UKNY for May 30: Birds
Birds (photo courtesy of Pixabay)
Taking flight on this long holiday weekend's "UKNY" at 11 tonight with nothing but songs inspired by birds — yes, there are metaphors galore, but also some actual birdsong.
Expect avian tunes, both new and vintage, from British and international artists like Mercury Prize nominee and musical ornithologist Sam Lee, the still-on-hiatus Lemon Jelly, London collective Ibibio Sound Machine, Cardiff transplant Aldous Harding, north Yorkshire's Billie Marten, Brooklyn-based Faten Kanaan and others who look to birds for solace, strength, and songwriting ideas.
That's "UKNY," Sundays 11p.m.-midnight, on 90.7, streaming online and available in the Weekend Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Robert Plant feat. Chrissie Hynde, “Bluebirds Over the Mountain,” Carry Fire
2. Dry Cleaning, “More Big Birds,” New Long Leg
3. Lemon Jelly, “Nice Weather for Ducks,” Lost Horizons
4. Ibibio Sound Machine, “Uwa the Peacock,” Ibibio Sound Machine
5. Four Tet, “Teenage Birdsong,” Sixteen Oceans
6. Lost Horizons feat. KookieLou, “Heart of a Hummingbird,” In Quiet Moments
7. (Los Angeles, CA) Sudan Archives, “Pelicans in the Summer,” Athena
8. (Malmö, SE) The Radio Dept., “The Absence of Birds,” single
9. Sam Lee, “Improvisation – Singing with Nightingales,” single
10. (Lyttelton,NZ-Cardiff, UK) Aldous Harding, “What if Birds Aren’t Singing, They’re Screaming,” Party
11. (Copenhagen, DK-Berlin, DE) Agnes Obel, “Parliament of Owls,” Myopia
12. Billie Marten, “Pigeon,” Flora Fauna
13. (DE-Brooklyn, NY) Faten Kanaan, “Birds of Myrrh,” A Mythology of Circles
