The Datura Tapes #1: Kathleen’s Jukebox
The bewitching waitress with more moxie than a thousand thriller molls, is, to intents and purpose, is the first person Agent Walker has ever met. What was the soundtrack to that meet?
“Not hungry thou’ huh?”. Late shifts get real late at Amphion’s The Sunshine diner
Name tag: Kathleen.
Refill your coffee, leave a note on the bill, hum a tune to herself while the jukebox flickered in the corner.
This is her jukebox — though the songs don’t belong to her alone. They belong to the smoke, the rain, the strangers in booths, the motel ghosts that check in but never leave. Every record here is a little haunted. Every note is a telegram from somewhere between waking and sleep.
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High voltage man kisses night to bring the light
To those who need to hide their shadow deed…
Who wouldn’t want a love letter from the legendary Ketty Lester? She broke our hearts in the Blue Velvet OST, so of course she’s here x
Act I — The Dream
Begins with velvet and neon. Badalamenti’s curtain rises, Ketty Lester’s voice is already breaking, Lee & Nancy ride out on a velvet morning. Jazz bends sideways at midnight, torch songs swell and collapse. At the centre: a long table set with Cocteau, Eno, Lynch, Simone, and the Dale Cooper Quartet — each spinning riddles on the turntable. The dream floats, unmoored, until it finally lands on Yo La Tengo’s whispered “Our Way to Fall.”
Angelo Badalamenti - Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Ketty Lester - Love Letters
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
David Lynch - Imaginary Girl
Chet Baker - Almost Blue
Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Texas Keller
Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind
Heroin and Your Veins - Intoxication
Massive Attack feat. Horace Andy - Angel
Swans - Weakling
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
David Lynch - Ghost of Love
Jean Cocteau - Les voleurs d’enfants
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl
Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones - Eux Exquis Acrostole
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - It Girl
Lawrence English - Photographs of People Talking
Trost - In Diesem Raum
Blackfilm - Atlantikend
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place
Julie London - The End of the World
Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
John Metcalfe - Parsal
Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
“Like the leaf clings to the tree
Oh, my darling, cling to me”
Mo sings! Of all the great rock n’roll stories we know, and we know a LOT, the fact that Mo Tucker was the drummer in The Velvet Underground might just be our favourite
Act II — The Reckoning
The needle drops harder. Sharon Van Etten howls like a wound. Deerhunter spirals. The jukebox remembers Twin Peaks again — but not quite the same way. Karen Dalton sings from the grave, Desire pulls us into synth-lit shadows, Captain Beefheart rips the wallpaper. Billie Holiday steadies the glass, Adrianne Lenker brings the hush of a room, Freddie King kicks at the floorboards. And finally, Basinski’s Disintegration Loops let the whole dream decay into magnetic dust.
“If you close the door, the night could last forever, Leave the sunshine out and say hello to never”
Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me
Deerhunter - Helicopter
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones - Une Cellier
Hellsongs - Paranoid
Angelo Badalamenti - Suite from The City of Lost Children
The Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love
Freddie King - Goin’ Down
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Son House - John the Revelator
Lovers Turn to Monsters - Ned...? Ned Ryerson?
Mindy Jones - Where Is My Mind
Angelo Badalamenti - Main Title Theme from Mulholland Drive
Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
Desire - Under Your Spell
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Electricity
Billie Holiday - I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues
Adrianne Lenker - Steamboat
Velvet Underground -After Hours
William Basinski - Dlp 1.1
What’s on your dream-away Walker playlist? And what do love, like, loathe about our own choices?
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