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THEARTSDESK RADIO SHOW #16 Peter Culshaw spins new global releases and revivals

 

Peter Culshaw's eclectic radio show returns with new global releases and revivals

After a hiatus, theartsdesk Radio Show is back with a new partner, Music Box Radio, hosted in their studio at the Market House in Brixton. Peter Culshaw’s global round-up of new and newly re-released discs jumps from Brazilian psychedelia to synth funk from Capo Verde and assorted exotica. There’s new jazz from Michael Wollny and Vincent Perani and new tango-tinged systems music from Steve Reich, and West African grooves.

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THE ARTS DESK RADIO SHOW 15 Latest sizzling global radio show including Brazilian funk, Pakistani Jazz, Avant folk and Romanian brass bands

Latest sizzling global radio show including Brazilian funk, Pakistani Jazz, Avant folk and Romanian brass bands

Another splendidly eclectic globalist radio show hosted by Peter Culshaw. The show's featured album of the month is the impeccable The Woman at The End Of The World by the veteran Brazilian songstress Elza Soares.

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The latest eclectic global radio show starring Trinidadian legend Calypso Rose

Another of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic global radio shows. Star of this month's show is the Trinidadian Calypso Queen Calypso Rose, whose new album Far From Home, to be released in July, is given a sneak preview here. Then there is the usual wild, eclectic mix ranging from the latest cool jazz releases to cosmic sounds from Cape Verde, rediscovered Prog from Brazil, country blues and deep new African grooves. And Peter Sellers. Enjoy.

 

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Latest global radio show with new sounds from the Sahara, Brazil, India and Ireland

Another peripatetic mix of the latest global sounds and reissues from theartsdesk’s resident world music fanatic Peter Culshaw. The radio show features a mindbendingly eclectic mix from Colombia, Louisiana, Angola to Brazil, with some new folk from The Gloaming, alt country from Sam Outlaw, bonkers psychedelia from India, and a couple of old numbers from Ali Farka Touré and the Neville Brothers. An Easter sonic feast.

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THE ARTS DESK RADIO SHOW: BOWIE TRIBUTE theartsdesk's radio tribute to the man who fell to earth

theartsdesk's radio tribute to the man who fell to earth

That purveyor of everything from crazy cosmic jive and plastic soul to epic disco and elegant Berlin ambient gloom made a hell of an exit last week. His last release, his “parting gift” Blackstar, was a dazzling curtain bow unlike any other. He was a brilliant magpie, smuggling all kinds of ideas from Kabuki and Nietzsche to avant-jazz and cut-ups into impeccable, usually subversive, pop.

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THE ARTS DESK RADIO SHOW 11 Musical mayhem with Bollywood James Bond, fiery Cuban grooves and Korean indie

Musical mayhem with Bollywood James Bond, fiery Cuban grooves and Korean indie

Peter Culshaw’s latest global round-up of new music and reissues features the usual spendidly earbending eclectic selection. There’s 1960s Indian lounge, 1970s Senegalese music unearthed by the ever-adventurous Analog Africa label, Arabic Jazz and a Cuban song about the dangers of lechery, not to mention hot off the press Four Tet and a couple of tracks from Lebanon’s brilliant current art-pop export Bachar Mal-Khalife.

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Latest radio show featuring the hottest new global sounds

Listen to the latest edition of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic round-up of some recent hot global music releases, including some re-releases of old classics and yet-to-be unleashed tracks including a fair chunk from South America. For your listening pleasure, there are some delicious Afro-Colombian grooves, psychedelic cumbia, new Peruvian sounds and up-and-coming Brazilian artists plus the odd side trip with some Arabic Rock, Welsh-Indian fusion and South Asian violin virtuosity.. 

 

The Seckerson Tapes: Schumann Quartet

Three German-Japanese brothers and an Estonian violist present their second release

The brothers Erik, Ken, and Mark Schumann founded the Schumann Quartet in 2007 and it might well have been an all-family affair had the cellist’s twin sister chosen to switch from violin to viola and join them. The Schumann brothers are of German-Japanese heritage – an interesting mix of temperaments – and perhaps because of their sister they were drawn to a female becoming the fourth among equals.

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THE NEW ARTS DESK RADIO SHOW 8 Bamako, Mali, Fukushima, Rio, Jerusalem, and into outer space with Peter and Joe

Bamako, Mali, Fukushima, Rio, Jerusalem, and into outer space with Peter and Joe

Peter and Joe are back on MeatTransmission, and as ever their selection goes "Beyond Global" with quite a few voyages out of the world into territories cosmic, ambient and generally out there - stopping in Bamako, Mali, Fukushima, Rio, Jerusalem, Bucharest, Moscow, Lewisham and Avalon along the way for good measure. Expect surprises and brand new sounds at every step.