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Remembering Tim Smith of Cardiacs

Remembering the unique songwriting of Tim Smith and his band Cardiacs. Stuart features the band's double album Sing To God following the sad news of Tim鈥檚 death.

Remembering the unique songwriting of Tim Smith and his band Cardiacs. Stuart features the band's bizarre and dynamic double album Sing To God following the sad news of Tim鈥檚 death. Sing To God was released in 1996 at the height of Brit-pop and was the antithesis of the zeitgeist. The album combines strange eerie lyrics, a punk attitude, virtuosic performances, hilariously strange chord progressions, jarring time signatures and lysergic eccentricity. Tim passed away after a long illness on 21 July 2020.

Also in the show, ambient electronics designed for house plants and their carers, modernist sound poetry exploring the repetitiveness of the digital age and solar powered guitar strings from sunny Yorkshire.

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Sun 2 Aug 2020 20:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Spotnicks

    The Rocket Man

    • High Voltage! Giant Steps & Flashpoints In 20th-Century Experimental & Electronic Sound.
    • Fantastic Voyage.

  • Angel Bat Dawid

    No Space For Us

    • Transition East.
    • International Anthem.

  • Keith Seatman

    Mr Metronome

    • All Hold Hands And Off We Go.
    • KS AUDIO.

  • Cardiacs

    Dog Like Sparky

    • Sing To God.
    • Alphabet Business Concern.

  • Hanne Lippard

    Modern Spanking Bolero

    • Work.
    • Collapsing Market.

  • Bruce Lacey

    Cycles Of The Serpent

    • The Spacey Bruce Lacey - Film Music And Improvisations Vol. 1.
    • Trunk Records.

  • Planningtorock

    Drama Darling

    • Planningtochanel.
    • Human Level.

  • Trans Am

    Trans Am

    • Trans Am.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Cardiacs

    Dirty Boy

    • Sing To God.
    • Alphabet Business Concern.

  • Sonisk Blodbad

    When A Fire In The Sky Burns Out

    • Elektrik Mirror.
    • Apollon records.

  • Third Ear Band

    Dragon Lines

    • Alchemy.
    • Harvest.

  • Irreversible Entanglements

    No Mas

    • Who Sent You?鈥�.
    • International Anthem.

  • Elephant Ch芒teau

    Dreamings

    • Intenta: Experimental And Electronic Music From Switzerland 1981-93.
    • Bongo Joe.

  • Chris Ruffoni

    Rams Clough

    • SOLARPHONES.
    • Them There Records.

  • J Fernandez

    Wildfire

    • Occasional Din.
    • JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS.

  • The Deep Freeze Mice

    Minstrel Radio Yoghurt

    • Optimism / Reject (UK D-I-Y Punk and Post-Punk 1977-1981).
    • Cherry Red.

  • Cardiacs

    Nurses Whispering Verses

    • Sing To God.
    • Alphabet Business Concern.

  • Alabaster dePlume

    Visit Croatia

    • To Cy & Lee.
    • International Anthem.

  • Green-House

    Xylem

    • SIX SONGS FOR INVISIBLE GARDENS.
    • Leaving Records.

  • Flying Lotus

    Takashi

    • Flamagra.
    • Warp.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Aug 2020 20:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music