Every two months David Little hosts Stranger Lights – on listen.camp: A deep dive into consciousness-altering sounds across the genres and decades.
Expect to hear anything from brain-melting psychedelia, motorik beats and heavy drones to jazz, dub, acid folk and contemporary classical composition. Plus a whole load of things in between.
Shows
Episode 12: 24 January 2025, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 12 track listing
- Zior – Entrance of the Devil
- The Witching Tale – Within her Flame
- Vashti Bunyan – Winter is Blue
- Laura Cannell – Follow the Moonlight Til Dawn
- Pefkin – You Within its Branching Arms
- Goat – Mind is Like the Sky
- SML – Feed the Birds
- Sandy Denny – Late November
- Black Widow – Come to The Sabbat
- Black Sabbath – N.I.B.
- Helicon – Tae the Moon
Episode 11: 29 November 2024, 14:00-1:500 GMT
Episode 11 track listing
- Gaudi Kosmisches Trio – Torpedo Forward
- Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
- Circle – Alotus
- Alan Sparhawk – Get Still
- Islet – Euphoria
- Broadcast and the Focus Group – The Be Colony
- Hawksmoor – Nuclear Kites
- Craven Faults – Deipkier
- Vosh, Moore and Barbiero – Stratigram #2
- The Hologram People – Sun Breaks on Saturn
Episode 10: 04 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 10 track listing
- The Jesters – The Jester
- The Bevis Frond – Termination Station Grey
- Lines of Silence – Tzip Tzap!
- Lines of Silence – Phantom Galaxy
- Ghost Dubs – Chemical
- Heldon – Bal a fou
- Verstärker – Nachthimmel
- Three Quarter Skies – Crows
- Japanese Television – Typhoon Reggae Police
- Hazelene – Every Loss
- Beak> – Denim
- Lines of Silence – The Long Way Home
Episode 9: Stranger Lights 1974 Special – Part 2, 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 9 track listing
- Hawkwind – Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke)
- Richard Thompson – The Cavalry Cross
- Can – Dizzy Dizzy
- Harmonia – Ohrwurm
- Yes – Sound Chaser
- Miles Davis – Billy Preston
- Gong – A Sprinkling of Clouds
- Genesis – Back in NYC
Episode 8: Stranger Lights 1974 Special – Part 1, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 8 track listing
- Nico – It Has Not Taken Long
- Kevin Ayers – Didn’t Feel Lonely ’Til I Thought of You
- Robert Wyatt – A Last Straw
- Brian Eno – Baby’s on Fire
- Henry Cow – Deluge
- Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
- Keith Hudson – In the Rain
- King Crimson – Red
- Big Star – O My Soul
- Kraftwerk – Morgenspaziergang
- Edgar Froese – Upland
Episode 7: Stranger Sound Carriers, 23.02.24, 14:00-15:00 GMT
There was a tech problem with this episode for some reason. You can download an MP3 of the show directly.
Episode 8 track listing
- The Fall – I am Damo Suzuki
- Can – Mushroom
- Omar Rodríguez-López & Damo Suzuki – Please Heat This Eventually, Part 2
- Can – Mother Sky
- Pictish Trail – Natural Successor
- The Eyes and the Mistoids – Frock
- Dragged Up – Machine Person
- Scritti Politti – Skank Bloc Bologna
- Vieon – Intercity (Live in Coventry)
- Tangerine Dream – Sequent C’
Episode 6: Stranger Midwinter, 29.12.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 6 track listing
- Motor!k – Terra Obscura, Pt 1
- Dave Clarkson – Here is a Box, a Musical Box
- Flange Circus – Three Foot Tall and Hairy
- Lines of Silence – Tzip Tzap!
- Burd Ellen – The Fool
- Laura Cannell – After the Lamento di Tristano
- Anne Sulikowski – Anyway, it’s Late So You Should Go
- Field Lines Cartographer – Fenir in Retrograde
- Duncan Marquiss – Drivenhalle
- I FEEL LIKE A BOMBED CATHEDRAL – Live at Hebden Bridge Trades Club, 08.12.23
- The Utopia Strong – Persephone Sleeps
Episode 5: Stranger Jazz, 03.11.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 5 track listing
- Nala Sinephro – Space 5
- Ornette Coleman & Prime Time – Chanting
- Kamasi Washington – The Next Step
- Pharoah Sanders – Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
- Miles Davis – Konda
Episode 4: Stranger Digs, 08.09.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 4 track listing
- Spiral Galaxy – Celestial Omen
- Jamie Saft – Chet
- Jaga Jazzist – Low Battery
- Tony Scott – A Quivering Leaf Ask the Winds
- Medieval Baebes – This Ay Nicht
- Studio Kosmische – Factories in the Sky
- Amon Düül II – Soap Shock Rock
- Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan
- Trem 77 – A Headful of Summer
- Soft Machine – Joy of a Toy
- Moebius and Plank – Feedback 66 (bureau b edit)
Episode 3: Stranger Times, 14.07.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 3 track listing
- I Feel Like a Bombed Cathedral – rec.requiem
- Sunn O))) meets Nurse With Wound – Ash On The Trees {The sudden ebb of a diatribe}
- Nurse with Wound – Soliloquy for Lilith (Track One)
- Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton) – Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.1
- Sarah Davachi – Lower Visions I
- Eliane Radigue – Kailasha
Episode 2: Stranger Dreams, 21.04.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 2 track listing
- Faust – Juggernaut
- Splink – Cavendish
- Gong – Reojoice!
- Scissorgun – Deepsix Your Wristwatch
- Dead Sea Apes – Rewilding
- Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations – Mirrors
- Lines of Silence – The Turning Circle (Live)
- Acid Mothers Temple – In C – In E
- Tony Conrad and Faust – The Side of Man and Womankind
Episode 1: Stranger Lights. 24.02.23, 14:00-15:00 GMT
Episode 1 track listing
- Carlton Melton – Prescribed Skiles
- Hologram People – Theme from Village of the Snake God
- Fire Tower 4 – Industry
- Trees – Murdoch
- Telescopes – Speaking Stones
- Witching Tale – Roundelay
- Kikagaku Moyo – Lazy, Stoned Monk
- Laura Cannell – In a Falling Shadow
- Lines of Silence – Earthrise
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