Songs You Should Know – Green Man Eats Green

Curated by Sanjo

So with spring sprungin’ everywhere, Earth Day coming, and a deep, impossibly critical need I think we all have to connect to the world around us both natural and human, I put this short list together of songs that kind of encompass something close to these sentiments.

Bruce Haack’s Incantation is just the perfect ceremonial dose of weirdness and naturalistic, pagan musical communion the world needs, and I kind of fanned out from there.  There’s a black metal artist on the banjo, references to it raining frogs, declarations of human defacement of nature, and at least one song just named after a tree, that’s sort of evocative of a scene when put with the lyrics that otherwise don’t mention the tree at all.

I’m Sanjo and I’m starting Beginner’s Mind Riot on Friday April 15th, 10-noon.  I love broad, meta-conceptual clustering of songs/playlists, reminding me of how I’d make all my mix tapes late into the night from my childhood to give to a friend or crush or just keep in the walkman.   It could be one continuous theme, or a bunch of mini themes that stream from one to the other, or just a vibe, but if you check the show out, you’ll hopefully connect to this idea:  we can communicate through other peoples’ music.  That’s really cool for an otherwise introvert like me!