"Listen, again"

A mix from trang whose avowed purpose is partly to familiarise the unfamiliar while defamiliarising the familiar; it also flows as, to quote, "a piece of dreaming and nostalgia and longing". The unfamiliar is made up of traditional Asian (mostly Vietnamese) music; the familiar (whether or not I already knew the particular pieces well) is mostly misty, wistfully melodic pop from the western canon (Nancy Sinatra's "As Tears Go By", "God Only Knows", the Velvets' "I Found A Reason", etc). It's all very nice, but the real revelation is Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", which I suppose I'd heard before, but never really listened to - it's slow-burning, soulful and quietly wondrous.