Stranger Lights

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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