Welcome to The Listening Booth, a regular series of posts that features a guest musician, DJ or music devotee sharing their current three favourite songs with automatism readers. Today's Listening Booth is hosted by the brilliantly talented and lovely DJ Rachel Thera. Enjoy.
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About Rachel
Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Rachel DJs around town under her creative nom de plume Lamb Rabbit, as well as with a lady-DJ collective she co-founded called The Girlfriends.
You can find some of Rachel's mixes here.
Rachel's Three Picks
A dollop of psych, a drizzle of folk, one foot in front of the other and we'll burst onto warmer plains soon enough. These hymns have been repeatedly whirring around my platter and, as I wait for Ottawa to thaw, I'm convinced that it's because they each whisper of transition in their own way.
The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band featuring Steve Hoffman — Le VentOff of The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band featuring Steve Hoffman, 1967: Carole
The Brazda Brothers — Lonely TimeOff of The Brazda Brothers, 1974: Dominion
Karen Beth — Nothing LastsOff of The Joys of Life, 1968: Decca
(photo by sarah moon)