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Verity Sharp

Verity plays dance songs, work songs, and folk songs, and raises a toast to Robert Burns on Burns Night. She also features film music pieces written by Mica Levi, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, and Philip Glass, who turns 80 on January 31st.

Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Bell's Big Ceilidh Band

    An Comhra Donn

    • Sandy Bell’s Ceilidh.
    • Greentrax Recordings.
  • Dick Gaughan

    Now Westlin Winds

    • Handful Of Earth.
    • Folk Freak.
    • 2.
  • Veljo Tormis

    Men's Songs, Vol. 1 - No. 4 Viinalaul (Drinking Song)

    Choir: Estonian National Male Choir. Conductor: Ants Soots.
    • Veljo Tormis - Vision of Estonia II.
    • Alba.
  • Swazi Message & Big Band Bash

    Soft Shoes

    • Music From Africa Vol. 1.
    • Nyami Nyami records.
  • Debashish Bhattacharya

    The Dance of Nai'a at Oahu Shore

    • Hawaii to Calcutta: A Tribute to Tau Moe.
    • World Music Network.
  • Rae

    Awoken

    • Awoken.
    • Self-released.
    • 4.
  • Rashad Becker

    Dances VI

    • Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II.
    • Pan.
  • Jaimeo Brown Transcendence

    Safflower

    • Work Songs.
    • Motema Music.
    • 4.
  • Russians from Pskoff Region

    Work Song: Flax Gathering

    • Constantin Brailoiu: The World Collection of Folk Music, Recorded Between 1913 a.
    • VDE-Gallo.
  • Ewan MacColl

    Green Grow the O. Rashes

    • Songs of Robert Burns.
    • Folkways Records.
    • 1.
  • Half Waif

    Magic Trick

    • form​/​a.
    • Cascine.
    • 3.
  • Mica Levi

    Graveyard

    • Jackie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Milan Records.
  • Philip Glass

    The Crypt

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
    • Dracula.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Garth Knox

    Up, Down, Sideways, Round

    • Viola Spaces.
    • Mode.
    • 8.
  • Stelios Petrakis

    Maleviziotikos Pidihtos

    • Crete - The Art of the Lyra.
    • Radio France.
  • Can

    Oh Yeah

    • Fontana.
  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen

    Fantasme

    • Iris.
    • Erased Tapes Records.
  • Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley

    In Between the Moss and Ivy

    • My Iris.
    • Basho Records.
  • Tanya Tagaq

    Aorta

    • Retribution.
    • Six Shooter Records.
  • Annea Lockwood

    Tiger Balm

    • Early Works 1967-82.
    • EM Records.
  • Tissø Lake

    When Work Is Done

    • Paths To The Foss.
  • Throbbing Gristle

    What A Day

    • 20 Jazz Funk Greats.
    • Industrial Records.
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Haunted Feelings

    • Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata.
    • Atlantic.

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Jan 2017 23:00

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