Verity Sharpe

[Globaltruth]

And here she is again on BBC r4!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bdkw

Verity Sharp goes mushroom collecting with Long Litt Woon.
Malaysian anthropologist Woon found solace in fungi foraging after the sudden death of her husband.
Now she's become a certified mushroom expert in Norway.

[Rjw]

She was on Costing the Earth, in her wild garden?

[Globaltruth]

Verity played this quite unexpected and infinitely cheering track last night:
not only did Kostas Bezos mix rebetika and Hawaiian slide, he was also a cartoonist;
Verity channelling her inner Robert Crumb fandom ...

Ta Aspra Sta Vouna (The White Bird in the Mountains)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DgfncKBZk

[johncorrigan]

Verity played this quite unexpected and infinitely cheering track last night:
not only did Kostas Bezos mix rebetika and Hawaiian slide, he was also a cartoonist;
Verity channelling her inner Robert Crumb fandom ...

Ta Aspra Sta Vouna (The White Bird in the Mountains)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DgfncKBZk

Fab, GT. I joined the show a bit after that and fortunately managed to catch this cheery bit of Soukouss before getting totally thrown by the Mixtape...clearly not aimed at the likes of me. Time for bed, said Zebedee in French (in my head).

Aurlus Mabele - 'Rosine'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhf2-FGKsAE

[Globaltruth]

And this is still why, after all these years, Late Junction is still invaluable in introducing new music and new musicians.
Verity played a track from the Zithers album by Andrew Cronshaw.
Andrew Cronshaw is not to be found in the usual places - his work resides on Bandcamp and

http://cloudvalley.com/

https://andrewcronshaw.bandcamp.com/album/zithers

Ten of the tracks are on a 74-string fretless zither, named “The Piano-Chord”, made in Germany, probably in about the 1930s, that I bought in Edinburgh in the late 1960s, and electrified with a pickup made for it by Phil Taylor.
The other three tracks are on a more recent creation, the marovantele, which has 11 pairs of strings on each side and was made for me by Finnish luthier Kimmo Sarja from a sketched idea I had, inspired by the Madagascan double-sided marovany box zither, for a double-sided development of the Finnish kantele (yet another of the zither family). (I’ve been involved in various ways with Finnish music since 1990, and I toured worldwide in the 1990s as sound engineer with Madagascan band Tarika, who used the range of Malagasy instruments including marovany).”

Worth a listen for some calm in turbulent times.

[johncorrigan]

And this is still why, after all these years, Late Junction is still invaluable in introducing new music and new musicians.
Verity played a track from the Zithers album by Andrew Cronshaw.
Andrew Cronshaw is not to be found in the usual places - his work resides on Bandcamp and

http://cloudvalley.com/

https://andrewcronshaw.bandcamp.com/album/zithers

Worth a listen for some calm in turbulent times.

Kathryn Tickell also played a track from him on Saturday's MP, GT Andrew used to be a regular when Mary Anne had her Global Gathering on Radio Scotland - very knowledgeable fellow, I seem to recall.

[johncorrigan]

There was a telephone theme on LJ on Friday night with some Beefheart on a phone-in, and Yoko, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and this old piece by Laurie Anderson, which I hadn't heard before, and which annoyed the hell out of me at first, but by the end I wanted more - ' New York Social Life'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoBpWmMFnQ

[Globaltruth]

There was a telephone theme on LJ on Friday night with some Beefheart on a phone-in, and Yoko, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and this old piece by Laurie Anderson, which I hadn't heard before, and which annoyed the hell out of me at first, but by the end I wanted more - ' New York Social Life'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoBpWmMFnQ

And don't forget Captain Maurice Seddon:

https://captain-maurice-seddon.bandcamp.com/releases

I was a bit disappointed she didn't play this phone track from the Captain too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpA4XpnnI_U

(inspired by the Hindenburg disaster it is said)

[DracoM]

Verity introduced me to Jeff Buckley on Late Junction. Revelation!

Matthew Paris did a Great Lives prog on Buckley with Nithin Sawney.

Currently on R4X: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wd26b

[Globaltruth]

I have a theory that someone r3-seniorish has had a quiet word with the Reduced Listening team who currently produce LJ.
Along the lines of:
"less of the odd sounds more GLOBAL, we need more ticks in the GLOBAL box"

There has been a slight shift in the last couple of weeks away from (for example) 30 minute renditions recorded inside a washing machine to more nationally diverse recordings.

Exhibit no 1, the playlist from the last episode:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00169kz

Just an observation

Perversely, my fave track, mainly for the lyrics, was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6ThxV9v2U

[Globaltruth]

Worth a listen for kora lovers on LJ last night.
A collaboration between Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001c7dv

(now let's hear some Derek Gripper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QnOlXckOk