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Once we attain for songs to gradual the blood, we discover a number of recurring themes. It isn’t simply calming washes of amorphous, ambient tones. These are songs with one thing your mind can maintain on to, with reflections on gratitude and kindness that remind us to hit pause and take discover of all of the goodness in our lives.
In our second installment this yr of soothing songs, we take a deep breath and let it out with the music of Max Richter, Hania Rani, Fleet Foxes, Yasmin Williams and extra. NPR Music (and Pop Tradition Completely satisfied Hour) host Stephen Thompson joins All Songs Thought-about host Robin Hilton with extra songs to calm the nerves.
Featured artists and songs:
1. Joan Shelley: “Simple Now,” from Over and Even
2. Fleet Foxes: “Helplessness Blues,” from Helplessness Blues
3. Theo Alexander: “re; Ready,” from Animadversions
4. Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher: “There Will Be Hope,” from Internal Symphonies
5. Nicholas Britell: “Eden (Harlem),” from If Beale Avenue Might Speak
6. Max Richter: “Dream 3 (within the midst of my life),” from From Sleep
7. Stars of the Lid: “Even If You are By no means Awake,” from And Their Refinement of the Decline
8. Iron & Wine: “Passing Afternoon,” from Our Limitless Numbered Days
9. Yasmin Williams: “Juvenescence,” from City Driftwood
10. Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett: “Fratres (for violin and piano),” from Arvo Párt: Tabula Rasa
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