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TONITE on your RADIO!
It’s the Begilufin NOTHING special!
Tonight from their studio in the middle of Berlin nowhere, your no-hosts Ziv Lode and Dan Abbott proudly bring one action-packed hour of NOTHING! After years of carefully considered thematic shows, animals, money, science, weapons, food etc, it occurred to us that we’d missed something. That something, dear listeners, is NOTHING. Tune in and you’ll be treated to 60 minutes of hand-picked international melodies carefully themed around nada, zero, rien, nichts and perhaps even! Never before has NOTHING been so exciting. Your empty ears will thank you.
On our ‘Island’ section this evening we invite you to enjoy SOMETHING good!
Spécifiquement, we’ll be investigating ‘Quelque chose de bien’ (‘Something good’) the sparkling new album by French wonderwoman KCIDY. An effervescent modern mini masterwork of baroque-a-delic superpop, the perfect spring-blossom soundtrack and the opposite of NOTHING.
As always, this is spontaneous and occasionally quite silly radio - we often throw in a couple of genuine mistakes for your entertainment.
- Jorge Ben - Mas Que Nada
- Gal Costa - The Empty Boat
- Ex-Girl - Zero Gravity
- Jennifer Gentle - Nothing Makes Sense
- The Monkees - Zilch
- HP Lovecraft - Nothing’s Boy
- Air - Empty House
- KCIDY - Mélodie
- KCIDY - Silence et tendresse
- Tamar Aphek - Nothing Can Surprise Me
- Jimi Tenor - Order Of Nothingness
- Florent Marchet - On A Rien Vu Venir
- Marcus Valle - Nao Tem Nada Nao
Begilufin
Begilufin is an hour long radio show broadcast live twice a month from the heart Berlin on the station Pi Radio. On Begilufin we play a wild, confusing mess of international sounds, stretching from the birth of recorded music to something we heard two days ago. We do our best to ignore the normal, accentuate the weird, and ignore borders, boundaries and time-zones. Each show revolves around a central theme and then we surprise each other (and you, dear listener) with our selections live on air.
Since you ask, ‘Begilufin’ is a Hebrew word meaning intoxicated, inebriated, drunk, sozzled or smashed - a perfect description of the delirious off-centre mix of crazed music we like to spin on the show or indeed the effect it might have on your ears.
Begilufin was created by Ziv Lode in 2010. Ziv was joined by Dan Abbott a couples of years later after a chance meeting in a kindergarten playground revealed a mutual love of the music of Erkin ‘The Turkish Hendrix’ Koray.