Tag Archives: Badge Époque Ensemble

Recommended Albums: November 2023

November 2023 came and went, leaving behind some stellar records that easily found their way onto my Best Albums of 2023 list, which should be coming in the next few weeks now that I have this finished. I’m still going … Continue reading

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Listen: Badge Époque Ensemble – “Air, Light & Harmony” [2023]

This world is full of constants: death, taxes, and Warm Visions covering Badge Époque Ensemble. These things will never fade, even long after we’re all gone. The Canadian jazz-funk group’s new album Air, Light & Harmony arrives November 3rd via Telephone Explosion … Continue reading

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2022 Retrospective – 100 Discoveries, Obsessions and True Moments + Listening Stats

For the eighth year running, I’ve kept track of the songs that impacted my year as it happened, building a playlist from January to December and keeping it at 100 songs. If I was obsessed with a certain song that … Continue reading

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Warm Visions’ Top 100 Songs of 2022

Moving further through my favorite music of 2022, here we feature my Top 100 favorite songs of the year. Like previous years, I’ve picked out 90 I loved and organized them alphabetically, and then ranked my top 10 favorites at … Continue reading

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Warm Visions’ Top 50 Albums of 2022

Whew! Folks, it’s been quite the year of music. In 2022, we were given some pretty incredible pieces of music from artists all across the world in all different styles. This is a fact every year, but uh, this is … Continue reading

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Recommended Albums: September 2022

It’s much delayed, but I gotta hand it to September 2022. Some damn fine music arrived and solidly inserted itself into my Best Albums of 2022. By this point you’re probably already neck-deep in October jams, so here’s a rosy … Continue reading

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2021 Retrospective – 100 Discoveries, Obsessions and Moments + Listening Stats

Since 2014, I’ve tried to keep track of songs that have impacted or defined my year (see all those posts tagged in the “Retrospective” section). The songs that I pull into this playlist are usually favorite discoveries of mine that blow my mind (and embarrass me occasionally, as in “why didn’t I listen to this sooner?” Lots of that in this post here), obsessions that I sink into like quicksand (usually new songs that come out that year) or more rarely, soundtracks to true moments that I’ll forever associate with said song. Continue reading

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Recommended Albums: August 2021

Well – this took a lot longer to get up than I would have liked. September is nearly over at this point, so let’s just wrap up August quickly.

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Playlist: Heist On The Highway – High-Stakes Soul

The playlists just keep coming. I accumulated a good amount of funky jazz + adjacent jams and thought to string them together into a cinematic thriller; reminding me of fictional spy movies from the 50s and 60s, full of music … Continue reading

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2010s Retrospective: 10 Years of Discoveries, Obsessions and True Moments

Well folks, welcome to my most indulgent, most confessional, most self-referential and truly most vain post on the blog. This is probably playing it up, but I’ve written a lot about myself on here. The dang header image is literally … Continue reading

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