Hello Our Basement,
We use an old cliche to sum up birth, death, and ultimately, the renewal of our human experience: the circle of life.
We are perpetually spinning through it, although at times it can feel like we are a train stuck on the tracks with just one more stop to go.
I wrote “Virtuous Circle” at a time in my life where I felt surrounded by a lot of death;
the loss of a family member, broken relationships, personal instability, and what felt like an endless streak of disappointments in my career.
This song is a prayer to be reincarnated, a plea of hope that what feels like a vicious circle could invert into a virtuous one. I think it’s pretty natural to try to ward off pain once it inevitably arrives,
but I wanted to write about engaging with such an uncomfortable feeling in a healthy way.
Maybe by engaging with it, you can actually walk through it.
I want “Virtuous Circle” to have a sense of darkness contrasted with hopefulness.
I want it to feel like running – like breaking away from what is chasing you.
JORDAN KLASSEN
Hello
Good Morning
Good morning!
Nice song and sentiment from Jordan Klassen. I certainly know of what he speaks.
How did the show go DBS?
sorry, it was a bit late for me here
My first episode of The Basement went pretty well last night. It was far from smooth but I didn’t have any major screw ups. Overall I am happy with how it went. I know I will get better at it as I go. It is more than a little late for you Garf!
The event I was planning happened Friday night and it went pretty well too. My schedule is opening up a bit now. I may even get a chance to go through artist emails a put a post or two together!
This was my playlist for the show.
https://open.spotify.com/user/darbarspecial/playlist/5jCai0AlKz6G898yqWtKdp?si=pGyrCZVjS3KFnfJ9PmWJOA
I ran out of time for Justin Wright and only played a minute of Fly Pan Am. Meet Me In The Basement will be my show theme that I play at the start of every show.
This week was songs from my Sled Island playlist. Next week will probably be from Birds of a Feather playlist.
I have only finished editing and uploading my show for tonight about 30 minutes ago and I have yet to get around to making a Spotify playlist
Most of the playlist for my show tonight
https://open.spotify.com/user/22niri634sh4u573tdji3fmwq/playlist/2y8yIt2PwVFgfOQcrmsLuz?si=OX_hcHjBSEK3_Q5BoiJlVA
Hmmm, it looks like the comment auto refresher doesn’t like spotify playlists
Is yours called The Basement too? Cool.
I figured, why not call it the basement, that way we could share interviews and show IDs
We shall see how technical I can get and what my limitations are. I am still focused on just pushing the right buttons at the right time. Live radio is a bit scary!