You’re given the opportunity to spend 1 year living in a cabin on a mountainside, alone.
Assuming your basic needs are provided for,
you can also choose a total of 5 items from among the following categories: Books, Records, Musical Instruments (there is power and a turntable )
Given the luxury of five choices, and taking at least one from each category:
Record - Tilt by Scott Walker
Book - The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (always kept starting to read it)
Instruments - Octatrack, Matriarch, Prophet 6
Might replace one of the synths with a laptop or piano but somehow those feel like pushing it.
OT
Upright piano (if transport allows, otherwise nylon string acoustic guitar)
A good mic
Metallica - S&M (for the drunken nights)
David Byrne - How Music Works (I’ve had this for years but still haven’t read it)
It took me the best part of 3 years to read the 3 volumes of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ , well worth it though, both gruelling and life-affirming at the same time.
I’ve had enough wiggles for 4 years to allow for the ear-worms to take care of this one, only this morning whilst grating some apple for the kids I found myself singing “Fruit salad, yummy yummy”
Book… that’s tough, but if just choosing one i think Lord of the Rings, a combination of something comforting and familiar, but deep enough to re-read 2 or 3 times in the year.
Record, Sylva by Snarky Puppy/Metropole Orkeste… some fantastic solos, some lovely moog playing, and a piano solo i could listen to forever.
Instruments - Ensoniq EPS and Zoom H5. That plus sampling the album above/whatevers laying around, along with the EPS sequencer and its expressive polyphonic aftertouch keybed is probably enough to occupy me musically for a whole year.