Harvey has company in the studio this week: Liv Brissach is one of the curators of NorskArt 2013, an exhibition for... See details
Fri, 2013-03-22 14:26
Harvey has company in the studio this week: Liv Brissach is one of the curators of NorskArt 2013, an exhibition for Norwegian art students in the UK. The theme this year is immigration, and Martine Poppe, who studies at the Slade, explains her contribution to the show. There's also the usual...Harvey takes off this week, speaking to Highasakite at Highbury Garage, during an event promoting Oslo's Oya Festival,... See details
Fri, 2013-03-01 14:03
Harvey takes off this week, speaking to Highasakite at Highbury Garage, during an event promoting Oslo's Oya Festival, alongside Sandra Kolstad. Mostly by coincidence, the rest of the show has a heavy Reykjav?k population with music from Sin Fang's new album, plus Retro Stefson, Hafdis Bjarnad?ttir...Harvey Bruce unleashes the first Nordorama Mixtape - 50 minutes the best and ballsiest that the Nordics have to offer,... See details
Fri, 2013-02-15 14:35
Harvey Bruce unleashes the first Nordorama Mixtape - 50 minutes the best and ballsiest that the Nordics have to offer, including m?m, Hedningarna, Highasakite and a few acts from Rune Grammofon.
TRACKLIST
Big Reveal - Valgeir Sigur?sson
Sanmyaku - Arve Henriksen
'(Elegi) 1233 Ord Om K?rlek...World Radio Day and a non-stop global music session for this A World In London?. Fantastic new CDs including Ritu?s... See details
Thu, 2013-02-14 17:27
World Radio Day and a non-stop global music session for this A World In London?. Fantastic new CDs including Ritu?s picks of the week, by Zucchero & Gnawa Diffusion!
A World In London live on Wednesdays, 2pm, from SOAS Radio: mixlr.com/soasradio
ARTIST // ...In preparation for World Radio Day, Harvey speaks to BBC Radio 3 presenter Fiona Talkington about her passion for... See details
Fri, 2013-02-01 14:56
In preparation for World Radio Day, Harvey speaks to BBC Radio 3 presenter Fiona Talkington about her passion for Norwegian music, and what the British music industry can learn from its Nordic counterparts. There's also music from Mew, a Danish band who have just announced that they're splitting...A week of off-kilter music as Harvey speaks to Nis, The frontman of the intuitive Copenhagen music group Thulebasen.... See details
Fri, 2013-01-25 14:21
A week of off-kilter music as Harvey speaks to Nis, The frontman of the intuitive Copenhagen music group Thulebasen. Some of their tunes are joined by hard-poppers LCMDF, a pump organ metal(ish) band from Norway, and four guys heralded as the last punk band in Finland. Enough Nordic music to make...Back with a new year of fresh releases and lost forgotten gems from some of the world's most trend-conscious cities and... See details
Fri, 2013-01-18 17:13
Back with a new year of fresh releases and lost forgotten gems from some of the world's most trend-conscious cities and remotest tundras. This week, Harvey speaks with Rune Kristoffersen, founder of daring Norwegian label Rune Grammofon. We hear some tracks from his archive, including a newish...Harvey Bruce is back from his brief sebatacle, and this week he's speaking to Danish psych-rock outfit The Wands. And... See details
Fri, 2012-12-07 14:17
Harvey Bruce is back from his brief sebatacle, and this week he's speaking to Danish psych-rock outfit The Wands. And just as you thought the sustained flow of epic Nordic music was algorithmically impossible, we also hear wild acts from Escho Records, Singapore Sling and a couple of Faroese...Anja and Hans from jazz trio Moskus call the show for a chat from Tolga, Norway. Discover some tracks from their debut... See details
Fri, 2012-11-16 18:43
Anja and Hans from jazz trio Moskus call the show for a chat from Tolga, Norway. Discover some tracks from their debut album 'Salmesykkel', plus some of the bands signed to 'Record Records', the Icelandic indie label that's celebrating its fifth birthday this week. Together with music from Nils...Just as we've finished covering festivals in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Iceland Airwaves is kicking off in Reykjav?k.... See details
Fri, 2012-11-02 14:13
Just as we've finished covering festivals in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Iceland Airwaves is kicking off in Reykjav?k. We're not there, but there's plenty of acts to look out for, including Siinai, The Echo Vamper and Pascal Pinon. Harvey also gets electroshock therapy from Sandra Kolstad, who he...We kick off our second week dedicated to Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway by chatting to Jan Bang, one of the... See details
Fri, 2012-10-26 15:32
We kick off our second week dedicated to Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway by chatting to Jan Bang, one of the festival's founders. An influential figure in live remixing, he talks about the festival's genesis and plans for the future. Also, Harvey talks to Ben Frost, a rather prolific noise...The first of two special programmes covering Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, which was curated this year by Brian Eno.... See details
Fri, 2012-10-19 15:46
The first of two special programmes covering Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, which was curated this year by Brian Eno. This week Harvey speaks to Icelandic soundscapers m?m and New York-based comedian and musician Reggie Watts. Alongside this is music from Arve Henriksen, Vladislav Delay and...A Swedish sm?rgasbord special this week as Harvey interviews Little Dragon, when they met at Malm? Festival. Continuing... See details
Fri, 2012-10-12 15:11
A Swedish sm?rgasbord special this week as Harvey interviews Little Dragon, when they met at Malm? Festival. Continuing on his journey, he chats to one of the organisers of Gastefestivalen in Lund, which takes place amongst a network of treehouses. Beefing up the Nordic melange, there's also music...Come one and all! Take some time to bathe in the Nordic audio-spring of Nordorama. The new series kicks off... See details
Fri, 2012-10-05 03:40
Come one and all! Take some time to bathe in the Nordic audio-spring of Nordorama. The new series kicks off bumper-sized, as we hear from Harvey's road trip from London to Norway in 'Getting Punkt'. This week, he heads to Copenhagen to attend Strom Festival, chatting to its chief, and a priest...The last Nordorama in the current series as SOAS Radio heads into its summer break. While the gremlins rewire our... See details
Tue, 2012-07-24 14:25
The last Nordorama in the current series as SOAS Radio heads into its summer break. While the gremlins rewire our equipment and spruce up the studio, why not put this show on loop for a few weeks until I return? You'll almost want to, with the sweet voices of Jens Lekman and Anna J?rvinen, plus...With tracks themed to compliment the start of British summertime, Fathers' Day and Euro 2012, Nordorama has never been... See details
Tue, 2012-06-19 14:00
With tracks themed to compliment the start of British summertime, Fathers' Day and Euro 2012, Nordorama has never been so current. Bundled on top of this, you lucky sausage you, is a glitchy remix of Nils Petter Molvar, some Swedish Samba and tracks from Icelanders Mugison and FM...An even-more-electric show this week, with special guests Simian Ghost, plus Nutid, Barry Andrewsin Disko and eletronic... See details
Tue, 2012-06-12 18:17
An even-more-electric show this week, with special guests Simian Ghost, plus Nutid, Barry Andrewsin Disko and eletronic music pioneer Ralph Lundsten, alongside some jazz from Icelandic New Yorker Sunna Gunnlaugs. Bright colours for stormy weather, deep sounds for a shallow...An extra special ever-so-slightly extended edition of Nordorama for you, presented from Incidentally Nordic #2, a night... See details
Wed, 2012-06-06 16:47
An extra special ever-so-slightly extended edition of Nordorama for you, presented from Incidentally Nordic #2, a night of iridescent music put on by Project fresh Socks and Joe Atari at The Queen of Hoxton. Featuring music and interviews from Casa Murilo, Bard Watn, Ulla Nova and the not-so-Nordic...Harvey Bruce chats to Norwegian songstress Hanne Hukkelberg about her fifth studio album 'Featherbrain' and the... See details
Tue, 2012-05-08 12:34
Harvey Bruce chats to Norwegian songstress Hanne Hukkelberg about her fifth studio album 'Featherbrain' and the inspirational sounds you can find on your coffee table. As if that wasn't enough, we have a Finnish cover of a 50s Italian hit, and d?but singles from Mirel Wagner and Tilbury. Guaranteed...Today's show features heady harmonies, footstomping Swede-Senegalese collaboration, and hand-tingling accordions (and... See details
Tue, 2012-04-24 03:00
Today's show features heady harmonies, footstomping Swede-Senegalese collaboration, and hand-tingling accordions (and now I listen back, I think TWO musical saws). Music from Hanne Hukkelberg, Peter Bjorn And John and Efterklang. A sultry mix of sounds designed to lead you from the grit of the...An extra-special episode dedicated to Norweigan record label Rune Grammofon. After their joint debut UK gig, HB... See details
Tue, 2012-04-17 19:12
An extra-special episode dedicated to Norweigan record label Rune Grammofon. After their joint debut UK gig, HB chats to Jenny Hval (a.k.a. rockettothesky) and the lead singer of Phaedre, Ingvild Langgard, about their latest work and what they consider essential Nordic listening. With...In this first episode, Harvey Bruce eases you into a thermal spring of audio heaven, with a cross-section of tracks... See details
Tue, 2012-04-03 16:01
In this first episode, Harvey Bruce eases you into a thermal spring of audio heaven, with a cross-section of tracks from across all the Nordic regions. Featuring hip hop from Sweden, Norwegian jazz, pioneering Danish electro and a track from Bj?rk?s latest album, Biophilia, plus you?ll also be...
