Favorite Autumn Jams - Mako Sica and Rich Hughes

Autumn in Cambridge photo: Rich Hughes

As the leaves turn color in Pennsylvania, we've been speaking with our friends and compadres from around the globe. We'd like to share what keeps them motivated, what makes them tick, what nostalgia is triggered by the changing season. Music, food, films, yoga positions, home remedies; all of the great condiments of life. 

For our third Fall 2011 installment,  we spoke with Brent Fuscaldo of  Chicago's deep-psych exploration trio Mako Sica. We also spoke with Rich Hughes, Co-Founder of The Liminal and lover of literature and technology. 

Brent Fuscaldo of Mako Sica:

Alfred Apaka - Makalapua

King Tubby & Soul Sydicate -

Freedom Sounds in Dub
Miles Davis - Get Up With It 
(Double LP)

Harold Budd - Lovely Thunder

Krzysztof Komeda -Live in Copenhagen Volumes 1 & 2

Pierced Arrows - Paranoia" 7

Son House - any and all!

Rich Hughes:

Talk Talk - Ascension Day
After The Colour of Spring and Spirit Of Eden came Laughing Stock, and the album cover hints at the passing of the seasons with a leaf-sparse tree hosting some lonely looking birds. There's a rumbling darkness to Ascension Day, the hollow guitar crackling with an alien energy, as if something has passed and the future holds something new but unsure. 

Neil Young - Old Man

Perhaps a little obvious to have a song from Harvest, but the album perfectly sums up Autumnal feelings and colours. With it's reflective nature, Old Man makes me think of the year passed so far - what have I achieved? Have I done anything of any worth so far this year?

Wilco - Poor Places

It's the finality of this song, of wrapping up of feelings, that strikes me when I play this - a quiet emptiness that comes over me, of the light slowly dimming.

Do Make Say Think - A Tender History In Rust

Another obvious track - the slow, rust like colours that my surroundings take on now, a gentleness, an interface between seasons and sounds.

Joy Division - Atmosphere

The soundtrack to evenings walking back from pubs and clubs with clear skies that are illuminated, spectacularly, with stars - a crisp and cold atmosphere that heightens the senses.