« Begilufin » Berlin Live: Cities! (#1) #84
Dan & Ziv, James Brown, Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, The Orient Express, Midnight Peacocks and more.
It’s the Begilufin CITY SPECIAL!
Your urban hosts Ziv Lode and Dan Abbott have scoured the urban wastelands for songs about cities. Or at least songs which have a city in the title. The actual song might be about embroidery, cheese or goat farming but we can guarantee that it will have the name of a city in its title. It’s a system and it works for us! We’re so professional.
As always, we’ll try and cram in tunes from as many different countries as possible into a ear-spinning atlas of musical anarchy.
Live … and slightly dangerous! But only slightly.
Genuine radio from a slightly damp basement in the middle of Berlin.
Which is a city too.
Begilufin
Begilufin is an hour long radio show broadcast live twice a month from the heart Berlin on the station Pi Radio. On Begilufin we play a wild, confusing mess of international sounds, stretching from the birth of recorded music to something we heard two days ago. We do our best to ignore the normal, accentuate the weird, and ignore borders, boundaries and time-zones. Each show revolves around a central theme and then we surprise each other (and you, dear listener) with our selections live on air.
Since you ask, ‘Begilufin’ is a Hebrew word meaning intoxicated, inebriated, drunk, sozzled or smashed - a perfect description of the delirious off-centre mix of crazed music we like to spin on the show or indeed the effect it might have on your ears.
Begilufin was created by Ziv Lode in 2010. Ziv was joined by Dan Abbott a couples of years later after a chance meeting in a kindergarten playground revealed a mutual love of the music of Erkin ‘The Turkish Hendrix’ Koray.