THE CARR RADIO (2)

PLAYLIST

Einojuhani Rautavaara - The Marsh, Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra

Dennis Waterman & George Cole - What are we gonna get for 'er indoors?

TOTP 1984 Xmas Special

Paul Carr & Eddie Farrell - Sousedska (Remix)

Hello and welcome back. Make no mistake this is not Christmas. Thankyou very much for tuning in this-evening; a second installment of the Carr Radio; a trial run of six episodes. And just to reiterate, each episode is to pre-recorded and made available at www.buildmusic.blogspot.com as a playback or download. Each episode will last for the duration of one hour and will evolve over the forthcoming weeks in collaboration with issue 2 of The Soul Bellows - a music magazine, and Build Music - a radio reconstruction, currently in operation. Copies of issue 1 of the Soul Bellows are available by clicking on the PayPal option to the left of this dot blogspot.

We promise you 'no frills' radio programming, but the 'Best in Barnes' TV Guide.

Paul Carr & Eddie Farrell - Dumka

Johnnie Ray - All of Me

20:14 (GMT) 14:14 (BLT)

Eddie Farrell - Slush Grit Vivaldi

Rautavaara - The Marsh, Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra

Sid and Kathy at the British Library

Staring Chris Scobie as Kathy and P.Carr as Sid

Additional notes, i, by Eddie Farrell, accompanied by Cycle Song (P.Carr)

Jools Holland once said, that the only justifiable reason for speeding on the road, was to return your library books on time. Similarly there are few reasons (if any) for waving your countries flag, however, having been out of the UK for the past 3 months, I have felt a fluttering of appreciation build up inside of me for the NHS (of course) and also, free admission to major museums and Art collections.

Trying to find out where and when there is free entry into a major Art collection in Berlin, is a bit like booking a Ryanair flight and trying to stop the total column increasing every time you type something into the online form.

However, I am glad to report, I have cracked the Gemaldegalerie; so every Thursday evening from 6pm till 10pm I get myself down there and look. Looking at ART or KUNST in certain areas of Berlin, in my opinion is something you must learn, very quickly, not to do unless you want to go blind; quite simply there is too much of IT.

Soul Bellows, Theme, 2, The Exclusive (P.Carr)

Blur - Essex Dogs

Interview with Jenna Collins

Jenna Collins Wave Archive - Mexican Wave at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland

Judee Sill - Jesus was a Cross Maker

Emma Kirkby - Amy Beach, Op.100, No.1, A Mirage

The Metro News accompanied by 'The Bee' (P.Carr)

Gobshyte Lowery & His Cardiac Arrest Team - Mysterious Stains

Further additonal notes, ii, by Eddie Farrell

So on Thursday evenings, when most of the audio guides and tourist tick books have been put to bed, the Gemalde becomes an afterhours store to pick through at your own pace. And by simply breathing and opening one's eyes, all the absolute academic lectures, hysterical myths and tittle tattle, that overshadow the paintings on the wall, can be swept aside.

In my first 3 visits I didnt get much past room 18, the first room. I was knocked out; not in whispering and hand grovelling reverence to some of the big boys of the Renaissance, but to the raw, honesty, intelligence and generosity that could be clearly seen in people working and pushing through their age. One might imagine that after countless reproductions in potted histories and flick books that these paintings by now might be empty souls. But for me, room 18, has an infectious electric hum that encourages the viewer, to just look.

additional notes, iii, by Eddie Farrell

But we click our cameras at them; construct careers and lecture tours around them, copy and compete with the technique and housing of them; worship them, take them for granted or ignore them. And on any other day of the week, we straddle through a skyfull, a pavementfull and every available surfacefull of KUNST. And whether it be spray painted on a dog shit or laminated 20 foot high on a city gabel; it all joins the same old clamour.

Perhaps some simple things have been overlooked?

Maybe we should all take a closer look?

Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man

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