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Finding calm up in the clouds ft. Sally Potter

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 5
Episode 5 of 12

Erland Cooper looks skywards with soothing selections that lift us up through the clouds, while director and musician Sally Potter transports us to her safe haven.

Throughout this series of Ultimate Calm, Scottish composer Erland Cooper has been looking to nature for inspiration. We’ve ebbed and flowed with the tides, dug our hands into the soil, and in this episode we turn our attention skywards - with soothing songs that lift us into the clouds from musicians including Nailah Hunter, Sarah Davachi and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

We’re also transported to the musical safe haven of the award-winning film director and musician Sally Potter. She shares a special piece of music that flows like water or breath, that always induces calm melancholy in her.

Produced by Kit Callin
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Music Played

  • Bing & Ruth

    TWTGA

    • Tomorrow Was The Golden Age.
    • Rvng Intl..

  • Harold Budd & Brian Eno

    Against the Sky

    • The Pearl.
    • Polydor.

  • Lord of the Isles & Ellen Renton

    For a Burning World (excerpt)

    • My Noise Is Nothing.
    • AD 93.

  • Nailah Hunter

    Cloudbreath

    • Lovegaze.
    • Fat Possum.

  • Grouper

    I'm Clean Now

    • Paradise Valley.
    • Yellow Electric.

  • Benge

    Wires and Dots

    • Loop Series Two - Films (Layers) (Loop Series 1-2).
    • Expanding Records.

  • Lulu Manning

    i watch you dive into the lake ~ three bodies dissolve to make a memory

    • i watch you dive into the lake ~ three bodies dissolve to make a memory.

  • Clint Mansell

    Still

    • The New Radical (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

  • Steve Reich

    Duet

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Duet.

  • Ishq

    Sunrise on the Hill

    • The Invisible Landscape.
    • Virtual.

  • Sally Potter

    Elegy

    • Anatomy.
    • Bella Union.

  • David Motion & Sally Potter

    Ice

    • Orlando (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Varèse Sarabande.

  • Gustavo Santaolalla

    Iguazu

    • Ronroco.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Sarah Davachi

    Gilded

    • Gave in Rest.
    • Ba Da Bing!.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Ég Heyrði Allt Án þess Að Hlusta (A Winged Victory For The

    • Englabörn.
    • Touch.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 31 Oct 202521:00
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  • Fri 23 Jan 202621:00
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