{"id":1315,"date":"2021-02-25T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.63.227\/dj\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2021-04-21T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:26:13","slug":"threads-25-03-21-we-have-sound-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/2021\/02\/25\/threads-25-03-21-we-have-sound-21-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads 25.03.21 \u2013 We Have Sound 21.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;feed=%2FThreadsRadio%2Fwe-have-sound-w-francis-redman-25-feb-21%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Connections.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I start working on one of these shows, the playlist is usually around six hours long; turning this into a two hour show takes a couple of days. There will be a few things that I feel like have to be on the playlist \u2013 things I am just really excited about or pieces of music with a pertinence in terms of their release or their wider relevance. I will start to hang other things off of these. It is usually a fragmented process, I will bounce around a lot finding pockets of things that work nicely together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will inevitably be a point where I am creating more questions than finding answers, this is often the morning before I broadcast or record, and so is usually a bit unnerving and fraught. Conversely, one of the most enjoyable things is when the music decides things for itself. No moment has this been as inspiring an experience as\u00a0the afternoon I before I was due to record together this February show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had got to know Pete Rogers music because of his album <a href=\"https:\/\/peterrogers.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-stubborn-light-of-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Stubborn Light of Things<\/a>, which was also the soundtrack to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Z_Harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melissa Harrisonhttps:\/\/web.whatsapp.com\/<\/a>x <a href=\"https:\/\/melissaharrison.co.uk\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nature podcast<\/a> that he produced, and that featured on the show <a href=\"http:\/\/178.62.63.227\/dj\/2020\/07\/16\/threads-16-07-20-we-have-sound-20-7\/\">last July<\/a>. I have spoken about the podcast at length before. The music, as well as the care taken over the sound of the podcast were a large part of what made is special, so I was excited to see more music from Rogers called in my Bandcamp feed \u2013 a two track release called At Hawthorn time was another musical accompaniment to work by Melissa Harrison \u2013 this time an accompaniment to her novel of the same name. Listening to The Boundway I could hear a space open up for something from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blumarten.bandcamp.com\/album\/wardown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wardown<\/a> album which I had been wanting to play for months. The two connected really nicely texturally and this also allowed me to place some other pieces that had not yet felt settled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, when I was reading up on some of the music for the show that I found out that Wardown is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whistlebump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Rogers<\/a> project. I also read about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_simonscott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Scott<\/a> making <a href=\"https:\/\/12kmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/apart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apart<\/a>, a piece of work made following the loss of his father to Covid-19. In the sleeve notes he talks about how he had, whilst was walking in a nature reserve in the Fens thought about some writing from another nature writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelenJMacdonald?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helen Macdonald<\/a>. He discusses her words about losing her father, and how in the process of deep grieving we are \u201cclinging to a world already gone\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I described the process of the show coming together above as \u2018the music deciding things for itself\u2019 \u2013 partly because I was trying to add something whimsical into what was feeling like quite a tiresome passage about putting together a playlist, but also because I think often we like to feel like music is some kind of saving presence. But the music only exists because we make it; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the music<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is us. In some respects it exists between us \u2013 loose threads or bits of ideas that are released, found and pieced together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of people going through a lot of things right now \u2013 a lot to understand and a lot that is hard to express and to get to grips with, whilst it is comforting to see music as something we can rely on, it is powerful to think that in making and listening, we are talking to each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Music.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<p>Richard Skelton \u2013 I<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine Life Emulator \u2013 Xamblot<\/p>\n<p>Ka Baird, Brian Close, Bryce Hackford \u2013 Preparatory Rising<\/p>\n<p>DF \u2013 Slow Burn<\/p>\n<p>cktrl \u2013 Will the Feelings Leave<\/p>\n<p>Moor Mother &amp; Billy Woods \u2013 Guinness<\/p>\n<p>Homeboy Sandman \u2013 Stress<\/p>\n<p>Chance The Rapper \u2013 Paranoia (Live)<\/p>\n<p>Lateef The Truth Speaker \u2013 The Wreckoning<\/p>\n<p>Mike Slott \u2013 Simple Dreams Of Simple Days (Cid Rim Remix)<\/p>\n<p>First Circle \u2013 Shout<\/p>\n<p>Duckett \u2013 Illegal House Parties By Police Division<\/p>\n<p>Destiny 71z \u2013 J Terminal99<\/p>\n<p>Sophie \u2013 Elle<\/p>\n<p>Distance \u2013 Crimson<\/p>\n<p>Zha \u2013 Tunnels<\/p>\n<p>L U C Y \u2013 Redrum<\/p>\n<p>XXXX \u2013 Lessons<\/p>\n<p>Dunman \u2013 Glue (Dunman Refix)<\/p>\n<p>Dunman \u2013 Glue (Mez Vocal)<\/p>\n<p>Shaytaan \u2013 Debug BGM<\/p>\n<p>Novelist \u2013 Billionaire Boys<\/p>\n<p>Heathered Pearls feat. santpoort, Shigeto &amp; Krzysztof Wodiczko \u2013 Life Out Of Balance<\/p>\n<p>Simon Scott \u2013 Apart E<\/p>\n<p>Peter Rogers \u2013 The Boundway<\/p>\n<p>Wardown \u2013 Thanks for Coming<\/p>\n<p>Lilt Elision \u2013 Arlo<\/p>\n<p>OUIEA \u2013 Programa 19<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connections. As I start working on one of these shows, the playlist is usually around six hours long; turning this into a two hour show takes a couple of days. There will be a few things that I feel like have to be on the playlist \u2013 things I am just really excited about or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}