Season’s greetings!

As I was climbing a mountain in Wales last weekend with my doggie (more on that soon), I had to miss studio day at Sister Midnight FM. Short of time and eager to offer something to counter the winter chill, I thought, why not release volume five of Singers, Songs & Strings?

This is a series I started in 2010 to celebrate the bare beauty and sacred mystery of songwriting. Mostly acoustic but not always. Sometimes instrumental and occasionally veering into the electronic and ambient ether.

Lots of names you will recognise here, including Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Can and Sinead O’Connor. But I have also folded in some more obscure moments from the likes of Cy Timmons, Skip Prokop and Hako Yamasaki. All braided together into that signature ML odyssey.

Something high-tuft for you to stretch out on. I hope it’s good to you and at least one of these tunes induces a sweet little reverie.

Round and round the burning circleAll the seasons, one, two and threeAutumn comes and then the WinterSpring is born and wanders free’Milk & Honey’ – Jackson C Frank

The mathematicians among you will note that there should be four other volumes before this. If you would like them, let me know in the comments or DM me at [at] amarofpatel on IG.

Back in January with a more ancient-to-future selection, but you can expect a dispatch before then.

Stay close,

Amar

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DAVID HORRIDGE – At First Sight [Smiling C]

DOROTHY CARTER – Along The River [Palto Flats] 3m 10s

CY TIMMONS – Nowhere [Erewhon Music] 8m 36s

MARIA RITA – Canção De Garoa [Mr Bongo] 17m 00s

JEFF BUCKLEY – Opened Once [Columbia] 18m 30s

HAKO YAMASAKI – Komori Uta [WRWTFWW] 21m 47s

MARC RIBOT – Sobo (composed by Frantz Casseus) [Knockwurst] 25m 43s

LINDA PERHACS – Parallelograms [Kapp] 29m 55s

ANDRE GIBSON & UNIVERSAL TOGETHERNESS BAND – Valentine Lover [Numero] 34m 09s

LINDA LEWIS – It’s A Frame [Reprise] 35m 48s

SKIP PROKOP – Blue Boy [NTS] 39m 21s

JUST US – Just A Thought 43m 55s

CHARLIE MEGIRA – Smile Now, Cry Later [Numero] 48m 40s

CAN – She Brings The Rain [Spoon] 52m 28s

ULTRA VIOLET – How Do You Do (Children Of The Most High) [Light in the Attic] 56m 40s

BO HARWOOD & JOHN CASSAVETES – No One Around To Hear It [Efficient Space] 1h 00m 55s

THE REPLACEMENTS – Sadly Beautiful [Sire] 1h 04m 13s

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains [Blanco y Negro] 1h 07m 22s

DEAN BLUNT – Woosah [Rough Trade] 1h 10m 10s

THE ROCHES – Hammond Song (featuring Robert Fripp) [Warner] 1h 13m 05s

SINEAD O’CONNOR – Black Boys On Mopeds [Chrysalis] 1h 18m 30s

PJ HARVEY – Beautiful Feeling (Peel Session 2000) 1h 22m 21s

RY COODER – Houston in Two Seconds [Warner] 1h 26m 10s

NICK HAKIM – Needy Bees (live on NPR Tiny Desk) 1h 28m 10s

EDDIE FLOYD – I Will Always Have Faith In You [Stax] 1h 31m 28s

JACKSON C FRANK – Milk & Honey [Antarctica Starts Here] 1h 33m 28s

GUNS N ROSES – Patience [Geffen] 1h 37m 06s

FRED NEILL – Faretheewell (Fred’s Tune) [Capitol] 1h 42m 54s

KAREN DALTON – Are You Leaving For The Country [LITA] 1h 46m 53s

FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Who Knows Where The Time Goes [Woodworm] 1