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Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
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Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
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Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema
Song of the Day: Following yesterdays’ Cinétique, inspired by films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, horror, science fiction, and westerns, Canadian Mike Dubue’s exciting, evocative instrumental is about disconnection from reality while watching the world through a screen, and comes from trilogy of records titled Lonely Cinema
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The cover of Naoko Sakata’s second album Dancing Spirits
Song of the Day: Beginning with discordant, angry, violent, stormy chaos and moving gradually into lilting, gentle graduations of beauty, this free-flowing piece by the Japanese jazz pianist captures a huge spectrum of passionate emotions
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Divide and Dissolve, aka Takiaya Reed (right) and Sylvie Nehill
Songs of the Day: Dynamic volume changes and explosive sounds traverse from classical to dark metal in these extraordinary genre-defying instrumental pieces inspired by the history of colonisation by the Melbourne-based duo from their album Gas Lit
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CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
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Cover of Wilma Archer’s album A Western Circular
Song of the Day: Taken from the British producer and multi-instrumentalist’s album, A Western Circular, this wonderfully eclectic fusion of classical and jazz intertwined and MF Doom’s unmistakable rapping, tells a tale of a New York drug dealer
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Jocksrap’s Taylor Skye and Georgia Ellery
Cover of Anna Meredith’s new album, FIBS
Song of the Day: Two numbers from the Scottish composer who has a beguiling ability to mix multiple genres, from classical to pop, and here from her new album FIBS, creates an extraordinary world of beats, electronica and melodies
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Scott Walker, 1943-2019
Song of the Day: A short musical tribute to the great and now sadly late American-born British singer and composer with that extraordinary baritone voice, from his Walker Brothers pop era to a solo career of great influence, innovation and experiment
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Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, 1955-2019
Song of the Day: A triple-song tribute the Mark Hollis, founder songwriter and frontman of the extraordinarily innovative and influential 80s band, whose death, at 64, was recently reported
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Monstrous talent: Akira Ifukube and Godzilla
Song of the Day: Following on from Hikaru Hayashi, we dip into the next Japanese composer, a prolific writer of film scores best for the famous Godzilla monster movies, as well hundreds of other classical pieces
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Nobuko Otowa as the mother in The Naked Island (1960)
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
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A scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, with music by Joe Hisaishi
Song of the Day: Moving from Ryuichi Sakamoto to another great Japanese pianist and composer, the man behind the beautiful music to the animated Studio Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Song of the Day: Linking our last entry with not only the recently deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci and also David Bowie, some exquisite music by the great Japanese composer, pianist and actor
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Lest we forget …
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
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Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
Song of the Day: It is hardly a stab in the dark to pick out the great American composer’s film work as the next entry in film score music, but here is an artist surely among the greatest for matching image and sound
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957), starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, with a equally sharp Bernstein score
Song of the Day: More outstanding film theme music, this time with three contrasting examples from the New Yorker with a huge, award-winning repertoire, reaching deep into the American and British psyche
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Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
Song of the Day: Moving on from Britain’s John Barry, two pieces of work from the highly versatile US composer and conductor here showing contrasting styles that equally express the dark and disturbing
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Now listen to me … Michael Caine is accompanied by one of John Barry’s finest soundtracks
Song of the Day: Completing a Michael Caine leading role trio, the beautiful, haunting theme composed by one of film and TV’s all-time great composers who is best known for the James Bond films
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