This week's mixtape focuses on the spoken word, whether underscored, sampled, or cut and manipulated. Enjoy!
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Playlist
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Three Ghosts by Laurie Anderson on Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch) -
The Release of Love by Laurie Anderson on Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch) -
The Bardo by Laurie Anderson on Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch) -
Whaling Tale by Valley Of The Giants on Valley of the Giants (Arts & Crafts) -
Tundra Songs by Derek Charke, composer; Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, lyricist; Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq on Tundra Songs (Centrediscs) -
iii by The Physics House Band, feat. Stewart Lee on Death Sequence (Unearthly Vision) -
"It Raged" from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone) by Scott Johnson, composer; Kronos Quartet on Released/Unreleased: 1985–1995 (Nonesuch) -
"Soliloquy" from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone) by Scott Johnson, composer; Kronos Quartet on Short Stories (Nonesuch) -
By the Shore by Anna & Elizabeth on The Invisible Comes to Us (Smithsonian Folkways) -
Different Trains: America—Before the war by Steve Reich, composer; Kronos Quartet on Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Nonesuch) -
Different Trains: Europe—During the war by Steve Reich, composer; Kronos Quartet on Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Nonesuch) -
Different Trains: After the war by Steve Reich, composer; Kronos Quartet on Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Nonesuch) -
Mr. Gowrie by Charles Spearin on The Happiness Project (Arts & Crafts)