Host David Garland offers songs to please the ears and stimulate the brainwaves, from Norwegian Heidi Torsvik, the Swedish/Finnish project Maailma, Chicagoan Anni Rossi, and collaborations from the new compilation "Dark Was the Night": Dirty Projectors with David Byrne, The Books with Jose Gonzalez, Connor Oberst with Gillian Welch, Antony singing Bob Dylan, and Sufjan Stevens' marvelous, over-achieving arrangement of a song by Castanets.
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Here's the playlist. It shows artist - song - album title - record label.
Kronos Quartet – Dark Was the Night (by Blind Willie Johnson) – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
Connor Oberst & Gillian Welch – Lua – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
Heidi Torsvik – I Got the Blues – not yet released – http://www.myspace.com/heiditorsvik
Heidi Torsvik – Hold Onto Your Ways – not yet released – http://www.myspace.com/heiditorsvik
Maailma – Saa Puu – Maailma – Tjarnen http://www.myspace.com/maailma
Maailma – Pimeyden Viimeinen Sade – Maailma – Tjarnen http://www.myspace.com/maailma
Anni Rossi – West Coast – Afton – 4AD
Dirty Projectors and David Byrne – Knotty Pine – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
The Books and Jose Gonzalez – Cello Song (by Nick Drake) – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
Antony and Bryce Dessner – I Was Young When I Left Home (by Bob Dylan) – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
Castanets – You Are the Blood – Cathedral – Asthmatic Kitty
Sufjan Stevens – You Are the Blood – Dark Was the Night – 4AD
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