This volume of Plastic Language features special recordings made around Birmingham with the poet Betsy Porritt, with brief appearances from Sam Weselowski and Miles Bradley.
Image: 'I Want Neither the Honey Nor the Bee', from 'Oh Unquenchable Thirst' (Distance No Object, 2024).
Few artists have straddled the worlds of jazz, R&B, funk, and soul as confidently as Roy Ayers – ask four people what genre he's known for and you may receive four different answers.
Beyond being a world-class vibraphonist, and penning the life-affirming anthem "Everybody Love The Sunshine", Ayers life and music was rich with diversions – touring with Fela Kuti, performing with Whitney Houston, countless studio collaborations, and endless innovation on his solo records.
Selected and mixed by Suncut.
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This playlist is curated from very low-quality records that have been recorded on the streets in local religious ceremonies, but that is what we found fascinating because you don't just listen to a guy in his band singing their religious poems, but you enter full interactive performances in the middle of the street. Every one on the streets is involved in a way. You will see someone grab the mic from the vocalist and saying something interrupting the whole thing, and other people dancing carelessly between the cars and others screaming.
So you enter an overwhelming atmosphere but for us, in a very inspiring good way, those events are like a sanctuary.
This playlist is curated from very low-quality records that have been recorded on the streets in local religious ceremonies, but that is what we found fascinating because you don't just listen to a guy in his band singing their religious poems, but you enter full interactive performances in the middle of the street. Every one on the streets is involved in a way. You will see someone grab the mic from the vocalist and saying something interrupting the whole thing, and other people dancing carelessly between the cars and others screaming.
So you enter an overwhelming atmosphere but for us, in a very inspiring good way, those events are like a sanctuary.
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سيد احمد بن ادريس رضي الله عنهسيد احمد بن ادريس رضي الله عنه