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30/08/2012

Shaun is joined by Matt Everitt for an irreverent take on the day's music news, plus Tim Storms, the man with the deepest voice in the world, joins him in the studio.

Shaun is joined live in studio by Matt Everitt for an irreverent take on the day's music news. And as for the soundtrack? We're talking...The Smiths, The Beatles, Friendly Fires, Bon Iver, Emmy The Great, A Tribe Called Quest, Bowie, Prince, MGMT... need we go on?

Earlier this year, Universal Music announced a world-wide talent search for the lowest human voice in existence to record a new composition by Christmas No.1 and Royal Wedding composer, Paul Mealor, whose music is characterised by very low bass notes. Decca Records placed adverts for the "Bass Hunter talent search in international publications and online, asking: 'How Low Can You Go? How Deep Can You Sing?'.

Mealor, has written a new choral work entitled De Profundis, which features a low E (an extremely low note over two octaves below middle C). The note, an 'E' (329 Hertz), is six notes below the lowest note ever written for a choral piece (from Rachmaninov's 'Vespers' - a B flat). Inspired by his life-long interest in chant and choral music, Mealor's new piece pushes the boundaries of the human voice in style synonymous with Russian orthodox music.

As soon as the experts heard the unusually deep tones of Tim Storms, a small-town American singer from Oklahoma, they knew they had found what they were looking for. Storms effortlessly dropped to the required low E note:

The 39 year-old self-taught singer discovered he had an unusual voice at the young age of just 8 years old. He has sung with various choirs across the globe, and is in a close-harmony vocal group called 'Pierce Arrow'. Today we announce that Storms holds the Guinness World Records for the lowest voice note, along with the greatest vocal range in the world.

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麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret

    • Interscope.

  • Bloc Party

    Truth

    • French Kiss.

  • The Isley Brothers

    It's Your Thing

    • Global Television.

  • Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

    Scorpio

    • Sugarhill.

  • Ben Folds Five

    Do It Anyway

    • Sony Music.

  • Cream

    Badge

    • Polydor.

  • 笔辞濒颈莽补

    Wandering Star

    • Memphis Industries.

  • CSS

    Alala

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Sub Pop.

  • Two Door Cinema Club

    Sleep Alone.

    • Kitsune.

  • Lucy Rose

    Bikes

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Pixies

    Monkey Gone to Heaven

    • Telstar.

  • The xx

    Angels

    • Young Turks.

  • Luniz

    I Got 5 On It

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records America Inc.

  • Roxy Music

    Street Life

    • Virgin.

  • The Temptations

    Psychedelic Shack

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Jack White

    Sixteen Saltines

    • Third Man / XL Recordings.

  • Hot Chip

    How Do You Do?

    • DOMINO.

  • Villagers

    The Waves

  • New Order

    Confusion

    • Factory.

  • The Orb

    Golden Clouds (feat. Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥� Perry)

    • COOKING VINYL.

  • Ramones

    Rockaway Beach

    • Rhino.

  • The Vaccines

    Teenage Icon

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Public Enemy

    Bring The Noise

    • Def Jam.

  • The Naked and Famous

    Young Blood

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Tame Impala

    Elephant

    • Lonerism.
    • Modular Records.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Dear Prudence

    • Polydor.

  • Zulu Winter

    Key To My Heart

    • Play It Again Sam.

  • The Cribs

    Come On, Be A No-One - 6 Music Live 27/082012

  • Dave & Ansel Collins

    Monkey Spanner

    • Quality television.

  • A Tribe Called Quest

    Can I Kick It?

    • Jive.

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Aug 2012 07:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music