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Time is Away - The Voice Is An Instrument
Time is Away - The Voice Is An Instrument
27.02.17 · London

Time is Away - The Voice Is An Instrument

Spoken WordAmbientPsychedelic Folk

Time Is Away and somewhere else every month on NTS. Each hour-long show uses music, alongside snippets of spoken word, to produce something that is part soundscape, part essay for the radio.

Host portraits by Robin Silas Christian (@makinabooks)

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Tracklist

  • Michel Mercure
    Eyechant
  • Karin Krog 
    Freestyle
  • Günter Beckers
    Spieluhr
  • Joe Brainard
    I Remember (Excerpt)
  • David Cunningham 
    But Everybody Loved Dominic Lynch
  • Laurie Anderson 
    Born, Never Asked
  • Meredith Monk 
    Dawn
  • John Cage 
    Song Books I-II / Empty Words III (Continued)
  • Daniel Lentz 
    O-ke-wa (North American Eclipse)
  • Duda Mata 
    Ejercicios Espirituales
  • Steve Reich 
    Come Out
  • Herbert Hunke
    The Lights Are Shining On Me
  • Tibor Szemző 
    Tractatus

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