Song of the Day: Building to a powerful guitar crescendo, a stirring new desert blues and rock single about cultural identity by the Nigerian Tuareg musician and band return with a title meaning “brother or comrade”
Read moreSongs of the Day: Dorothy Carter - The Squirrel Is A Funny Thing / Celtic Medley
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
Read moreSong of the Day: Katy J Pearson (with Wet Leg, Drug Store Romeos, Sarah Meth) - Fire Leap
Song of the Day: Covering a folk tune both beautiful and oddly disturbing, the Bristol singer-songwriter is joined by collaborators with this fertility rite song from The Wicker Man (1973) from a new EP with other songs from the cult British horror film
Read moreSong of the Day: Me Lost Me - Festive Day
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s marine life-inspired music by Cosmo Sheldrake, further stimulus about the natural world comes from the string and drone style of Newcastle-upon-Tyne experimental folk artist Jayne Dent from the forthcoming album RPG
Read moreSong of the Day: Caroline Polachek – Sunset
Song of the Day: From her interim EP Welcome To My Island, a sprightly Spanish flamenco-influenced and sunnily beautiful love song by the American singer-songwriter, her voice soaring and warbling, bird-like, in the chorus
Read moreSongs of the Day: LEENALCHI – Please Don't Go / Tiger Is Coming
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
Read moreSong of the Day: Imarhan - The Distance (featuring Gruff Rhys)
Song of the Day: After the Algerian Tuareg quintet’s gorgeous album Aboogi released in January this year included a collaboration on the song Adar Newlon, Welsh artist Rhys teams up again with another beautiful, delicate track of subtle guitar licks and gentle vocals
Read moreSong of the Day: Σtella - Up and Away
Song of the Day: Stylish, uplifting retro pop by the artist from Athens, combining 60s pop with Greek influences with oodles of charm and in this song created with artist and producer Tom Calvert (aka Redinho) and the title track from the album out on Sub Pop
Read moreSong of the Day: Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na (featuring Anoushka Shankar)
Song of the Day: An exquisite new song about sudden memory of an absent friend, by the Grammy Award-winning US-base sublime Pakistani singer and composer, best known for the song Mohabbat, joined here by the famous British-Indian-American Indian sitar player
Read moreSongs of the Day: Liraz - Hala / Joon Joon
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
Read moreSong of the Day: Susobrino - El Camino Refleja
Song of the Day: An entrancing cinematic, instrumental fusion of electronica and traditional Spanish folk guitar music by the Brussels based artist with Bolivian heritage, taken from the EP Pocualeíto
Read moreSong of the Day: Masayoshi Fujita - Morocco
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Balimaya Project, more beautiful sounds, this time at the hands of the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player who turns to the marimba for this piece from his album Bird Ambience
Read moreSong of the Day: Howie Lee - Birdy Island
Song of the Day: Enchanting new experimental electronica with intricate, intertwining vocal harmonies, bird calls and traces of traditional Chinese music by the artist from Beijing in this title track from his wonderful new album
Read moreSongs of the Day: TEKE::TEKE - Meikyu / Yoru Ni
Songs of the Day: After yesterday’s piano piece by Naoko Sakata, the Japanese artists abroad connection continues with the frenzy and energy of the psych rock band based in Montreal who combine traditional instruments with rock in with rapid changes of pace
Read moreSong of the Day: Oumou Sangaré – Kamelemba
Ella Fitzgerald / Ethel Waters – Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s She Drew The Gun songs, let’s go back to an original Cole Porter number from 1934, which contains that shot line of defiance and revenge, a tragic tale about a society woman who simply would not take it anymore
Read moreHikaru Hayashi – La Mort De L'Enfant (Theme from The Naked Island)
Song of the Day: Following Joe Hisaichi, another distinguished Japanese composer who among his many works wrote the beautiful theme from a 1960 film without dialogue directed by Kaneto Shindo
Read moreArmistice Day Centenary: No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France) / Last Post
Song of the Day: Simply a song, a piece of music and a poem to mark 100 years since Armistice Day 11 November 1918, the end of the First World War, in which there were 40 million casualties
Read moreTom Waits – On The Other Side Of The World (from Night On Earth)
Song of the Day: From Bernard Herrmann’s music from Taxi Driver, let’s catch a ride with another cab film, Jim Jarmusch’s 1991 five-vignettes plot, connected by a soundtrack by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Read moreLead Belly to Nirvana and more – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Song of the Day: Also known as In The Pines, and Black Girl, today we move onto another traditional song variously interpreted, dark and brooding, haunting in its melody, and simmering with suspicion and jealousy
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