Each month here we visit with a member of the community to find out what music they’ve been digging.
I’ve usually got a lot of new indie in heavy rotation on my playlists, but at the beginning of January, in honor of National Screenwriters Day on January 5, I devoted an entire episode of my show to playing songs from movies I love. Among them, Moonlight (brilliantly scored by Nicholas Britell of “Succession”) and Bjork’s Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Dancer in the Dark. It is an amazing experience to listen to an exceptional score, even if you have never seen the film. What music can do to create a vivid, emotional landscape without the accompaniment of visuals is incredibly powerful. Recommended: “Black Theme” and “Hello Stranger” from Moonlight and “Scatterheart” and “The Musicals” from Dancer in the Dark.
Julie Novak is a cofounder and workshop leader of TMI Project and the host of Radio Kingston’s “No One Like You” on Wednesdays from 1 to 3pm.
This article appears in February 2022.
