Playlist 419 - Oct 18 2016

Ahead of the release of Fixity 2 on vinyl, and a Cork Opera House (Green Room) show, something from the first Fixity album, dark and murky and engrossing. Matthew Bourne hitting a similar tone using a Moog - shimmering analogue sounds.

Glorious vocal stylings from Sans Chateaux which should be to the liking of Beach Boys fans. Some "lost" Russian film music from the wonderful Mikael Tariverdiev.

Yama Warashi is a Japanese woman in Bristol (and friends) making adventurous cosmic folk music. Arborist is Belfast man Mark McCambridge flitting between beautiful chamber and country sounds.

And The Altered Hours who play a Cork show in December at The Kino, drifting, teasing, psych pop.

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Playlist 419
Tues Oct 18 2016
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
The Altered Hours – Grey on blue (playing The Kino, Cork, Dec 10)
Arborist – A crow (playing Betsey Trotwood, London, Nov 4)
Matthew Bourne – Keighley (playing Leeds Int'l Film Festival, Nov 9)
Fixity – Hungry clouds (playing Green Room, Cork Opera House, Oct 30, w/ The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock)
Sans Chateaux – A science/Metaphor
Mikael Tariverdiev – Snow over Leningrad (from the soundtrack of the film The irony of fate)
Tenniscoats – Yuki yu
Yama Warashi – Moon egg (playing Servant Jazz Quarters, London, Nov 27)
Alien Ensemble – Skeleton dance
Barry McCormack – All the things you’ve done (playing The Conservative Club, Dublin, Oct 21)
Girl Ray – Trouble (playing Village Underground, London, Oct 31)
Tim Presley – Clue (playing Lexington, London, Nov 19)
The Monkees – Me & Magdalena
Angel Olsen – Give it up (playing The Roundhouse, London, May 24 2017)
Fauna Twin – Water on Mars
Lail Arad – Milo (playing Servant Jazz Quarters, London, Nov 2)

*next week's show features music from Howe Gelb, Papertrail & North Sea Radio Orchestra, among others

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