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Why Music? - Singing Planet

Mary Ann Kennedy explores Song: common to every society on the planet, heard at home and at work from humankind's earliest days. Guests include singer and song collector Sam Lee plus journalist Simon Broughton, unravelling the common threads that bind this fundamental human activity.

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Fri 25 Sep 2015 21:30
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  • Exploring what makes music a vital part of being human.

Music Played

  • Trad

    Thiso

    Performer: The Phylonasa Bamboo Band.
    • Wantok Vol. 1 - Sounds of Australasia & Melanesia.
    • Wantok Music.
    • W0007.
    • 1.

  • Trad

    I wish, I wish

    Performer: Edward McDonagh.
    • Private recording.

  • Trad

    Boatman's song from Mali

    • Private recording.

  • Trad

    Clover Hacking Song

    Performer: Jasper Smith.
    • Private recording.

  • Trad

    Romanian wedding song

    • Private recording.

  • Trad

    Joc Batrinesc

    • La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie.
    • Ocora / Harmonia Mundi.
    • HM 83.
    • 1.

  • Trad

    Mariead nan Cuiread

    Performer: Margaret Callan.
    • Bho Dhòrn Gu Dòrn.
    • Macmeanmna.
    • SKYECD 32.
    • 11.

  • Trad

    Lullaby - Nyuba nunuli (Song of the Snake Mother)

    • Polyphonies of the Solomon Islands.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • LDX 274 663 / CM 251.

  • Trad

    Funeral song (Zär of Latali village)

    • Georgia: Polyphony of Svaneti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • LDC 274990 / HM 91.
    • 18.

  • Trad

    Old Alabama

    Performer: B.B..
    • Murderers' Home.
    • Sequel Records.
    • NEX CD 121.
    • 4.

  • Trad

    Cow Song

    Performer: Mary Ann Kennedy.
    • Â鶹Éç Recording.

  • Trad

    Sipotul / Zdîrnaita In Doi / Rogojana

    Performer: Ensemble Tulnicarese.
    • Various ‎– Romania: Wild Sounds From Transylvania, Wallachia & Moldavia.
    • World Network & WDR.
    • 28.300.
    • 17.

  • Trad

    Totoraha (Culture)

    Performer: Narasirato.
    • Solomon Islands - Narasirato Pan Pipers.
    • ARC Music.
    • EUCD 2147.
    • 14.

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    Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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