On my show this month:
There are two shows from Leo for November.
One is a carefully curated selection of sounds designed to make you question whether your radio is working properly. Murex bookend proceedings with a massacre and a silverspoon, while Arca , Blawan and Ital Tek provide electronic disturbances of varying severity. Shovel Dance Collective , Frankie Archer and Angeline Morrison bring folk traditions into the room, where they're promptly made to feel uncomfortable.
Elsewhere, Gurriers , Gilla Band and Swansea Sound offer different approaches to being disagreeable, Arab Strap maintain their usual sunny disposition, and Clark opens a kosmische supermarket with an uncertain returns policy. There's room for Hannah Frances ' intricate beauty, Max Cooper 's fractured atmospherics and two appearances from Sneers. , presumably because one wasn't sufficiently unsettling.
Also featuring Lolina, Callahan & Witscher , gyrofield and a track called canadian inclusive radical misandry, which should help attract a broad demographic.
Music for people who find the shuffle button insufficiently confrontational.
Leo's other November show is another carefully assembled collection of music that probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Immersion promise breaking free, diversity and evolution, while Murex contemplate the flight patterns of swans and Gentles offer a weary "Deary Me".
Folk traditions receive sympathetic but occasionally alarming treatment from Frankie Archer, Angeline Morrison and Wire Worms, while Big Brave , SUUNS & Kelman Duran and Dis Fig explore the less hospitable corners of the sonic landscape. Daniel Avery contributes a lemon, Heavy Meddo suffer option paralysis, and Dylan Henner continues his admirable commitment to writing a song every month.
Elsewhere, The Leaf Library provide hypnotic repetition, L'Rain bends time, Klara Lewis rearranges the furniture in your head, and Maxime Denuc offers a little mechanical elegance. There's also music from Dur-Dur Band , Joseph Kamaru and Nhá Zefa & Nhô Pai, reminding us that the world is considerably larger than the average algorithm suggests.
Mhaol unveil a scam manifesto, mary in the junkyard encourage things to sprout, and Wednesday & Gouge Away bring proceedings to a suitably abrasive conclusion.
Also featuring Julia Jacklin , Perfume Genius and several artists whose names sound like minor industrial accidents.
Music to expand your consciousness, test your speakers and give the neighbours something concrete to complain about.
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Biography:
I am in many ways your typical John Peel fan. I grew up listening to his shows from the era of punk rock until his death, and, with increasing obsessiveness, compiled cassettes, mini discs and finally mp3 playlists of the best tunes. Music runs through my family’s veins, and in me this takes the form of a compulsive search for new sounds. As John Peel used to put it, what I really want to hear is something I haven’t heard before.
Envy fills me when I read what my Dandelion collaborators have achieved in promoting, making and playing music, but my life as a teacher for the past quarter of a century has squeezed out any time for, well, pretty much anything apart from listening to and appreciating what continues to be made musically across the world. At last, though, I have found the space to pursue what has long been an ambition and can attempt to meet the stellar broadcasting standards set by my volunteer colleagues by sharing my love of new music with Dandelion listeners. I really hope at least some of what you hear gets its hooks into you.
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