Main content

Music that blooms and blossoms ft. Poppy Okotcha

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 7
Episode 10 of 12

Erland Cooper curates a musical love letter to flowers, with peaceful songs that bloom and blossom, and a safe haven from horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha.

A huge part of Scottish composer Erland Cooper’s inspiration is the natural world, and in this episode he curates a musical love letter to flowers, reflecting on some of his favourite blooms and blossoms and sharing tracks from artists including Alice Coltrane, Emily A. Sprague and Lucinda Chua.

Also, we’re transported to the musical safe haven of the horticulturalist and forager Poppy Okotcha, who takes us out into her garden to listen a little closer to the bustling ecosystems to be found there.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production

29 days left to listen

1 hour

Last on

Yesterday21:00
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

More episodes

Previous

Peaceful sounds of green fields and glades ft. Simon ArmitageErland Cooper: Series 7

Next

Time to tune into nature ft. Ivo GrahamErland Cooper: Series 7

See all episodes from Ultimate Calm

Music Played

  • Erland Cooper

    Luminosa

    • Adoro Te Devote.
    • Mercury.

  • Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman

    The Unbearable Sound Of The Roses

    • Clay Pipe Music.

  • Lara Somogyi

    interior gardens

    • !.
    • Mercury KX.

  • Erland Cooper

    Music For Growing Flowers (Nocturne)

    • Mercury KX.

  • Zuzanna Całka

    Nautilus

    • Late Night Takes.

  • Koji Ishikura

    A Fleeting Place

    • A Fleeting Place.

  • Emily A. Sprague

    Osaka

    • Cloud Time.
    • RVNG Intl..

  • Green-House

    Desire Path

    • A Host for All Kinds of Life.
    • Leaving Records.

  • Alice Coltrane

    Wisdom Eye

    • Eternity.
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Uchida Sound Labo & Friends

    Asl 03

    • A strange lullaby....
    • ROHS! RECORDS.

  • Porya Hatami

    Bee

    • The Garden.
    • Dronarivm.

  • Tim Exile, Rose Ferraby, John Coburn, Chris Watson & Jennifer Reid

    Grasshoppers, beetles, and other insects on Hamble Common

    • Collected Peninsula Sounds.

  • Cassandra Jenkins

    Wormhold music

    • My Light, My Massage Parlor.
    • Dead Oceans.

  • Lucinda Chua

    Rose Garden

    • Reclaiming the Rose.
    • 4AD.

  • Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka

    Comes with sunset

    • Hiraeth.
    • Unsound.

  • Natasha Pirard

    jardin de fleurs

    • Fernande, Cecile.
    • Deewee.

  • Tom Leclerc

    paisible jardin

    • a brief story of slowness.
    • Moderna Records.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday21:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind