This month Simon travels to Poland, with his partner Agnieszka, and gathers sounds and songs as he discovers the country for the first time… Incidental music: Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light Ambient sound recordings: Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light With thanks to Agnieszka Jadowska for musical inspiration, translation and insight. LISTEN PLAYLIST
On this month’s show I talk to Joan, 100 years old, and a lifelong activist in her local community, using quotes from the short film I recently made with her… Music includes tracks by Josephine Baker, Durutti Column and Dolly Parton. LISTEN PLAYLIST
On this month’s show, I’m on my holidays, so simply lie back and play some lovely records… Tracks include music by Marie Callas, Alt J and Nico Gomez. LISTEN PLAYLIST
This month I visit The Meadow in Salford, and watch and listen as the sun rises over this ancient space… Sound / incidental music by Not Quite Light Music featured includes tracks by Ruby Tingle, Melody Gardot and Ralph Vaughan Williams LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
This month I walk from Salford to Ancoats, along and underneath the Mancunian Way, beginning at first light… Sound / Incidental Music: Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light Music featured includes tracks from Wanda Warsaw, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Kinbrae / Clare Archibald, Chopin and Joy Division. LISTEN PLAYLIST
This month I walk the city of Manchester from dawn until dusk, setting out at first light, recording sound and the things I witness along the way. SOUND / INCIDENTAL MUSIC: Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light Music featured includes tracks by Charlotte OC, Aitch, Pablo’s Eye and Joni Mitchell ( no longer avaialable on Spotify ). LISTEN PLAYLIST
This month, as it’s nearly Christmas, I decide not to get up, so put my headphones in and fall back into the land of dreams… Soundscapes by Simon Buckley / Not Quite Light Music includes tracks by Keeley Forsyth, Erland Cooper, Ichiko Aoba and Einojuhani Rautavaara. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
This month I take a dawn walk to Piccadilly Station… A slightly new format this time on the Not Quite Light radio show, as I put on my headphones and wander up to Piccadilly at daybreak, listening to music and the sounds I encounter along the way, including an unexpected encounter with a Nigerian radio presenter inspecting tickets at the end of platform 1… Tracks include Sarah Neufeld, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Franz Shubert. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
In this month’s show I reveal stories of ancestors, loss and identity… In late September I travelled to Hull with artist Gareth Smith ( aka Vanishing ) and interviewed him at dawn on the banks of the Humber, among the old docks. We discuss his great-grandfather, a trawlerman killed at sea in 1904, and the generational consequences of this tragic death. Gareth’s project 55°N, 5°E was performed live at Hull City of Culture in 2017, and an album of this […]
SHOCK CITY A feature written for the second edition of Shock City, whilst working on my project, “Dark Days, Luminous Nights” for the Manchester Collective. I was originally going to write about one of the many walks I’d taken during the first lockdown, journeys often over10 miles that either led me into unexpected spaces, or that reconnected me with old ways not taken for far too long. I was going to talk of encountering the disused Mather and Platt foundry […]