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Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

This episode was compiled in loving memory of Rowan Forestier Walker (Embla Quickbeam) and features her recordings throughout.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Shubham Dasgupta’s poem “in dark autumn nights / dew and the new bamboo shoots / reaching out to moon”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This new and extraordinary documentary ranges across continents – from the sound-induced fears of early colonists in Northeastern America and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag to Greek tongue twisters, Medieval Moorish poetry, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy.

And then on to contemporary and historical entomology, the body language of Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements.

Commissioned and originally broadcast by Radiophrenia at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, September 2023.

A meditation by Milo Thesiger–Meacham on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. Featuring spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, field recordings, original music and a smattering of celebrity interviews.

In this episode, Zu From All Over invites us to her first annual Murderween party with the best horror punk, doom, and spooky psychobilly to celebrate the festivities and make it through the transitional season.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

This event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel Naviar’s Youtube channel on 31st October 2021.

Simon McCorry (interview + live set)

On Naviar Records: Song Lines

Originally born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, McCorry trained in cello at The Centre for Young Musicians & Morley College then studied philosophy at Durham University, he is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

His work is a rich combination of field recordings, adept loop based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations that explore the rich sonic possibilities of the cello through a host of treatments and effects chains.

The results of these experimentations are diverse to say the least, from droning stillness and devastating harmonic simplicity to the abstract microtonal atmospheres. The sound recalls post classical work from greats such as A Silver Mt Zion at their most plaintive, and Stars of The Lid at their most majestic.

Naviar Records is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental electronic music and traditional Japanese poetry.

Naviar Virtual was a monthly online event hosted by Naviar Records, which aimed to bring online the spirit of Naviar’s yearly physical events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

In this episode, sounds from various fields of music from the city, with the addition of field recordings and found tapes.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

"Women are the optimal labour force because they are now being universally defined as ‘housewives’, not as workers; this means their work, whether in use value or commodity production, is obscured, does not appear as ‘free wage-labour’, is defined as an ‘income-generating activity’, and can hence be bought at a much cheaper price than male labour."

This is a playlist dedicated to Maria Mies's Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. This book (first published in 1986) offers a history of the related processes of colonisation and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

In this episode: a guest mix by Başar Ünder.

“This mix is a collection of songs that I have been listening to these days, and some pieces are from commissioned-but-unaired mixtapes. It's a celebration for friendship, for persistence, for change, for hard-listening music and a memorial for the loved ones who passed away recently.” - Başar Ünder

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

This first night came live from London's Servant Jazz Quarters, and features Palestinian artist Haya Zaatry, who performs her debut album Rahawan, breaking down geographic and temporal borders.

Then, Tunisian artist Badiâa Bouhrizi presents her project KahruMusiqa, bringing together her works for the first time in 20 years.

And finally, Lebanese DJ and producer Sam Karam ensures the movement of bodies on the dance floor.

The Sonic Agent presented two live-broadcast nights in June 2023, which conjured our listening abilities and aimed to capture and reflect upon the evolution of sounds and music coming from Southwest Asia and North Africa. In partnership with Radio Alhara, Wave Farm and Soundcamp.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.