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12:00am - 1:00am
Turtle Island
New releases and old favourites from the indigenous musicians of North America. Selected by multi-disciplinary sculptor Andrew GJ. He plays a wide range of genres, expect to hear many styles and categories, from jazz to rock to techno and everything in between. Featuring Mimi O'Bonsawin, Yellowsky, Nadjiwan & Sultans Of String, Social Stigma, Played The Fool, Violent Ground & Anu BuDz, iiwaa, Thomas X, The Osceola Brothers, Julian Taylor, Rudy Strangling Wolf, Nathan Cunningham, Jackie K & Falynn Baptiste, Whisperhawk, Lutie Kaviok, and Ozomatli. For more info see facebook.com/tunesfromturtleisland and tunesfromturtleisland.eu. [Repeats Saturday 12.30am.]
1:00am - 2:30am
Artrocker Radio
[Repeated from Tuesday 10.30pm.] Paul and Lewis from the influential Artrocker magazine previews all the latest releases from London and the UK's thriving indie rock scene and beyond. To listen to past shows visit Paul's Mixcloud page.
2:30am - 3:30am
Luscombe's Choice
Will Luscombe offers a personal and unapologetically idiosyncratic selection of contemporary recordings, from jazz to rock to grime and beyond. [Repeated Friday 5am.]
3:30am - 4:00am
Arty Facts
[Repeated from Sunday 1.30pm.] Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today, Master J is joined by musical theatre performers Angus Pier-Barnetson and Karen Holmes. In the second and final part of an interview with the pair, they discuss their double act, Diva Voce. Topics include: the night they shot their showreel and no audience turned up, how they came up with a name and worked together for years, working on cruise ships - the highs, lows and free revolting red wine. To end the show they will sing Summer Nights from Grease together - a song that they have never sung before, accompanied by Master J on piano. For more information visit Master J on Facebook.
4:00am - 5:00am
The Organ presents The Other Rock Show
[Repeated from Sunday 9pm.] Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and 'other' time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of math rock, avant prog, weird electronica and strange pop. This week's show includes new and forthcoming releases from Chop Chop, Virgin Vacation, a.P.A.t.T., The F*cking Champs, and The Bob Lazar Story, plus Gryphon, Univers Zero, Ava Mendoza, Covet, and Cardiacs. Follow the playlist on Twitter @OtherRockShow. Visit otherrockshow.wordpress.com for more information.
5:00am - 6:00am
Isotopica
[Repeated from Sunday 7pm.] Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko. This week: It's going to be a happy time in Britain, this year, in the future. It's going to be a happy time in Britain, this year, in the future. Spooky, repetitive predictions, field recordings from Paris with Simon Tyszko and Martin Stone (Sufi Rock Star, and the world's most legendary book scout), and It's going to be a happy time in Britain, this year, in the future. Visit theculture.net/ for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
Modulisme
[Repeated from Friday 11.30pm.] Modulisme (which translates as Modularism) is a series devoted to out of leftfield modular synthesis. This week: Early ElectroMIX #27. Featuring tracks from Charles Wuorinen, Barton McLean, Knut Wiggen, Tim Clark. For more information visit modulisme.info/sessions.
7:00am - 9:00am
Global Globules With Baconface
Another chance to hear the barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface as he plays lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother's extensive record collection of '60s and '70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries. In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure. Produced by Michael Umney. [Does not repeat.]
9:00am - 10:00am
The Naked Short Club
[Repeated from Monday 9pm.] Dr. Stu and his expert guests dance around alternative investments, markets, the economy and wider world with psychedelic sounds and sometimes poetry. This week’s guests: Rebecca Barkin (Lamina1); Louis Gargour (LNG Capital).
10:00am - 11:00am
Clear Spot
[Repeated from Wednesday 8pm.] Flamencohead. Javier Surroca hosts a show on the Art of Flamenco: fusion, pop, experimental, rock, ethnic and all the variations in the flamenco universe. With music from Smash, Carmen Linares, Artomatico, Bambino, David Carrasco, La niña del la puebla, DMBK, Enrique Morente, Lole y Manuel, Rosalía, Miguel Poveda y Maria Mezcle.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Sitting With Gianluca
[Repeated from Sunday 6pm.] Interviews and informed portraits of contemporary American musicians with our stateside correspondent Gianluca Tramontana. This week: Gianluca goes to Brazil to visit Seattle-born electronica pioneer Maga Bo who has been living in Rio de Janeiro for 25 years. As drummer and ethnomusicologist, Bo has blended traditional Brazilian music to his work. This show will be a primer of when Gianluca visited Bo a decade ago and discussed his art, his life and what makes up his musical identity, and next week will be Bo talking about what he is doing today and his changing musical tastes.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The London Ear
Ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson presents a DFS Algonquin Table for the post-thought era. This week, we're joined by double bass player Olie Brice to explore the geology of his current album Fire Hills. For further information visit @btfoshizzle on Twitter and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page. [Repeats Tuesday 7am.]
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Talking Africa
A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. See mixcloud.com/talkingafrica for more Talking Africa shows. [Repeats Tuesday 9am.]
2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Traditional Music Hour
Kevin Sheils presents an informed and judicious selection of recordings of traditional musics from Britain, Ireland and occasionally further afield. This week, Kevin looks at the original 20 CDs in "The Voice of the People" series playing one track from each, chosen randomly by his computer. [Repeats Monday Noon.]
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Raft
[Repeated from Tuesday 5pm.] Chiara Ambrosio conducts monthly conversations about how marginalised and underrepresented artists and the city interact and shape each other and how the socio-political shifts in London affect art. This month: following after Pauline Oliveiros' "Quantum Listening", Chiara sets off on a solitary walk in her neighbourhood, one Sunday morning in London, with the only intent of listening things into existence. Join her. For more information visit raftalondonstory.com.
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Rockfort
[Repeated from Tuesday 7.30pm.] David McKenna presents the best in underground and left-field French music. This week, including Puce Moment, Pixvae and Mohamed Lamouri, plus a bit of French hip-hop history.
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Smashing Records
James Sloan presents conversations and music from the communities around Disability Advice Service Lambeth. This week, we speak to one of the most active walkers in Britain, the irrepresible Richard Simpson. Richard who has open angle glaucoma dives head first into his passion for living an active life & describes the measures he takes to remain safe while rambling. Whether it's tackling Lands End to John O'Groats or getting stuck kayaking in the Thames Basin, no adventure is off limits with Richard. Contact smashing.records@disabilitylambeth.org.uk. Twitter @smashingdasl. [Repeats Monday 2pm.]
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Hooting Yard On The Air
Archival repeats of the indescribable fiction of the late lamented Frank Key of hootingyard.org, for many years writer-in-residence at Resonance FM. [Repeats Friday 4am.]
5:00pm - 5:30pm
The Sound Of Criticism
New series! Part one in a four part series, developed as part of a London College of Communication, UAL, MA Sound Arts workshop in which the participants engaged in the role of written art criticism within discourse and its presence in a sound work. This week: Ilya Babayeu, Alberto De Luca, Reid Dudley Peirson, Peiyang Li, Martyn Riley, Banghan Xiao. This programme brings together six practitioners of sound, that in turn bring together the material weight of space itself, a speculation on other worlds, Zombies, Police presence crackling on Telegraph Hill, the voice both instrumental, digital and devotional and a distant feedback loop from the afterlife – “in God we trust rock and roll”. [Repeats Tuesday 11.30am.]
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Pull the Plug
Promos and new releases spun and sometimes speared by Johnny Seven. This week: The path through the forest is indistinct and foreboding. Dead leaves splinter underfoot as empty branches swat at your face with almost purposeful intent. You clutch at your throat as the air thickens into a putrid miasma of death. It's all rather tiresome. Turn up the volume and cut a rug. Email pulltheplugseven@gmail.com. Visit Pull The Plug on Facebook. [Repeats Saturday 11am.]
6:00pm - 6:15pm
Drift Shift
Found sound and found text collected to form drifts that shift, produced and presented by Franziska Lantz. Visit driftshift.blogspot.com for more information. [Repeats Saturday 11.30am.]
6:15pm - 6:30pm
Into The Moss
A 14 minute drift through original music, soundscapes and liminal yarns. Show archive at soundcloud.com/into-the-moss. Contact intothemossradio@gmail.com. Get music at https://intothemoss.bandcamp.com. [Repeats Saturday 11.45am.]
6:30pm - 7:30pm
The Outerglobe
Debbie Golt FRSA takes African music and wider arts and culture as her starting point. This week: Debbie invites music activist Ness Errahmani (DJ Ness) and acclaimed singer Julia Sarr to introduce Festival Rares Talents, founded by the late Hilaire Penda, which platforms Paris's rich Afro music and arts culture. Hilaire Penda, Amina Annabi, Kiali & the Afroblaster feature alongside Blick Bassy, Kerrier Collective and Makoomba in the mix. Visit outerglobe.co.uk for more information. Tweet to @outerglobe. [Repeats Sunday 4pm.]
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Hot Club du Monde
A Baedeker tour of international musical curiosities from the 78rpm era with Oliver Carter-Wakefield. [Repeats Friday 2pm.]
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Clear Spot
One off, irregular and sometimes surprise broadcasts. [Repeats Friday 10am.]
9:00pm - 10:30pm
Adventures in Sound and Music
New music with The Wire magazine. Visit thewire.co.uk for more information. [Repeats Sunday 1am.]
10:30pm - 11:00pm
SHAPE
New music from the SHAPE Platform. SHAPE is funded by the European Union. This month: we feature Hungarian/Serbian sound artist and performer Thea Soti, a multi-disciplinary artist, working within the fields of experimental vocal music, electronic sound, installation, text-based media and video art. She uses digitally manipulated sound, human voice and poetry in various formats, continuously manipulating and processing her own voice. For more info visit shapeplatform.eu. [Repeated Wednesday 3.30am.]
11:00pm - 12:00am
Grime for the Unconverted
Presented and mixed by DJ BPM, showcasing Grime classics, unreleased promos and new releases. Tonight: featuring tracks by Female All Stars, Dexplicit, Dust, Domino, Solsa, Tubs, JT the Goon, Filthy Gears, Jamzigg, Rakjay and Slimy Ape, OC, Dubstance, kicking off the show with forthcoming release 'Maximum Proff' by Churchy Kane. Listen to archive shows on Mixcloud. Twitter: @feraldubs. [Repeats Sunday 12am.]
12:00am - 1:00am
Club Integral Radio Show
[Repeated from Wednesday 9.30pm] The Earl of Killorglin and Andrew Scott-Bolton of Club Integral - London's long-running "home to the uncategorisable" - explore the music that informs its long running concert series in London.