Playlist 390 - Feb 23 2016

A couple of new albums to tell you about this week.

Jaako Eino Kalevi (thanks Albert/Plugd) is a Finnish dude with a lovely line in bedroom pop meets Scandi-soul and a bit of electro pop on the side.

Emma Pollock does great things on her new album with chamber pop and bitter memories.

Still loving the Iggy Pop project with Tarwater and Alva Noto, interpreting the poetry of Walt Whitman (you heard me).

And courtesy of Trunk Records, sumptuous library music by Armando Sciascia.

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Playlist 390
Tues Feb 23 2016
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm
*listen back to this show here
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Playlist
Girls Names – Pittura infamante (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb 26, w/ Gross Net)
Ulrika Spacek – Porcelain
Jaako Eino Kalevi – Double talk
Richard Hawley – Serenade of blue (playing Cork Opera House, Feb 25, w/ Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock)
Emma Pollock – Dark skies (playing Upstairs at the Garage, London, Mar 15)
Victoria Hume – Closing
Armando Sciascia & His Orchestra – Mercury calling Earth
Saroos – La deesse
Qluster – Glasperlenspiel
Iggy Pop, Tarwater & Alva Noto – As Adam early in the morning / I am he that aches with love
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express – Roked (playing Barbican Theatre, London, Mar 11)
Yorkston Thorne Khan – Everything sacred (playing The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 19-21)
Astronauts - Civil Engineer (playing Nambucca, London, Mar 2, w/ Player Piano)
TEEN – All about us

*next week's show features music from Matthew Bourne, Tindersticks & The Comet Is Coming, among others

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Conor O'Toole,
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University College Cork,
Cork,
Ireland.



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