2014 is underway and it was great to continue as I mean to…continue! On tonight’s show I continued to celebrate the likes of Trippy Wicked and Chico Science, but I also looked ahead at some of the artists that will be joining me over the coming weeks. In particular tonight a wonderful musician called Kyazi Lugangira. who I had the pleasure of meeting at a night put on by my friend Yinka Oyewole. He is the guitarist in the band of the wonderful singer Sona Jobarteh and I enjoyed playing a song from the soundtrack they made for the African documentary film Motherland. I’m looking forward to when he can join me on the show and, in the meantime, I enjoyed playing music by a couple of artists he recommended, particularly Ballake Sissoko and Ayub Ogada.
I enjoyed the sequence of music on tonight’s show, particularly how I managed to meander from Soulfly and Black Sabbath through Sona, Ballake and Ayub to John Lennon and Bateman & the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra playing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.
You can check out how I got on here:
Here’s the playlist for 7th January 2014 (Albums in brackets)
1. Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart (Tiny Music – Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop – 1996)
2. Texas Is The Reason – Back And To The Left (Do You Know Who You Are? – 1996)
3. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi – Banditismo Por Uma Questa (Da Lama Ao Caos – 1994)
4. Soulfly – Mars (Prophecy – 2004)
5. Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of the Knight – Echoes Return (Underground – 2013)
6. Black Sabbath – Tomorrow’s Dream (Volume 4. – 1974)
7. Rage Against The Machine – Sleep Now In The Fire (The Battle Of Los Angeles – 1999)
8. Audioslave – Yesterday To Tomorrow (Out Of Exile – 2005)
9. Anathema – Sunlight (Weather Systems – 2012)
10. Pink Floyd – On The Turning Away (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason – 1987)
11. The Black Crowes – She Gave Good Sunflower (Amorica – 1994)
12. Lee Scratch Perry – I’ll Take You There (Jamaican E.T. – 2002)
13. Sona Jobarteh – Saya (Motherland – The Score – 2011)
14. Ballake Sissoko & Toumani Diabate – Bi Lambam (New Ancient Strings -1999)
15. Ayub Ogada – Thum Nyatiti (En Mana Kuoyo – 1993)
16. Gil Scott-Heron – You Could Be My Brother (Real Eyes – 1980)
17. John Lennon – Mother (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – 1970)
18. The Antlers – On The Roof (In The Attic Of The Universe – 2007)
19. Paul Bateman & The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra – The Balcony Scene (From William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet)
20. Easily Embarrassed – Moon People (Injection Of Dreams – 2012)
