Break A Vase

26/10/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-33/

26/10/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-33/

Stanley Cowell, Rameau, Sufi music from Mayotte...

13/10/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-31/

Bean Stalkin, Bagpipes, Cold Sweat.

05/10/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-30/

Parliament, music from Portugal, Black Gold, and more...

28/09/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-29/

Ikue Mori & Fred Frith, SOLA, Tina Brooks, and more...

21/09/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-28/

Beginning with processional music from Essaouira, and finishing with Miriam Makeba.

04/09/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-25/

Codefive to Tanzania, with music for a Herzog film as well as for fifteen saxophones.

24/08/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-24/

A piano episode...

20/08/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-23/

Beginning with Solomon playing Bach/Busoni, and journeying via Maria Toledo and Pierre Boulez to William Onyeabor.

03/08/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-21/

Beginning with 2xThree Little Words, and ending with Don Pullen's Afro-Brazilian Connection - with Péter Eötvös and Sergio Mendes along the way.

27/07/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-20/

21/07/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-19/

Beginning with Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument, and ending with the Kasai All Stars.

13/07/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-18/

07/07/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-17/?fbclid=IwAR0cWbq_Ma54SMPxdE3D4tNFz1BVFSZiVKqytHWJ5up-XgFqwLVMVPosdAA

Episode 17 now available!

Some solutions to the poser in Episode 8, and music ranging from the Slovenski Oktet to Oscar Peterson, before finishing with Carlo Gesualdo.

29/06/2023

Episode 16 - Ed Bennett, Radamés Gnattali, James Brown...

Beginning with music from Ed Bennett featuring Paul Dunmall, and ending up in Paris via Ethiopia and Cape Verde.

22/06/2023

Episode 15 now online:

Beginning with Joe Henderson, ending up - via Christian Marclay and Count Ossie - with Peter Evans.

15/06/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-14/

Beginning with Amina Claudine Myers, travelling via bluegrass and Lord Beginner to Chopi xylophone music.

08/06/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-13/

Beginning with John Coltrane's Sun Ship, and finishing with Hot Sauce.

08/06/2023

Episode 13 of Break A Vase now available. This episode begins with John Coltrane...there's some Turkish music in there, and it ends with a slightly bonkers track from John Patton, featuring some two-at-once saxophone, *not* by Roland Kirk...please do consider subscribing if you're enjoying these!

01/06/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-12/

Beginning with 'First Song', and ending with the Ascension.

25/05/2023

Latest episode available now...

Beginning with Andrew Cyrille's Haitian Fascination, and ending with Dinah Washington singing Bessie Smith.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-10/

Opening with Respighi's orchestration of Monteverdi, and ending with a calypso from Costa Rica.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-9/

An episode beginning with a track from the album Os Afro Sambas, and ending up - via traditional Danish fiddle music and a contemporary harp concerto from that country - with Brother Jack McDuff.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-8/

A puzzle: eight tracks, unnamed in the show description. Please feel free to suggest what a possible ninth track could have been in the comments below.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-7/

An episode beginning with the classical music of western Java, and finishing with Earth, Wind, and Fire.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-6/

An episode devoted to choral music, beginning in Wales, and ending in F # major.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-5/

Beginning with Harriet Tubman featuring Wadada Leo Smith, and finishing with Gnonnas Pedro Et Ses Dadjes from Benin.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-4/

Beginning with Rex Stewart, ending up at Aretha Franklin, via seventeenth century Italy.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-3/

From Josquin to Bach, via Chicago.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-2/

Episode 2: beginning with Assegai, and ending up with Curtis Mayfield.

18/05/2023

https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-1/

The first instalment of a guided wander around my record collection...choosing a starting point, and free-associating from there. In this episode, beginning with Bob Stewart, and ending up in Kinshasa with Mbongwana Star.