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Sink into soothing cycles ft. Portico Quartet

Ultimate Calm Hania Rani: Series 4
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Hania Rani shares contemplative music full of loops, patterns and cycles. Also, Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie from Portico Quartet each share their own musical safe havens.

Polish composer, pianist and vocalist Hania Rani believes that time is the kernel of music - where the music happens, how it happens and of course when. In this episode, she shares contemplative musical selections that demonstrate how artists grapple with time. She reflects on different ways to tame or temporarily control time in music - through loops, patterns, cycles and gaps, with pieces by Steve Reich, Shida Shahabi and Mette Henriette.

And we鈥檙e transported to not one but two musical safe havens鈥攈earing from Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie from the Mercury Prize-nominated group Portico Quartet, who each share the song that brings them ultimate calm.

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Music Played

  • Hania Rani

    Nostalgia

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Nostalgia.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Daniela Mars

    The Time Is in This Very Moment

    • Reverence For The Moment.
    • Voces8 Records.

  • Mette Henriette

    Crescent

    Performer: Johan Lindvall. Performer: Judith Hamann.
    • Drifting.
    • ECM Records.

  • Portico Quartet

    Terrain I (Extended) - Live in Studio One

    Ensemble: Portico Quartet.
    • Terrain (Extended) - Live in Studio One.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Jon Hassell

    Aurora

    Performer: Jon Hassell.
    • Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street.
    • ECM Records.

  • Pygm茅es Aka

    Mobandi: Mo boma (Berceuse)

    • Centre Afrique: Anthologie de la musique de Pygm茅s Aka.
    • Ocora.

  • BZDB

    Tomb

    • Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall.
    • AD93.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988锛� Aria (performed by Glenn Gould 1955)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Bach: The Goldberg Variations.
    • Columbia.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988锛� Aria (performed by Glenn Gould 1981)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Bach: The Goldberg Variations.
    • Sony.

  • Shida Shahabi

    Living Circle

    • Living Circle.
    • 130701.

  • J眉rg Frey

    Extended Circular Music No. 6

    Performer: Stefan Rolli.
    • Untitled.
    • Musiques Suisses.

  • Steve Reich

    Mallet Quartet

    Music Arranger: Colin Currie. Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Paradise Cinema

    returning, dream

    • returning, dream.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Dylan Henner

    I Was Reading the News but I Felt so Sad I Had to Stop

    • The Invention of the Human.
    • AD 93.

  • Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes

    BOA

    • The Doober.
    • Leaving Records.

  • Adam Wiltzie

    Pelagic Swell

    • Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal.
    • Kranky.
    • 3.

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