This little project is now ten years old, and five since we shared it and started inviting others in. We now have ten 100-song collaborator mixes , including two new great ones:   Laura, who’s played in bands almost all her life, curated a wild wordless journey  spanning folk, jazz, and classical through electronic, indie, rock, and ambient, with touches of tango, West African classical, and more – reflecting her formal training, years spent abroad, and life as a songwriter.

By Laura Hinson  As someone who has played and sung in bands on and off since high school, I tend to connect to songs through their lyrics. But without my fully noticing, wordless music has been in the background all along. I grew up playing classical music and spent nearly a decade playing jazz piano. I spent most of my PhD studying to electronic music. And years spent living and working in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa made it impossible not to be shaped by the melod

By Sacha Feinman Thanks to my dad, music was everywhere when I was a kid. He was the general manager of an independent Spanish language radio station in Phoenix that often felt like it was being held together by duct tape and chicken wire. My after school hours and weekends were often spent hanging out in the station break room or wandering local concerts where live ranchera music blasted from underpowered speakers and caguamas of Tecate littered the ground like abandoned bow

It was another year of slow, magical growth for this little collective. 🍄 Our master playlist now includes eighty-three hours  of...

By Joel Keeler I’ve always been a sucker for a good beat. Growing up in the SF Bay Area in the 80’s meant a steady diet of Huey Lewis and Too Short, supplemented by the sounds of Hall and Oates and Journey from my mom’s vinyl collection. While none of those artists appear in this playlist, from those early days grew a love of, and even obsession with, music.  Finding music that helps me access a flow state at work is something that I spent over 20 years pursuing. Working as a

By Craig Gates When I first heard about the wordless collective, I thought to myself, “Cool!” A collaborative playlist beholden to no particular genre and with only one simple constraint. A project in a state of perpetual growth, nourished by the contributions of friends and strangers alike… that’s cool! I immediately dumped some of my favorite tracks into the collaborative playlist , occasionally triggering Spotify’s pop-up “ This song is already in the playlist ” – indicati