From the shed at the bottom of his garden, Mark Coles brings you Chinese folktronica, Icelandic piano and a honky tonkin' playhouse boogie. The best new music from around the planet. Read the full description.
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The best new music from around the planet presented by a DJ who Brian Eno says "Britain should be proud of". This week, the award winning broadcaster Mark Coles takes you on a journey from Calcutta to Beijing via England's Morecambe Bay, Iceland, Mali, Burkina Faso, the US and Ethiopia. A glorious, entertaining mix of new music from around the world and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed.
Also in the The Shed: A Whole New World Of Music series
Peter Gabriel: My World - A Shed Special
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From: Mark Coles
In a rare interview, the singer and musician Peter Gabriel talks to former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles about Real World Gold - a major new re-release programme from his label ...
The Shed #23 New Music From Around The World
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From: Mark Coles
Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("Today", "The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This week, the garden foxes are ...
The Shed #22 Blunderbuss and Mouse Boys. New Music From Around The World.
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From: Mark Coles
Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ( "Today" / "The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music from around the planet. This week, former White Stripes man, ...
The Shed #20 The Best New Music On The Planet
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From: Mark Coles
Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("The Strand" BBC World Service) brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This week music from ...
The Shed #19 : Please Listen
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From: Mark Coles
Award winning British broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This week, holed up in his garden shed trying to avoid ...
The Shed #18 New Music From Around The World
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From: Mark Coles
Bagpipes to the fore on "The Shed" this week as Mark Coles brings you punk pipes from China and a bit of Scottish bagpipe rave. Plus...gong music from Korea, Angolan semba, ...
The Shed #17 A Free Taster
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From: Mark Coles
Award winning ex-BBC broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of new music from around the world. This week; treacherous orchestras, songs about sausages, Angolan semba and ...
The Shed #16 Chilled Out Music For A Freezing Cold Day
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From: Mark Coles
Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. Sat in the sub-zero temperature of his garden shed, he tries to warm things up with music ...
The Shed #15 A Glorious Start To 2012
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From: Mark Coles
Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. This week; French/Egyptian fusion, a four valve trumpet from Lebanon and German/Finnish ...
The Shed #14 Those we lost along the way
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From: Mark Coles
The best new music from around the planet. This week we celebrate some of the music and voices we lost in 2011.
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The best new music from around the planet presented by a DJ who Brian Eno says "Britain should be proud of". This week, the award winning broadcaster Mark Coles takes you on a journey from Calcutta to Beijing via England's Morecambe Bay, Iceland, Mali, Burkina Faso, the US and Ethiopia. A glorious, entertaining mix of new music from around the world and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lal Qil'al | Arun Ghosh | Primal Odyssey. | Camoci | 2011 | 02:52 |
| Moving On | Hank Snow | Honky Tonkin'. | Fantastic Voyage | 2011 | 02:38 |
| Dark Night Is Running Back From A Faraway Place | Xiao He | Silly's Ballad. | Maybe Mars | 2011 | 05:45 |
| On Morecambe Bay | Christy Moore | Folk Tale. | Sony | 2011 | 03:35 |
| Tink Tank | Afro Soul System | Bambara Mystic Soul. | Analog Africa | 2011 | 03:59 |
| Gugu Bird | Xiao He | Silly's Ballad. | Maybe Mars | 2011 | 03:29 |
| Fyrsta | Olafur Arnalds | Living Room Songs. | free download - eventually on Erased Tapes | 2011 | 03:58 |
| Bissa | Fatoumata Diawara | Fatou. | World Circuit | 2011 | 02:58 |
| Worst Of Progress | Magazine | No Thyself. | Wire-sound | 2011 | 04:55 |
| Kuria Ne Suniya | Achanak | Rough Guide To The Best Music You've Never Heard. | Rough Guide/World Music Network | 2011 | 04:48 |
| Ambassel In Box Revisited | Samuel Yirga | Hagere EP. | Real World | 2011 | 05:18 |
| George's Playhouse Boogie | Maddox Brothers + Rose | Honky Tonkin'. | Fantastic Voyage | 2011 | 02:41 |
