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Another dip into the archive with this episode from April 2017 where Ben Eshmade spoke to director Raoul Peck about I Am Not Your Negro, his 2016 documentary about writer and activist James Baldwin.
This film is based on the works of James Baldwin and draws specific inspiration from his unfinished manuscript, Remember this House. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the documentary delivers a powerful narrative, the story of race in America, looking specifically at the reverberations of the deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
From the Archive sees us dig into our extensive contemporary and classical music and cinema podcast archive as we rediscover interviews and discussions with artists, with our long-standing producer and presenter, Ben Eshmade.
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In this episode, we look back to January 2018 and Barry Jenkins' film 'If Beale Street Could Talk' with a passionate and powerful conversation with Oscar winning actor Regina King.
Produced by Ben Eshmade.
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This week, we revisit a series of podcasts from June 2018 where we speak to a DJ, a writer and a record label, all showcasing their love and obsession with Japanese music. In the third and final episode in the series, we focus in on some of the pioneering Japanese music from the 1990s with Ian F Martin, author of 'Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground', as he takes us into the live music scene with some of Japan's most experimental and noise-based artists.
This series was originally made to coincide with a series of gigs, featuring artists from the Japanese underground scene responsible for genre defining music from the groundbreaking electronics of Yellow Magic Orchestra to the sonic arts of Ryoji Ikeda and quirky Pop of Mariah.
Produced by Ben Eshmade.
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This week, we revisit a series of podcasts from June 2018 where we speak to a DJ, a writer and a record label, all showcasing their love and obsession with Japanese music. In the second in the series, we move to the 80s as we speak to Yosuke Kitazawa from Light in the Attic Records for another journey in sound from their latest releases.
This series was originally made to coincide with a series of gigs, featuring artists from the Japanese underground scene responsible for genre defining music from the groundbreaking electronics of Yellow Magic Orchestra to the sonic arts of Ryoji Ikeda and quirky Pop of Mariah.
Produced by Ben Eshmade.
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This week, we revisit a series of podcasts from June 2018 where we speak to a DJ, a writer and a record label, all showcasing their love and obsession with Japanese music. In the first of three episodes, Howard Williams, aka Japan Blues digs through his crates to share some of his favourite underground music from the 1970s.
This series was originally made to coincide with a series of gigs, featuring artists from the Japanese underground scene responsible for genre defining music from the groundbreaking electronics of Yellow Magic Orchestra to the sonic arts of Ryoji Ikeda and quirky Pop of Mariah.
Produced by Ben Eshmade.
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We are looking back into our archive to February 2017 and rediscovering an interview with Danish band, Efterklang. In 2012, the band's album Pyramidia dazzled our ears and minds with its exploration of an Arctic ghost town. And it was four years later, they reemerged with something perhaps no one was expecting - an opera. Ben Eshmade meets the band to hear more about Leaves: The Colour of Falling which was performed at the Barbican in February 2017.
Produced by Ben Eshmade.
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This week, in the final episode of our Sound Unbound series, Cassa Pancho, choreographer and founder of Ballet Black, discusses Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello, the challenges of choreographing work to music and the emotional impact music can have on the audience.
Read the transcript: https://bit.ly/32wGcdq
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Sound Unbound is a music series in which Josie Long talks to creative minds about the music that moves them, with some help from conductor Ben Gernon.
Sound Unbound is produced by Freya Hellier for Loftus Media. The assistant producer is Alex Quinn.
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In this week’s episode of Sound Unbound, James R Gaines, author of ‘Evening in the Palace of Reason’, discusses the famed meeting between Bach and Frederick the Great in 1747, where the worlds of religion and spirituality collided with the rationality of early Enlightenment and the resulting fugue, Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’.
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Sound Unbound is a music series in which Josie Long talks to creative minds about the music that moves them, with some help from conductor Ben Gernon.
Read the transcript on our website: https://bit.ly/3a2lWD8
Sound Unbound is produced by Freya Hellier for Loftus Media. The assistant producer is Alex Quinn.
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In this week’s episode of Sound Unbound, comedian Jayde Adams speaks about the important role classical music and opera - specifically Giacomo Puccini's 'O Mio Babbino Caro' - has played in her life growing up and even in her stand-up comedy.
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Sound Unbound is a music series in which Josie Long talks to creative minds about the music that moves them, with some help from conductor Ben Gernon.
Read the transcript: https://bit.ly/2I0ECHp
Sound Unbound is produced by Freya Hellier for Loftus Media. The assistant producer is Alex Quinn.
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In this week’s episode of Sound Unbound, film director Ken Loach shares his love of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and the impact of Czech New Wave cinema on his own filmmaking.
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Sound Unbound is a music series in which Josie Long talks to creative minds about the music that moves them, with some help from conductor Ben Gernon.
Read the transcript: https://bit.ly/2wdAGk4
Sound Unbound is produced by Freya Hellier for Loftus Media. The assistant producer is Alex Quinn.
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