This is a mix of 15 favorite songs of 2015 not to be found on my favorite records list. It consists of selections from 'runner-up' records or songs that stand out from the rest of the album they came on. It begins with Deradoorian’s 'Your Creator' because of a singular experience that puts the song at the top of this list: being awakened in the early hours of a summer morning by a beautiful voice singing a mantra that affirms what we have somehow always known:
In your inner gazeYou will find the sageAnd build a circle of CreationYou will know…If you want, you will know…
From there we embark on a journey to 'the other side', launching in an attitude of hubris and heaviness from the shores we know, then floating pleasantly to another coast, to whatever strange beauties we will find.
- Deradoorian – 'Your Creator', from The Expanding Flower Planet
- The Bright Light Social Hour – 'Ouroboros', from Space Is Still the Place
- The Arcs – 'Cold companion', from Yours, Dreamily,
- Eternal Tapestry – 'Wild strawberries', from Wild Strawberries
- Herbcraft – 'Push thru the veil', from Wot Oz
- Damaged Bug – 'Transmute', from Cold Hot Plumbs
- Jib Kidder – 'Remove a tooth', from Teaspoon to the Ocean
- Stealing Sheep – 'Not real', from Not Real
- White Poppy – 'Telepathic love', from Natural Phenomena
- Cherry Garcia – 'Vine of souls', from Vine of Souls
- Bibio – 'Petals', from A Mineral Love
- Patrick Watson – 'In circles', from Love Songs for Robots
- Ramzi – 'Etwal', from Houti Kush
- Hybrid Palms – 'Garden phase', from Rainbow Breeze
- Sir Richard Bishop – 'Frontier', from Tangier Sessions
