Now I know where Ritchie Blackmore got the tune he threw into the middle of "Lazy" on the Made in Japan album!

numberstation

The Kernel called the MI6's secret telephone number for spies in the Middle East.

The Lincolnshire Poacher

Rare correction message from EAM. Skip to 2:37 for correction message. I've never head this voice on any EAM messages before. Recorded on 01.08.2014 1635UTC on 4724kHz USB from http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

EAM-With-Correction - 4724USB - 01.08.2014 - 1635UTC

Used by Ukrainian SZRU (Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine)

TRANSCRIPTION:

537 810 6 54545 50124 99477 83574 48874 94031

S06s (Russian Lady)Numbers Station (9170 Khz) recorded on 24/02/15

Music, arrangement and lyrics by Vashti Bunyan

Now based in Edinburgh, Vashti’s story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-‘60s, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones’ guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as ‘the new Marianne Faithful’ or the ‘female Bob Dylan’ (though Vashti claimed to be neither), yet further singles remained unreleased, leading to a sense of despair and a rejection of the music industry. She bought a horse and cart and set off in 1968 for the dream of a creative colony that the singer Donovan was setting up on the Scottish Isle of Skye. It took them two long years to get there, by which time Donovan had left, but the experience formed the songs for ‘Just Another Diamond Day’, the album recorded by Joe Boyd (and featuring members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention). 
The record slipped out in a tiny pressing and was rapidly forgotten, yet gradually over the years accrued a cultish currency as a lost English classic. In the late ‘90s, ‘JADD’ was re-released – almost thirty years after she had “abandoned it and music forever” - to huge critical acclaim (The Observer Music Monthly placed it at 53 in their ‘Top 100 British albums’). A host of young, new admirers emerged citing her influence, and Vashti has since recorded with Piano Magic, The Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective.  
A brand new album,  ‘Lookaftering’ was released in October 2005 to huge acclaim. In October 2008 a world premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Vashti’s life was screened at the prestigious British Film Institute, as part of The London Film Festival, by BAFTA winning director Kieran Evans. 
Following another hiatus in her song-writing and recording, a new album 'Heartleap', recorded mostly by Vashti herself in her own studio, was released on FatCat in October 2014.
Links:
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/site/artists/vashti-bunyan
http://anotherday.co.uk/


Vashti Bunyan - Across The Water

Talking Quietly of Anything With You by Free Cake For Every Creature coming 2016 on DDW.

Track List:
1. Talking Quietly of Anything With You
2. All You Gotta Be When You’re 23 Is Yourself
3. Chubby Cows
4. I Wanna Make You Bread
5. First Summer in a City
6. Susie (Now I’m Cryin’)
7. For You
8. So Much Strange To Give
9. First Storm of the Summer
10. Still Movin’ 

Free Cake For Every Creature :: First Summer in a City

Numbers station 4584 khz 0230 UTC

"The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations" is a five-CD set of recordings of numbers stations, and Noise Stations; mysterious shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with spies "in the field". The collection is released by England's Irdial-Discs record label in 1997, based on the work of numbers station enthusiast Akin Fernandez.

This is the enhanced, clear audio version of  "The Swedish Rhapsody" (Disc 1 - Track 1)

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Conet Project - The Swedish Rhapsody - irdial (enhanced audio)

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