Music that blooms and blossoms ft. Poppy Okotcha
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
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Erland Cooper
Luminosa
- Adoro Te Devote.
- Mercury.
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Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman
The Unbearable Sound Of The Roses
- Clay Pipe Music.
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Lara Somogyi
interior gardens
- !.
- Mercury KX.
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Erland Cooper
Music For Growing Flowers (Nocturne)
- Mercury KX.
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Zuzanna Całka
Nautilus
- Late Night Takes.
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Koji Ishikura
A Fleeting Place
- A Fleeting Place.
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Emily A. Sprague
Osaka
- Cloud Time.
- RVNG Intl..
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Green-House
Desire Path
- A Host for All Kinds of Life.
- Leaving Records.
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Alice Coltrane
Wisdom Eye
- Eternity.
- Warner Bros. Records.
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Uchida Sound Labo & Friends
Asl 03
- A strange lullaby....
- ROHS! RECORDS.
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Porya Hatami
Bee
- The Garden.
- Dronarivm.
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Tim Exile, Rose Ferraby, John Coburn, Chris Watson & Jennifer Reid
Grasshoppers, beetles, and other insects on Hamble Common
- Collected Peninsula Sounds.
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Cassandra Jenkins
Wormhold music
- My Light, My Massage Parlor.
- Dead Oceans.
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Lucinda Chua
Rose Garden
- Reclaiming the Rose.
- 4AD.
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Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka
Comes with sunset
- Hiraeth.
- Unsound.
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Natasha Pirard
jardin de fleurs
- Fernande, Cecile.
- Deewee.
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Tom Leclerc
paisible jardin
- a brief story of slowness.
- Moderna Records.
Broadcast
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