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Laugh a Minute

Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sound of laughter, from shamanic rituals to kookaburras. Plus music made inside the womb.

Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sounds of laughter. There’s the sacred cleansing songs of Peru’s Shipibo shamans from a ritual for happiness, and a 100-year-old recording of opera singers laughing with the accompanying cornetist. There’ll be field recordings of the world’s funniest bird and unsettling reinterpretations of TV sitcom laugh tracks from artist RubΓ©n ±Κ²Ή³ΩΎ±Γ±΄Η. Plus a slice of pulsing acid-house that fuses children’s laughter, French spoken word and North African pipes from Japanese electronic music pioneer Haruomi Hosono.

Elsewhere there’s music made from inside the womb with a debut album from Luca Yupanqui, whose musician parents used MIDI technology and synthesizers to translate her movements in utero into sound.

Produced by Katie Callin
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Music Played

  • Kan Kan

    Laugh Clown Laugh

    • Always Changing Trains (Works 1980-1983).
    • Geheimnis Records.

  • DJ Black Low

    Vula Vala

    • Uwami.
    • Awesome Tapes from Africa.

  • Eli Keszler

    Sudden Laughter, Laughter Without Reason

    • Last Signs Of Speed.
    • Empty Editions.

  • Shipibo Shamans

    Icaro for Happiness

    • Woven Songs Of The Amazon II: A Ceremony Of Healing With The Shipibo Shamans.
    • Sunyata Records.

  • Lucie Bernardo & Otto Rathke

    The Okeh Laughing Record

    • The Okeh Laughing Record / The Gypsy Baron - Wer Uns Getraut.
    • Okeh.

  • Frank Zappa

    Muffin Man

    • Bongo Fury.
    • Discreet.

  • Luca Yupanqui

    V4.3 pt. 2

    • Sounds of the Unborn.
    • Sacred Bones Records.

  • Fred Frith & Ikue Mori

    Nothing to It

    • A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall.
    • Intakt Records.

  • Anansy CissΓ©

    Tiara

    • Anoura.
    • Riverboat.

  • Adam Cadell & Carter Thornton

    Just Ignore Ancient Technology and Remedies

    • Full Steam at the Melting Red Leaf.
    • Planet of the Scrapes records.

  • ±Κ²Ή³ΩΎ±Γ±΄Η

    Skip The Line

    • Actually Laughing Out Loud.
    • ΄΅²ΤΓ²³ΎΎ±²Ή.

  • Nubya Garcia

    Hold (Alternate Take)

    • Nubya's 5ive.
    • Jazz Re:freshed.

  • Hafez Modirzadeh

    Facet Sorey

    • Facets.
    • Pi Recordings.

  • Sam Underwood

    Cuica

    • Late Junction Happy Sounds.

  • Jonathan O'Gara

    Tormentas in Mataelpino

    • Late Junction Happy Sounds.

  • Haruomi Hosono

    Laugh-Gas

    • Omni Sight Seeing.
    • Epic.

  • Las Lloronas

    Me confΓ­o

    • S O A K E D.

  • Jana Winderen

    Fish probably Tiger Perch, not 100% sure

    • Chana, Thailand, 2019.

  • Alpha Maid

    SUM1

    • CHUCKLE.
    • C.A.N.V.A.S..

  • Γ‰liane Radigue

    Biogenesis

    • Biogenesis.
    • Metamkine.

  • The Flaming Lips

    I Can Be A Frog

    • Embryonic.
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • James Lambert

    Laughing Kookaburra

    • Aspley, Brisbane City, Queensland.

  • Bob Dylan

    Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

    • Bringing It All Back Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Mar 2021 23:00
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