin
Train Dreams – Nick Cave
Jesus – Bill Callahan & Smog
Become New – Georgie Sweet