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A joyous exploration via music, guests and poetry: Olcay Bayir in Session

Cerys hand picks you an eclectic selection for your perfect Sunday vibes and welcomes Olcay Bayir to perform live from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Maida Vale studios. Plus stories from Brian Auger.

Cerys hand picks you an eclectic selection for your perfect Sunday vibes and welcomes Olcay Bayir to perform live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Maida Vale studios. With new music from Valerie June, Mavis Staples, Oumou Sangare and Jazzanova and classics from Shirley Scott, Gil Scott Heron, Googoosh and Norma Waterson.

Olcay Bayir's music takes inspiration from the traditional Kurdish and Turkish folk songs of her youth, blending it with her classical training as a soprano and her travels around the world absorbing cultural influences. Born in Gaziantep, she moved to the UK as a teenager and trained in opera before releasing her debut album Neva. Her arrangements of ancient poems, and original songs in Turkish, Kurdish, Armenia and Greek reflect her Anatolian Heritage with a contemporary twist.

Brian Auger tells us stories of playing the harpsichord with the Yardbirds and how he came to play the organ after Georgie Fame got sunburnt in Cornwall. Brian grew up in London and started playing the piano aged 3. He's played with Sonny Boy Williamson, a young Rod Stewart and Jimi Hendrix. Inspired by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers and Jimmy Smith, Brian is an award winning genre busting jazz piano prodigy who's also been cited as the godfather of Acid Jazz.

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Sun 20 Mar 2022 10:00
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Music Played

  • Mavis Staples & Levon Helm

    You Got To Move

  • Chet Atkins

    Yakety Axe

    • More of That Guitar Country.
    • RLG/Legacy.
    • 1.

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Family Affair

  • Harari

    Thiba Kamoo

    • Beaters.
    • Matsuli Music.

  • Funkadelic

    Biological Speculation

    • America Eats Its Young.
    • Westbound Records.

  • Timmy Thomas

    Why Can't We Live Together

    • Warner Bros.

  • Robert Glasper

    Afro Blue (feat. Erykah Badu)

    • Black Radio.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 2.

  • Jazzanova

    Saturday Night Special

    • Strata Records: The Sound of Detroit : Reimagined By Jazzanova’.
    • BBE.

  • Gil Scott‐Heron

    Lady Day And John Coltrane

    • Global Television.

  • Trombone Shorty

    Come Back

  • Brian Auger & the Trinity & Julie Driscoll

    Light My Fire

  • Synapson

    Toujours (feat. Tim Dup, Lass & Tim Dup & Lass)

    • Global Musique vol.1.
    • Elektra France.
    • 6.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Veer

    • Veer.
    • Real World.
    • 1.

  • Floyd Newman

    Frog Stomp

    • Stax/Volt - The Complete Singles 1959-1968 - Volume 3.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 4.

  • J.S. Ondara

    American Dream

    • Tales Of America.
    • Verve Forecast.
    • 1.

  • Cherry Wainer

    Money

    • 100 Rockin’ Instrumentals - β€˜50s & β€˜60s.
    • Vintage Masters Inc..
    • 86.

  • Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames

    Green Onions

    • 20 Beat Classics.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 13.

  • Jimmy Smith

    The Sermon

    • Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 14.

  • V.C.R, THURZ & Like

    Divinity

    • Divinity.
    • PIMLR Originals.
    • 1.

  • Fana Hues

    wild horses

    • Bright Antenna Records.

  • Valerie June

    Use Me

    • Fantasy Records.

  • Oumou SangarΓ©

    Wassulu Don

    • TIMBUKTU.
    • World Circuit.

  • Lavinia Meijer

    Plus tΓ΄t

    • Plus tΓ΄t.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Ted Hughes

    An Otter

    • Reading His Poetry.
    • 10.

  • Jimmy McCracklin

    Stay Away From That Monkey

    • Yesterday Is Gone.
    • Craft Recordings.
    • 3.

  • Googoosh

    Makhloogh

    • TaranehEnterprise.

  • Mariachi Las Adelitas UK

    El Toro Relajo

    • SONIDOS.

  • Wendy Rene

    Bar-B-Q

    • Stax/Volt - The Complete Singles 1959-1968 - Volume 4.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 5.

  • Olcay Bayir

    Ferze (6 Music Session, 20 Mach 2022)

  • Olcay Bayir

    Dolama (6 Music Session, 20 March 2022)

  • Huw Marc Bennett

    Tresilian Bay

  • Bronski Beat

    I Feel Love

    • The Age of Consent.
    • London Music Stream.
    • 10.

  • Bappi Lahiri & S. Janaki

    Yaar Bina Chain Kanha Ray

    • Bollywood Diwali Dhamaka.
    • Universal Music India Pvt Ltd..
    • 13.

  • Orlando Weeks

    Deep Down Way Out

  • Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes

    It's Your Thing

    • Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • C. K. Mann & Carousel 7

    Yeaba

    • Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 // Ghana Music Power House.
    • Analog Africa.
    • 3.

  • Norma Waterson

    Black Muddy River

    • Norma Waterson.
    • Ryko/Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Toni Iordache

    Hora Moldoveneasca

    • Tambal IV.
    • Electrecord.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Mar 2022 10:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music