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Transcendent sounds ….with Zakia

Zakia shares transcendent sounds, woozy Italian jazz, and cosmic poetry to send you into dream worlds. Plus, a walk along the Pyrenees with London-based songwriter, Barney Keen.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Journey into dream worlds with Zakia, with her selections of woozy Italian jazz, smoky dubbed out psychedelia, and transcendent, flowing guitar rhythms from Argentina. Plus, Zakia brings a record from an Australian folk revival artist, found on a vinyl dig in south east London. Elsewhere, Zakia salutes Sun Ra for what would have been his 111th birthday, via cosmic spoken word poetry, courtesy of Sun Ra Arkestra members.

Plus, we hear some reflections on walking and dreaming, and a Portal selection from London based songwriter and guitarist Barney Keen.

We want to hear your dreams! Send in tales of your sleepy adventures to dreamtime@bbc.co.uk or text us on 03700 100 600

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC 6Music

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Sun 25 May 2025 22:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Aretha Franklin

    Day Dreaming

    • Young, Gifted and Black.
    • Atlantic.

  • Wilson Tanner

    Blush

    • Legends.
    • Efficient Space.

  • Barney Keen

    4th May

    • Harbinger.
    • Touching Bass.

  • Jamie Leeming

    Shore Embrace (feat. Laura Misch)

    • Sequent.

  • Gábor Szabó

    Ferris Wheel

    • Dreams.
    • Skye Records.

  • Almon Memela

    Amapoyisa

    • Zulu Guitar Blues - Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 - 1965,.
    • Matsuli.

  • Knoel Scott & Marshall Allen

    The Neglected Plane of Wisdom

    • My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry.
    • Omni Sound.

  • Mara Simpson

    Thin Place

    • Living Matter.
    • Republic of Music.

  • Saoirse-Juno

    Weighed In Green

    • Weighed In Green.
    • Lima Limo.

  • maya ongaku

    Something In Morning Rain

    • Approach to Anima.
    • Guruguru Brain.

  • Agustín Pereyra Lucena

    Preparativos Maritimos

    • Puertos De Alternativa.
    • Far Out Recordings.

  • Barney Keen

    Fools

    • Harbinger.
    • Touching Bass.

  • Jorge Ben Jor

    Errare Humanum Est

    • A Tábua De Esmeralda.
    • Philips.

  • Collettivo Immaginario

    Sogno Lucido

    • Oltreoceano.
    • Domanda Music.

  • IE

    Babel

    • Reverse Earth.
    • Quindi Records.

  • Gabriel Brady

    Untitled (1)

    • Day-blind.
    • Tonal Union.

  • Nico Georis

    Relation Ships

    • Music Belongs To The Universe.
    • Leaving Records.

  • Jonny Nash

    Bright Belief

    • Once Was Ours Forever.
    • Melody as Truth.

  • Gary Shearston

    Witnessing

    • Dingo.
    • Charisma.

  • marine eyes

    quiet circle

    • quiet circle.
    • cloud collecting.

  • Sofie Birch

    Myg

    • Island Alchemy.

  • claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo

    find yourself in a hole on the beach [

    • quilted lament.
    • mappa.

  • ludwig berger & vadret da morteratsch (a glacier)

    nothing returns

    • crying glacier.
    • forms of minutiae.

  • Hermeto Pascoal

    Vou esperar

    • Cérebro magnético.
    • Atlantic.

  • Mary Lattimore

    Canyon Lights by Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore

  • Yara Asmar

    may

    • Stuttering Music.
    • Ruptured Music.

  • Rosso Polare

    Albanella

    • Bocca D'ombra.
    • Sagome.

  • Duval Timothy

    awwwww

    • wishful thinking.
    • Carrying Colour Records.

  • Bee Gees

    How Deep Is Your Love

    • Saturday Night Fever.
    • RSO.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 May 2025 22:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music