Vince Millett

<p>I’m writing the show notes you’re reading from my backyard. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VinceMillett" title="Vince Millett">Vince Millett</a>’s mix, today’s guest deejay, plays in the background. The sun is out, the sky is blue, birds are chirping and my dog is smelling a flower. It is an idyllic day. Except that it’s week seven of California’s safe at home. COVID-19 has completely disrupted civilization and we’ll feel the aftershocks for years, if not decades, to come. So, yeah except for that, I’m having a fantastic day.</p> <p>I met Vince eight years ago on Twitter. I was impressed with his netlabel, <a href="http://brokendrumrecords.com" title="Broken Drum Records">Broken Drum Records</a>, and his podcast, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/secretarchives/stream/" title="Secret Archives of the Vatican">Secret Archives of the Vatican</a>, and invited him to be a guest deejay for <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/category/listen/solipsistic-nation/" title="solipsistic NATION">solipsistic NATION</a>, my electronic music podcast. You’ll want to <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/solipsistic-nation-no-268-secret-archives-of-the-vatican/" title="solipsistic NATION No. 268: Secret Archives of the Vatican">listen to that episode</a> as soon as you’re done with today’s show. Vince’s taste in music leans towards the Asian and Middle Eastern and that is reflected in today’s mix. Each song is a gem. Dhafer Youssef’s “Dawn Prayer,” for example, is gut wrenchingly beautiful </p> <ol> <li><a href="https://tectonicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/formations-e-p" title="Moving Ninja">Moving Ninja</a> “Kemancheh”</li> <li><a href="https://thousandyardprayer.bandcamp.com/album/singles-2020" title="Thousand Yard Prayer">Thousand Yard Prayer</a> “Outremer”</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Prophecy-Dhafer-Youssef/dp/B0000BWVD2" title="Deafer Youssef">Dhafer Youssef</a> “Dawn Prayer”</li> <li><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/alexander-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/158043498" title="Alexand