Playlist 448 - May 23 2017

We didn't have Ariana Grande on the show this week but we did have a great contemporary Manchester artist. Jane Weaver's new album is a brilliant mix of psych pop and synth driven kosmische and fittingly there's a heartfelt and poignant tone to it.

Moondog is always good music to lift the spirit, sitting somewhere between classical and folk but not neatly in either camp.

Some folk cuts. Joan Shelley with the most delicate and sublime of folk voices, James Elkington with a lovely baroque folk twist of fingerpicked guitar with cello, Harry Taussig & Max Ochs with a light playful touch of American Priitive.

Lee Hazlewood from his Swedish sojourn, always great to hear.

And from the English Weather compilation, a brilliant folk-exotica track from The Roger Webb Sound.

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Playlist 448
Tues May 23 2017
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
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Playlist
Cluster – Heisse lippen
Jane Weaver – HAK (playing Workman's Club, Dublin, Nov 10)
Moondog – Theme
Thollem McDonas – Ballad for Pauline (Pauline Oliveiros Tribute Album launch, Café Oto, London, May 30)
IX Tab – The interval
Camille – Seeds (playing Barbican Centre, London, Oct 30)
Joan Shelley – Even though
James Elkington – Wading the vapours
Harry Taussig & Max Ochs – Into the veil of years
Soley – Before falling
The Roger Webb Sound – Moon bird
Warm Digits feat Devon Sproule – The rumble and the tremor
Lee Hazlewood & Nina Lizell – Hey cowboy
Tara Clerkin – John
Billy Carter – The dog (playing Fred Zeppelin's, Cork, May 28, w/ The Grunts)
Those Unfortunates – The consolations of the life I know
Giorgio Moroder – Chase (from the soundtrack of the film Midnight Express)

*next week's show features music from Diagnos, Manu Louis & Terry, among others

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