February’s Paper Air Waves provides two hours of aural armchair travel. It goes to South Africa for Amapiano, Mexico and Jakarta for leftfield balearica, LA for 60s MOR and Nottingham for electronica, finishing up in the UK’s on Somerset’s Solsbury Hill.

You listened to:

1. Fenomenon - Tropic Of Capricorn (Third Attempt Remix)
2. Popsneon - Falling I'm Falling
3. Lonely Boy - Shut Your Mouth
4. Tim Holehouse - Peter & His Experimental Sonic Machines
5. Cododa – Mumakata
6. Kassé Mady Diabaté - Ko Kuma Magni
7. Bonga Jean-Baptiste - Gede Nibo
8. Àbáse - Ife L'ayo
9. Àbáse - Ile Ye (feat Jadson Xabla, Gabriel Santana)
10. Anz - Unravel In The Designated Zone
11. Lady Blackbird - Lost and Looking (Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy Cosmodelica Remix)
12. Alfa Kat & TidoSoul – Sip Sip
13. Caltonic SA - Super Star (feat DJ Buckz & Thabz Le Madonga)
14. Luka Productions – Assimi Goïta (Instrumental)
15. Jackson Browne – These Days
16. The Monkees - Me & Magdalena
17. Withered Hand - New Gods (Early Version) (Featuring Pam Berry)
18. L'Rain – Suck Teeth
19. Àbáse - Ela (feat Jesuton)
20. La Guardia de la Luz feat Chris Koehn - Amatista (Playa Sudamericana Mix)
21. Kimo – Home
22. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Paper Air Waves takes a deep breath and eases its way into the New Year. No pumpers, no thumpers, just chilled out music that ranges from dub to folk and soul to ambient.

You will hear:

1. Auntie Flo – Peace Bells
2. FINK - Sort Of Revolution (The Cinematic Orchestra remix)
3. Hailu Mergia – Wegene
4. Nightmares On Wax & Haile Supreme & Shabaka Hutchings – Wonder (Shout Out To Freedom)
5. Sinikka Langeland - Polsdance from Finnskogen
6. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter
7. Shirley Collins - The Cruel Mother
8. Kassé Mady Diabaté - Ko Kuma Magni (feat. Makan Tounkara, Lansiné Kouyaté & Vincent Segal)
9. Afel Bacoum - Penda Djiga
10. Islandman vs. Tamikrest - Tarhamanine Assinegh
11. Fujiya & Miyagi - Magnesium Flares
12. Webster Wraight Ensemble - The Ruins of Britain (Pepe Bradock's 'Who's Right Acapella')
13. Arthur Russell – A Little Lost
14. Cleo Sol – Promises
15. Fatima feat. Floating Points – Red Light
16. Anika – Change
17. Brown Fang – I Nearly Married A Human
18. Cat Power – Horizon
19. Lup Ino - Funsick (Begin Remix)
20. Sam Amidon – Hallelujah
21. Nexus & Sō Percussion - Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ

It’s the final show of 2021 with a look back on some Paper family highlights, the usual disco, afro and Balearic plus some Christmas curveballs thrown in for good measure.

1. Peggy Lee – Winter Wonderland
2. Yaeji – When I Grow Up
3. Sun Creatures – Solar
4. Anoraak feat. Sarah Maison – Levantine
5. Psyco on da Bus – Pictures Talk
6. Moses Sumney – boxes
7. Suzanne Ciani – Morning Spring
8. Flash Atkins – All I Want For Christmas Is You
9. My Friend Dario - 3 Fenice (Willie Graff Remix)
10. Nala Sinephro – Space 8
11. Super FU - Super OK (Sarah Bates Remix)
12. Daco - Support Programme
13. Oddio Factory - Got Bolts (Keita Sano on the Shore Remix)
14. Rasmus Faber x David Harks – Never Enough
15. Les Ambassadeurs - M'Bouran Mousso
16. Mulatu Astatke – Tezeta
17. Psyco on da Bus – Time To Take A Rest (Part II)
18. Doves - Jetstream (Lindstrom Remix)
19. Gail Angelos – Hello Santa

The nights are drawing in but Paper Air Waves is here to bring the light. There’s dub, ambient, jazz, house, afro disco, soul and the lowdown on how to grow concrete.

You will hear:

1. Curtis Mayfield – Back To The World
2. MMYYKK – Divine
3. Juana Molina - Sin Dones
4. More Ghost Than Man - Demons For The Void
5. Martin Buttrich presents Stoned Autopilot - City Pulse
6. The Pop Group - 3:38 (Dennis Bovell Dub Version)
7. Desmond Chambers - Haly Gully (Version)
8. Manu Dibango - Ah! Freak Sans Fric
9. Cro-magnon – Floating Point
10. Daco – Durant
11. Mr Tea – J As In Giraffe
12. Tirzah – Sink In
13. Georgia – Ama Yes Uzume
14. This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren
15. Patchen – Chime Garden
16. Marbert Rocel – Song For You
17. Electric Jalaba - Tora Tora
18. Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou– Foulani
19. Charly Kingson – Born In Africa
20. Alostmen feat. Medikal - Do Good
21. Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York

The nights are drawing in and the temperature is dropping but Paper Air Wavs is here to keep you warm. The show blends two hours of gnawa, spiritual jazz, folk, disco, afro, wonk and soul into a musical journey around the globe.

Tunes you will hear:

1. Talk Talk – The Rainbow
2. Nala Sinephro – Space 6
3. Pyramids on the Moon – The Door
4. Pandreas - Bulgaria
5. Mr Tea feat. Wonder – Desire
6. Electric Jalaba – Alga Hausa
7. Moonchild Sanelly – Undumpable
8. Sly & Robbie – Haul and Pull Up
9. Otim Alpha - Anyomo label (Pailyec)
10. James Rod & Aleito - Raum 909
11. Paul Shaw – Chances
12. Surprise Chef - Crayish Caper (Nuyorican Broken Mix) Full Length
13. Kondi Band – She Doesn’t Love You
14. Mathami - Figuras del Bosque
15. Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin – Mbila
16. More Ghost Than Man – Murder Makes You Famous
17. Art Bleek – One Night
18. June Tabor – The King of Rome
19. This Is the Kit – Keep Going (Desert Island Version)
20. Quincy Jones - What's Going On? (feat Valerie Simpson)
21. Patchouli Brothers – Can’t get You Down
22. Gallo - Abysso (Calm Mellow Mellow Acid Remix)

Paper Air Waves is back in the saddle with a preview of what’s coming up on the Paper family of record labels, plus a tribute to Lee ’Scratch’ Perry, spiritual jazz, global sounds and our album of the month from Koreless.

1. People’s Choice – Movin’ in all Directions
2. Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley – I’m Not Tripping
3. The Secret Soul Society x Hardway Brothers – Yo, We’ve Landed
4. Koreless – Black Rainbow
5. Rebecca Vasmant – Internal Dispute
6. Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
7. Emma-Jean Thackray – Venus
8. Pascal Boyer – Electra
9. Crazy P - Last Knockers (Mr Tea Remix)
10. BOM - The Day (Black Cat Bones Remix)
11. Neon Transmission - Driving Me Crazy (Lakeshouse Remix)
12. Surprise Chef – Blythe Street Nocturne
13. Lee Perry & The Upsetters – Dub Revolution (Part 1)
14. Max Romeo – One Step Forward
15. Ignace De Souza & The Melody Aces - Asaw Fofor
16. Fimber Bravo – Singo (Lunar tredd)
17. Alhousseini Anivolla - Chet Azawad
18. Waiphot Phetsuphan – Ding Dong
19. Koreless – Spiritual Symphony
20. Yuki Endo - Spiritual Symphony
21. Kimo – Closer (Daco’s Oceanic Remix)

Ben Davis makes up for a cancelled WOMAD by bringing the festival to the latest Paper Air Waves. There’s plenty of music that pack’s a punch from all over the world under one radio roof, and not a drop of rain in sight.

Tracks you will hear:

1. Canned Heat – Goin’ Up Country
2. Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhupali
3. Janka Nabay - Build Music
4. Oumou Dily feat. Luka Productions – Dia Ye Ba
5. The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte Version One
6. Prince Fatty – The Model (Dub)
7. Riddim Research Lab - Searching For Gold
8. Soundspecies - Balafon Jam
9. Kondi Band feat. Mariama - She Doesn't Love You
10. Hugo Massien – No Return
11. Gella – Chi Kaa Chi Koo
12. J.Lamotta – Do Good
13. Les Mamans Du Congo - Meki
14. Que Vola? - Calle Luz
15. Dany Play - Fa'waka
16. Jungle Fire - La Kossa (Snake In Da Bronx Dub)
17. Jules Brennan – Lotus Land
18. Georgia Ruth – Week of Pines
19. Mio Fou - Picasso No Ao
20. Lex Amor, Hibotep & Faizal Mostrixx - Ancestry
21. Sidi Touré - Tchaw Yan
22. Coladera - A Luz de Yayá
23. SAULT – I Just Wanna Dance
24. Daco – A Litle More Volume Flash Atkins Mix)
25. Patchouli Brothers – Lead Astray
26. Incognito – Always There

Summer’s here and the new Paper Air Waves hits the sunshine button. There are exclusive plays of the brand new collaboration between Mental Overdrive and Flash Atkins and The Boogie Brothers sizzling new track, an album of the month from steel pan experimentalist Fimber Bravo plus the finest in afro, disco, Balearic and jazz.

1. Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra - Survival (Superprince Day Mix)
2. Bosq ft. Pat Kalla - Mouna Power
3. The Boogie Brothers feat. Sato - Let Go
4. Fimber Bravo - Lunar Tredd
5. Stella Chiweshe - Bird Song (Live in Funkhaus)
6. Mental Overdrive & Flash Atkins - Where?
7. Henri Texler - Amir
8. BOM - Downtown Birnin Zana
9. Velour - 3 Pose
10. Stacey - The Songwriter
11. Super FU - Zero Gravity
12. Fimber Bravo - Hiyah Man
13. Bill Brewster - Wake Up (Dub Disco)
14. Andrew Tytherleigh - Keep Your Dreams Alive
15. Hailu Mergia - Tezeta
16. Africa Negra - Mino Bô Bé Quacueda
17. Etran De L'Air - Hadija
18. Oumou Sangaré - Yere faga ft Tony Allen (Natureboy Flako Version)
19. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Young Edits Sophisticated Melody Version)

Summer has finally landed and the new Paper Air Waves delivers the soundtrack. Album of the Month is from Sons of Kemet, there’s a minimix from Paper Recording’s new compilation plus yacht rock to ambient and reggae to wonky afro via Shangaan electro.

1. Cosmo Sheldrake – Cuckoo Song
2. My Friend Dario - Fenice
3. North Of The Island - SRI (Andi Hanley Rework)
4. Sons of Kemet – Hustle
5. Dillinger - Five Man Army/Send Another Moses
6. Black Lodge – Ragga
7. Rocé - Amitié et Amertume
8. Rasmus Faber x David Harks – Never Enough (Max Essa Extended Vocal Mix)
9. Torn Sail – Treasure (Tiago Mix)
10. Minus The Majors – Peanut Dust
11. Flash Atkins & Charlie Sinclair – That Hit
12. Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley - Broken Mirror (A Selfie Reflection)/Composition 9)
13. APOTEK – Black Dolls
14. Mugwump – The Flag (Max Pask Remix)
15. Sons of Kemet – For The Culture
16. Baiana System feat. Antonio Carlos & Jocafi - Água (Jimpster Remix)
17. Electric Jalaba – Shabakru
18. Shangaan Electro - N'wagezani My Love
19. Nu Guinea - Ta Storm (feat. Tony Allen)
20. The War on Drugs – Under The Pressure

Ben Davis once again sifts through his vast collection of music and takes a musical journey around the world. There’s Latin from Japan, folk, jazz, techno, disco, afro plus the latest from Paper for two hours of the best in radio.

Tracklist:

1. Minyo Crusaders - \izu Bandaisan (Latin)
2. Frente Cumbiero - La Era Del GigaHertz
3. Martin Wold – Havet
4. The Secret Soul Society vs BLAOS Recordings – JR’s Revenge
5. Super FU – Stay Here (Coyote Mix)
6. Stella Chiwese – Huvhimi
7. Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon – III
8. Electric Jalaba – Briando
9. Psycho On da Bus – Pusherman (Doctor L Remix)
10. Pharoah Sanders & Floating Points – Movement 5
11. Ralph Kinsella – Violet
12. Hannah Peel – Carbon Cycle
13. Peggy Seeger – Gotta Get Home By Midnight
14. Sam Amidon – Hallelujah
15. Wonder & Jesse - Dancing Crocodile
16. Warpaint – Love Is To Die
17. David Agrella - The Puppets Are Back
18. Presence – The Strength (Within)
19. Red Planet – Sex In Zero Gravity
20. D.C. LaRue – Cathedrals (Maurice Fulton Mix)
21. Bill Brewster – Wake Up (Dub Disco)