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West African jazz and Mica Levi’s piano music

Benin guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke’s West African rhythms and jazz harmonies, a tribute to a grandma and Mica Levi’s cinematic piano music performed by Eliza McCarthy.

West African rhythms and jazz harmonies combine on Benin guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke’s latest album; British trombonist Raph Clarkson’s uses jazz and poetry to portray himself as a child trying to understand his grandmother’s experiences and Mica Levi’s cinematic piano music performed by Eliza McCarthy.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • The Silver Field

    Rosebud

    • Rooms.
    • O Genesis.
  • Orchestre Bota Du Congo

    Theresa

    • Tabansi.
  • King Midas Sound

    Goodbye Girl

    • Waiting For You....
    • Hyperdub.
  • Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz

    Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002, II. Double

    • RANDOM DANCES AND (A)TONALITIES.
    • Intakt.
  • Mara Carlyle

    Art Thou Troubled?

    • Classist.
    • Six Inch Records.
  • The Dissolute Society

    Grandma

    • Soldiering On.
    • Babel Vortex.
  • The Lovin’ Spoonful

    Coconut Grove

    • Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful.
    • Kama Sutra.
  • Neil Finn & Liam Finn

    Wheres My Room

    • Lightsleeper.
    • PIAS.
  • Lea Bertucci

    At Dawn

    • Metal Aether.
    • NNA Tapes.
  • Nadah El Shazly & Maurice Louca

    Palmyra

    • Ahwar.
    • Nawa Recordings ‎.
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    Tides IV

    • Tides: Music For Meditation.
    • Touchtheplants.
  • Le Trio Joubran

    The Long March (feat. Mohammad Motamedi)

    • The Long March.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi

    Waves

    • Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall.
    • Slip.
  • Steve Turner

    Babylon Is Fallen

    • Late Cut.
    • Tradition Bearers.
  • Zaz

    Ma Valse

    • Effet Miroir.
    • Warner Music.
  • Jockstrap

    Charlotte

    • Love Is the Key to the City.
    • Kaya Kaya Records.
  • John Surman

    For The Moment

    • Coruscating.
    • ECM Records.

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 Dec 2018 23:00

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