Dedicated to Orla Henning

Bread and Butter..Ivor Cutler..Velvet Donkey
The Maid On The Shore..Solas..Celtic Tides
Call Of The Wild Woods..Brocc..13 Moons
Money..Voices On The Dark Side..Dark Side of the Moon A Cappella
Moody Medley..John Shuttleworth..One Foot In the Gravy
Horovel (Work Song)..Levon Minassian..The Doudouk - Beyond Borders
Katell ar floc'h (ton doubl plinn) ..PENNGOLLO..Da Bep Tu
Cercle Circassien..Tevens ..Rhuys
Jungle Nights In Harlem..Duke Ellington..Best of Duke Ellington
Another Day..KonKoma..KonKoma
Don't Jump Off The Roof, Dad ..Tommy Cooper..British Sounds Of The 60's - Vol. 2
Handyman Blues..Billy Bragg..Tooth & Nail
Quiero Mi Gente..Abelardo Carbono..Diablos del Ritmo 1960-1985: The Colombian Melting Pot (Afrobeat - Puya - Cumbiamba - Terapia - Mapalé - Caribbean Funk) 1
I Love Washing Up..Three Bonzos And A Piano..Bum Notes
Ubiję Usiekę..Zakopower ..Na Siedem
Prošeta se Jovka Kumanovka..Vlatko Stefanovsky and Miroslav Tadic..Live in Belgrade
Haram gui ..Urna..Portrait ''Heavenly Bird''
Kosh-Chenar..Turgun Alimatov.. From Samarkand to Bukhara: A Musical Journey Through Uzbekistan Mazurka Des Aimants..Ciac Boum..Vert
Dolama Dolamayı..Brenna Maccrimmon..Kulak Misafiri
远走的人(Those Who Flee)..杭盖乐队(Hanggai Band)..杭盖(Hanggai)
The Things I Did for You..Clifton Chenier..Louisiana Stomp - Essential Masters

Music that crosses boundaries...

...was very much on the agenda tonight. We began with Amadou Diagne from Senegal with a beautiful album featuring some fine West Country musicians and produced by Gris Sanderson from Totnes. We then went on to play a bluesy rocky track with definite African influences by superb Australian and US musicians Dirtmusic. There were plenty of other examples which followed this pattern too.

Martin Hodge

Pictured: Gris Sanderson and Amadou Diagne

Music played

Amadou Diagne..Sey..Yakar

Dirtmusic..Chicken Scratch..Troubles

Rokia Traoré..Dunia..Tchamantché 

Ali Farka Touré &Toumani Diabate..Ruby..Ali & Toumani

Marcus Bonfanti..St James' Infirmary..Medicine Man

Alex Kumar..All My Love's In Vain..recorded in the Phonic FM studio

The Hot 8 Brass Band..Wolf Burger..Tombstone

Los Desterrados..Aguila Guila..Dos Amentes

Shirley Collins..Black Eyed Susan..The Power Of The True Love Knot

Jim Moray..The Captain's Apprentice..Skulk

Jackie Oates..The Posy Rhyme..Lullabies

Manu Delago feat. Isa Kurtz..Coincidence..Bigger Than Home

June Tabor..Brigg Fair..Quercus

Maria Buza with Tanaful Ciuleandra..Piatra, Piatra..The Gypsies of Wallachia

Mariza..Há Festa Na Mouraria..Fado Em Mim

Taxim Trio..Gozum..Taksim Trio

Shirzad Fataliyev & Kamran Karimov..Mugham Zamin-khara & Tasnif

Maz Totterdell..Little Puzzle..Sweep

Le Vent Du Nord..Winnebago..Tromper Le Temps

The Roots Union..The Straight & Narrow..The Roots Union

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin..Queen Gwendoline..Singing The Bones

Sarah VerLin & Billy Brandt..You Don't Know..Goin' Home

Tattie Jam..The Birkin Tree..Jam

Los De Abajo..El Loco (The Madman)..Cybertropic Chilango Power

Mariachi El Bronx..Great Provider..Mariachi El Bronx II

Jay Tamkin Band..Nice 'N' Jazzy..Sorted

Wade In The Water and Rock Me Baby

Monday 3rd June.
Got my orders from at least 3 very good musicians tonight.
Music played was:


Wolf Laurel (Bonus Track) ..Béla Fleck & The Flecktones.. Rocket Science (Deluxe Edition)
Interplay..6 Chick Corea.. No Mystery
All My Relations..Pura Fé.. Rough Guide To Native America
Guitarra Guitarra Mía ..Walter "Chino" Laborde & Diego "Dipi" Kvitko.. Tango Tango, Vol. 3
Rock Me Baby..Paul Ubana Jones.. At Al's 
Le furet dans la fôret en feu ..Baba Zula.. Gecekondu
Jama ko (feat. Mocky) [Bonus Track]..Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba..Jama ko
Yarleen ..Suuf.. Debbo Hande
Dem ..Azam Ali & Mercan Dede.. A Night in Istanbul - Female Voices of the Middle East
Cracovia..Berrogüetto.. 10.0
Marimbondo ..Bonga.. Best of Bonga
Rock Rumberu ..La Troba Kung-Fú.. Clavell Morenet
Troublant Bolero..Joscho Stephan.. Django Forever
Maria La Portuguesa ..Alexandra Sousa.. Sabor A Fado
Sofa kozh (an dro)..Startijenn.. Startijenn  
Parfum de Gitane ..Tend'm.. Une musique trad-urbaine en Centre France
When I Go Away..Levon Helm.. Electric Dirt
C'est l'heure pour changer (This Is the Time for Change) ..Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys.. Grand Isle
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show ..Stick McGhee.. The Best of Burlesque: 50 Original Club Classics
I Keep It To Myself ..Wilko Johnson.. The Best Of Wilko Johnson Volume 2  
Wade In The Water..Alice Louise..John Kerry..Soundcloud #
Carry The Dream..Phil Bird..Shape The Clay
Secret Love..Moor Reason..Secret Love E.P.
Corinne Corinna..Appaloosas..Appaloosas

Spiers and Boden plus Respect preview

John Spiers and Jon Boden brought their Backyard Songs to

Exeter Phoenix on 19 May 2013. Phonic FM's John Widzell met up with them in the concert break and recorded some of their set. Today we heard John's interview and Spiers and Boden's music. We heard
A Poem, Daddy Fox, a selection of Tunes, Captain Ward and Tom Padget.

Other recordings played were
The Tango Band..Nick's Clez
Dirtmusic..La Paix..Troubles
Paul Brady..Nothing But The Same Old Story..Bringing It All Back Home
Luka Bloom..You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time..Bringing It All Back Home
Dawangang..Talk About Birds II..Dawangang
Kate & Anna McGarrigle..Petite Annonce Amoureuse..Vache Qui Pleure
La Chavannée..Le Chateau De Milan..Avant Soleil Levé
Amadou Diagne..Jef Jel..Yakar
Phillip Hannah & Hannah Martin..Three Witches..Singing The Bones
Sculpture Music..Minor Songs In Major Keys..Minor Songs In Major Keys
Kouatchou..Smile..Change
Gadjo..Paranoska
Lampliter feat. Tobias Ben Jacob..Two Wanderers (In 1980s Clothes)..Lampliter
The Rheingans Sisters..October Song
Kanizsa Csillagai..N-Aj Foszt Tu Lingá Miny..Plinzsjé Puju
Richard Thompson..Another Small Thing in Her Favour..Electric

Expect the unexpected!

For all those who have asked this year's Roots and Shoots theme tune is:

Nick's Klez ..Tango Band.. Wind In The City 

This week there were some familiar a some not so familiar bands and musicians playing music as we took another journey around the globe. Paul Ubana Jones from New Zealand will be coming to our neck of the woods sometime soon. Watch ths space for details. Also The Tango Band, who play our theme tune also reresented Wales with a Tom Robinson song about street begging in the UK, an unpleasant reult of govenrment policies in the 1980s again on the increase under our present government.
And a new one from the Bootleg Swing Band as they prepare for a gig on the 31st May at the Kenn Centre, Kenford. Hope you'll be there. I will.

Tracks played were as follows:

Dança Mariquinha .. Luiz Gonzaga & Miguel Lima.. Songlines CD #91 (April/May 2013)
Razvivay, Dóbro .. Eva Quartet & Hector Zazou.. Songlines CD #91 (April/May 2013)
Aremu an me ‘Gapa’.. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.. Songlines CD #91 (April/May 2013) 
Si Tu Savais .. Bootleg Swing.. Demo 
Lady Day and John Coltrane.. Paul Ubana Jones.. At Al's
Pine Grove Blues..The Cajun Playboys.. Cajun Party!
Maiorais .. Bonga.. Maiorais
Can't Buy Me .. Femi Kuti.. Africa For Africa 
Dankou (feat. Zoumana Tereta) ..Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba.. Jama Ko
Le Guide de la Révolution (Simbad Remix) ..Bako Dagnon.. Le Guide de la Révolution
Begging .. Tango Band.. Last Tango In Powys 
What Comes Around (Goes Around) ..Dr. John.. Definitive Pop: Dr. John
Basta pastor ..Swing Gadjé.. La 13ème tribu
Adèle blanc sec / Derrière les carreaux ..La Chavannée.. Rage de danse
La nousille..Hamon Martin Quintet.. Les métamorphoses
Evershot Slammer ..The Destroyers.. Hole In the Universe
Fun Tashlikh..The Klezmatics.. Rhythm + Jews
Temptation ..Baba Zula.. Gecekondu  Deniz Dalgasiz Olmaz ..CENGIZ ÖZKAN.. The Rough Guide To Turkish Café
Vainajalan Tango .. Lepistö & Lehti.. Helsinki
Igreja De S. Estevao .. Alexandra Sousa.. Sabor A Fado  Senorita, Can You Tell?..Los Chiches..Fongo
Segunda..Caetano e Moreno Veloso..Recanto Gal
Bonnie Love..Devonbird..Hangman's Daughter

Roots and Shoots dates

Generally from now on, rootsandshoots will be on Mondays from 18:00 to 20:00 on all but the 4th Mondays of each month when Kat and Karen will present a new show, Shenanigans. Details of shows can be found on the Phonic FM website.

For this month only, Shenanigans went out on Monday 13 May. Martin Henning will present rootsandshoots today and Martin Hodge will present the show on Bank Holiday Monday 27 May.

Bank Holiday

Bank Holiday Monday and there wers plenty of sounds for you to listen to on the beach or in the garden while you enjoyed the sun.

These tracks were:

Who's Stepping Out .. Mezkala   Demo
Be That Man ..Goran Bregović Feat. Eugene Hütz.. Songlines CD #92 (June 2013) 
Lamm ar banniel - Polka ..Startijenn.. 'Kreiz da fas! 
Monophonie ..Pain d'Epices.. Équilibruiste 
Mar ..Agusto Cego..
Rosera de Abril ..Mendes Brothers.. The Gate of Return 1 
Kalabalak..Ahilea..Cafe Svetlana 
Obrenovac Boogie ..Kal..KAL 
Bakari ..Ahmed Dhaalu.. Raa 
Ragalé ..Akalé Wubé.. Akalé Wubé 
Ziva Zvaunoda..Alick Macheso and Orchestra Mberikwazvo.. Zvido Zvenyu Kunyanya 
Black Waterside ..The Angel Brothers and Satnam Singh.. From Punjab to Pit Top 
Inkling ..The Toids.. Unblocked Ears 
Liberación de Guelta..Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo.. Mabruk 
Le Guide de la Révolution (Simbad Remix)..Bako Dagnon.. Le Guide de la Révolution 
Mali Roori ..Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba.. Jama Ko 
Catching Kina ..The Mamaku Project.. Karekare 
Four Year-old Horse..MONGOL BAND.. Mongolian Music 
4 Daughters..Pura Fé.. Rough Guide To Native America 
Andalus ..Ramzi Aburedwan.. Reflections Of Palestine 
Mi sogno..Rosapaeda.. Mater Heart Folk 
Romantica Amazonia..Los Chinches..Fongo
Moorlough Shore..Caroline Lavelle..Spirit
Both Sides Of The Tweed..Mary Black..Celtic Tides

Martin and Martin with Devonbird

The two Martins were together again for rootsandshoots on Monday 29 April. 

We were very pleased to welcome the talented Devonbird for a live set.

 Listen 2 to recordings of Devonbird's set here. 

Devonbird are made up of Kathryn Bird (Vocals), Robert Weaton (Guitar & Vocals) and Sophie Colkin (Violin).

The songs they performed were as follows:
Hangman's Daughter
Purdy Jane
The Snows
Velvet

From their latest CD Hangman's Daughter we played:
The Brae
Oldways

Recordings played
Koby Israelite..Crayfish Hora (Suite Part 4)..Blues From Elsewhere
Alex Kumar..Rambling On My Mind..Phonic FM recording
Recordings from Padstow May Day Celebrations 2012
Billy Bragg..Verse for The Internationale..Recorded at Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebrations, 2009
Jackie Oates..The Posy Rhyme  /Bi Bi Og Blaka..Lullabies
Steve Mayone & Kristina Stykos The Cousins Project..Rescue Me..Beautiful Blood
June Tabor, Iain Ballamy & Hugh Warren..The Lads In Their Hundreds..Quercus
Blanche Rowan & Mike Gulston..Northill May Song / Mwynen Mai .. The Dance Goes On
Marion Ludvig & Steve Ellis..Á Tout Moment..Á Tout Moment
Alexandra Sousa.. Tudo Isto E Fado..Sabor A Fado
Altan.. An Grianan/Horse With A Heart..Celtic Tides
Allen Toussaint.. St. James Infirmary..The Bright Mississippi
Djal.. Ave Cesaria ..Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
Custodio Castelo..Danca El Tango.. empa Guitarra Portuguesa
Woodwose..Purgatory/Paradise..Dancing Stones
Phil Bird..Twister..Little Vessel For A Long Journey

Phil Bird & Anna Georgiou came to play.

5.4.13: Roots and Shoots with Martin Henning.
Phil Bird & Anna Georgiou collectively called 'Troubadour's Garden' came to play for us on Monday.
They are from Okehampton and apart from playing and singing beautiful songs run songwriting workshops,workshops in the visual arts and also a monthly Acoustic Music club at the Okement Centre in Okehampton.
They played the following songs live on air:
Giants Rise,
The witch of Lychfield Town
Ancient Shores
Salmon
Also I played a track from one of their CDs:
Little Vessel..Phil Bird + Jerry Carhill & Tim Harries.. Little Vessel for a  Long Journey
Cloudbusting .. Kate Bush.. The Whole Story 
Stick Stock .. Emily Portman.. Songlines CD #82 (March 2012) 
Sea Song .. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset.. The Bairns 
Fouet - Valse 3 T. ..Sous Le Pont.. Sous Le Pont 
Mazurka des grand-mères (mazurka créole)..La Machine.. Les Couleurs 
Tarantella Rouge & Noir ..Riccardo Tesi.. Banditaliana 
Barbed Wire Blues..Wilko Johnson.. The Best Of Wilko Johnson Volume 2 
Blue Drag..Allen Toussaint.. The Bright Mississippi
Sueña Como un Niño..Txarango.. Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge 
Guitarrada ..Alexandra Sousa.. Sabor A Fado 
Underdog ..Alex Bershadsky.. Junk 
Kamoukie ..Salif Keita.. M'Bemba 
Ndemdeli ..Somo Somo & Mose Fan Fan.. Hello Hello 

Got the Hang of it?

Today on rootsandshoots on Phonic FM we celebrated the Swiss instrument the Hang and an associated instrument, the Halo. 

 Listen to the show here. 

Matthew Calder joined Martin Hodge in the studio to play some music and give us some insights into these intriguing and beautiful instruments. Thanks a lot, Matt!

Left: Sculpture Music (Matthew Calder and John Shaw).

Below: Matt with Hang and Halo in the Phonic FM studio.


Matt gave us demonstrations of Halo and Hang playing. Accompanying himself on the Halo only, he sang Keep This Space. 

Matthew Calder and John Shaw (double bass) perform as Sculpture Music.

They have an EP out featuring their own songs: Minor Songs In Major Keys and it is well recommended.
From it we played the title track plus Small World.

See Sculpture Music on Youtube.

Find more information on Sculpture Music's website where you will see details of their gigs. Gigs include the Exeter Respect Festival in June. 

We also heard Hang and drum player Manu Delago and friends with Medina II from his latest album Bigger Than Home. 

Later in the show I played a track by Alizbar & Christian Amin Varkonyi who, respectively, played Celtic Harp and Hang.

Other recordings played:

Orchestre De Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou..Karateka..Orchestre De Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou Vol. 3: The Skeletal Essences Of Voodoo Funk
Queen Biz..Wallou..Teranga Senegal!
Airleke..Wanchef..Weapon Of Choice
Los Clinches..Gracias..Fongo
Phillip Henry..Lagan Love / Banish Misfortune..Live In The Living Room
Jackie Oates..Junk..Lullabies
17 Hippies..Deine Tränen
Alizbar & Christian Amin Varkonyi..Melting Snowflakes On Her Hand

In the second half of the show, I spoke on a phone line to Cate Ferris and The Little Unsaid aka John Elliott about their music and their gigs including Exeter Bike Shed Theatre on Friday 12 April.

Follow pic link to see Cate Ferris and The Little Unsaid in Halifax

Website links here:    Cate Ferris    The Little Unsaid

Songs played by The Little Unsaid were There Go All Our Wide-eyed Days and Midnight On An Island, the latter out as a single and to be included on his forthcoming album.

From Cate Ferris we heard Leave A Light On and Condensation.
both from her new EP Get Set GO.

I plugged this event - happening on Saturday 13 April at Exeter Phoenix for Phonic FM:

Appearing are the following artists (songs played on the show listed)...

Alex Kumar..All My Love's In Vain
The Swamp Gods..Monotoid..Space Junk
Jay Tamkin..You've Got The Heart / You've Changed