We Insist: NPR Timeline of Protest Songs

This series — titled We Insist, a nod to Max Roach’s 1960 protest album of the same name — attempts to document the songs and videos…

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Rollcall For Those Absent

With thanks to a recommendation from Richard Williams a piece by Ambrose Akinmusirere. Listen to more of his music as soon as you can. But…

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Mike Westbrook’s Citadel / Room 315

Just released the original live version of this huge piece. Westbrook was commissioned to write the Citadel for by Sveriges (Swedish) Radio with John Surman…

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Music: Improvisation Books

​Morris, Joe. Perpetual Frontier. Fewell, Garrison. Outside Music Inside Voices. Share This:

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Tony Garnett (1936 – 2020)

Tony Garnett made so many of the films and TV programmes that brought ordinary people’s lives to wider notice, in a way that had a…

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English Chanson

9×2: Contemporary English Chanson Harvey Andrews: Manet and Monet (6.00) Harvey Andrews: The Waiting Room (3.28) Pete Atkin: Beautiful Changes (3.51) Pete Atkin: Star of…

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Robyn Hitchcock 11/13/19

Robyn Hitchcock stopped by the Paste office in Atlanta to talk to studio chief Andrew Barkau and play us a few songs, including a rendition…

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Fairport Convention – A Peculiar Old Weekend (Cropredy 1982) 

I may have been there or it might have been a different year.  These early festivals were almost private parties compared with what came later….

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Fairport Documentary 2017

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Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature & the Critics Who Disdain It

Lit is lit books are books. We find certain books at certain times and they change us. Categories are for selling. From Daemon Voices: On Stories…

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