Playlist 283 - Oct 8 2013

We started this week with a Colleen/Seti The First pairing, who are playing together in Cork in a few weeks - delicately earthy, singular musings/brilliantly poised classical tunes.

A couple of great new discoveries for me this week too, Brous (pronounced Bruce) sings bonkers 60s style pop with sweeping Morricone-esque arrangements (something from Ennio in the show too), and Elephant return with another blissful slice of dream pop - both intoxicating.

The new Fuxa album features Britta Phillips on guest vocals, among others, singing the old Linda Ronstadt number 'Different drum' to Randall Niemann's 'Stand by me', stirring stuff.

Satelliti are an intriguing Italian duo playing instrumental post rock with jazz tones; Satellites an Englishman in Copenhagen making satisfying alt-rock mini anthems.

New Crystal Stilts and Hidden Highways and the infectious Congo-via-Liege pulse of Dragon Noir.

More on these pages as always.

Oct 8 2013 show w/ Colleen,Seti The First,Fuxa,Satelliti,Brous,Crystal Stilts,Hdden Highways++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud



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Playlist 283
Tues Oct 8 2013
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm
*listen back to this show here
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Playlist
Seti The First – La bassinette noir
Colleen – Humming fields (playing Triskel Christchurch, Cork, Nov 2, w/ Seti The First & Áine O’Dwyer)
Apricot Rail – Dore Strauch
The Black Twig Pickers - Rough carpenters (playing Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Oct 20)
Satelliti – Brother Green
Fuxa feat. Britta Phillips – Stand by me (Different drum)
Satellites – God Bless America
Elephant – Shapeshifter
Crystal Stilts – Worlds gone weird (playing Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, Nov 24)
Hidden Highways – The world began with a waltz
Susie Hug feat. Joey Burns – A modern lie
Brous – Streamers
Ennio Morricone – Ninna Nana per Adulti (from the soundtrack of the film Vergogna Schifosi)
Dragon Noir feat Tamara Schlesinger – Black dragon (radio edit)

*next week's show features music from The Creases, Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters, Barry McCormack & The Unusual History of Ether among others

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University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.





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