Connective Tissue
10.14.22
Connective Tissue is about the spaces between sound, ideas and people. Featuring underground artists from across the electronic spectrum as well as themed excursions into rhythms at large, E. Molina delves into dance music, as well as into the connections that make it possible. The party hiatus forced by the pandemic prompted a personal need to reevaluate what DJing can do as an inherently contextual, fluid, and community-based practice, within and beyond nightlife. Connective Tissue seeks to explore this question through conversations, guest contributions, and experimentation with the 2-hour radio format. Sonic syncretism, fluidity, and genre irreverence will be celebrated in every episode.
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This month’s episode of Connective Tissue features Nora Belblidia, another amazing DJ colleague from the WTUL New Orleans days.
Nora is a writer, editor, and photographer currently based in Baltimore. The original idea we had for this episode was to approach it as a sort of movie soundtrack, a movie “about a person returning to something from their past, a “homecoming” of sorts.”
In the first hour you’ll hear Nora’s mix. She writes:
Film forms the inspiration for much of this mix. I’ve included selected scores here, all from movies I watched at some point in the past two-and-a-half years, along with songs that may not have appeared in a film, but sound like they could have. I was also influenced by trips to Lisbon, New Orleans, and Algiers — the mix features field recordings from those places — as well as life in general feeling like a giant question mark.
The concept behind this mix evolved slightly since you first approached me. But that initial idea, of playing with a feeling of both looking forward and back, remains in a sort of dream logic soup.
The second hour is my own interpretation of this idea, with selections that have a nostalgic quality, music that you can easily imagine in a movie. My soundtrack is inspired by a specific kind of loneliness that sets in with the changing of the seasons. A transition that is uncomfortable until it settles and becomes ordinary again.
Tracklist:
NORA BELBLIDIA
Les Baxter – Fruit of Dreams
Ahmed Malek – La Silence des Cendres
Dave Blume – Main Title (“Taxi Driver”)
Field Recording – Family Ghost Stories 1 (El Achour, Algeria)
Rachid & Fethi – Habit En Ich
Ahmed Malek & Flako – Tape 23 Track 4
Pino Donaggio – Laura’s Theme (“Don’t Look Now”)
Field Recording – French Quarter Frogs (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Jonny Greenwood – Sandalwood I (“Phantom Thread”)
Michael Small – The Tape (“Klute”)
Twig Harper – Half
Field Recording – State Fair (Timonium, Maryland)
Gerald Busby – Pinky in the Lunch Room (“3 Women”)
Field Recording – Family Ghost Stories 2 (El Achour, Algeria)
Popol Vuh – Through Pain to Heaven (“Nosferatu”)
Field Recording – Call to Prayer (El Achour, Algeria)
Field Recording – Peacocks at the Castle (Lisbon, Portugal)
Michael Galasso – Baroque (“Chungking Express”)
Shams Dinn – Hedi Bled Noum
Boutaiba Sghir – Dayha Oulabes
Rachid Taha – Ya Rayah
Elias Rahbani – Dance of Maria
Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Panacea
Field Recording – The Chime Tree (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Percy Faith and his Orchestra – Theme For Young Lovers
Ahmed Malek – Autopsie d’un Complot
E. MOLINA
