With two motown legends and an R&B icon on our hands, you'll really have no choice but to bow out of your week in the grooviest manner possible. Kirsten's coming in hot with the trombone solo to end all trombone solos, and all to underscore a poignant discussion around the instrument's God-given name. How did the 'sackbut' come to be known as the 'trombone'? We don't know! But we can promise one thing: there will not be a shortage of hilarious gags to guide you through today, folks.
We're talking chorded zithers and guitar holes with our resident ethnomusicologist today. Kirsten and Mikey are looking at the wonderfully understated autoharp, through the lense of PJ Harvey's Down By The Water, They Might Be Giants' Pencil Rain, and Basia Bulat's Promise Not To Think About Love.
Dr. Kirsten's brought in an eccletic mix of tunes of this week, all featuring the Afro-Brazillian single-string berimbau. Sit back, relax, and let the capoeira-charged toques inspire a rhythm of deep, deep release.
Who knew sonorous metal could bend so sensuous? Well... Dr. Kirsten did. Here to tell us all about the overtones, mufflings, vibrations and beaters of the humble (?) triangle, it's bFM's resident ethnomusicologist. Lucky.
The master, the big-dog, the o.g. collectable - the Fender Stratocaster. From garage to virtuoso shredding, Dr. Zemke runs through the headstocks, humbucks and hardtails of the guitar of choice for everyone from Hendrix to Townshend to yr Da.
Dr. Kirsten brings in a stellar line-up of tunes that feature the mighty conga(s). Descriptions get technical, Mike gets enthusiastic and the tracks ...oh, the tracks. Just have a listen, will you?
Welcome to the good doctor's final spin for 2017 - that's right, it's Travelling Tunes: Mouth Harp Edition. And you lot thought the puns were bad before...
If the lower members of the woodwind family all sound a bit like a family of jazzy ducks, then the clarinet is probably the derpy uncle. Makes sense, no? Guess you'll just have to listen (in between the noise of bands tuning up for 95bFM Breakfast Club).
The koto, a traditional Japanese string instrument, lives everywhere from recurring anime trope to disco shimmer, through to Dr. Dre hook (sort of). But, most importantly, how can Mike purchase one?
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