This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist (available to all of our Premium Substack Subscribers) opens with Miles Cooper Seaton (Akron/Family), who passed away in 2021; he was just 41. It’s taken from his 2016 album ‘Phases in Exile’:
“This is music that I imagine many people listening to, on the train, eyes closed, trying to imagine they’re alone. In the car, in the morning, as dawn breaks; late at night, windows rolled down, wind rushing in. It’s music for transient moments, liminal spaces, music for moving while sitting still. It’s lonesome music. But it is not about running away or being defeated, although I had to do those things to get here.”
Here he is, performing music from that album (as well as an unexpected cover of Springsteen’s I’m On Fire). The session was recorded at Audioglobe’s warehouse HQ in 2016.
Seaton is followed by a 2021 release from The Vernon Spring, the solo project of British composer and producer Sam Beste. Beste’s new album is dropping soon on RVNG Intl., which I hope to cover soon.
A number of tracks are from releases recently covered on KLOF Mag, such as Ian Humberstone, Alabaster DePlume, Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl and Black Flower (some of which I also mention in the regular newsletter I sent over the weekend along with our latest Mixtape – you can listen/read it here).
There are some tranquil moments, but there’s plenty of energy scattered in the mid-to-late section of the playlist, such as American free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements’ ‘Open the Gates’ featuring Moor Mother, the title track of their 2021 album.
Enjoy the playlist. Listen links can be found below:
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | Tidal