Warm your soul with the sultry sounds of early 1960s Bossa Nova.
A collection of 14 bleak, 1950-60s jazz vocals and instrumentals that speak of abandonment and betrayal.

Bookstall in Seoul, c. 1950s. By Han Youngsoo.
A
journey through 17 desolate American Primitive guitar instrumentals;
this playlist is an homage to those Americans who have, and will,
witness their lives wither and turned to dust, by a cruel and
unrelenting force of their compatriots’ creation.
Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963
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Strength, strength is what I want. Strength not to endure, I have that and it has made me weak—but strength to act—
Unknown—
Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired.
15 hypnagogic, lo-fi tracks that are, hopefully, evocative of the fragility and mutability of memories.
Vincent van Gogh, Letters (1875-1890)—
I am very sad and I feel more miserable than I can say, and I do not know how far I’ve come. I do not know what to do or what to think, but vehemently desire to leave this place. I feel so melancholy.
Paulo Coelho—
I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back