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Thanks for shining a light on her, Global. I need to up my game!
It's my job JC, I do it so you don't have to. Also appeals to the train-spotterish side....
Anyway I gave the programme a listen. An awful lot of Lou Reed stuff - to whom LA was married, ex-VU, now dead. Not all of the music played was great, Laurie Anderson and JLA talking being generally more provocative. Espcially the bit about the sixth extinction(at about 1hr 20m in) which lead neatly to this LA 2014 track, Transitory Life which I liked very much.
JLA is a fresh voice with good energy, enthusiasm and ideas. I'll give her a chance and do wonder what she'd get up to with a show of her own. (didn't have to wait long to find out - she's doing the next show too... not listened to it yet https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002skp)
Maybe we should lobby her to see if we can bring her focus on to WM - or, perhaps we should rebrand that as Global Sounds.
Folk artist James Yorkston compiles an eclectic mix of adventurous songwriting
...also this evening 'Words and Music' is about 'Heroines' for forthcoming International Women's Day and included a specially composed piece by Lucy Pankhurst and performed by Eliza Carthy... and there's some Angelique Kidjo and Janelle Monae and Billie Holiday. Good stuff!
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If you fancy a spot of World Music for a Friday evening you could do a darn sight worse than listen to Damon Albarn and Paul Simenon standing in for Iggy Pop on 6 this evening. Top tunes.
A repeat of this 30 part series from 2013. Missed it first time around, discovered it to be definitely worth a listen....definitive history of World Music
Grottes d'Arcy-sur-Cure en Bourgogne : une plongée dans le temps et les entrailles de la Terre. À moins de 3h de Paris. Réservez en ligne votre visite.
and a clip of a wax cylinder recording of talking drums (Episode 2)
BBC Radio 3 re-ran the Drama on 3 from a couple of years ago about Ivor Cutler with Sandy Grierson - made for a nice trip back home from Paisley this evening.
Nitin Sawhney was cast away this morning...nice enough collection of tunes, but he's really kinda boring and not helped by Lauren Laverne really. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00060wc
Honest as ever JC - pretty much how I'd sum him up... although I did buy one of his CD's once in 2003 in a moment of weakness.
In the last five or six minutes of this week's 'Last Word' on Radio 4, a celebration of the life of Dave Bartholomew who died recently at the ripe old age of 100.
In the last five or six minutes of this week's 'Last Word' on Radio 4, a celebration of the life of Dave Bartholomew who died recently at the ripe old age of 100. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006dwm
Wondered if you were listening...not enough time to do his influential life in music justice, definitely deserves a whole programme.
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