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“Then sweet music sounded on the air, and the loud tones were hushed, as in wondering silence the Fairies waited what should come.” Louisa May Alcott
“Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.” Eugène Ionesco
The paired pieces of 1968 psychedelia at the outset settled in my brain years ago, but months of introspection and awe-seeking finally unlocked this mix's formula just in time to share for my birthday (April 16). Songs of great beauty in no hurry that evoke wonder, suffused with meaning and emotional depth.
Tracks are from 1968 to 2022 and the artists are from the UK, USA, Sweden, Finland, Argentina, Turkey, and Belgium. The mix is timestamped and the tracklist is in a comment. The cover is a photo "Waiting" by Heinz Hajek-Halke, c.1930.
