Playlist 481 - Mar 6 2018

A bit of a baroque kick on the show this week.

Lake Ruth is a Brooklyn 3-piece with wonderful flourishing melodies and shimmering arrangements around treble-y basslines and analogue synths.

Jean-Claude Vannier – famous collaborator with Serge Gainsbourg – patented a brand of baroque pop with those up front basslines once again. This is one of his vault treasures as issued by the Finders Keepers label some years back.

Charlotte Gainsbourg has a new album full of great melancholy arpeggios. A kind of downbeat baroque pop.

Also some exotica.

From the past Eden Ahbez. A dream of a life of freedom that shimmers.

From the present The Saxophones. A dream of pop music with flutes.

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Playlist 481
Tues Mar 6 2018
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
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Playlist
August Wells – A little too real (playing Coughlan’s, Cork, Apr 19)
Modern Studies – Mud and flame
BOYTOY – Mary Anne (playing Lock Tavern, London, May 13)
La Luz – Cicada
Eden Ahbez – Full moon
The Saxophones – Picture (playing Slaughtered Lamb, London, May 15)
Marisa Anderson – Pulse
Sarah Louise – When winter turns
Landless – Doomsday (playing It Takes A Village Festival, Cork, Apr 13)
Jean-Claude Vannier – La girafe au ballon
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Kate
Lake Ruth – Julia’s call
Nightports with Matthew Bourne – This trip
Psychological Strategy Board – Stranded here for all eternity (playing Cafe Oto, London, Mar 25)
Snapped Ankles – CIA Man (NSA Man Violation) (playing Raw Power Festival, London, May 25)
Wussy – Gloria

*next week's show features music from The The, Flights of Helios & Jack Hayter, among others

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