3. SOCK FREE 

By Izabel Caligiore 

for Sock Free Hideaway

VERY HONOURED to share this with you. Izabel of Lullabies For Insomniacs fame has hosted some fine, fine mixes and works slavishly to share her love of ethereal and quite wonderful music and this mix is no exception as it's truly mesmerizing. Thank you. Upon first listen, doing the ironing, it didn't just blow my socks off but sent me hurling down a sand dune. However, after emptying sand from my socks and lying down for a second listen, I merely cascaded down, which is an altogether better experience. Take my advice, put one hour and fifteen minutes out of every day for a fortnight, and lie back listening to this and nothing will be the same again. The perfect prescription.  

sock free mix by Izabel Caligiore (Lullabies For Insomniacs)

In Izabel's words:

I recorded this mix on a cold winters night in Melbourne, I had just received some horrible news from a dear friend in London that saw my mood matching the weather, dark and sombre.

Alas I grabbed a stack of records and let the music transport me to a ‘sock free hideaway’.

The mix travels through many times and places starting with Pharaoh Saunders tribute to Coltrane and finishing with Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac.

I started Lullabies for Insomniacs | Mixcloud March this year, it is a fortnightly radio show broadcasted on PBS 106.7fm.

I came up with the name Lullabies for Insomniacs not only as it is an apt name for a graveyard shift (2am-6am) but also because it can be interpreted in different ways. The beauty about the guest mixes for each week is how each artist interprets the title.My last show is this week as I am moving overseas to study although will be launching a website shortly that will feature a fortnightly podcast as well as guest mixes.

Hope you enjoy.

KONTIKI SUITE

MUCH APPRECIATED but too proudly insular to breakthrough big, Kontiki Suite's effortlessly catchy harmony and crystallized strumming make them reminiscent of 68' era Byrds to some journo's, which is a shame coz I hear maturity beyond that and their new material (what I've heard so far), compacts their sound further. I expect it to be showcased on the 14th of September, ahead of their 2nd album. 

Live, they're hard to catch as they venture out quite rarely, so, this is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy one of the most exciting propositions in the intimate surrounding of the upstairs of Dulcimer bar. Debut album Sunset Lake is awash with beautiful tunes that evoke late summer evenings outside the caravan, and, I'm sure, their rendition of Magic Carpet Ride will mutate into something quite special on the 14th.

Steph Grant will be supporting with her fragile tunes of wonder, with moi and Cotton Controller playing the type of records that come alive inside your head. Pleased to shout 'Get Yer Socks off!'

Sock Free Hideaway presents KONTIKI SUITE

(support the night by sharing, inviting, ignoring or better still, putting it in your diary. Another intimate night of musical celebration guaranteed.)

http://www.juno.co.uk/charts/dj/1247281-sock_free_hideaway/962635-Chart/

Another chart from the sound supermarket. Doubt i'll play any of these on the night, but they're worth a listen. Thinking, wind rustling the sand for the night. The slight smell of distant barbecue, the faint reggae keyboard and a stretched smile. Whatever...