Resonance FM 24/3/20 (Litter Frog)

We may be on lockdown but I'll still try and bring guests onto the show! This week I had the brilliant Kurdish-British multimedia artist and noise-maker Litter Frog. She put together a twenty-minute mix of cutting-edge electronic and experimental music, featuring brand new tunes from the likes of Rouble and JuniorXL. Follow @litterfrog on Instagram or check out her portfolio site.

Dig That Treasure (24/3/20)

Chris Speed - Dog Hair

Loraine James - ALB19 10

Rouble - Tatlong Bibe Finger

Sugai Ken, Ben Vince & Andrew Pekler - Crape Myrtle MSTR

JuniorXL - Ferogoblin

Babyfather - Bubble

Resonance FM 10/3/20

Really happy with the selections here - I kicked of with the great Japanese folk group Kaeru-moku, stopped off by Russian avant-gardist Leonid Fedorov, Taiwanese bit-popper Joanna Wang, Malian disco singer Niama Makalou and US experimentalists Blanche Blanche Blanche before closing with an old French-language Julia Holter recording.

Dig That Treasure (10/3/20)

かえる目 (Kaeru-moku) - 拝借 (Borrow)

Леонид Фёдоров (Leonid Fedorov) - Музыка моя (My Music)

Леонид Фёдоров (Leonid Fedorov) - Старец (Elder)

Joanna Wang - You And Me

Niama Makalou & African Soul Band - Kognokoura

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Look At Me Now

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Why The Candle Burns

Julia Shammas Holter - Je Vivroie Liement

Resonance FM 3/3/2020

Started with a kazoo-orchestra(/choir?) version of 'Teddy Bears' Picnic' and ended with a solemn electronic-choral interpretation of Bach's 'Erbarm dich mein, oh Herre Gott'. How do you travel from one pole to another in five songs? Via Copenhagen experimentalist Panxing, Karena Marie's Del Shannon cover, two examples of house-inspired African music (one Angolan, the other South African), and a traditional Romanian tune. That's how.

Dig That Treasure (3/3/20)

Piggleswick Folk - Teddy Bears' Picnic

Panxing - Reveal

Karena Marie - Runaway

Costuleta - Que Me Mata

New Jack City - Abiba

Alla Baianova - Chiar De-a Fost

Arandel - Hysope

Resonance FM 25/2/20

From messy collage to keyboard meditation, via Bulgaria, Indonesia, Japan and Ethiopia. Lots of variety here, so tune in and tants!

Dig That Treasure (25/2/20)

People Like Us & Wobbly - Understanding You

Margarita Hranova - Tants

Tuty Subardjo - Turun Kebawah

Yanti Bersaudara - Bunga Mawar

Keyboard - Ojima

Yumi Murata - 落椿～らくちん～

Demere Legesse - Balezena

Resonance FM 18/2/20

This was a fun episode. I kicked off with Malay rock from A Nandong before playing virtuosic composer Oliver Buckland and a bonkers slice of J-pop by Bakunyu Sangokushi. Two songs from an album of Cosmic Children's Songs followed, before a wicked tune from Ethiopian star Aster Aweke. I closed with some lovely light music courtesy of Russ Morgan.

Dig That Treasure (18/2/20)

A Nandong & De'Fictions - Senjakala

Oliver Buckland - Espial

Bakunyu Sangokushi - Bakunyu Ondo

Nikolay Stenski - Tale of the Old Turtle

Thomas Natschinski - Robotertanz

Aster Aweke - Ayachehut Wey

Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - What Do You Know About Love?

Resonance FM 11/2/20

Jam-packed nine-song episode here, touching down in Ghana, Lithuania, France, Peru, Argentina, Ethiopia and Japan. Something for everyone - tune in below.

Dig That Treasure (11/2/20)

Kwamena Ray Ellis - Sasabonsam

Pulsallama - Ungawa Pt.2

Liaudies Muzikos Teatro Trupė - Šešios

Arandel ft. Petra Haden - Prelude No.2 in C Minor

Tomás Tello - Jauja

Gustavo Obligado - Gaoh el Gigante

Tewodros Tadesse and Asefu Debalike - Atbabi Sleyish

Jockstrap - Acid

Hiroko Hayashi - Good Night

Resonance FM 4/2/20

I ended this show with a bit of an anomaly, a song by a well-known group signed to a well-known label and who are still touring large venues across the world. Still, the particular track played, an instrumental version of the the beautiful and intricate '(I Wanna) Feel It All' by Dirty Projectors is the b-side to the most slept-on song on an arguably overlooked album... Beyond that I had some great obscurities and oddities: from the godfathers of outsider pop Wilson and Moore to Japanese actress/singer Sachiko Nashida, via the lesser-known American guitarist C'est What?!, Italian lounge legend Piero Umiliani (Ruscigan), Taiwanese singer Chai Mi Mi and the inimitable Yeshimebet Dubale with Fasil Demoz.

Dig That Treasure (4/2/20)

Gary Wilson & R. Stevie Moore - If I Could Only Be With You

Yeshimebet Dubale & Fasil Demoz - Yeshiye

Chai Mi Mi - Unforgettable

Ruscigan - Semplice E Bella

C'est What?! - Gentle Flight

Sachiko Nashida - Chin Chin Chidori

Dirty Projectors - (I Wanna) Feel It All [Instrumental]

Resonance FM 28/1/20

Particularly happy with this episode, perhaps because beyond the first track - a fiery slice of Malagasy rock 'n' roll - I played mostly gentle music, representative of my recent mood (or rather a mood I aspire to). So, we had: Masahiro Takahashi's beautifully warm 'Cloud Bed', Spectral Park & Kot Kot's Southamptonian-Russian collaboration 'Lesnoy Dorozhkoy', Djiboutian singer Fatouma Mansour's (admittedly more upbeat) pop, Yasuaki Shimizu's sparkly ambience, Tara Nome Doyle's gorgeous 'Stille Natt' and finally Leo Takami's 'Unknown' guitar journey.

Dig That Treasure (28/1/20)

Simon Randria - Mitsangana

Masahiro Takahashi - Cloud Bed

Spectral Park & Kot Kot - Lesnoy Dorozhkoy

Fatouma Mansour - Malab Xoggal Yok Yabbixe

Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 3

Tara Nome Doyle & Henning Schmiedt - Stille Natt

Leo Takami - Unknown

Resonance FM 21/1/20

This one's a little all over the shop, with Congolese rumba, Uzbeki synth-pop, abstract post-post-post-post-post-whatever (100 Gecs and Giant Claw), beautiful solo washint (Melaku Gelaw), chilled out Moroccan space organ, and the unclassifiable melodic experiments of Bristol's Tara Clerkin Trio.

Dig That Treasure (21/1/20)

Pépé Kallé - Shikamo Seye

Davron Gaipov - Бу Нима Бу!

100 Gecs - I Need Help Immediately

Giant Claw - Deep Thoughts 001

Melaku Gelaw - Misgana (Praise)

Abdou El Omari - Musika Munreal

Tara Clerkin Trio - Hellenica

Resonance FM 14/1/20

Great tunes from Guadeloupe, Indonesia and Ivory Coast, as well as a Frisian educational rap banger. Also played a song by Shelley Lee Alley of Alleyton, Texas and another song by Woo, this time their interpretation of Try A Little Tenderness.

Dig That Treasure (14/1/20)

Feeling Kréyol - La Guadeloupe

Sipelsop & Sukelade - Fryslân Fan Us

Adele Lahore - Didier Drogba

Waldjinah - Putra Nuswantara

Shelley Lee Alley & His Alley Cats - Oh What A Fool I Have Been

Woo - Try A Little Tenderness