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Anna Meredith and Joe Stilgoe head for South Africa

Composer Anna Meredith and singer, songwriter and pianist Joe Stilgoe join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they travel from South Africa to Brazil, adding five more tracks.

Anna Meredith - composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music - and singer, songwriter and pianist Joe Stilgoe join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add five more tracks. The journey takes them from Hugh Masekela's South Africa to a masked ball in Brazil, and ending up at arguably the most famous notes ever played on the saxophone.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
My End is My Beginning by Guillaume de Machaut
Baile De MΓ΅scaras by Bala Desejo
The Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini

Other music in this episode:

Titanium by David Guetta feat. Sia
Nautilus by Anna Meredith
Lazarus by David Bowie
Mr Bull No. 4 by Freddie Gumbi
In My Solitude by Branford Marsalis
Old Landmark by Aretha Franklin
Padam Padam by Kylie Minogue

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 8 Mar 2024 19:15
  • Sat 9 Mar 2024 22:15

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