Baths & Rachika Nayar - "Dried Apricot" (3:04)
Total Blue - "Astral Mud" (4:16)
Celia Hollander & Photay - "Live At LTMOITDUAT 10 14 23" (4:28)
Asa Tpme * Aroe; Kalma - "A Gentle Upward Spiral" (3:59)
Alia - "Lullaby For A Sea Nymph" (1:32)
Botony - "Diode Congregation" (2:43)
MA Tiqsenga - "A Clearing" (2:08)
VCR - "Charlene's Mantra" (1:57)
Ohma - "Live At LTMOITDUAT 10 14 23" (3:26)
Sharada Shashidhar & Caleb Buchanan - "Ghostly" (3:28)
Diego Gaeta - "Earthseed" (2:03)
Caural - "Radiant Everything" (3:30)
Surya Botofasina - "Our Cottage To Across The Stream" (feat Steve Spacek, Miles Spilsbury, Dntel & J Rocc - Carlos Nino & Friends remix) (3:22)
Julia Holta - "Turn The Light On" (live) (4:11)
Jon Makes Beats - "The Mountain" (3:09)
EMV - "On The One Hand" (2:39)
Kenny Segal - "Sablefish" (2:39)
Sam Wilkes - "Culebra" (3:21)
Daedelus - "Making The Beat Scene" (3:10)
Chackram & Migel Atwood Ferguson - "Mirror Image Neurons" (2:34)
Tru - "Skyscrapers" (2:16)
Laraaji - "Joyeus Dance '82" (6:13)
Arushi Jain - "California" (6:43)
Andre 3000 - "This Is Where My Room Used To Be" (feat Carlos Nino, Alex Cline & Pablo Calogero) (8:16)
Review: There's a crippling truth behind this expansive and musically accomplished compilation which few of us really want to acknowledge. Created to shore up funds for a City of Angeles devastated by yet another series of wildfires in January 2025, the sad fact is that we are going to see more and more records like this because more and more records like this will be needed. Still, at least we can be incinerated, drowned by flooding, or die from starvation or thirst while listening to some decent tunes. And these tunes are very decent. From space age jazz of Celia Hollander and Photay, to Julia Holta's pin-drop piano-vocal theatrical stunner, Baths & Rachika Nayer's very Bibio-sounding guitar-electronic dub, and the retro lounge style 'Making The Beat Scene' by Daedalus. We could go on.
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