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Featuring the sounds of the French jazz flautist’s audacious 1973 genre-bending album Captain Tarthopom. Plus, neoclassical ambient, experimental rap and apocalyptic folk rock.

Featuring the sounds of the French jazz flautist’s audacious 1973 genre-bending album Captain Tarthopom. Showcasing Solal’s incredible skills as an arranger and improviser as well as a tremendously expressive flutist, it’s no wonder that he famously said in a 1972 interview, “I express feelings more easily with the flute than with language”. Captain Tarthopom is a meeting between psychedelic and progressive rock sensibility with the potent influence of avant-garde and classical ideas. Along with flute, the album is a jubilant blend of roaring bass, operatic vocals, pulsing organs and triumphant brass sections.

Plus, gorgeous neoclassical ambient scores for dance theatre from A Winged Victory For The Sullen, anthemic experimental rap from London-based duo XVOTO and apocalyptic English folk rock inspired by love and death.

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Sun 7 Feb 202120:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • James Chance and the Contortions

    Contort Yourself

    • BUY.
    • Ariola.

  • GLORIA

    You Had It All

    • SABBAT MATTERS.
    • Outre.

  • COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT

    Pickpocketed By Steve Beresford

    • PIGS AND TORIES.
    • self-released.

  • Jean Cohen-Solal

    Ludions

    • CAPTAIN TARTHOPOM.
    • SouffleContinu Records.

  • PHILLIPPE COHEN SOLAL, Mike Lindsay, Hannah Peel & Adam Glover

    Bring Them In

    • OUTSIDER.
    • ¡Ya Basta! records.

  • Blue Bendy

    Glosso Babel

    • Glosso Babel / International.
    • Simonie Records.

  • Fimber Bravo

    Hiyah Man

    • LUNAR TREDD.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.

  • Jean Cohen-Solal

    Memoire D’Une Ventricule

    • CAPTAIN TARTHOPOM.
    • SouffleContinu Records.

  • Current 93

    Red Hawthorn Tree

    • SLEEP HAS ITS HOUSE.
    • Durtro.

  • ANANDAMIDE

    Electric Troubadour

    • EARTHLY PARADISE.
    • Self-released.

  • MANSLAUGHTER 777

    Do You Know Who Loves You

    • WORLD VISION PERFECT HARMONY.

  • Divide and Dissolve

    Oblique

    • GAS LIT.
    • Invada.

  • VTG NIKE

    Primechord

    • STEALS.
    • Other People.

  • Isotope 217

    New Beyond

    • UTONIAN AUTOMATIC.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • XVOTO

    Brainfreeze

    • Single.
    • One Two Many Records.

  • CAMERA

    A2 P

    • PROSTHUMAN.
    • Tapete Records.

  • A Formal Horse

    I Just Called To Say I Like You

    • HERE COMES A MAN FROM THE COUNCIL.
    • Self-released.

  • Jean Cohen-Solal

     Ab Hic et Ab Hac

    • CAPTAIN TARTHOPOM.
    • SouffleContinu Records.

  • WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN

    Total Perspective Vortex

    • INVISIBLE CITIES.
    • Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing.

  • PONY CLUB TARTIFLETTE

    Full Back Dragon

    • BYE BYE BUDDHA BIZ BIZ SHOWBIZZ.
    • Self-released.

  • Gong

    Sold To The Highest Buddha

    • ANGELS EGG.
    • Virgin.

  • Observation Point and Peter Beasley

    Forebears

    • Neuadd y Drychau / Hall of Mirrors.
    • Self-released.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Feb 202120:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music