Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his updated Music on Shortwave list for the A16 period.
If you love listening to music on the shortwaves, you’ll love Alan’s free guide.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his updated Music on Shortwave list for the B15 period.
If you love listening to music on the shortwaves, you’ll love Alan’s free guide.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, for sharing Alan Roe’s excellent guide to music broadcasts on shortwave radio.
Alan Roe (who happens to be an avid SWLing Post reader!) has generously given me permission to post his guide here as a free (PDF) download. Thank you so much, Alan! I’ve already printed this guide and placed it with my WRTH and WWLG.
Click here to download Alan Roe’s guide to music on shortwave (PDF).
Havana, Cuba (Photo: Wikimedia)
Many thanks to Bill Tilford, Owner/Producer at Tilford Productions, who writes:
Beginning Monday, February 1, I will be hosting a weekly, hour-long music program, From the Isle of Music, dedicated to the music of Cuba, on WBCQ, 7.490 MHz, every Monday night from 8-9pm EST (currently 0100-0200 UTC).
I began listening to shortwave in childhood and now want to give something back to the medium.
This will be a cultural panorama of multiple genres from Classical to traditional music to Timba to Jazz to Funk, including a lot of things that people outside of Cuba might not know are played there. There will also be interviews. It will be partly in English, partly in Spanish. I hope to do this in the spirit of some of the best cultural programming of the golden years of shortwave.
There is a Facebook page, also titled From the Isle of Music, with more information.
Many thanks, Bill! I will certainly tune in and look forward to your music selections and commentary. Please keep us informed if you have any updates!
Myke Dodge Weiskopf, over at ShortWaveMusic, writes:
“Hello friends: Long time no see. I’ve finally posted the final 21 tracks from our 2013 season on Socotra Island: transmissions from Eritrea, China, Iran, and Tajikistan. Enjoy.”
For more information about Myke’s on-going project, ShortWaveMusic, check out his website. Great to see a new post from you, Myke!
A few days ago, SWLing Post reader LondonShortwave posted a playlist on his blog; it’s a great playlist of music he’s been exposed to via shortwave radio broadcasters over the years. I was quite inspired by this playlist (of all absolutely brilliant songs, by the way), not to mention, by the clever concept.
So this morning I jotted down a few artists and songs I’ve also discovered via shortwave radio. Here are a just a few I could find on YouTube:
Ariane Moffatt’s “Montreal,” via former CBC North Quebec Service:
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble’s “Burhan Öçal” via Voice of Greece:
Ania’s cover of “Strawberry Fields Forever” via the Polish Radio External Service:
Novika’s “I Depend on You” also via the Polish Radio External Service:
Shiny Toy Guns’ cover of “Major Tom” via the pirate radio station All Along The Watchtower Radio (note this video is actually a car commercial featuring the song by STG; a strange combo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGultrg7l0I
Boards of Canada album “Tomorrow’s Harvest” via the pirate radio station BOCHF:
Have you made any music discovery via shortwave radio? If so, please feel free to comment.
Photo: Thomas Fries / License: cc-by-sa-3.0 de
SWLing Post reader, Eric (w4OTN/3), asks:
Years ago I loved tuning in Radio Bulgaria and listening to their orchestra play. The ether would deliver the beautiful music to my ears with some fading at times but I loved listening to it. That is, of course, until they stopped broadcasting. I’ve tried to find an alternative without success.
I wonder if you know of any shortwave station that still broadcast orchestras?
Thanks,
Eric W4OTN/3
Any suggestions for Eric? Please comment with details!