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Alabaster dePlume - broken like the money by Loay gabra hhhhhuuuuhhhuuuuuhhuuuu

The Voices Of... Richard Dawson by Falling Tree Productions For a man whose musical demeanour comes across as rough-hewn with a potency that's barely contained, Richard Dawson in person is gentle with a soft smile and opinions that are precisely worded though almost tentatively shared. He admits to a high level of everyday anxiety, yet has left a mark on contemporary folk music in England that testifies to an innate confidence in his musical vision. His albums (notably Nothing Important of 2014 and Peasant in 2017), as well as being critically acclaimed, have taken folk music into new territory that's at once ancient and avant-garde. Speaking at his home in the north-east of England, Richard reflects on the particular qualities of his voice, the life that music has opened up to him and his ever-present companion, Trouble the cat. First broadcast 29th June 2019, BBC Radio 4 Presented and produced by Alan Hall

The Ballad Of The Radio Feature by Falling Tree Productions A look at the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting. First broadcast 28th June 2008 BBC Radio 4 Produced by Alan Hall

The Tripping Forecast by l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e The Tripping Forecast by Longwave It's 1989 and you've taken a pill in a club; it gets too much & you wander into the chill out room & the DJ is playing a super mellow set of Radio 4 classics. Longwave is mostly Rob Manuel. With thanks to David Ault & Chris Barker. Sample list on Google docs: https://bit.ly/Longwavesamples

Mindfulness: Meditation 1 - Mindfulness Of Body And Breath by Hachette Audio UK A download of guided meditations aimed to complement the learnings found in Prof Mark William's and Dr Danny Penman's guide to freeing yourself from the stresses of everyday life. Containing all the meditations that are mentioned in the book this is an invaluable resource to cement their teachings on how to find Mindfulness, and how to keep it.

The Pleasures Of Brecht [BBC Radio 4, 2019-07-08] by jazz-dis-junction In dark times, a celebration of the joys in life, and Brecht's poem that described them.

The Heart's Chorus @ HearSay 2019 [NTS Radio, 2019-07-14] by jazz-dis-junction "If we felt the pain of loss each time an ecosystem was destroyed, a species wiped out, or a child killed by war or starvation, we wouldn’t be able to continue living the way we do. It would tear us apart inside. The losses continue because they aren’t registered, they aren’t marked, they aren’t seen as important. By choosing to honour the pain of loss rather than discounting it, we break the spell that numbs us to the dismantling of our world.” - from Active Hope, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston. * * * A live performance created and recorded at HearSay International Audio Arts Festival 2019 (Kilfinane, Ireland), with Phil Smith (voice and accordion), Niamh O'Brien (voice and harp) and Wes Swing (cello). * * * Thank you to Antony Mee for sharing his poetry and taking us bird-watching. Thank you to Nuala and Christy at The Village Inn for hosting the sing-songs and poetry nights. Thank you to Diarmuid and all @hearsayaudiofestival for the opportunity to get together and create and share.

Poetry Texas by Falling Tree Productions An hour east of Dallas, you'll find the small town of Poetry, Texas. Pejk ventures out to uncover the poetry of Poetry. "...a goosebumpy wonder, all layers of sound-texture, mesmerising voices and a lyrical narration by Malinovski as he described the town in ordinary terms elevated into something hypnotic by the key word: 'For a traveller, there's nowhere to sleep in Poetry.'" - The Guardian, 18th May 2012 First broadcast on 14th May 2012 BBC Radio 4 Produced by Pejk Malinovski

Neil Rolnick: Wake Up by neilrolnick Arrangement/MashUp of Everly Bros hits Dream & Wake Up Little Suzy Arrangement & performance by Neil Rolnick

Hypersthene 💜 by Elisabeth Elektra Written by Elisabeth Elektra, produced by Elisabeth Elektra and Miaoux Miaoux.

Eloïse Decazes & Eric Chenaux - Quand je menais mes chevaux boire by three:four records Eloïse Decazes & Eric Chenaux - La bride TFR043 http://ift.tt/2qu2pV7 Out april 14th, 2017. Available on LP, CD and digital. Order: http://ift.tt/2qZlAcD La bride [The Bridle], which is here released by the Lausanne-based three:four label (Norberto Lobo, Danny Oxenberg & Bear Galvin, Mike Wexler, etc.), is their second album and it is perhaps even more surprising. What do we find here? Ten new songs from old times, reimagined from top to bottom, arranged with equal parts madness and precision. One dies always and often in the rolling waves and riptides of these songs without refrain. You can only love furiously and you lose yourself almost everywhere. One hears vicious tales sung in a language characterized by insane turns of phrase. Animals have the word and the forest frightens to death, children make love, and if fathers die by the swords of their sons, it is well deserved. But Eloïse Decazes, more dancer than actress, more visual artist than storyteller, more musician than anything else, does not embellish the literal, never dramatizes her narratives, preferring to blow her melodies like glass or scrub and distill them to limestone and chalk, seeking air in the wooly outlines of verses. Her voice like dawn and her curious formations accompanied by the multiple sonic stances of Chenaux are like myriad flares that inscribe a ballet of shadows and lights in the dark material of the themes, very slow and very beautiful. One hears these firmly unstable arpeggios played on nylon strings that interwoven patterns of electric guitar come to disturb or even liquefy like waves. It is comprised of surprises and conflicting emotions. Furthermore, we are stunned by the way this curious album sometimes induces vertigo, with its vocal majesty and fake crawling violins, its harmonic suicides and misleading solos; how handily it subverts its forms, but without fuss, with kindness and in the utmost calm. Let us be clear: La bride is not folk music, nor even so-called traditional music. It is an album of new music dreamt and conceived from very old melodies, an observation testified to by its production - all in shifting stereo - its soft psychedelia, a dialogue with a certain intrepid modernity (Monk, Cage, Derek Bailey and the "Obscure" records of Brian Eno are all visible from here), the love of inquiry and peregrinations for a present that is ceaselessly renewed.

Can't Rewind The Past (BBCR4 Short Cuts) by listentosteve Produced with members of the creative criminal justice charity Only Connect (http://ift.tt/1KB2ppw)

Catacombs by Zyna Hel Written by Zyna Hel Produced by Blanck Mass Performed by Zyna Hel + Blanck Mass

A Dancer Dies Twice by Falling Tree Productions "A dancer dies twice", the legendary choreographer Martha Graham said, "once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful." This is a documentary about first deaths and last dances, about what happens when an instrument as finely tuned as a dancer's body begins to change. From the music which prompts a twitch of muscle memory to the comedown which follows a burst of performance adrenaline, we hear stories of the last dances and what comes next from Gabriella Schmidt, Isabel Mortimer from Dancers' Career Development, and former principal ballerinas Natasha Oughtred and Wendy Whelan. We eavesdrop on the training of young dancers at the Royal Ballet School as they shape muscle and bone into elegant lines, diving into the visceral excitement of pounding pointe shoes and powerful leaping bodies. And we visit Sage Dance Company and the Company of Elders as they work with dancers who move with grace and beauty in defiance of their changing bodies. From the first anxious glance in the mirror to the last touch - how does the language of our bodies change as we age? Produced by Eleanor McDowall First broadcast 4th April on BBC Radio 4

Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1 by Hey Exit Timestretched to the length of the longest recording

Forgot to start this a couple of days ago but the days this year align with my Not The Nine O'Clock News 1982 page-a-day Rip Off Annual so I thought I'd share it every day. #NTNOCN #1982

Multi-channel field recording of 12,000 bees at Buckeye Creek Farm. by RichardDevine Multi-channel field recording of 12,000 Italian bees at Buckeye Creek Farm Cherokee GA. The setup consisted of four wooden packages of bee's containing 3000 bees each stacked on top of each other creating a wall of swarming noise. Captured with the Neumann RSM 191-A/S and DPA SMK 4060 omnidirectional miniature stereo microphones. Everything was recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Sound Devices 744T and Mixpre-D. Free Download Watch the video here: http://ift.tt/16oY703 http://ift.tt/XeaXh0