The Mountain

This remix three pack came out in December- I missed it and only stumbled across it recently. Phil Mison's Balearic project Cantoma make music for sunsets, for summer evenings, long shadows, the heat of the sun on your skin. 'Music', Phil says himself, 'for far away places'. The exact opposite of the sub- zero, dark days of lockdown. This lockdown is hard, I think many people are finding it really difficult and even the vaccine doesn't seem to offer a way out in the near future. Relentless, unremitting gloom in the cold darkness of a British winter. Music like Cantoma's can take you away, even when it's -3 outside. The three remixes of Cantoma's song The Mountain are by Chris Coco, Lexx and, for me the pick of the bunch, Coyote. Video here if you're on a device where the embed hasn't embedded. 

If that doesn't make you feel like you're somewhere else, I don't know what will. You can buy the EP at Bandcamp where there's also a limited edition 10" single, a format I'm quite fond of- the midpoint between 7" and 12". Here's the Lexx remix, a balmy, dubbier affair with that snaking guitar line.