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Charlie Gillett

I am here for Networking

About Me

music addict, lucky enough to have been a radio DJ playing what I like for more than thirty years

My Interests


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I'd like to meet:

People making interesting music, for strictly platonic cyber relationships.

When I started this, I couldn't get my head around having as many as 100 friends, and denied a few requests. Then the whole thing snowballed and the list has gone past 1,500, which seems really crazy.

But, what can I do, I try whittling down the list but it can't be done, everybody's here for a reason, either because I like their music, or they like the same kind of thing I do and in many cases they have led me onto others.

I always thought I just had five or six friends. What did I know?

Music:

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue (Out Here Records) Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective - Watina (Cumbancha) Mayra Andrade - Navega (Sterns) DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti) Son of Dave - 03 (Kartel)

Movies:

The Edge of Paradise

Television:

The Wire (HBO)

Books:

Michael Connelly, Harlan Coban, James Sallis (the Lew Griffin series), Dennis Lehane, Lee Child

Heroes:

Makota Kubota, of Blue Asia (from Japan)
Ivan Duran, of Stonetree Records, Belize
Allen Toussaint, of New Orleans Benjamin Zephaniah

My Blog

BBC World Service, Sunday May 18 - World Music Hits, Part 3

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Wasis Diop - No Sant (feat Lena Fiagbe) - Everything is Never Quite Enough - Senegal/UK - Wrasse - WRASS 108 ...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:03:00 PST

BBC World Service, from Sunday 11 May 2008 - The Amazon

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Toinho de Alagoas - Balanço da Canoa (Rock the Boat) - Music for Maids and Taxi Drivers - Brazil - Globestyle - CDORB 048 2 - Anastácia...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

BBC Radio 3, Monday May 5 2008, with Cemil Koçgun

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no Live in Session: Cemil Koçgun (tembûr/vocals) with Michael Weil (erbane - frame drum); Dieter Schmalzr...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:55:00 PST

BBC Radio 3, Monday April 28, 2008 - Son of Dave

Son of Dave in session, with backing vocalists PJ Higgins and Cathy CoffeySeq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Blue Sky Boys - Are Yo...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:53:00 PST

BBC World Service, from Sunday 4 May 2008

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Orchestre Super Jheevs Des Paillotes - Ye Nan Lon An - African Scream Contest - Benin - Analog Africa - AACD...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 02 May 2008 04:11:00 PST

BBC World Service, from Sunday 27 April 2008

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Cheb I Sabbah - Kinna Sohna (feat Master Saleem) - Devotion - USA/Pakistan - Six Degrees - 657036 1142-2 ...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:41:00 PST

BBC World Service, from 20 April 2008

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Andra's Song - Segu Blue - Mali - Out Here - OH 007 2 - An...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:41:00 PST

BBC World Service, from 13 April 2008

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Mayra Andrade - Dimokransa - Navega - Cape Verde/France - Sterns - STCD1105 2 - Mayra Andra...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:09:00 PST

BBC World Service, from April 6

Note changed schedule -- now broadcast a day later, on Sundays in UK & Europe. For Rest of the world, check schedule in forum at my website, whose url is listed at the foot of this message Seq - A...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:30:00 PST

BBC World Service, from March 29

Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no 1 - Leonardo Paniagua - Mi Secreto - Bachata Roja - Dominican Republic - Iaso - iASCD3 2 - DJ Ru...
Posted by Charlie Gillett on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:17:00 PST