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Laugh a Minute

Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sound of laughter, from shamanic rituals to kookaburras. Plus music made inside the womb.

Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sounds of laughter. There鈥檚 the sacred cleansing songs of Peru鈥檚 Shipibo shamans from a ritual for happiness, and a 100-year-old recording of opera singers laughing with the accompanying cornetist. There鈥檒l be field recordings of the world鈥檚 funniest bird and unsettling reinterpretations of TV sitcom laugh tracks from artist Rub茅n 笔补迟颈帽辞. Plus a slice of pulsing acid-house that fuses children鈥檚 laughter, French spoken word and North African pipes from Japanese electronic music pioneer Haruomi Hosono.

Elsewhere there鈥檚 music made from inside the womb with a debut album from Luca Yupanqui, whose musician parents used MIDI technology and synthesizers to translate her movements in utero into sound.

Produced by Katie Callin
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Music Played

  • Kan Kan

    Laugh Clown Laugh

    • Always Changing Trains (Works 1980-1983).
    • Geheimnis Records.

  • DJ Black Low

    Vula Vala

    • Uwami.
    • Awesome Tapes from Africa.

  • Eli Keszler

    Sudden Laughter, Laughter Without Reason

    • Last Signs Of Speed.
    • Empty Editions.

  • Shipibo Shamans

    Icaro for Happiness

    • Woven Songs Of The Amazon II: A Ceremony Of Healing With The Shipibo Shamans.
    • Sunyata Records.

  • Lucie Bernardo & Otto Rathke

    The Okeh Laughing Record

    • The Okeh Laughing Record / The Gypsy Baron - Wer Uns Getraut.
    • Okeh.

  • Frank Zappa

    Muffin Man

    • Bongo Fury.
    • Discreet.

  • Luca Yupanqui

    V4.3 pt. 2

    • Sounds of the Unborn.
    • Sacred Bones Records.

  • Fred Frith & Ikue Mori

    Nothing to It

    • A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall.
    • Intakt Records.

  • Anansy Ciss茅

    Tiara

    • Anoura.
    • Riverboat.

  • Adam Cadell & Carter Thornton

    Just Ignore Ancient Technology and Remedies

    • Full Steam at the Melting Red Leaf.
    • Planet of the Scrapes records.

  • 笔补迟颈帽辞

    Skip The Line

    • Actually Laughing Out Loud.
    • 础苍貌尘颈补.

  • Nubya Garcia

    Hold (Alternate Take)

    • Nubya's 5ive.
    • Jazz Re:freshed.

  • Hafez Modirzadeh

    Facet Sorey

    • Facets.
    • Pi Recordings.

  • Sam Underwood

    Cuica

    • Late Junction Happy Sounds.

  • Jonathan O'Gara

    Tormentas in Mataelpino

    • Late Junction Happy Sounds.

  • Haruomi Hosono

    Laugh-Gas

    • Omni Sight Seeing.
    • Epic.

  • Las Lloronas

    Me conf铆o

    • S O A K E D.

  • Jana Winderen

    Fish probably Tiger Perch, not 100% sure

    • Chana, Thailand, 2019.

  • Alpha Maid

    SUM1

    • CHUCKLE.
    • C.A.N.V.A.S..

  • 脡liane Radigue

    Biogenesis

    • Biogenesis.
    • Metamkine.

  • The Flaming Lips

    I Can Be A Frog

    • Embryonic.
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • James Lambert

    Laughing Kookaburra

    • Aspley, Brisbane City, Queensland.

  • Bob Dylan

    Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

    • Bringing It All Back Home.
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Mar 2021 23:00
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