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Apr 11
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Eno took the waiting room and made it the destination, and in 1978 that was either a joke or a religion depending on how late your flight was.
decade:1970s
Apr 10
Inspired by Bach
Yo-Yo Ma · 2006 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma spent years living inside the Bach Cello Suites and then handed you the receipts.
decade:2000s
Apr 7
Inspiration Information
Shuggie Otis · 1974 Spin it Again - A kid alone in his home studio in 1974, playing every instrument, going nowhere commercially, getting everything right.
genre:Soul
Apr 7
The Plateaux of Mirror
Harold Budd & Brian Eno · 1980 Spin it Again - Harold Budd plays piano like he's trying not to wake anyone, and Eno makes sure the room agrees.
decade:1980s
Apr 7
Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker · 1954 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old kid from Oklahoma sang like he was already finished with everything, and somehow that was exactly right.
genre:Vocal Jazz
Apr 5
Time Out
Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959 Spin it Again - Dave Brubeck put jazz in 5/4 time in 1959 and somehow the squares bought it, which tells you something about the song and something about the squares.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 5
Bags' Groove
Milt Jackson · 1957 Spin it Again - Milt Jackson's vibes hitting that pocket where bebop gets tired enough to mean something, and Miles just sitting there like he already knew.
genre:Jazz
Apr 5
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles Davis got five musicians in a room with almost no rehearsal and they all played like they were thinking out loud, which is harder than it sounds.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 4
Musik für Flughäfen
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four sides of tape loops and held piano notes that made waiting somewhere feel like the only reasonable thing a person could do.
decade:1970s
Apr 4
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Fagen spent six years out of Steely Dan's shadow to make something quieter and colder and more his, and it turns out that's exactly what he had to say.
genre:Jazz Fusion
Apr 3
Vagabond Ways
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2003 Spin it Again - Sandoval sounds like she's singing from the bottom of a well and somehow that's the only place you want to be at 2am.
genre:Americana
Apr 2
Peace Piece
Bill Evans · 1958 Spin it Again - Bill Evans alone at the piano in 1958, holding one bass note for eleven minutes while the right hand just wanders, and somehow that's enough.
genre:Piano Jazz
Apr 1
Soul Journey
Emmylou Harris · 2003 Spin it Again - Harris strips it down to wood and wire and reminds you that quiet is its own kind of pressure.
genre:Americana
Apr 1
Con Todo El Mundo
Khruangbin · 2018 Spin it Again - Three Texans who listened to too many Thai funk records made something that sounds like a late-night drive through a country you've never been to but somehow already miss.
genre:Funk
Mar 31
Mute
Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - There is no album called "Mute" by Anita Baker from 1986 — her 1986 record was "Rapture," and getting that wrong would embarrass us both.
genre:Soul
Mar 31
Promise
Sade · 1985 Spin it Again - Sade Adu singing like she has nowhere to be and all the time in the world to get there, over jazz that never once tries to impress you.
genre:Smooth Jazz
Mar 30
Harmonia
Harmonia · 1974 Spin it Again - Roedelius, Moebius, and Rother locked into something so unhurried and machine-calm that forty years later producers are still trying to get back there.
genre:Electronic
Mar 30
Still Bill
Bill Withers · 1972 Spin it Again - Bill Withers recorded this at 34, after years of working a factory floor, and you can hear every single one of those years.
genre:Funk
Mar 30
First Take
Roberta Flack · 1969 Spin it Again - Roberta Flack walked into a studio in 1969 and played piano like she had thirty more years of heartbreak to account for, and it turns out she was right.
genre:Jazz
Mar 30
Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four tape loops running at different lengths, and somewhere in the spaces between them, Eno quietly ended the idea that music had to demand your attention.
decade:1970s
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