Yearning for a summer escape? Check out these nine transportive playlists, hand-picked and curated by some of the best creative minds in the travel, hospitality, and culture space
What's your song of the summer? We know, it's... complicated. For anyone who's been missing and craving travel this year, our friends at CatchOn, a Finn Partners Company, has tapped into some of our favourite people from all across the region—global voices and thought leaders in creative spaces—to curate "Anywhere and Here," an immersive, evocative, wanderlust-inspired series of Spotify playlists. Yearning for the wide-open desert and the dunes of Africa, idyllic late afternoons along the French Riviera, or long weekend jaunts to Bali? Just close your eyes, kick back, and hit play.
JJ Martin
Who: Founder of La Double J
Instagram: @jjmartinmilan
An unforgettable place you would revisit if you could? The place I’d most like to visit right now is Bali. I have so many cherished memories from that place, but mostly it involves the water. Weirdly not the ocean water, but rather the sacred water temples where I was doing night time ceremonies with many local priests and spiritual leaders as well as the healing waterfalls in Punggul Abiansemal. So much has happened to me during this period of isolation and I now feel a deep need to be cleansed and cleared in water.
The last song you listened to and loved? Bill Withers’ "Lovely Day." It is my go-to lift-my- spirit tune. Next, I’ve been playing my own Tibetan sound bowls and making my own music in my home. The vibration is fantastic. I also love the yoga tunes of Snatam Kaur. They are so calming to me. When I want to dance in my socks by myself at home I blast Whitney Houston or George Michael.
If you could have any musician or band play for you in private, who would it be? I would want it to be a very intimate, inward journey so I would say Snatam Kaur.
Find JJ Martin's summer playlist on Spotify here.