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Sonic Bloom's very first outing on community station RTM.fm!

Dive into glorious sound worlds, celebrate the winter season and perhaps the ultimate melodic instrument: the voice.

First broadcast on RTM.fm Sunday 1st December 2019

Tracklist:
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Winter 1. 
Old Reinlender from Sonndala - (Traditional) Wood Works by The Danish String Quartet 
Glass Houses No.9 - Ann Southam, performed by Stephen Clarke 
Church Bells Beyond the Stars - Cecelia McDowell, performed by John Kitchen 
Salt Lakes - Let’s Eat Grandma
Bustle - Mammal Hands 
3 Syncopated Rambles: No.3 The Milkman 6 am - Billy Mayerl, performed by Philip Martin 
Modul 35 (Live) - Nik Bartsch 
Losing My Taste for the Night Life - Arthur Russell cover by Devendra Banhart 
Winter Variation - Meredith Monk 
We Praise Thee - Sergei Rachmanninov 
Tsintskaro - Hamlet
Mother of God, Here I Stand - John Tavener 
In Dulci Jubilo - Chanticleer 
Two Pieces for strings from Henry V: Passacaglia - Death of Falstaff - William Walton 
Moonmoons - Anna Meredith, FIBS 
Electric Counterpoint: I Fast
Electric Counterpoint: II Slow
Electric Counterpoint: III Fast - Steve Reich, performed by Pat Metheny 
High Waving Heather - The Unthanks 
Glittering - Let’s Eat Grandma 
O Magnum Mysterium - Nordic Chamber Choir, Palestrina 
Glory to thee my God this night - Thomas Tallis, The Cambridge Singers 
Cloudburst - Eric Whitacre, BYU Singers 
Vide Cor Meum - Patrick Cassidy & Hans Zimmer 
Overflow - Let’s Eat Grandma 
Factory Girls - Elma Orkestra 
Renaissance Moon - Laura Mvula

Sonic Bloom - Season One

S1 | Ep1 Sonic Bloom: The Voice (01.12.2019)

Join Raevennan on her first sonic adventure of the new decade. 

Pre-recorded in various locations across the Emerald Isle, we hear from brother and sister Dara and Naoise who give us some insight into their new year's resolutions and other pearls of childhood wisdom.

Music from Laura Cannell, Laurie Spiegel, Yazz Ahmed and Caroline Eyck.


First broadcast on RTM.fm on 5th January 2020


Tracklist:
Harmony of the Spheres - Byron Wallen
Waves - Caroline Eyck 
Moderato Cantibile - Felicia Atkinson
Flaxen Fields - Laura Cannell
Three Sonic Spheres I,II,III - Laurie Spiegel
Mercury - Laurel Halo
Emotivo - Christoph and Manu Delago
Electrickery - Little People (Racheal Boyd Remix)
Native Sense - Chick Corea + Gary Burton
Bloom - Yazz Ahmed
Appalachian Spring//Coda - Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring//Coda - BJ Cole and Emily Burridge
Medusa (Instrumental) -  Moulettes
Night Journey - Thomas Newman 
Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Anna Meredith -Blackfriars

S1 | Ep2 Sonic Bloom: New Beginnings (05.01.2020)

RH guides you on a musical quest in search of solace, understanding and common ground in times of uncertainty. To get there we are prepared to push boundaries, forge new paths and importantly look out for one another.

With music from Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion, Jean Philippe Rameau, Submotion Orchestra, Shostakovich and Moulettes.

S1 | Ep3 Sonic Bloom: Make Man Your Homeland (02.02.2020)

This month's episode is a heady mixture of well known classics and new-to-me sonic findings. 

From Eric Whitacre's ethereal a cappella works to the life-force that is Barnacles, Brighton's Horn heavy groove based quintet, there's something for you in this 2hr adventure. 

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S1 | Ep4 Sonic Bloom: Stranger Than Fiction

Lie back; you're in a warm sea, floating
The water lapping at salty skin, holding you 
Listen...


This episode is more of a gentle stroll than a quest to uncover boundary-smashing works. I had a dream which featured a Meredith Monk piece - she might have been there too, I'm not sure. 

Let's both find out; grab those headphones and let's go.

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First broadcast on RTM.fm on 5th April 2020

S1 | Ep5 Sonic Bloom: Peculiar Dance (05.04.2020)

Suitably rested and refreshed, Sonic Bloom returns for the Season 2 debut and the first show of 2021.

With music from Soweto Kinch, Wadada Leo Smith and Sarathy Korwar to name but a few, catch up with the latest sonorous delights right here. 

Tracklist: 

Four Tet - Moma
John Cage, Alexei Lubimov - In a Landscape
Corey Mwamba, Peter Fairclough - Four Free to One
Sarathy Korwar - So said Said
Wadada Leo Smith - Kulture of Jazz
Soweto Kinch - Tripwire
The Bad Plus - Love is the Answer
Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke - His Rope
YolanDa Brown - General PoliTricks
Courtney Pine - A Change is Sure to Come
Four Tet - Parallel 9
Gori Women’s Choir - Orovela (Georgian folksong)
Debussy, Bertrand Chamayou - Cello Sonata in D Minor, L.135: I. Prologue
Nazif Celaj - Atje Te Ura Ne Lume
Benjamin Britten, London Symphony Orchestra - Four Sea Interludes, Op.33a: III Moonlight (andante comodo e rubato)
Eric Whitacre, Voces8 - Sleep
Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came

Sonic Bloom: Season Two

S2 | Ep 1 Sonic Bloom: January 2021

Blending euphony and cacophony in varying degrees, with visitation from The Comet is Coming, a new release from Moulettes and a meditative piece of infinite variation by Linda Catlin Smith.

There is no hurry, there is no need to hurry.


First broadcast Sunday 21st February 2021 on RTM.fm

Tracklist:

Oakunar Lynntuja (Strange Birds) - Carolina Eyck, American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Capricho Arabe - Francisco Tarrega, David Russell
Requiem - Anonymous, David Popper
Parallel 10 - Four Tet
Funeral Canticle - John Tavener, Academy of Ancient Music
Picture // Frame Pt.1 (Electric) - Hannah Moule & the Moulettes
Journey Through the Asteroid Belt - The Comet is Coming
Max Brown -Jeff Parker
Improvisation on Scarlatti - Chick Corea
Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor K9, L413 Allegro - Chick Corea
Sanctus Benedictus - Sarah Kirkland Snider, Gallicantus
Meadow - Linda Catlin Smith
Mantra - Lucie Treacher
Linear Construction (No. 5) - Gabriella Swallow
Eight Part-songs, Op.119: The Bluebird - Charles Villiers Stanford, Choir of New College Oxford
Ballate a Ballu Tundu - Ligeti Quartet

S2 | Ep2 Sonic Bloom: February 2021

Spring has sprung and [SB-HQ] is full of joy! Join host Raevennan Husbandes as she shares her new musical discoveries and re-examines some golden oldies.

Tracklist:

Laura Mvula and the Metropole Orkest - Make Me Lovely
Frederick Delius, Nicolas Cleobury, Britten Sinfonia - On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Jacob Collier - Light It Up On Me
Meshell Ndegeocello - Friends
Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep
Kate Bush - Under Ice
Kate Bush - Waking The Witch
Duotone - Finally Unwoven
Nikolay Kedrov, The King’s Singers - Otche Nash
Arvo Pärt, Tasmin Little - Spiegel im Spiegel
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Neville Mariner, Iona Brown, Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields - The Lark Ascending
Sjón, Björk, The Hamrahlíð Choir - Sonnets
Duotone - Married to the Sea
BJ Cole, Davy Spillane - First Resolve (feat Davy Spillane)
Dmitri Shostakovich, The Danish String Ensemble - String Quartet No. 15 in E flat Minor, mvmt I - VI
Anna Meredith - moonmoons

S2 | Ep 3 Sonic Bloom: March 2021

An hour special with Raevennan Husbandes + bandmate Hannah Moule  sharing a selection of the music and artists they love for #InternationalWomensDay2021

First broadcast Saturday 13th March 2021, on RTM.fm

Tracklist:
Laura Mvula - She
Kate Bush -Watching You Without Me
Janelle Monae - Pynk
ESKA - Shades of Blue
Esperanza Spalding - Heaven in Pennies
Sylvan Esso - Train
Wallis Bird - Woman Oh Woman!
Garance & the Mitochondries - Un Nit de lit
Nuala Honan - Slow Down
Richie Phoe ft Kassia Zermon - Baby I Love You So
Emahoy - The Homeless Wanderer
Ann Southam - Glass House No. 9
Kate in the Kettle - Nighttime Forest Bath
Anna Meredith - Blackfriars

S2 | Ep * Sonic Bloom Presents - Phenomenal Women for IWD - March 2021

Enjoy a new instalment of Sonic Bloom, live and springing into Spring from their HQ in South-East London - playing you the best in contemporary classical, jazz, choral and avant-garde.

Guaranteed to get you thinking.

S2 | Ep 4 Sonic Bloom: April 2021

Enter the world of Sonic Bloom for a heady mixture of sonorous delights and the occasional aural challenge. Almost anything goes...

Stay tuned for your #HeadphonesMoment and to discover a new #ArtistOfTheMonth!

First broadcast on Sunday 16th May 2021 on RTM.fm


Tracklist:

Schola Cantorum - Trollsdan
Nerija - Where It Ends And Begins
Nidia - Capacidades
Emma-Jean Thackray - Say Something
Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
Oneohtrix Point Never - Americans
John Adams/Sir Simon Rattle/City of Birmingham Orchestra - Harmonielehre I,II,III
Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life
Schola Cantorum - Immortal Bach
Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow
Heloise Tunstall-Behrens - Honeycomb
Sarah Davachi - Still Lives
Florence Price - Dances in the Canebrakes: I, II, III
Mica Levi, Oliver Coates - Pre-Barok
Caterina Barbieri, Walter Zanetti - Fantas for Electric Guitar
Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson - Our Street is a Black River
Patrick Cassidy - Vide Cor Meum

S2 | Ep 5 Sonic Bloom: May 2021

Your handpicked June playlist features new releases, discoveries and euphonic-revisits.

Discover this month's Sonic Bloom #HeadphonesMoment and #ArtistOfTheMonth with host Raevennan Husbandes.


First broadcast on Sunday 13th June 2021 on RTM.fm

Tracklist: 

David Byrne, St. Vincent - Who
Kelsey Lu, Yves Tumor - let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out
Joby Talbot, Tenebrae - Leon
The Unthanks - Magpie
Hannah Moule & the Moulettes - Xenolalia pt 1 (strings)
Analogue Players Society, Ben Rubin - Starry Night (feat. Ben Rubin)
Mia Doi Todd, Jeff Parker, Money Mark - Music Life
Sevdaliza - Shahmaran
Meara O’Reilly - Hockets for Two Voices: II -
The Japanese House - Saw You in a Dream
Josienne Clarke - Sit Out
Nik Bartsch - Modul 35 (live)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Third Decade
Meredith Monk - Acts From Under And Above: Double Fiesta
Jaimie Branch - Theme 002
Jaimie Branch - Twenty-three n me, jupiter redux
John Adams, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tracy Silverman - The Dharma at Big Sur: Pt.1 - A New Day
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Moses Sumney - Soon It Will Be Fire

S2 | Ep 6 Sonic Bloom: June 2021

Raevennan Husbandes returns to guide and navigate you through various sound worlds for another Sonic Bloom experience.


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First broadcast on Sunday 8th August, 2021 on RTM.fm



Tracklist:

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Bach, The Modern Mandolin Quartet
Chacarera - Esperanza Spalding
Salmon - Kate in the Kettle -
Venus - Becca Stevens
Cloudbursting - Kate Bush
Renaissance Moon - Laura Mvula
I see the Sign - Kronos Quartet, Sam Amidon
And the Swallow - Caroline Shaw
Sunny Land - Kansas Smittys
Testing Testing Testing (jingle) - Raevennan Husbandes & Hannah Moule
Just did a bad thing - Bill Wurtz
Back pocket - Vulfpeck
Flexy Bill - BUNTY
O Fredrik, O Fredrik - Danish String Quartet
Honey Dripper- RQJ
Melodic Group Shapes iii - Daphne Oram:
Jory II - Bruno Pernadas
Mes Stou Aigaiou Ta Nisia - Nena Venetsanou
Solo? Repeat! - Anna Muller
Immortal Bach - Schola Cantorum
String Quartet No 6 in G Major, Movement IV: Allegretto - Shostakovich, Borodin Quartet
Lux Aurumque - BYU Singers, Eric Whitacre, Ronald Staheli
Still - Voces8
Before The Dawn - Laura Mvula

S2 | Ep 7 Sonic Bloom: August 2021

One of my favourites and the penultimate Sonic Bloom broadcast of 2021. This intergalactic transmission is full of favourites, old and new! 

Including The Breath, Björk, Moses Sumney and some pure unadulterated funk guaranteed to get your head boppin'.

What's that? Not funky enough?  Yo' headphones must be faulty!! TURN IT UPPPP!


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First broadcast 5th September 2021 on RTM.fm

Tracklist:

My Queen is Nanny of the Maroons - Sons of Kemet
Slush - Royce Wood Junior
Song for my brother - Avishai Cohen
The Games: Spaceship - Meredith Monk, Bang on a Can
Inky Sea - Laura Groves
Jag haver ingen karare - Akervinda
Aziza - Bazar Bla
Cut Me - Moses Sumney
Barefoot in the Park - James Blake, ROSALIA
Ekute - Pino Palladino, Blake Mills
Puerto De Santa Maria - Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero
Holili - Miriam Makeba, THe Skylarks
Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a - Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet
Let The Cards Fall - The Breath
Vous vouez me faire chanter - Quintetto Nigra
The Anchor Song - Bjork
Heyr himna smigur - Voces8
Canons and Overtones - Donnacha Dennehy, Crash Ensemble
Idiolect Pt.3 (Horns) Hannah Moule and the Moulettes
Fall Into Me - Alev Lenz, Roomful of Teeth
Mass for the Endangered: Kyrie - Sarah Kirkland Snider, Gallicantus
Supreme - Ratatat

S2 | Ep 8 Sonic Bloom: September 2021

Raevennan Husbandes shares her favourite spooky Classical faves. Hear works from Berlioz, Pärt, Zoë Keating, Carl Orff and more.


October Headphones Moment: Stay On It by Julius Eastman
Artist of the Month: Glenn Gould


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First broadcast on Sunday 31st October 2021, on RTM.fm


Tracklist: 

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns
Flutter - The Unthanks
Canticles of the Sky: I. Sky with Four Suns - John Luther Adams, Northwestern University Cello Ensemble, Hans Jørgen Jensen
Fratres - Arvo Pärt, Tasmin Little, Martin Roscoe
Nothing Really Blue - Penguin Café Orchestra
Stay On It - Julius Eastman, So Ensemble, MEDIAQUEER
Holiday Dairy, Op. 5: II. Sailing - Benjamin Britten, Stephen Hough
It’s A Secret pt 1: Electronica - Moulettes ft No Compliments
Sing to the Moon - Laura Mvula, The Choir of Pembroke College Cambridge
Symphonie Fantastique: Songe d’une nuit de sabbat - Hector Berlioz, Sir Colin Davis, LSO
Under Ice - Kate Bush
Waking the Witch - Kate Bush
Escape Artist - Zoë Keating
The Revenant (Main Theme) - Ryuichi Sakamoto, alva noto
Grandmother Moon - Eleanor Daley, The Choir of Pembroke College Cambridge
Beethoven: Instrumental - Glenn Gould
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna - Carl Orff, Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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S2 | Ep 9 Sonic Bloom: October 2021

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