Ladies and Gentlemen, on last week’s Treasure Nest, the pitched battle between conflict and protest left the Rhubarb Radio studio spattered with blood and feathers, and both Soesmix and Magpie had to have a little weep after handing over to Whomanity.
This edition of Treasure Nest, by contrast, is calm and twinkly, just like the first day of Spring, and Persian New Year, should be.
The sweet, sultry rebellion of Sarah McQuaid’s The Chickens They Are Crowing, is the opening number not only to this week’s Treasure Nest, but to her dreamlike album I Won’t Go Home Til Morning. Once, suffering from work induced exhaustion in the back seat of a National Express coach from Stansted Airport, temporarily flightless, Magpie fell asleep to this track and dreamt her way home with McQuaid as the soundtrack- it was a profoundly soothing experience.
As ever, a healthy dose of Canadian gorgeousness crept its way into the nest. The Be Good Tanyas, The Mountains And The Trees and The Wilderness of Manitoba can definately stay (Big Little, consider yourself nodded to).
Soesmix provided a soft pillowed cloud of slumber in the form of three tracks from The Planet Sleeps, and that’s just what we did in the cosiest corner of the studio we could find, before rousing the airwaves gently with Danish electro magician DJ Disse, Mexican voice of the poets Carmina Cannavino and Alpha Blondy. Loveliness as standard.
The Chickens They Are Crowing – Sarah McQuaid
Too Many Cooks – Portico Quartet
O Canto Da Sereia – Alessandro Penezzi
Horses – The Be Good Tanyas
Up & Down – The Mountains & The Trees
Evening – The Wilderness of Manitoba
Yhanaway Hay Yowna – Sherry Blakey-Smith
Ana Latu – Kingdom of Tonga Cultural Group
Passing Time – John Fairhurst
Sept Marins – Ffynnon
Ramadan – Dj Disse
Forever My Friend – Ray LaMontagne
Time Lapse Lifeline – Maria Taylor
Seven Yellow Gypsies – Shirley Collins
Luna Mulata – Carmina Cannavino
Sleep, Queen of the Dolls – Baluji Shrivastav
I Shall Cross This River (live) - The Black Atlantic
Mayi a Gaye – Boukman Eksperyans
Quelques souvenirs – Jan Felipe
Solid Air – John Martyn
Relicário – Cássia Eller com Nando Reis
Sea Of Love – Cat Power
A La Claire Fontaine – Crowfoot
Take This Hammer – Taj Mahal
Expectations – Belle & Sebastian
Hohou Te Rongo – Whirimako Black
Nahwia – Baka Beyond
Wango Arti – Baaba Maal
Jerusalem – Alpha Blondy
On this week’s Treasure Nest, we’re getting in touch with our inner animal – sliding back down that evolutionary ladder, reawakening all the wee beasties of our past existence. So take off your clothes, get down on all fours and set yourself a-howlin’, this treetop shrine is primal.
