Soundtrack Summer 2018: Our Everyday Forms

What’s in my ears as I write, read, and think about this project.

Oh Hyuk

Dear Black, Indigenous, Person of Color and Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Person of Color,

Jump in the water
Jump in the water

Yes, yes, yes, yes
Yes, this is the third room

—Khruangbin

Keep you cool in this good life
Won’t let you down when it’s all ruined

— Frank Ocean

Wild heart, young man, goddamn no one to keep
When your goal is ages out for the end of your story

— Cat Power

Ruby ebony sides

— Blood Orange

Young girls, patrons of the Earth
Young girls, take care of all the Earth
Young girls, they need they own respect
Young girls, carry babies from they neck

— Princess Nokia

This is my light, don’t block the sun
This is my seat, can’t you tell?

— Sudan Archives

You can always come running to me
So if you wanna run home cause missing the kool aid
Run home to me

— Diana Gordon

Carry away my dead leaves
Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters

— Ibeyi

Ethiopian Jazz, Mulatu Astatke

Chaka Khan, 2018

Bonus:

Watch Yaeji breaking down the lyrics about coming into oneself and her inner dialogue.