2017-05-07: Last night (6th May), Jarvis attended a performance of Max Richter's project 'Sleep' at Old Billingsgate Market in London. He aims to give us a flavour of the event, describing the atmosphere, sharing conversations with musicians and audience members, and ending with a drowsy meeting with Max in the morning. Max talks about the challenge of keeping in time with the slow tempo and explains how the ensemble keeps going for eight hours. This is all interspersed with somnolent music and poems, a previous interview with Max, and extracts from the radio play The Dreams. Later, we are roused by clips from International Dawn Chorus Day over on Radio 4, with a poem about the dew, an account of medieval sleep patterns and a star-fade song for the larks. Birthdays: Matt Helders, Anne Dudley (on orchestration) and Michael Rosen (midnight feasting).
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Alice Coltrane - Er Ra
Alice Coltrane - Er Ra
The Durutti Column - Sleep Will Come
Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks
Anne Dudley - Just Good Friends (Elle OST)
The Kondi Band - Yeanoh
Africa - Paint It Black
The Kinks - I Go to Sleep
Max Richter - Sleep: Dream 1 (Before the Wind Blows It All Away)
[Sleep hypnosis record]
Bert and Ernie - Dance Myself to Sleep
Airship - Go to Sleep
Max Richter - Sleep: Moth-Like Stars
Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time
Max Richter - Sleep: Moth-Like Stars
McGough and McGear - Come Close and Sleep Now
John Cale - Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Max Richter - Sleep: Constellation 1
[Excerpt from The Dreams, a 1964 BBC radio play by Barry Bermange, with music by the Radiophonic Workshop]
The War On Drugs - The Haunting Idle
Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams
The KLF - Dream Time in Lake Jackson
[Max Richter interview extract]
Max Richter - Sleep: Non-Eternal
[Excerpt from The Dreams]
To Rococo Rot - Jackie's Dream
[Chocolate Cake, written and performed by Michael Rosen]
John Barry - Four in the Morning
Max Richter - Sleep: Solo / Aria 2
Leonard Cohen - Morning Glory
Max Richter - Sleep: Dream 0 (Til Break of Day)
Richard Hawley - As the Dawn Breaks
[Poem: A Rushed Account of the Dew by Alice Oswald, read by Paul Farley]
Barrio Lindo - Capuchino Pecho Blanco
Judy Henske - Bye Bye Blackbird
[Dawn Chorus: Hanna Tuulikki sings with Nerea Bello and Lucy Duncombe]
Sweet People - Et les Oiseaux Chantaient
Miles Davis - So What
