The Ivy Exile: The Playlist
Let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind.
– The Verve
My misbegotten media career began at the late, great alternative rock radio station 95.5 WBRU in Providence, Rhode Island. It was a shaggy nonprofit run by Brown students that gave me the opportunity to start writing/producing ads and sometimes moonlight as a late-night DJ.
Among my takeaways from that priceless experience was how uniquely expressive songs can be, evoking universal sensations and dynamics that words alone struggle to reach. Throughout the process of composing The Ivy Exile, a ton of music has helped illuminate nascent ideas and inspire each next sentence.
And so The Ivy Exile: The Playlist, a sort of counterpoint to the ongoing saga telling its own story in illustration of, and conversation with, the text—food for thought and the ears!
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