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A Joyous Exploration: Reflections on 2022

Cerys welcomes in the new year by saying goodbye to 2022, reflecting on her favourite live sessions and releases of 2022, plus revisiting some of the guests who stopped by.

Cerys welcomes in the new year by saying goodbye to 2022, reflecting on her favourite live sessions and releases of 2022, plus revisiting some of the guests who joined the show.

Expect a journey via art, music and science with the voices of Lucy Cooke, Professor Daniel Harbour, Dr Janina Ramierz and broadcaster Nikki Bedi. With insights from musician and artists Hinako Omori, Angelique Kidjo, Valerie June, Carwyn Ellis, Dana Gavanski and double tin whistle player John Francis Flynn.

Cerys raids her record collection for hidden gems and favourite tracks of 2022 as well as featuring session tracks from Jembaa Groove, Flora Hibberd, Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarp Collective, Kinetika Bloco and Someone (aka Tessa Rose Jackson), performed exclusively for the 大象传媒 at the legendary Maida Vale Studios.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Huey 鈥淧iano鈥 Smith & His Clowns

    Happy New Year

    • Twas The Night Before Christmas.
    • 3.
  • Joe Webb

    Tweedle Dee

    • Tweedle Dee.
    • Ubuntu Music.
    • 1.
  • Lightnin鈥 Hopkins

    Happy New Year

    • 110 Essential Classics - Very Best Of.
    • AudioSonic Music.
    • 92.
  • Cerys Hafana

    Cob Malltraeth (6 Music Festival 2022)

  • Jen Cloher

    Mana Takata虅pui

    • Milk! Records / Marathon Artists.
  • Melissa Carper

    Ramblin' Soul

  • Charlie Christian

    I Found a New Baby

    • The Genius Of The Electric Guitar.
    • Columbia.
    • 12.
  • Angeline Morrison

    Black John

    • The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience).
    • Topic.
    • 3.
  • Della Reese

    Brand New Day

    • Bob Stanley And Pete Wiggs Present State Of The Union: The American Dream In Cri.
    • Ace Records.
    • 2.
  • Guts

    Brand New Revolution

    • French Touch Volume 2: Electronic Music Made In France (House, Deep House, Techn.
    • Wagram Music.
    • 3.
  • Dana Gavanski

    The Rocks

  • Jembaa Groove

    Adesane (6 Music Session, 9 Oct 2022)

  • Fatoumata Diawara

    Nsera (feat. Damon Albarn)

    • Wagram.
  • John Francis Flynn

    Tralee Gaol

  • Sampa the Great

    Never Forget (feat. Chef187, Tio & 惭飞补苍箩茅)

    • Loma Vista Recordings.
  • Hailu Mergia & The Walias

    Nefas New Zemedie

    • Tezeta.
    • Awesome Tapes From Africa.
    • 5.
  • T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

    It's A Vanity

    • Afro-Funk.
    • Acid Jazz Acquisitions Ltd..
  • Big Maybelle

    New Kind of Mambo

    • I've Got a Feelin' - Okeh & Savoy Recordings 1952-56.
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 19.
  • Zeca Pagodinho

    Camar茫o Que Dorme A Onda Leva/ S茫o Jos茅 De Madureira/ Dor De Amor (Ao Vivo)

  • Ibrahim Maalouf

    Quiet Culture (feat. Pos of De La Soul)

    • Capacity To Love.
    • Mister Ib茅.
    • 6.
  • Flora Hibberd

    Night, Perpetual (6 Music Session, 30 Oct 2022)

  • Valerie June

    Look At Miss Ohio

    • Under Cover.
    • Fantasy.
    • 3.
  • Alina Bzhezhinka, Vimala Rowe, Michele Tacchi, Joel Prime & Adam Teixeira

    Title (6 Music Session, d mon 2019)

  • Lata Mangeshkar

    Jiya Jale

  • Lata Mangeshkar & Kumar Sanu

    Tujhe Dekha To Ye

  • Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band

    Egypt Strut

    • Egyptian Jazz.
    • Strut.
    • 7.
  • Omar Khorshid

    La Playa

    • Belly Dance Vol1.
    • Parlophone.
  • Albert Ayler

    New Generation

    • New Grass.
    • Stateside.
  • Toots & The Maytals

    Sweet and Dandy

    • Pressure Drop: The Essential Toots and the Maytals.
    • Perfect Cadence Records.
    • 2.
  • Mohammed Rafi

    Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan (From "C.I.D.") (feat. Geeta Dutt)

    • Golden Era.
    • Eben Entertainment.
    • 1.
  • Hinako Omori

    Conversation with a Lark

  • Hinako Omori

    Heartplant (Revisited)

    • Houndstooth.
  • Heal & Harrow

    Da Dim

  • Daniel Villarreal

    Patria

    • Patria.
    • International Anthem.
    • 1.
  • The Ano Nobo Quartet

    Elefantes

  • Ezra Collective & Kojey Radical

    No Confusion

    • All Of Us Flames.
    • PARTISAN RECORDS.
  • Saltpond City Band

    Mennbo Wobi (feat. Ebo Taylor & Dela Botri)

  • SOMEONE

    Strange World (6 Music Session, 20 Nov 2022)

  • Souad Massi

    Dessine-moi Un Pays

    • Sequana.
    • Backingtrack Production.
    • 1.
  • Kimi Djabat茅

    Alidonke

  • Kinetika Bloco

    Echoes of Palmares (6 Music Session, 27 Feb 2021)

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Auld Lang Syne (Live at the Fillmore East, NY - 12/31/69 - 2nd Set)

    • Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts.
    • Legacy Recordings.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • New Year's Day 2023 10:00