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Music for Doing Things

Israeli musician Kutiman鈥檚 new album uses a bed of piano arpeggios, mysterious synth flutes and soothing siren sounds to focus your attention on what needs to be done.

The intention behind Israeli musician Kutiman鈥檚 new album is to create 鈥榤usic for doing things鈥�. Using a bed of piano arpeggios, mysterious synth flutes and soothing siren sounds Kutiman鈥檚 ambient atmospherics will focus your attention on what needs to be done. Plus, Elizabeth shares a special demo version of a song from Owen Pallett鈥檚 recent LP Island and there鈥檚 music from the versatile American artist Rhiannon Giddens, who crosses opera, country and bluegrass in her own inimitable style.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
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Music Played

  • Rival Consoles

    Improvisation in E minor

    • Improvisation in E minor.
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Kutiman

    Surface Currents

    • Surface Currents.
    • Siyal.

  • Lost Girls

    Real Life

    • Menneskekollektivet.
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • Hainbach

    Funktionsverlust

    • Landfill Totems.
    • SA Recordings.

  • Okkyung Lee

    Teum (The Silvery Slit)

    • Statistique Synth茅tique / Teum (The Silvery Slit).
    • Portraits GRM.

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Amazing Grace

    • They鈥檙e Calling Me Home.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Tapan & Abul Mogard

    Europa (Abul Mogard Rework)

    • Europa (Abul Mogard Reworks).
    • Malka Tuti.

  • Youth Team

    Tripping-Tripped

    • I Have Heard The Signal, I Am Waiting For The Call.
    • Gerry Loves Records.

  • Octo Octa

    Goddess Calling

    • She's Calling EP.
    • T4T LUV NRG.

  • Kate Davies

    By the Sound of Things

    • Abandon Normal Devices.

  • Tarotplane

    Shatner's Bassoon

    • Horizontology.
    • 12th Isle.

  • Klein

    only ever you

    • now that's what i call r&b.

  • Owen Pallett

    Polar Vortex

    • Island.
    • Secret City Records.

  • Throwing Snow

    Brujita

    • Dragons.
    • Houndstooth.

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Apr 2021 23:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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