77 mixes with songs by “Pentangle”

9 songs • 25 mins

Everyone knows the lyrics!

Riding the metro home at night.

The future will need another rebel generation.
12tracks.

Pop music of the UK and the US has featured the sitar in various different ways over the last 40 odd years. From the respectful & traditional to the downright exploitative & parodic, the sound of the sitar is a mainstay in popular music here in the west in one form or another. In tribute to that, here's 34 sitar-kissed & accentuated tracks by Traffic, Oriental Sunshine, The Future Sound of London & many others.

Traditions new and old, from two different nations, influencing each other or staying an isolated heirloom that remains the same from generation to generation. Here's 42 folk songs recorded from the days of Alan Lomax to today. Including Spencer Moore, Al Tuck, Richie Havens and many others.

Instrumentals from the likes of Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Warlocks, John Mayall and many, many others.

Some classic live cuts from the BBC archives, including the likes of Small Faces, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, etc

What have we against yow doone,
That ye wole have us ded so soone?
- from the Middle English 'Athelston'

8tracks including The Strawbs, John Jacob Niles and Pentangle.