January '26: What we’ve been listening to...

Some of our aural adventures for the new year.

One of the plants I gave BoG Witch; thriving.

“I have come to the conclusion that this album contains a spirit with which we can interact as if we also had one.”

That line perfectly captures what I’m trying to articulate. That quality to certain music that operates on a different frequency - beyond what we can easily quantify or explain.

I’ve been having this ongoing - at times slightly heated - conversation with BoG witch (Tia) about how I describe music that touches on the mystical, the spiritual, the unexplainable. She sent me this track before Christmas, and it reminds me of the sounds my parents would play when I was small - music outside of ‘conventional frameworks’. Existing in that beautiful liminal space where sound is something more than just mere ‘entertainment’.

A healing, transformative affair if you like…

And this one, too, invites an experience rather than just offering ‘passive listening’ (something we try never to engage in here at Seeds).

I grew up surrounded by alternative healing practices, mysticism, and ways of understanding the world that exist outside dominant Western scientific frameworks. These weren’t fringe beliefs in my household - they were foundational. And honestly, whilst at the time it made it slightly more challenging to grow up in a more traditional schooling framework, I now trust those instincts more than I trust what late-stage capitalism wants to sell us as “rational thought.”

So when we encounter music that channels ancestral wisdom, spiritual energy, or transformative power - music that heals rather than just entertains - we want to celebrate it for exactly what it is.

Thank god BoG witch shares these same leanings…

I don’t see this as music that needs defending or qualifying (anymore); it’s music that knows its purpose. It’s an interesting realisation to come to that maybe, just maybe, my parents might have been right all along…ssh don’t tell ‘em ;)

Morning Trip what a label. This track off that album is 🤩

“Keep finding amazing dead women” BoG Witch

“Could also be dead” <read not replying to any of our emails>

Magic from Mr Hillage in 1979… definitely not dead.

And Priscilla (hoping to hear back from our email soon winking smiley face!)

Recent post from the excellent cloud collecting from marine eyes alerted our ears to the amazing Liom. Also check their new collab out now.

cloud collecting #44: Líom

Thanks also to Liom for the Ambient Sleeping Pill heads up.

Discovery from Christian Naujoks on Dial from a couple of years back via Ally Tropicana…

Not forgetting Kayla Painter’s amazing new album on the excellent quiet details. Music for when the sun breaks through the window on a crisp winter morning, like it did just now…

Plenty more where these came from…
We’ll try to keep on top of this column this year.
More sound medicine - for all beings, plants and other - as ritual, as connection.

Want something else to be going on in the meantime, or want to hear this more
(hint: play this round and round and round):

…best check BoG Witch’s In Reverie show on ROVR here.

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