Sun 7 Sep 2025

BBC Radio 6 Music - Dream Time, Music from the mists of time… with Zakia

Music from the mists of time… with Zakia

Zakia pulls out medieval-inspired selections and renaissance bangers, with reflections on music and the Middle Ages from modern-day bard Muco.

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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…

Dive deep into the mists of time with Zakia and a big stack of medieval sounds, renaissance selections and plenty of choral music. There’ll be chants from monks in Senegal, a jazzy take on Greensleeves, and a bit of everyone’s favourite 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. There’s also plenty of medieval-inspired folk and prog rock from the 60s and 70s, including King Crimson, John Renbourn, Donovan and The Yardbirds, as well as a load of new releases with an ancient twist, from the likes of Tarta Relena, Maurice Louca, Laura Cannell and Susannah Stark.

Plus, we hear from the British-Burundian modern-day bard Muco, whose latest release reimagines Middle English folk songs accompanied by the Inanga, a zither from Burundi. Muco reflects on his dreams, his medieval inspirations, and introduces a song inspired by a 7th-century poem that supposedly came to its author in a dream…

Music Played

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  King Crimson

  Moonchild

  • In the Court of the Crimson King.
  • Island/Atlantic.

• 

  Laura Cannell

  A Piece of Ravaged Gold

  • THE VISIBLE LIGHT OF OTHER WORLDS.
  • Brawl Records.

• 

  Ψαραντώνης

  Sose me giatre mou

  • Σώσε με γιατρέ μου from Σαϊτέματα / Saïtemata.
  • EMI.

• 

  Tarta Relena

  Mano Decima

  • És pregunta.
  • Latency.

• 

  Donovan

  Peregrine

  • The Hurdy Gurdy Man.
  • Epic.

• 

  Maurice Louca

  Lawendi

  • Barĩy (Fera) برٌِي,.
  • Simsara Records.

• 

  John Coltrane

  Greensleeves (Take 4)

  • Ballads (2002 Deluxe Edition).
  • Impulse!.

• 

  Forest

  Graveyard

  • Full Circle.
  • Harvest.

• 

  Muco

  Mirie It Is

  • Summer Crossing.

• 

  Fatima Al Qadiri

  Zandaq

  • Medieval Femme.
  • Hyperdub.

• 

  Choeur des Moines de l'abbaye de Keur Moussa au Sénégal

  Psaume 91 - Chant d'action de grâce

  • Quand Renaît Le Matin.

• 

  The Yardbirds

  Still I'm Sad

  • Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds.
  • Epic.

• 

  Jerry & The Catalinas

  The Arabian Knight

  • Technicolor Paradise - Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights].
  • Numero Group.

• 

  John Renbourn

  Sarabande

  • The Lady and the Unicorn.
  • Transatlantic Records.

• 

  Jean‐Luc Ponty

  Renaissance

  • Aurora.
  • Atlantic.

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  Muco

  Caedmon's Hymn

  • Book of Voices.

• 

  Mermaid Chunky

  Medieval

  • slif slaf slof.
  • DFA Records.

• 

  Meredith Monk

  Mieke's Melody no.5

  • Impermanence.
  • ECM.

• 

  Alfred Deller & Deller Consort

  Ah, Robin

  • Tavern Songs (Catches, Glees And Other Diverse Entertainments Of Merrie England).
  • The Bach Guild.

• 

  Jeremy Summerly & Oxford Camerata

  O ignis spiritus

  • Hildegard Von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations.
  • Naxos.

• 

  Susannah Stark & Band

  Caochan

  • Minor Gestures.
  • STROOM.

• 

  Cemetery Knight

  Echoes

  • The Portal.

• 

  Wojciech Rusin

  Origins of Pleasure

  • Syphon.
  • AD 93.

• 

  Biophony

  Waldhorn Choir

  • IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES.
  • 99CHANTS.

• 

  Arianne Churchman

  Floral Horse Pyramid Visioning

  • Floral Horse Pyramid Visioning (Dream Horse Cult Recordings Vol.1).
  • Thanet Tape Centre.

• 

  Daisy Press

  Frondens Virga

  • You Are The Flower Music From Hildegard Von Bingen Vol. 1.
  • Daisy Press.

• 

  Park Jiha

  First Buds

  • All Living Things.
  • Glitterbeat Records.

• 

  Orbury Common

  Golden Time

  • Sylvan Chute.
  • PRAH Recordings.

• 

  Annelies Monseré

  Dark Ages (Organ)

  • I sigh, I resign.

• 

  Dean Blunt

  Flaxen

  • The Redeemer.
  • Hippos in Tanks/World Music].