#AmbientAugust #MusicChallenge Day 5 Pat Metheny - Sueño Con Mexico I still know too little of Pat Metheny's work, but return often to this dreamy composition from 1978, with its hypnotic guitar work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSXP...

Sueño Con Mexico

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#AmbientAugust #MusicChallenge Day 4 Funki Porcini - What Are You Looking At? James Braddell has been remarkably prolific under this pseudonym - so with plenty more to explore, I'll leave a high point from his 'Fast Asleep' album on Ninja Tune. Very deep indeed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBg...

What Are You Looking At?

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More from The Anchoress this morning...some deeply felt songwriting on her album As We Once Were #commuterworld

#AmbientAugust #MusicChallenge Day 3 Salt Tank - Eugina Given the temperature in SE England today this is pretty much perfect - a mid-90s poolside beauty from when 'dream house' was a thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCq...

Salt Tank - Eugina

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Strong songwriting from The Anchoress this morning, enjoying her new one As We Once Were #commuterworld

#AmbientAugust #MusicChallenge Day 2 Liadov - The Enchanted Lake A wonderful piece of symbolism for orchestra from 1909, frozen in time! m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJg2...

Anatoly Liadov The Enchanted Lake Op. 62

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#AmbientAugust #MusicChallenge Day 1 Aphex Twin - Xtal Had to take this one on! Starting with Richard James, only 13 years old when he wrote this blissful piece - part of an album helping me through glandular fever at university: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWcL...

Xtal

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Ideally you'd spend months with an album like this before writing, but here are my impressions after a few listens:

musicOMH@musicomh.com · 5d ago

The Durutti Column – Renascent Now a keen point of reference for lone bedroom listeners and stadium-fillers alike, Vini Reilly begins a new, starlit chapter

One of mine - and it's a grower...

musicOMH@musicomh.com · 5d ago

Family Stereo – The Thread The debut album from Blake Watt - son of Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - blends folk and pop with elegance and thoughtfulness

#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 31 And finally...going out in style with: Ram Jam - Black Betty www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D...

Ram Jam - Black Betty (Official Video)

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#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 30 Supergrass - Grace Inspired by the daughter of Chris Difford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IW...

Supergrass - Grace (Official HD Video)

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Fantastic, UEFA. Just what's needed!

I *knew* there was a reason when I started learning aged 11!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

‘It’s the Meryl Streep of the orchestra’: why cinema loves the cello

Pleased to report that the new Durutti Column album contains some remarkable music

A picture from yesterday morning’s run...to go with today's #commuterworld listening, which is Family Stereo's attractive first album The Thread. Family Stereo is Blake Watt, son of Everything But The Girl's Ben and Tracey. I felt older just reading that!

#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 29 Eels - I Like Birds A gem from the Daisies of the Galaxy album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=32J5...

I Like Birds

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#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 28 Super Furry Animals - Fire in My Heart Another piece of Welsh pop perfection...the first dance at the Hogwood wedding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bECg...

Fire in My Heart (2019 Remaster)

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I've been interviewing again...this time composer Sally Beamish, for @prestomusic.bsky.social: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...

Sally Beamish's House of Wonder

The British composer and viola-player talks to Ben about her new album on Delphian, which sees her marking her seventieth birthday in the company of family and friends.

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Reckon this one's a keeper!

Mixmag@mixmag.net · last wk.

Jean-Michel Jarre has announced a new book charting the history of electronic music through the lens of music-making machines

A review of last night's Alpine Symphony Prom from the @lporchestra.bsky.social and Edward Gardner, with soprano Louise Alder in Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne: arcana.fm/2026/07/28/b...

Arcana at the BBC Proms – Louise Alder, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner: From the Alps to the Auvergne

Louise Alder (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner Tjøgersen Between Trees (2021)Canteloube from Chants d’Auvergne (1923-55): La pastoura als camps; La delaïssádo; Deux bourrées…

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A different view tonight...with Edward Gardner thinking his London Philharmonic Orchestra charges after the ultimate musical climb - a storming account of Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony. Ears ringing again!

Friday it was Rome with John Wilson, tonight it's Auvergne and the Alps with Louise Alder & Ed Gardner at the Proms. Another orchestral skyscraper, courtesy of Richard Strauss! www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8dxp6

From the Alps to the Auvergne

Step into the great outdoors with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as they perform nature-inspired works by Kristine Tjøgersen and Joseph Canteloube before Richard Strauss’s epic ...

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Tomorrow night! I can promise some sports-based entertainment as part of the set...

Ben Hogwood@benarcanafm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just to say that our band, Little Storping In The Swuff, are gigging in London next week! Dalston's Servant Jazz Quarters is the venue, on Tuesday 28 July, and we'd love to see you there...via this link: dice.fm/event/dk2mrg...

#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 27 Pink Floyd - See Emily Play An unexpected appearance in the short songs challenge..."free games for May"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0E...

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play

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#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 26 (catching up) The Clash - Career Opportunities A right old stomp, all done in under two minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPe...

Career Opportunities (Remastered)

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#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 25 (catching up) Paul Weller - Hung Up The standalone song from 1993, which I still rank among his best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGNn...

Paul Weller - Hung Up (Official Video)

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#Short&Quick #MusicChallenge Day 24 (catching up) The Smiths - Panic www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMyk... Peerless

The Smiths - Panic (Official Music Video)

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It should be Little Fluffy Clouds...but instead the welcome return of Christian Prommer is providing the #commuterworld listening, with new album Rhythmique Nocturne

My review of a memorable Friday night in Rome at the Proms, thanks to John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London: arcana.fm/2026/07/26/b...

Arcana at the BBC Proms – John Wilson conducts Respighi’s Roman Trilogy

Jonathan Aasgaard (cello), Sinfonia of London / John Wilson Verdi Overture: La forza del destino (1861-2, revised 1869)Walton Cello Concerto (1955-56)Respighi Feste romane (Roman Festivals) (1928);…

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A spectacular Prom from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London - Respighi's Italian trilogy, and Walton's Cello Concerto with Jonathan Aasgard. Truly memorable, some of the best orchestral music you could wish to hear!