UKNY for December 27
Poppy Ajudha (photo by Harry McCulloch, PR)
Reflecting back on this harrowing year of grief and uncertainty, it's small moments of light that have kept us all going, such as the benevolence, humor, and empathy of friends, family, and colleagues. Walks are also important, especially where there's verdant grass, groves of trees, and a busy chorus of birdsong. And music is essential — so many of FUV's listeners and our own staff have cited songs, and this radio station, as a means of pushing through a bad day.
On December 31 at 10 a.m., FUV will count down our 90 Top Songs in our Listeners Poll, and on tonight's "UKNY" at 11, I'll return to some of the artists and songs that lent some sunlight to overcast days. For some reason, several albums or songs to which south London's Poppy Ajudha lent her clear, strong voice really raised my spirits. I was smitten with the debut EP from the French-Brazilian trio Páula, Povoa & Jerge, and the partly anonymous collective SAULT released two brilliant albums, Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise), that helped me escape this summer and autumn.
Four Tet's Kieran Hebden inspired with both his solo work and a high-profile collaboration, reconnecting with Burial and Thom Yorke, and Philly-born, Canada-based Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who turned 76 this year, received well-deserved and way-overdue attention for his complex, cascading compositions via Transmissions.
That's all tonight on "UKNY," Sundays from 11p.m.-midnight, on 90.7, streaming online and found in the Weekend Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
(Normandy, FR) Páula, Povoa & Jerge, “Primavera,” Primavera EP
2. SAULT, “I Just Want to Dance,” Untitled (Rise)
3. (Sydney, AU/Berlin, DE) Logic1000, “Perfume,” single
4. Poppy Ajudha, “Strong Womxn,” single
5. Moses Boyd feat. Poppy Ajudha, “Shades of You,” Dark Matter
6. Poppy Ajudha, “Watermelon Man (Under the Sun),” Blue Note Re:Imagined
7. (Toronto, CA) The Weather Station, “Robber,” Ignorance
8. Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke, “Her Revolution,” single
9. Four Tet, “Something in the Sadness,” Sixteen Oceans
10. (Philadelphia, US/New Brunswick, CA) Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “River Dreams,” Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
11. (Sydney, AU) Julia Jacklin, “Cry,” single
12. Emma Kupa, “Crying Behind the Marquee,” It Will Come Easier
