Mixcloud Mix Number 3 “Random”
A new mix for the weekend. Some of the tunes connect, some don't. Overall they are a random selection. There are bands and tunes you...
Punk Ha! Ha! – Mixcloud mix 2
My second MixCloud mix. If nothing else punk has having a bloody good time – hence the title of this episode Punk! Ha ha!...
My new Mixcloud channel
After much messing about I have signed up to Mixcloud to try it out. Not so many clever mixes, more a playlist.
This is a Song...
Mediterranean Music – Syria
It has taken quite a while to write about Syrian music that I have found on this imaginary trip around the Mediterranean. After a slow...
Mediterranean Music – Greece
My hyper-superficial imaginary music tour of the Med. continues. We are in Greece this time....
Podcast: Stuart Bailie – Trouble Songs
Music journalist Stuart Bailie’s new book Trouble Songs will be officially published in May, but it’s already starting to stir conversations and commentary. He takes...
Podcast: Oh Yeah music centre
On this episode the story of the Oh Yeah music centre with Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane. There's music from Hand Models, Reevah, Strange New...
Best Albums #1 – Gibralter to Trieste
Time for a breather and look back on the last few months’ music collecting. We started our journey in Gibralter, and I am pausing...
Mediterranean Music – Italy – Toe to heel
To the deep south of Italy to discover some of the most exciting and invigorating music that I have heard for years, all the more...
Now I’m listening to … Dikanda
Then I discovered the "Related Artists" link on Spotify. (As I write incidentally I am listening to this.) A few years ago I lamented on...
Music walk around old town Ljubljana
I was in Ljubljana on a Saturday morning to record some of the sounds of the streets. Particularly the street music and the other music...
Music: Jupiter Okwess
Three years ago, when he released his international debut album Hotel Univers, it seemed that Jupiter Bokondji would be the new hero of the African...
Music: Gaye Su Akyol: Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu
Gaye Su Akyol's influences, she says, include the veteran, highly political Turkish folk singer Selda Bağcan along with Nick Cave and Grace Slick, and the...
Music: Amira Medunjanin
Amira Medunjanin is the finest exponent of sevdah, the melancholy and emotional folk music of Bosnia, and is remarkable not just for her clear, pained...
Dej še’n litro
Dej še’n litro – the name does not translate well in Bing or Google translators. Actually it translates as nonsense, which is probably appropriate. At...
The Bottom Line and Across The Line at 30
There is a playlist that goes with this posting – please feel free to add to it. In April 1986 I left Downtown Radio. I...
Brexit and the Creative Industries: a perspective from Ireland
I don’t intend discussing Brexit, but I offer this link to anyone interested in listening. How might musicians and Film and TV makers be affected...
Patetico: from Slovenia and cooler than the Sava during the spring thaw
I found this band and album by jumping from link to link, suggestion to suggestion. starting with Laibach, through to Melodrom and the next step...
Here’s to Stuart Bailie the man who made Oh Yeah
Stuart Bailie the founding father of Belfast's Oh Yeah centre hands over to a new CEO. Oh Yeah is a unique place were music...
Dupain: From Marseilles, “Occitan” and “Celtique” music mixed with electronics and noise
It is not easy to find information (in English) about Dupain. In my continuing search to find really interesting music that I've not heard before,...
Lila Downs: traditional Mexican and native Mesoamerican music
I really am catching up on music I missed sometime over the last 20 years. This week Lila Downs, her album Balas y Chocolate has...
Astor Piazzolla: The man who revolutionised the Tango
I came by Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla by chance. Last year I was given a private recording of the SFK Youth Orchestra performing at the Bled...
Wire: Another band celebrating 40 years
And I was playing their early work in the early 1980s. Nocturnal Koreans is a mini album of 8 tracks which I've been listening to...
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu: Songs from North Australia in Yolŋu
A news story in the Guardian sent me off to find out about Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. Maybe you have already heard his music – as...
Abavuki: Jazz from South Africa’s Cape
I love Abavuki. They are the most energetic band I have ever seen. The Marimba led multi-instrumentalists change the stage line-up through their performance....
Mariza: Fado singer from Portugal
So today to my surprise and delight I have been listening to Mariza and in particular her new album Mundo. ...
MP3 or not MP3 that is the question
Cheesy headline – sorry. So, MP3 music files are more convenient. More convenient for the user – easily available online through music distributors such as iTunes...
Time to be Proud Oh Yeah
I’ve never been so busy. I mean never, ever in my life. But I’m more than grateful to William Maxwell for sending me a preview...