Podcast Episodes

The magical music of Jemaa el-Fnaa

9.43pm, and by night the Jemaa el-Fnaa square turns into a musical paradise - gone are the grim snake charmers and animal handlers, and in their pla…

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Ka Faroshi carpet store, Kabul

"Ambience sounds inside a carpet store in Kabul's famous Ka Faroshi market, people talking in the dampened acoustics of the carpets, shielded from a…

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Olive stands in the medina

In one of the indoor markets in Marrakesh's medina, olives are being wrapped, packed up and sold to passing customers, as we hear shouting traders, …

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Dozens of generators at Mega Huepfbergenland

Mega Huepfbergenland is a fun park for children, with 50 bouncy castles in one place, just being set up with no customers there having fun yet. What…

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Electrical outdoor distribution box, Greece

Electrical outdoor distribution box. Steady electrical hum, cars passing, car engine.

Recorded in Agios Dimitrios, Greece by Konstantinos Staikos.

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Reconciliation +212

"An original composition created from a field recording of an Olive stand in the medina in Marrakech, Morocco.

"I was initially drawn to this recordi…

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The Marrakesh excess

"A pure sound piece, with something like 80% of it comprising the original field recording, processed, tweaked, reworked etc." 

Djemaa el-Fnaa, Marra…

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Earthed

"The sound does opt convey a sense of space, but the location informed my choice. I took the original sound of the distribution box, chopped it up a…

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Mega Land

"Drawn to the drone quality of the Mega Huepfbergenland recording, I made a quiet drone piece with a little 18th century cembalo at the end (ignorin…

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A play on words

"The recording I worked with was from a Ka Faroshi carpet store in Kabul. This consisted of several people chatting in a carpet shop in some languag…

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