So, one night in my past I was driving around LA, sick of KROQ and Indie and even sick of NPR and I put on the classical station and heard this crazy piece of music, “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,” and it was the most incredible thing I’d ever heard, and I went to Amoeba and bought it right then and there, even before going home, and I didn’t know exactly how to put it on a mix tape, but hopefully starting out with eight short songs is the way to do it.

So I sorted my playlist by length and picked short weird stuff that I thought would somehow prepare the way for the Greatest Fantasia Ever. This is far and away the most mellow mix I’ve ever made. The fantasia made me do it. Gave it to the departing cast for their plane journeys.

The whole thing runs only about half an hour.

1. don’t know what this is. Someone gave it to me. (1.31)
2. intro -manau (1.41)
3.de la mata (anon.) – terra nova consort (1.14)
4. entre o rio e a razao – mariza ( 1.58)
5. territory – amy raasch (1.23)
6. hold on – dashboard confessional (2.13)
7. tomorrow – sean lennon (2.05)
8. a widow’s toast – neko case (1.37)
9. fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis – neville marriner, academy of st-martin-in-the-fields.( 14.19)