The Listening Club - 9th June 2019

Greetings folks,

Hope all is good in your hood. It's been rather stormy here in Amsterdam (see here, just round the corner of our abode), which is quite a surprise, sad for many festivals and events that have been cancelled or drastically reduced as a result. Hopefully the "proper" Summer will start soon... Fortunately we're still buzzing from a truly astronomical weekend of Stockhausen-insanity (see here for some pics, although that doessn't show the insane 24 channel surround sound system or the all-round enormo-scale of the staging), topped off with a dronetastic Thurston Moore show on Monday. Seriously one of the most amazing weekends of sound and vision I've had in a good while.

Whilst we were in the midst of all that, @nessiest's pick of Kikagaku Moyo's "House In The Tall Grass" was psyching out the assembled chez #LC. Thanks to Ness for the pick, and for keeping the frisb on the sofa by flipping it across to me, so...

"No, it's not Stockhausen. Tempting though it would have been to do all 25 hours of Licht, and it's not 17 hours of Radiohead outtakes either, tempting though that would have been too...

Nope, I'm feeling in a gentle mood, so playing a bit against type, here's an album from last year, by a 79 year old English lady, accompanied in places by her daughter and her husband, and featuring works by Kurt Weill and Rudyard Kipling amongst others that you will surely recognise. It's definitely an album with a twinkle in its eye. Hope you enjoy."

Direct download is here, and the HearThis stream is below:


See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1)