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theartsdesk Radio Show 23 - the hottest Brazil sounds for 2019 with guest Tiago Di Mauro
Saturday, 05 January 2019
The focus of this radio show, one of Peter Culshaw’s occasional updates of ... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 22 - the autumn's newest global sounds
Saturday, 15 September 2018
The latest in Peter Culshaw’s occasional updates in the best of new global music features unreleased tracks from forthcoming autumn releases and re-releases dug up by eccentric crate-diggers. Even... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 21
Saturday, 04 November 2017
The latest of Peter Culshaw’s global music round-up of new and re-released sounds features new albums from veteran Afro-beat pioneer Tony Allen, an astonishing collaboration between revered string... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 20 – from Mali to São Paulo
Monday, 01 May 2017
New global sounds this month include tracks from the scintillating new album from Malian diva Oumou Sangaré, electro-Sufi grooves, Afro-folk from Koral Society, the soundtrack from They... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 19
Sunday, 02 April 2017
Latest intercontinental sounds from theartsdesk’s resident... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 18
Saturday, 04 March 2017
Peter Culshaw’s nomadic monthly round-up of the latest brilliant intercontinental sounds includes... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 17
Saturday, 21 January 2017
Another peripatetic global music update from theartsdesk's Peter Culshaw, hosted by Music Box Radio. This edition features forthcoming album releases from hard salsa revivalists... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 16
Saturday, 12 November 2016
After a hiatus, theartsdesk Radio Show is back with a new partner, Music Box Radio, hosted in their studio at the Market House in Brixton. Peter Culshaw’s global round-up of new and... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 15
Saturday, 02 July 2016
Another splendidly eclectic globalist radio show hosted by Peter Culshaw. The show's featured album of the month is the impeccable The Woman at The End Of The World by... Read more... |
theartsdesk Radio Show 14
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Another of Peter Culshaw’s peripatetic global radio shows. Star of this month's show is the Trinidadian Calypso Queen Calypso Rose, whose new album Far From Home, to be... Read more... |
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