Travelmarx Music Picks - Summer 2023

Composite image of 25 albums featured in the Travelmarx Summer 2023 playlist.

There's no theme for this playlist other than some fun songs we discovered recently. A few of the songs come from a week we spent in Lyon, France. 

Some artists we’ve been digging these days and that are represented in the playlist: Oracle Sisters (various countries), Cari Cari (Austria), Warhaus (Belgium), Alex Serra (Spain), Black Sea Dahu (Switzerland), Johnathan Jeremiah (Britain), Gizmo Varillas (Spain, Britain), and Desmond Cheese (Australia). Is it interesting that many of our “discovered” songs (a la Spotify) are not US-based? Here are 40 songs for the summer. Enjoy!  (Spotify link.)

The List 

Oracle Sisters – Tramp Like You [We are suckers for whistling. "I wanna be a tramp like you

I wanna have all my tales broken"]

Cari Cari – Welcome to Kookoo Island [Seems like an old-timey song but it isn’t! Aren’t we all living on KooKoo Island?]

Nerdstar, Chet Baker – There Will Never Be Another You [Gin tonic anyone?]

Warhaus – Desire [Smooth]

Dean Blunt, TYSON – Rinsed [Erie and likeable song.] 

 Erasmo Carlos – Gente Aberta [Carlos passed away in November 2022. Love this whole album.] 

 Alex Serra – Outter Space [Lyric: “You bring the beauty and light to this World we live in”]

 Ella Grace – I Wonder 

 Elle Valenci, Lecomte De Brégeot – Perfect Blue 

 Rinôçérôse – While My Guitar Gently Funks [This French group is a guilty pleasure for us.]

Jonathan Jeremiah – Horsepower for the Streets

Bill Withers – Better off Dead [Going back a few years, but Bill Withers always sounds good.] 

Joan Armatrading – Down to Zero [It’s important to have your feet on the ground...]

Gizmo Varillas – Give a Little Love [Infectious]

Black Sea Dahu – Big Mouth

Paolo Conte – En Blue Marine

Nick Mulvey – Fever to the Form

Angus & Julia Stone – Paper Aeroplane

Moderator – Harlem River [Interesting remix of Kevin Morby song.]

Rhye – The Fall

Jockstrap – Concrete Over Water

Drug Store Romeos – Wondrous Place

Locust – No-One in the World [Haunting Karen Carpenter voice sample.]

Richard Ashcroft – Music is the Power [That's why we make these playlists.]

Jonnine – Tea for Two (Boo)

Ours Samplus – Blue Bird

Guts, Patrice, The Studio School Voices NYC – Want it Back

Wax Tailor – Que Sera

Desmond Cheese – Dope Vhs

Master Jungle – Casio

Grace Cummings – Heaven
Jeff Tweedy – Warm (When the Sun Has Gone)
Palace – Bitter (Acoustic)
Josh Pyke – The Summer
David Bowie – Sound and Vision [Love this version.]

Bibio – lovers' carvings
Voice Actor, Joseph – Carefully
Bon Entendeur, André Popp – Love is Blue
Zackfourteen – Eslovenia
Inna De Yard, Ken Boothe – Let the Water Run Dry (featuring Ken Boothe)