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Verity Sharp with Nabihah Iqbal

Verity Sharp is joined by ethnomusicologist, producer and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal. Plus music from Maku Soundsystem and a track from Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor's solo album.

Adventures in music, ancient to future: Verity Sharp is joined by the ethnomusicologist, producer and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal. Nabihah shares the enchanting sound of a snake charmer she recorded on Karachi beach in Pakistan plus a raw and insightful demo version of a hit by The Jackson Family.

There's also music from M.A.K.U. Soundsystem who combine Afro-Colombian grooves with punk, hip hop and jazz and Alexis Taylor, lead singer for Hot Chip, with a beautiful and sparse track from his new solo record.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 31 May 2016 23:00

Music Played

  • Basco

    The Tribulations of The Svendborg Stadtsmusicus

  • Tanya Tagaq

    Rabbit

    • Animism.
    • Six Shooter Records.
    • 5.
  • Tom Moore

    Ritornelle

    • Purcell: Selected Reinterpretations.
    • Hotel Recordings.
    • 3.
  • Scanner

    Ghosts

    • Commission marking the 350th anniversary of the National Trust’s Cliveden as a g.
  • Matthew Bourne

    Keighley

  • Jandek

    Feathered Drums

  • Kapela Maliszów

    Ballada o Sierotce (A Little Orphan Girl)

  • Burum

    Clyw Di’r Claf

    • Llef.
    • Recordiau Bopa.
    • 4.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Osculetur me

    Performer: Stile Antico.
    • Song of Songs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • Alexis Taylor

    I’m Ready

    • Piano.
  • Nabihah Iqbal joins Verity Sharp in the studio

    • Snake Charmer on Karachi Beach & Pakistan

      Throwing Shade

    • Michael Jackson

      Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough (Original Demo Recording from 1978)

      • Off The Wall (Special Edition).
      • Sony Music Entertainment (Mexico) S.A..
      • 13.
  • M.A.K.U. Soundsystem

    Let It Go

    • Mezcla.
    • Glitterbeat Records.
    • 3.
  • Ross Daly

    Synkathistos

    • The Other Side.
    • 8.
  • Ahmet Aslan

    Duzegê Xarpêti

    • Dance of the Angels.
    • 8.
  • Annie Gosfield

    The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, Part II

    • Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires.
    • Tzadik.
    • 4.
  • Rachel Newton

    Here’s My Heart

    • Here’s My Heart Come Take It.
    • 1.
  • Robert Logan

    Older Jug

    • Flesh Decomposed.
    • Slowfoot Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 31 May 2016 23:00

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