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Fes Festival 2015
I just had to let you know about a remarkable music festival coming up in May and a fantastic way to travel there. The Festival of World Sacred Music runs 22-28 May in the beautiful north African city of Fes, Morocco. It really does sound an amazing week of open air concerts and more. Every evening,…
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SnC 429 – Finale
A retrospective show this week to celebrate the past (almost) nine years of weekly Suffolk’n’Cool shows. There’s a mixture of old and relatively new music from artists that have a significance for me always, initially for their music and also , in many cases for the personal contact and friendships that have developed and continue…
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SnC 428 – Dubby
We’ve gone a bit dubby this week with a couple of artists from the excellent A Quiet Bump net label in Sicily. Boo Boo Davis brings us back to our blues roots and then gives it all a bit of a twist and to start a great sound from Bath, here in the UK. …
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SnC 427 – Days of Summer
As the dog days of summer splutter into the first mists of autumn we’re taking a moderately chilled approach to this week’s show with tracks from artists in Nashville, Halifax, New York and Lisbon, Portugal. Kick back, chill out and enjoy the music although there is, of course something bit more rocking in the first…
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SnC 426 – Wildly West
We’ve got a live recording from the high desert of New Mexico, Ghostly sounds from Seattle, Afrobeat from Brooklyn and to start, songs collected by a biologist in the Carpathian mountains of Central and Eastern Europe over a hundred years ago. Ej, Lasko, lasko – Aram Bajakian & Julia Ulehla (Dálava) (New York City,…
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SnC 425 – Crooned and stirred
Variety again I’m afraid, with tracks from a bunch of Milwaukee collaborators, a film music studio not quite on the Pont d’Avignon, the legend that is Plastikman and, to start, a multi-instrumentalist obsessive in Portland, Oregon. Violet Waves – Bike Thief (Portland, OR, USA) Bike Thief is the brainchild of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Febian Perez. According…
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SnC 424 – Mystery time
An interesting collection of artists again this week a few of which take us off into almost uncharted and mysterious territories. Every once in a while it’s good to hit your ears with something a bit different eh? Black Eye Friday – Heavyball (London, UK) Heavyball are a hard rocking indie/ska band based in…
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SnC 423 – Smiley time
A somewhat exotic show this week with a slight variation of approach. We’ve got five fascinating independent artists from Amsterdam (with their take on the music of Curaçao), Montreal (singing in Spanish), California but with a song in Serbian and, of course, a German Ska band. Take My Hand – Dirty Primitives (Lille, France)…
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SnC 422 – A meeting place
A show of considerable contrast this week with more music than is probably good for you. Like Benyoro (pic) it’s a bit of a meeting place. An Sera – Benyoro (NYC, USA) The band is, quite literally, a meeting place. Its name, taken from Mali’s Bamana language, means precisely that. That the six-piece group would…
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SnC 421 – Get your sh*t together
We’re going somewhat pop this week. Not exclusively and no, not your standard bland radio pop but some really rather interesting examples of how in the hands of real musical craft people every genre of music has the potential to surprise and delight. Tracks this week all come via our good friends Adam, Heather, Vickki…