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Two of my favourite things.

James Acaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown. I dealt with that breakdown

by buying as much music in 2016 as I possibly could. 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 me being convinced, also want to convince each and every single one of you,

plus a guest every week.

I'm going to send them an album in advance.

We're going to talk about that album.

This week, my guest is Rachel Paris.

And we're going to talk about the album,

Balthosor Sornier, by Ensemble Daniente and Deerhoof.

Thank you. Sombrale d'Aenete and Deerhouf. This album is a one-off.

This is a collaboration between the Chicago Orchestra Ensemble D'Aoniente,

the art rock icons, Diahoof, and the Brazilian composer Marcos Bauter.

The first half of the album is a collection of songs, but collectively known as Meltdown Upshot,

written by Marcos Bauter, about a very anxiety-ridden period of his life.

Then the second half of the album is pre-existing Deer-Hoof songs in like a chamber music style.

It's all been arranged by the Deer-Hoof drummer Greg Sornier.

Rachel Paris is a fantastic comic. She's been on the podcast before. We talked about Karima Walker's album Hands in Our Names. She didn't admit that 2016 was the greatest year for music of all time. But fingers crossed, I can convince her with this album. It's a bit more classically leaning. And Rachel studied that kind of music. I know that she knows her stuff.

But maybe that's going to play against me. She knows more stuff than I do about classical music.

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