This week's show features the incredible new Hether Blether from Orkadian musician Erland Cooper, completing a triology of records written about his home islands. Athmospheric, and bare, transquil, peaceful, and with an overriding sense of “home”, no matter where that might be for you. The music pulls from a lot of genres too, some sparse, folk-influenced songwriting, along with neo-classical composition and electronic influences make the combination of instrumental, sung and spoken word samples a remarkably executed work. It also serves as a wonderful complement to his earlier work Orkney with his band The Magnetic North, whose work we also pull in tonight along with some of his fellow collaborator Hannah Peel. Beyond that, tonights theme is that of record download cards I found unused, hidden under my turntable. It makes for an era hopping compilation that, I think, works remarkably well.

Also, for the first half of the show, we tried out an Instagram Live simucast. Not sure that it was a raging success, but a fun distraction nonetheless. Thanks everyone who joined in.

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