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James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

Desiree Burch & intricate fragile folk

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

BBC

Music

4.8798 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Desiree is in two minds about Palimpsest by the classically trained Canadian musician Foonyap.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Fern Brady and with my friend Alison Spittle, we like laughing at horrifying things that happened to us.

0:06.4

And we like to talk to members of the public who also like laughing about death, parents, breakups, mental illness,

0:14.1

listen to our very reverent comedy podcast, Wheel of Miss Fortune.

0:19.0

And we get amazing guests like Sarah Pascoe, Joel Lyset, Phil Wang.

0:22.7

There's too many to name.

0:25.1

There's not too many to name.

0:26.7

There's 20 so far, but we only have a few seconds.

0:30.1

Subscribe now on BBC Sounds and listen after this episode of James Haycaster's

0:34.6

Perfect Sounds for our best worst stories from 2016.

0:40.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. If you like adult content and strong language, good news.

0:46.9

This podcast has plenty of it.

0:52.7

Hello, James Aicester here, and in 2017 2017 I had a breakdown. I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could, and as a result, I now own over 600 albums that came out in 2016, and I'm convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough just me being convinced. I also want to convince each and every single one of you.

1:13.7

Also, I'd like to convince a guest every week.

1:16.1

I'm going to send them an album from 2016 in advance,

1:18.8

have them on the show, and we'll discuss and dissect it.

1:21.8

This week, the album that I've chosen is Palimpsest by Fooniap.

1:27.1

I should have known. chosen is palimpsest by Fooniap.

1:39.0

Fooniap is a classically trained violinist from Calgary.

1:46.5

She'd been in many different kinds of bands before this, indie bands, folk bands, even like vampire rock bands.

1:50.6

But this is a very intricate and fragile folk album.

2:02.6

And this album sums up her entire life so far.

2:05.5

I was lucky enough to sit down and interview Fune Yap.

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