Anyone following my personal Facebook or Insta in 2017 probably noticed I spent a big chunk of time bumbling across a dozen timezones in an extended solo walkabout to rearrange some things in my head.
I likely spent too much of it immersed in my earbuds then, but music has always had a way with me, imprinting indelibly on places that I experience as a personal soundtrack.
So I pulled together some highlights from that time. A playlist of songs that will always and forever take me back to the places I visited during a very special and challenging year of my life. The Last Tour, I started calling it years later.
Some are a bit on the nose, but most are deep vibes that seemed to intensify whatever it was I was experiencing at the time. It's a chill, introspective playlist, and I hope it helps you immerse into your deep places, too.
Artist | Indelible Memory |
2814 | Night at the ruins of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong |
Yagya | Midnight bus ride over the Atlas Mountains, Morocco |
Surfing | Missed redeye flight at Changi International, Singapore |
Dan Mason | Sleeping in the car, Northern Territory, Australian Outback |
Joep Beving | Hitchhiking Arthur's Pass, New Zealand South Island |
Bill Evans | Midnight in the central business district, Melbourne Australia |
Edith Piaf | Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris |
Fields of the Nephilim | Drive to Dimmu Borgir, Iceland |
Jóhann Jóhannson | The trails of Rangitoto Island, Auckland New Zealand |
Nest | Deserted guesthouse in Mogimachi, Nagasaki |
Röyskopp | Night fog over Table Mountain, Cape Town South Africa |
Tan Dun | Winter in the Forbidden City, Beijing |
Slowdive | Enchanted alleyways of Shinjuku, Japan |
Nils Frahm | Cold winter along the DMZ, Korea |
Max Richter | Foggy morning at Schloss Neuschwanstein, Füssen Germany |
36 | Driving through farmland in Bohemia, Czechia and southwest Poland |
S U R V I V E | Night walk through the snow to Kruunovouri ghost town, Helsinki |
Anna Magnani | Park of the Monsters in the rain, Bomarzo Italy |
Jason Molina | Walking an 800-year-old postal path to Guankeng village, Wuyuan county China |
The War on Drugs | Cross country drive across the US |
Astrud Gilberto | Up too early from jetlag, village of Paraty, Brazil |
Eddie Vedder | Remote cabin in Siete Tazas, Chile |
Hammock | Amtrak from LA to Oakland, CA |
Russian Circles | Long walk to the post office, Milan, Italy |
NMesh | Night bus to Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
Sade | Up late on the porch in Gaborone, Botswana |
John Coltrane | Sunday service at St. John Coltrane African-Orthodox Church, San Francisco CA |
Stan Getz | Train over Lake Geneva, Lausanne Switzerland |
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