Write to stay alive 3

It’s interesting what Write to stay alive has become. Each of the four playlists so far maintains the themes of introspection and healing, yet each one is quite different and I find myself listening to different iterations depending on my emotional state. Having closed the second compilation, Girls returns to open a much darker, insular and more personal set.

1. Takagi Masakatsu – Girls – Coieda (4:36)
2. Hiroyuki Sawano – From Sunset to Sunrise – Taiyou no Uta (5:44)
3. Choro Club feat. Senoo – Kakaribi no Nocturne – Aria the Natural(3:03)
4. Underworld & Gabriel Yared – Will and Amira – Breaking & Entering (2:53)
5. Underworld & Gabriel Yared – Primrose Hill – Breaking & Entering (2:22)
6. Underworld & Gabriel Yared – So-Ree – Breaking & Entering (3:08)
7. Hiroyuki Sawano – From Sunset to Sunrise (Piano & Strings Version) – Taiyou no Uta (4:15)
8. Keishi Urata, Hajime Mizoguchi – A Far Away Lightning – Texhnolyze (3:02)
9. Michael Nyman – The Morrow – Gattaca (3:14)
10. Kenji Kawai – Floating Museum (2.0 Ver.) – Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (5:04)
11. Kenji Kawai – Kugutsuuta ura mite chiru – Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2 (3:40)
12. Cliff Martinez – Will She Come Back – Solaris (5:00)
13. Kow Otani – Fading – Haibane Renmei (2:32)
14. Alejandro Amenabar – Old times – The Others (3:25)
15. Craig Armstrong – Death Scene – Romeo + Juliet (4:13)
16. Craig Armstrong – Liebestod – Romeo + Juliet (1:27)
17. Angelo Badalamenti – Mulholland Drive / Love Theme – Mulholland Drive (5:40)
18. Clint Mansell – Together We Will Live Forever – The Fountain (5:01)
19. Mark Isham – The Very Thought of You / With Us Alone – Home for the Holidays (2:42)

1 hour, 11 minutes

Somewhere in there optimism still exists, or perhaps the quiet acknowledgement of rare, good things. From Sunset to Sunrise certainly speak of hope, but eventually most of the playlist is concerned with isolation and specific experience. Write-3 is perhaps the most dramatic playlist in a theatrical sense; Michael Nyman’s Morrow through Kawai’s Ghost in the Shell hymn-like pieces to the sorrow of Romeo + Juliet ’96 and ultimately to isolation expressed particularly humbling in Clint Mansell’s conclusion to The Fountain.

Mark Isham’s piano expression of The Very Thought of You with additional score from Home for the Holidays remains a wonderfully intimate piece of music for me. It is mournful and singular, very subtle, very calm. It will open Write to stay alive 4 which I recently completed, the darkest and most intimate compilation yet.