BBC Radio 6 Music - Dream Time, Lift your spirits… with Zakia
BBC Radio 6 Music - Dream Time, Lift your spirits… with Zakia
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Sun 23 Feb 2025
Lift your spirits… with Zakia
Join Zakia for another voyage through spirit-lifting sounds, from sacred chants to free-jazz rhythms. Plus South African cellist Abel Selaocoe shares his dreams and his new album.
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DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…
Join Zakia for another voyage through sounds to lift your spirits. This week’s guest is the South African cellist, composer and vocalist Abel Selaocoe, who shares music from his new album Hymns of Bantu and reflects on dreams in South African culture as a means of communicating with the ancestors. He also introduces what he believes to be the dreamiest instrument - the begenna, a 10-stringed lyre from Ethiopia, sometimes called King David’s Harp.
Elsewhere Zakia shares more sweet sounds from South Africa and beyond. There are sacred chants from Senegalese monks, French avant-garde sounds from the 1970s and some keyboard fantasies from Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Plus a whole stack of new releases, including from Melbourne’s Intermood, Glasgow’s Rebecca Vasment, Philadelphia’s Onilu and the Stockholm duo of Johan Jutterström and Alex Zethson.
Music Played
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Keur Moussa
Mon ame exalte le seigneur ("My Soul Exalts The Lord")
- Keur Moussa (Sacred Chant & African Rhythms From Senegal).
- Sounds True.
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Kyle Shepherd Trio
For Oumou Sangare
- A Dance More Sweetly Played.
- Matsuli Music.
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Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes
Frica
- Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes.
- International Anthem.
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Thomas Dolby
I Scare Myself
- The Flat Earth.
- Parlophone Odeon Series.
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Intermood
Casuarina
- Casuarina.
- Stone Pixels.
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Azumah
Saphelisizwe
- Long Time Ago.
- Nyami Nyami.
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Abel Selaocoe
Dinaka
- Hymns of Bantu.
- Parlophone / Warner Classics.
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JACK Quartet
The Wind in High Place: II. Maclaren Summit
- The Wind in High Places.
- Cold Blue Music.
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Rhythm & Bliss
Love Is The Sun
- Paul Hillery presents Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume 3.
- BBE Music.
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Rebecca Vasmant
Rooted (feat. Paix and Emilie Boyd)
- Who We Are.
- New Soil.
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Ocean Moon
Plains of Paradise
- Ways To The Deep Meadow.
- Music From Memory.
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Beverly Glenn‐Copeland
Ever New
- Keyboard Fantasies.
- Transgressive.
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Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O
South African Jam
- TRUE STORY.
- New Soil.
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Abel Selaocoe
Tsohle Tsohle
- Hymns of Bantu.
- Parlophone / Warner Classics.
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Alemu Aga
Hossana (Cry Of Praise And Adoration To God)
- The Begenna of Elders.
- Laika Records.
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Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor
Invocation
- Onilu.
- eremite records.
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Areski Belkacem
Un Beau Matin
- Un Beau Matin.
- Saravah.
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Alabaster dePlume
Invincibility
- A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole.
- International Anthem.
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Alex Zethson + Johan Jutterström
It could have been very very beautiful (John Lurie)
- Live at Liljevalchs April 14, 2023.
- thanatosis.
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Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone
An Expanse II
- Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone - ◯.
- Good Morning Tapes.
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Henrik Lindstrand
The world is big
- Space Between.
- Lime Tree Beach Recordings.
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Tim Hecker
Sunset Key Melt
- Shards.
- kranky.
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KO:MI
Turning the Gaze
- Belonging in Nature.
- Minna Records.
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Calming River
Havelock
- Havelock.
- Calming River.
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Calming River & Sopraterra
The Primal Regret
- Seven Dances To Embrace The Hollow.
- Präsens Editionen.
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Lawrence English
Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds I
- Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds.
- Room40.
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Miriam Makeba
Kilimanjaro
- The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba.
- Kapp Records.