Sweltering

Bring on those long, hot, and humid days, because it’s officially Summer! For me, summer is all about sound: wind chimes singing in the breeze, neighborhood kids playing soccer in the park, faint music and laughter from a cookout up the street, a chorus of robins and crickets intertwining into the evening, a quiet morning coffee on a balcony in some foreign city—all of these scenes and sounds are distinctly summer.

On Season Cycle: Summer, these sounds are on full display. Each piece of music prominently features a field recording as its centerpiece, grounding each song within the context of a summertime scene.

About Season Cycle:

It is remarkable how a small shift in the earth's angle relative to the sun has such a dynamic effect on the weather. I am fortunate to have lived my entire life in a place that has four distinct seasons: winter, spring, summer, and autumn, and I find the changing of the seasons to be a great source of inspiration. For my Season Cycle project, I set out to create a suitable soundtrack to last the whole year. Season Cycle: Spring is the second installment in the Season Cycle series.

I acknowledge that these songs are not representative of how everyone experiences the seasons (my Northern Hemisphere / American Midwest bias is a big factor here). Even if you live in a part of the world where your experience of the seasons is not like my own, I hope that, even if just for a moment, these songs immerse you into the cold of winter, the blooms of spring, the humidity of summer, and the blazing colors of autumn.