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Guests Soweto Kinch and Steven Devine celebrate the joys of the keyboard

Studio guest the saxophonist Soweto Kinch joins Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to select the next five tracks to add to the playlist.

Birmingham-based saxophonist Soweto Kinch is joined by keyboard specialist Steven Devine and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen, as Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye compile the next five tracks for their growing playlist.

Last week concluded with Nina Cried Power by Hozier, featuring Mavis Staples, but where will that lead for the start of this episode's selection?

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Full track list in order in the episode, with the five chosen Playlist tracks in CAPITALS:

Golden Brown by The Stranglers
Liberation Rag by Soweto Kinch
Nina Cried Power by Hozier
NKA BOM by Edikanfo
STAYIN' ALIVE by The Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive by Bruce Springsteen
Stayin' Alive by N-Trance
HIGHER GROUND by Stevie Wonder
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY MOZART FOR FOUR HARPSICHORDS by George Malcolm, Valda Aveling, Geoffrey Parsons & Simon Preston
French Suite No.4 in E Flat Major, BWV 815a Prelude by Bach by Violet Gordon Woodhouse
DESPACITO by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat Justin Bieber
Despacito (Harpsichord) performed by Katarzyna Kowalik

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 29 Oct 2021 19:15

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