Mischief, Revelry and After-Party Music
Verity Sharp picks music for merrymaking, bringing the festive season to a fitting close. Expect ballads from a fictional Georgian songwriter and ecstatic Sufi dance music.
“If music be the food of love, play on…”
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Verity Sharp picks music for merrymaking, bringing the festive season to a fitting close. Expect ballads from a fictional Georgian songwriter and ecstatic Sufi dance music. Falling on Twelfth Night, we’ll shrug off the shadows of the year just gone and welcome in the new with a show featuring party sounds from Algeria and mysterious songs that play tricks with the listener (including those created by the non-existent artist Nino Gvilla.)
Fomenting our desire to play will be Nuke Watch's Anti-Work piece, while Basque multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Elena Setién invites us to explore the realm of dreams in her Moonlight Reveries. And once the raving is done, a breakfast of Pancakes in Cement served up by Eloine before the cavernous dub-poetry of Iya Shillelagh regenerates our spirits.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
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Yura Nagoey & Elene Dokshokov
Vodka is a Bitter Water
- Ulyap Songs.
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Youssou Ndour & Étoile de Dakar
Maleo
- Etoile de Dakar Volume 5.
- Sterns.
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Light Touch Band
Chi - C - A - G - O (Is My Chicago)
- Chi - C - A - G - O (Is My Chicago) b/w Sexy Lady.
- Numero Group.
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Ana Da Silva
Disco Ball
- The Lighthouse.
- Chicks On Speed.
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Annea Lockwood
Becoming Air
- Becoming Air / Into The Vanishing Point.
- Black Truffle.
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Players of Marshfield
Marshfield Mummers Play and their Song
- Field Trip England.
- Folkways.
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Kemper Norton
Tenantry Down Wassail
- Carn.
- Exotic Pylon Records.
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Dorothy Carter
Tree of Life
- Waillee Waillee.
- Celeste.
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WaqWaq Kingdom & NYX
Doomed Ebisu
- Late Junction Collaboration Session.
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Elena Setién
Moonlit Reveries
- Moonlit Reveries.
- Thrill Jockey.
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Malik Adouane
After Raï Party
- After Raï Party, 1992-2008.
- Elmir Records.
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Nino Gvilia
Nicole
- Nicole / Overwhelmed by the Unexplained.
- Hive Mind Records.
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XEXA
Sisters Dancing
- Vibracoes de Prata.
- Príncipe.
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Naaljos Ljom
Fiskaren
- Naaljos Ljom 2.
- Motvind Records.
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Väsen
Ridmarsch fran On
- Melliken.
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Chuquimamani-Condori
Breathing
- DJ E.
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Nuke Watch
Anti-Work
- Worlds Gone M.A.D..
- The Trilogy Tapes.
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IYA SHILLELAGH
Regenaration
- WaterWeight.
- FELT.
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Susan Alcorn Septeto del Sur
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
- Canto.
- Relative Pitch Records.
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Saramaccan Sound (Suriname)
Some kind of New Beginning
- Where The River Bends.
- Glitterbeat Records.
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Youmna Saba
Ba'oud
- Wishah.
- Touch.
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HJirok
Jin Bo Chie
- Hjirok.
- Altin Village & Mine.
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Hani from Yunnan China
IYU GU (RESPONDING COURTING SONG IN THE MOUNTAIN)
- Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China.
- Sublime Frequencies.
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Santaka, Manfredas, Marijus Aleksa & Rytis Mažulis
Autoportretas
- Ramyb - autoportretas.
- State 51.
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Eloine
Weird Functions
- Moldy Cushions.
- Flag Day Recordings.
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Roméo Poirier & The Exposures
Negative Feedback
- Love / Hate.
- Faitiche.
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Jez riley French
Star Farm Parallel
- Island Star Farm Parallel.
- Engraved Glass.
Broadcast
- Fri 5 Jan 2024 23:00BBC Radio 3
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