This week's show features the incredible new Hether Blether from Orkadian musician Erland Cooper, completing a triology of records written about his home islands. Athmospheric, and bare, transquil, peaceful, and with an overriding sense of “home”, no matter where that might be for you. The music pulls from a lot of genres too, some sparse, folk-influenced songwriting, along with neo-classical composition and electronic influences make the combination of instrumental, sung and spoken word samples a remarkably executed work. It also serves as a wonderful complement to his earlier work Orkney with his band The Magnetic North, whose work we also pull in tonight along with some of his fellow collaborator Hannah Peel. Beyond that, tonights theme is that of record download cards I found unused, hidden under my turntable. It makes for an era hopping compilation that, I think, works remarkably well.
Also, for the first half of the show, we tried out an Instagram Live simucast. Not sure that it was a raging success, but a fun distraction nonetheless. Thanks everyone who joined in.
Playlist
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Thee Oh Sees by What You Need (The Porch Boogie Thing) on Castleface Flexi Compilation (Castleface) - Break
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Sing by Blur on Leisure (Food) -
Come Down by Hanni El Khatib on Savage Times (Innovative Leisure) -
Make No Sound by Gomez on Bring it On (Hut) -
Rusty Pipes by Eels on The Deconstruction (Works / PIAS) - Break
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Peedie Breeks (feat. Benge) by Erland Cooper on Hether Blether (Phases) -
Bad Feeling by Muzz on Muzz (Matador) -
Walk the Walk by Gaz Coombes on World's Strongest Man (Caroline) -
Gina's World by Marika Hackman on I'm Not Your Man (Sub Pop) - Break
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Linga Holm by Erland Cooper on Hether Blether (Phases) -
Architecture of Amnesia by Gruff Rhys on Babelsberg (Rough Trade) -
Next to You and the Sea by Woods on Strange To Explain (Woodsist) - Break
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Longhope by Erland Cooper on Hether Blether (Phases) -
Particle G1 (feat. Erland Cooper) by Hannah Peel on Particles in Space (My Own Pleasure) -
Earth Beat by Paul Weller on On Sunset (Solid Bond) - Break
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Hamnavoe by Erland Cooper on Hether Blether (Phases) -
Journey 1 by Max Richter on Infra (Deutsche Grammophon) -
Infra 5 by Max Richter on Infra (Deutsche Grammophon) -
Spoot Ebb by Erland Cooper on Sule Skerry (Phases) -
Ward Hill by The Magnetic North on Orkey: Symphony for the Magnetic North (Full Time Hobby) -
Millersdale by William Doyle on Your Wilderness Revisited (William Doyle) - Break
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Twist by Thom Yorke on Anima (XL)