Artist	Song
Muzag Field Recording	Collage
Espers	Dead Queen
Muzag Field Recording	Ben
Nouvelle Vague	Fade To Grey
Anatol Liadov (Stephen Coombs)	Barcarolle in F# major, Op.44
Nouvelle Vague	Fade To Grey (reprise)
Muzag Field Recording	Elan Valley: Distant Sheep, Angry Wrens
Blind Willie Johnson	Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
Bert Jansch	Poison
Richard Crandell	Steelhead
Muzag Field Recording	Howth: Battle of the Pipe Bands, 2006
Terry Riley	Dorian Reeds [extract]
Muzag Field Recording	Abergynolwyn: Lambs
Josephine Foster	There Are Eyes Above
Erica Kundidzora Azim	Bangidza
Fennesz	The Point Of It All
Van Dyke Parks	Donovan's Colours
Triosk meets Jan Jelinek	Munmorah
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra	East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Hanne Hukkelberg	Searching
Frederick Chopin (Balßsz Szokolay)	Fantasie-Impromptu in C# minor, Op.66
Christophe Rault	Bells on a French Mountain
Fairport Convention	Meet On The Ledge
Karen Dalton	Sweet Substitute
Greg Davis	Slightly Asleep [extract]
Muzag Field Recording	Paris: Boating on the Lac de Bois de Boulogne

Comment:

I nearly categorized this one as a Folk mix; there's nowt so queer as folk.

This mix opens with a collage of sounds including a Parisian cafe, the market in Houmt-Souk, Djerba, Amazonian tribal songs and Bastille market.

When you get to track 11 you hear the sonic experience that is the East of Ireland Pipe Band Championships. The first time I came across this ten years ago it was not altogether welcome, but then neither was the hangover I had at the time. I thought I was on a simple Sunday morning mission to get milk and the paper. But on the walk to the shop, there seemed to be a mass of different pipe bands all playing different tunes simultaneously.
Track 11 is a recording from this year's championship. To set the scene, you have one pipe & drum band performing for the judges but queuing up behind them you have another five or six awaiting their slot and practising all the while. As you walk along the harbour front you get the sound of all the various bands merging into each other creating, to these ears, a sonic synergy. Indeed yes, the more the merrier.


Competition Time

OK, should you wish, a couple of competitions:

[1] A free (physical) copy goes to the first person (barring that smart of trouser Curtis fella ;) ) to name that unusual instrument that appears not once but twice on this mix.
[2] A free copy plus two from the archive to the first person that can name the two bands/artists that appear subliminally in the Frennesz track Available
here.

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