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Fra Fra Funeral Songs

Kathryn Tickell's guest today is the award-winning record producer Ian Brennan whose new release Funeral Songs is a field recording of the group Fra Fra made just outside Tamale in Northern Ghana.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 16 May 202016:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni ba

    Miri

  • Chabati le jeune

    Mani Mani Maane

    Performer: Chabati le jeune.
    • Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Rai, Chaoui & Staiif (1985-1997).
    • Bongo Joe.
    • 3.

  • Fra Fra

    We Must Grieve Together

    Ensemble: Fra Fra.
    • Funeral Songs.
    • Glitterbeat.
    • 7.

  • Fra Fra

    Naked (You Enter and Leave This World With Nothing)

    Ensemble: Fra Fra.
    • Funeral Songs.
    • Glitterbeat.
    • 3.

  • Fra Fra

    I Will Follow You For Life, Everywhere

    Ensemble: Fra Fra.
    • Funeral Songs.
    • Glitterbeat.
    • 6.

  • Fra Fra

    You Can't Escape Death

    Ensemble: Fra Fra.
    • Funeral Songs.
    • Glitterbeat.
    • 2.

  • Blick Bassy

    Woni

    Performer: Blick Bassy.
    • 1958.
    • No Format!.
    • 4.

  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Freight Train

    Performer: Elizabeth Cotten.
    • Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
    • 15.

  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Shoot that Buffalo

    Performer: Elizabeth Cotten.
    • Shake Sugaree.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
    • 18.

  • Shiran

    Ya Banat Al Yemen

    Performer: Shiran.
    • Glsah Sanaanea with Shiran.
    • Batov Records.

  • Mulatu Astatke

    Kulun Mankwaleshi

    Performer: Mulatu Astatke. Ensemble: Black Jesus Experience.
    • To Know Without Knowing.
    • Agogo Records.
    • 3.

  • Cimarron

    Parranda Quitapesares

    Ensemble: Cimarron.
    • Orinoco.
    • Cimarrón Music.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 May 202016:00
    BBC Radio 3

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