It’s the Begilufin SITAR show Chapter 2!
This evening your musicalogicalist hosts Ziv Lode and Dan Abbott twang you through sixty minutes of tunes themed around SITARS! SITARS! SITARS!
There's a fine line between GOOD SITAR and BAD SITAR and tonight's transglobal selection will dance merrily between both sides. We advise all listeners suffering from chronic sitar-allergy to tune in and pay close attention, the side-effects will be worth it.
On tonight’s “Island” section we wrap our heads around the "Mentallogenic", the debut album by Venezuelan-Portuguese maestro Alex Figueira: a twilight zone fever-dream full of humid grooves and short-circuiting keyboards. The perfect Begilufin record basically.
As always, this is spontaneous and rather silly radio - we always throw in a couple of mistakes for your entertainment.
- Transglobal Underground feat. Sheema Mukherjee - Seven Vows
- The Vampires Sound Incorporation - The Lion and the Cucumber
- The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey
- Les Claypool - Philippino Ray
- The Folkswingers - Raga Rock
- Alex Figueira - Esquiso
- Alex Figueira - Serious
- Ek Minute Baba - Das Model
- Kikagaku Moyo - Monaka
- Volker Kriegel - Zoom
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.
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