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Glenn Branca - The Ascension

Stuart's featured album is Glenn Branca's 1981 debut album The Ascension.

Stuart's featured album is Glenn Branca's 1981 debut album The Ascension - a no-wave classic and landmark in experimental guitar music, based around layering electric guitars in alternate tunings.

Also in this week's roundup of adventurous and avant-garde music, some Donegal art-rock, Brightonian folk-noir, a bonus segment from Stuart's interview with The Pet Shop Boys, and Stuart reads your correspondence.

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Music Played

  • Barry Booth

    He's Very Good With His Hands

    • Diversions.
    • Castle Music.

  • Constant Supply

    Tacit Love

    • Tacit Love.
    • What? Exactly! Records.

  • Bird in the Belly

    I Once Built A Boy

    • Only Dogs as Friends.

  • Glenn Branca

    Lesson No 2

    • Carpark Records.

  • William D. Drake

    Turtledove

    • Turtledove.

  • Dave Brubeck

    Going To Sleep

    • Lullabies.
    • Dave Brubeck.
    • 5.

  • Gentle Giant

    Aspirations

    • Aspirations.
    • Alucard.

  • The Operator Sound INC.

    Space Age Switchboard (Please Hold)

    • Esoteric Audio for Spaceage Witchcraft.

  • Glenn Branca

    The Ascension

    • Carpark Records.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Cricket Wife

    • Cricket wife.
    • x2 Recordings Limited.
    • 1.

  • Digiffects Sound Effects Library

    Spooky Thunder

    • Hot Ideas 2016.

  • John Tilbury

    Three Short Piano Pieces (Cardew)

    • Another Timbre.

  • Ruth Gipps & Duncan Honeybourne

    Opalescence, Op. 72

    • OPALESCENCE Piano and Chamber Music (1921鈥�1999).
    • Prima Facie.

  • Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart & The Mothers of Invention

    Muffin Man

    • Bongo Fury 50th Anniversary.
    • Frank Zappa Catalog.
    • 9.

  • Ray Russell

    Just For Clicks

    • Cuneiform Records.

  • Edward Barton

    Nice Company

    • Nice Company.

  • Ronnie Hilton

    The Laughing Gnome

    • Castle Music.

  • devonwho

    Pluja

    • Pluja.

  • Mastodon

    The Three Fates

    • Marrow Deep.
    • Loma Vista Recordings.
    • 12.

  • Floex & Jan 艩ikl

    Director No.3

    • Director No.3.
    • Minority Records.

  • Names on Tapes

    Alternating Currents

    • Ayin.
    • Hidden Mantra Records.

  • Glenn Branca

    Light Field (In Consonance)

    • Carpark Records.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 20:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music