Enjoyed Mali's Songhoy Blues on Jools Holland tonight. Look forward to more on Friday - Laura Marling weirdly excellent too, I thought.
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'Great Lives' had Wendy Cope celebrating John Clare today over on R4. Time to dig out a spot of Chris Wood - he's working hard here!
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Missed the Wendy Cope JC - I'll have to try and catch it.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Here's a nice little film just about Henry Dagg and his sharpsichord. He used to be a BBC sound engineer you know...
https://vimeo.com/26301139
Sadly Mrs GT claims we don't have enough room for one here...Comment
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Missed the Wendy Cope JC - I'll have to try and catch it.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Here's a nice little film just about Henry Dagg and his sharpsichord. He used to be a BBC sound engineer you know...
https://vimeo.com/26301139
Sadly Mrs GT claims we don't have enough room for one here...Comment
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Paul Jones played Larry Williams on his show on Monday night. I was only aware of him because of Beatles' version of his 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy' on 'Help' L.P., but if 'Slow Down' is anything to go by I need to look for a bit more. Had it in my head ever since but I post this because the first couple of minutes of the Vid made me wish that I could move like this and that I'd been around to dance like these guys.
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Bob Dylan's birthday today and though I missed the first hour or so I'll be catching up with Jarvis Cocker's celebration of the arrival of the 74th candle on the Bobcake.
However I did hear Nina Simone's version of Ballad of Hollis Brown on the show which I hadn't heard before, and thought it mighty potent.
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I know it's not new, but R4, in preparation for BBC Music Day (apparently), re-broadcast the wonderful Soul Music about 'Strange Fruit' this morning. Very moving radio indeed, as you come to expect from the best of these programmes.
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Listening to Tom Ravenscroft is a bit like it used to be listening to his Dad - some amazing stuff and then unlistenable. Last night he played what I thought to be an amazing piece that I eventually worked out as being by a Tuareg singer Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud. You can hear the track he played on this page - it's the first track side 1.
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Radio 4 documentary about the Newport Folk festival, with an interesting choice of presenter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06442qf
Bob Dylan going electric may be what a lot of people remember about the Newport Folk Festival, however...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYk4MTSq6uA
Spot Son House and Howling Wolf in the audience.Comment
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R4 repeatedOriginally posted by Globaltruth View Post
Thanks for that Global...would have missed it.
If you missed Jez Nelson's rather good half-hour doc on Sun Ra, 'Travelling the Spaceways', R4 replayed it on Monday.
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Thank you for this tip and to GT for the one on Newport.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Both are of interest to me.
Also, I'm hoping to rejoin Spotify by the end of this week.
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when you do, here's the current WIPOriginally posted by Lat-Literal View PostAlso, I'm hoping to rejoin Spotify by the end of this week.
spotify:user:trautigan
laylist:6edc4xJzR2qFliXmph5FW0
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In September...
Private Passions
Sunday 13 September
12.00-1.00pm
Amitav Ghosh is a writer with a worldwide reach. Born in Calcutta, then educated in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria, he now lives between New York and Goa. His books have sold over three million copies and have been translated into 33 languages.
His books have won awards in Canada, Italy, France and Burma, but his greatest readership is in India and he has been awarded the Padma Shri – one of India’s highest honours, by the President of India. His new novel, Flood Of Fire, is his tenth and completes his Ibis trilogy; the setting is the First Opium War in 1839 and it follows a cast of characters from India, China and Britain as they are caught up in that war.
In Private Passions, he talks to Michael Berkeley about his childhood by the water in Bengal and how the presence of the sea has influenced his writing. He admits that there is some truth in the charge that he is in essence a Bengali writer, writing in English.
Amitav chooses a highly original playlist reflecting the very different cultures which have been his creative influences. This includes a haunting Bengali boat song, a Hindu dance, and songs from China and Mauritius. He unearths a fascinating historical curiosity: perhaps the first ever example of East-West fusion, a version of ‘Hindoo airs’ adapted in the 18th century for English amateur musicians nostalgic for their days in India. And he celebrates the music of global connectedness, with a collaboration between Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Finally, he muses on the notion of 'home' and where he would live if he could only choose one place.
Part of the India Season across BBC Television and Radio.
LOPA's Wo3
Friday 18 September
11.00pm-1.00am
Recorded as part of Darbar Festival, London's Southbank Centre’s festival of Indian classical music.
Lopa Kothari presents a double bill of musicians from North and South India: the sarod and tabla duo of Abhisek Lahiri and Pandit Ramkumar Mishra, alongside the carnatic vocals of Ranjani and Gayatri.
Part of the India Season across BBC Television and Radio.
Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/Felix Carey for the BBCLast edited by Globaltruth; 30-08-15, 16:27. Reason: now that the community has doubled in size it's time to get hostly. well maybe.Comment
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Also part of the India season, Global, on Radio 6 this two-hour Indian music special on Friday night by a guy who goes by the very sub-continental moniker Bobby Friction.
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