Tricks with mirrors 2nd April 2023

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ROSS ALLEN

Ross Allen knows music. Mainly new but plenty of old. The broadest range of music that moves dance floors from across the era’s and across the planet. On his regular Foundation Music Specials he invites guests to share their histories and seminal tracks…

IN FOCUS: SONIC YOUTH

Birthed in the playful amateur experimentalism of New York's 1970s no wave scene, Sonic Youth are potentially the definitive American rock band of the post-punk era. From the creative blossoming of EVOL, to their mammoth art rock masterpiece of "Day Dream Nation" to the surprising commercial victory of "Goo", the band continuously bucked convention, and remained in flux creatively up until their unofficial ceasing in 2011.

Post Punk Industrial

Music for one of the hardest heartbreaks I've ever experienced. I tried to channel my emotional state with the songs, and I was also inspired by a fragment of "Tricks With Mirrors" by Margaret Atwood:

"You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen I preserve you, in me you are safe"

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Tracklist

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La Jetée, La Jetée, Chris MarkerChris Marker
A Museum Filled With Ageless Animals
0:03:00
Boy HarsherBoy Harsher
Intro
0:04:37
Lizzy MercierLizzy Mercier
Torso Corso