A small but carefully made selection of ethnographic field recordings from West Africa housed and preserved at the British Library... This programme is dedicated to all of the unnamed performers who appear in the following sound recordings.
In 1996, John Fahey started a rapport with a record store clerk in Portland called Julie Shapiro. Unprompted, he sent her a couple cassettes in the post with a short letter and cryptic tracklisting.
2016 has been nuts. We want to thank the 800+ DJs, musicians, visual artists and partners that have all musically and visually contributed to NTS this year.
Throughout November 2016, we’ll be broadcasting live from 3 of Europe’s biggest capitals - Berlin, Madrid and Amsterdam, in collaboration with Johnnie Walker.
