Beard Radio 30.9.10 with special guests TIME

Transmitting not-quite-live from Mile End, we welcome our very special guests Frances Morgan and Mark Dicker of glorious psych-folk-doom duo TIME, who will be playing us some of their favourite records. Frances also plays with Morgen Und Nite, is one of the finest music writers around and was editor and publisher of the lamented Plan B magazine. You may know Mark as guitarist in the mighty grindlords Trencher. Tune in for Turkish folk, Finnish electronica, French prog, Kosmische, harsh noise and an EXCLUSIVE new Trencher jam. Essential listening!

Fabio Frizzi - Falling For Emily/Beyond Emily; The Beyond (Dagored)
Pan Sonic - Corona; Gravitoni (Blast First Petite)
Omar Souleyman - Li Raja Behawakom; Jazeera Nights (Sublime Frequencies)
Secret Chiefs Three - Vajra; Book M (Web of Mimicry)
Erkan Ogur & Ismail H Demircioglu - Pencereden Kar Geliyor; Gulun Kokusu Vardi (Golden Horn Records)
Popol Vuh - Engel Der Gegenwart; Heart of Glass (Brain)
Trencher - Vlad Tapas; All suffering... soon to end (White Label)
Archaia - Soleil Noir; Archaia (Private Press)
Spacecraft - Surface; Paradoxe (Spalax Music)
Zen feat Murat Ertel - Mazhar Neyzen ve Kopegi; Bakirkoy Akil Hastanensinde (Ada Yayincilik)
Whitehouse - Wriggle Like A Fucking Eel; Bird Seed (Susan Lawley)

Unknown Is Best: The Return of Beard Radio 16.9.10

We return with some beautiful new tunes from Afrirampo, Swans and Antoni Maiovvi and pay tribute to free jazz legend Noah Howard and poet and all round hero Edwin Morgan. There's some Bollywood proto-acid, sound poetry, cosmic disco, Moroccan electric banjo jams and a very, very odd unreleased Beach Boys tune. Shout outs to Chris Storey for the Jemaa El Fna recommendation, Katie Pope for the Edwin Morgan ASLS CD, and Frances Morgan for the Beach Boys bootleg. The Aeolus Morgan recordings come from a CD that comes with Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay's wonderful anthology of Scottish sound, pattern and concrete poems, 'The Order of Things': well worth tracking down, as are most of the titles in Finlay's brilliant Pocketbooks series.

Afrirampo - Miracle Lucky Girls; We Are Ucho No Ko (Rock Action)
Edwin Morgan - Canedolia: an off concrete Scotch Fantasia (Aeolus)
Antoni Maiovvi - This is the beast; Thorns of Love (Caravan Recordings)
Mancingelani - Vana Vasesi; Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa (Honest Jons)
Swans - No Words/No Thoughts; My Father Will Guide a Rope From The Sky (Young God)
Edwin Morgan - The Day The Sea Spoke (Aeolus)
Chanjirit Singh - Raga Lalit Bombay; 12 Ragas to a Disco Beat (Bombay Connection)
Beach Boys - My Solution; Landlocked (Bootleg)
Noah Howard - Space Dimension; Space Dimension (America)
Edwin Morgan - At 80; 23 Poems of Edwin Morgan Vol 2 (ASLS)
Amal Saha - Lahmami; Ecstatic Music of the Jamaa El Fna (Sublime Frequencies)

The Return of Beard Radio

This calls for a celebration...



After a well-earned summer break, Beard Radio returns to the air on Thursday 16th September at 6pm on Subcity.

Brace yourselves for another year of fluffed cues, eclectic tuneage and illustrious guests. In a turn up for the books, we're actually quite organised, and can reveal our September schedule!

Sep 16: Back to School
We welcome freshers, returning students and listeners old and new with some records that are exciting us right now. We also pay tribute to one of our heroes, the great poet, translator and scholar Edwin Morgan.

Sep 23: TIME
Transmitting not-so-live from Mile End, we welcome our very special guests Frances Morgan and Mark Dicker of glorious psych-folk-doom duo TIME, who will be playing us some of their favourite records. Frances also plays with Morgen Und Nite, is one of the finest music writers around and was editor and publisher of the lamented Plan B magazine. You may know Mark as guitarist in the mighty grindlords Trencher. This show promises to be a belter.

Sep 30: New Zealand Special
Beard buddy and Glasgow music scene legend-of-sorts Lo-Fi Bri spreads the gospel of the New Zealand underground. From The Chills to Alastair Galbraith, Pumice to the Dead C, this show will turn your world upside down in the best possible way.