Balearic Breakfast | Episode 241 | In the Hallway of Dreams...
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Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 241st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on October 7th 2025.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
After coming back from Turkey (more about her trip here), where she played at the Arkestra restaurant on an audiophile sound system, Colleen presented the 241st episode of our beloved show, containing a lot of Turkish music. And, as we shall see later on, today's episode really had a wonderful dreamy atmosphere...
And for those of you who might be interested, while working on the last two shows' transcriptions, I noticed that the recording's sound is now lower and sampled at 48000Khz/16bits, which means far less distortion than before and better definition, although everything above 13275 Khz is still cut out by Mixcloud... Thank you to Adam and to Colleen for working tirelessly on the show!
This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and today’s edition is a psychedelic cornucopia of sound. When I take an extended trip I often bring back some new musical discoveries to play on the show – you may remember past shows with music from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. As I was in Istanbul over the weekend, today’s show features some Turkish music from the past and present.
Some of it is quite psychedelic which is another musical passion of mine as I hosted a psychedelic and prog show called Plastic Tales from the Marshmellow Dimension back in the 1980’s and Anatolian Rock fits right in with that sound. Istanbul is an ancient city at the crossroads of many different civilisations – an intersection between Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the only gateway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas – and you can taste this fusion in the food and you can hear it in the music. There’s also a lot of other psychedelic global sounds on today’s show which I hope you will enjoy.
Next week is our annual Balearic Breakfast Black History Month special and will pay tribute to artists of colour. On Saturday, the request line will go up and I look forward to your song suggestions. Until then, enjoy today’s show and thanks for listening.
Listen back to the 241st episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
(2025) Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins – recur
(2025) Will Barnes Quartet – Annwn
(2021) Ian Carr – Summer Rain
(1977) Yoshiko Sai – Aoi Galasu Dama
(2025) Nightdubbing – Nightdubbing (Manu Archeo Mix)
(2025) Sessa – Vale a Pena
(2025) Chip Wickham – Lost Souls
(2025) Yuuf – Mesa Mesa
(1976) Erkin Koray – Estarabim
(2025) Islandman – Eros
(2025) Sons of Sevilla – All The While
(2025) Leo Middea – Sulamérica
(1979) Baris Manco & Kurtalan Ekspres – Ham Meyvayi Kopardilar Dalindan
(1975) American Gypsy – 10,000 Miles
(2025) Ney Faustini – Vivendo E Aprendendo
(2025) Captain Planet & Tony Allen – Tony's House
(1978) Osman Ismen Orkestrasi – Diskomatik Katibim
(2025) Torre – Gyptis
(2025) Megatronic ft Fawziyya Heart – In Our Soul
(2025) Pianoman – Pasion (Alex Kassian's Mandarine Dance Mix)
THE LISTENNING EXPERIENCE
(Coming soon)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Next week, next Tuesday, is our Balearic Breakfast Black History Month special, as it's celebrated in October here in the UK.
So on Saturday, I'll post the request line on my socials. And please request songs from musicians of color. And it's always a very celebratory show. And I look forward to your musical suggestions.
ABOUT THE SONGS
London pedal steel maestro Joe Harvey White and tape loop sound scientist Paul Cousins with Recur, a warped ambient excursion from their forthcoming album, In a Fugue State, which explores the concept of memory and time. It was born out of a single two-hour-long improvisation session between Joe and Paul on the Dreamstream, Joe's Soho radio show focused on ambient field recordings, drone music, designed to assist those who struggle with insomnia. In a Fugue State is coming out digitally and on vinyl later this month, and you can pre-order it on Bandcamp.
This next one is from guitarist Will Barnes, who is joined by drummer James Batten, pianist Jack Gonzalez, and bassist Clovis Phillips on a forthcoming album called Outside the Light that draws inspiration from local folklore and Celtic mythology, and explores themes of light, seasons, and changing landscapes. The album is coming out in early November, and this song is named after the Welsh Otherworld, a realm of fairies, the dead, and divine inspiration. It's the Will Barnes Quartet with Annwn.
The late Scottish jazz musician and composer Ian Carr with the song Summer Rain from his first solo LP, 1972's Bella Donna. Incredibly prolific musician. He recorded dozens of albums as the Rendell Carr Quartet, and also dozens of records with his jazz rock outfit Nucleus. And he was also a writer. He penned biographies on Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis, and The Rough Guy to Jazz. He was also a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music. The whole Bella Donna album is stunning, and I'm sending that one out to my last note party brother Ivano in Roma.
Japanese singer, composer, and poet Yoshiko Sai with Aoi Galasu Dama, which is blue glass ball or blue glass beads. It's also the name of her poetry collection released in the same year as the album. I believe it was 1978, I think. And it also has a song of that name on the album, and of which it's featured Taiji no Yume, which is Dream of the Fetus, which was inspired by the Zen priest and Showa period author Yume no Kyusaku. And that song that we just heard, Blue Glass Beads, Aoi Galasu Dama, is found on the Nihon Psychedelic Soul 1970 to 1979 compilation on Time Capsule Records. A really, really great collection of the psychedelic sounds from the 1970s in Japan.
This next one is from Manchester duo Nightdubbing, and they had their eponymously titled single from their 2023 self-released debut album. And now it's been given the reworked treatment by Italy's Manu Archeo from Archeo Recordings. And this is from a six-track summer sampler. I'm a little bit late on it from Ibiza label New Northern Soul.
Sao Paulo musician César, or Sérgio Saeg, with Vale a Pena. I believe it's Portuguese for It's Worth It. And that's from his forthcoming third album, César. It's called Pequena Verchismo de Amor. It's coming out in November. And it's César's view turns upward to the infinite sky, catching glimpses of universality and the intimacy of becoming a father. What a massive inspiration. And he says these songs are a mix of personal chronicles and quiet meditations about life in the face of personal change, of experiencing something so big that you realize your insignificant size in space and time.
Saxophonist, flautist, and composer Chip Wickham with Lost Souls from his album The Eternal Now, which came out last month on Gondwana. And he first came to prominence in the UK breakbeat scene playing with Nightmares on Wax and Graham Massey of 808 State. But at heart, he was a jazz musician. He also played on Matthew Halsall's debut album Sending My Love in 2008. And that kind of began his relationship with Gondwana Records, now spanning 17 years. The Eternal Now is Chip's most progressive recording to date, and it represents a heartfelt ode to submitting oneself to the practice of creating art and the freedom that's derived from letting go.
This next one is from an international four-piece based in London named Yuuf. Band members are from the UK, France, Switzerland and Denmark. And it comes hot on the heels of their Alma's Cove EP. And this is from a forthcoming EP called Mount Sava. It's coming out on Ninja Tune and Technicolor Records at the end of this month. This is their new single Mesa Mesa, which has a really great video. It's images of sunrises and sunsets sent over by their fans, which I think is just a great concept.
Erkin Koray with Estarabim, which is from his third album called Two, which was released in 1976. And if you want to get into Anatolian rock, well, Erkin Koray is one of the kingpins, along with Baris Manco. And he is the late singer and guitarist who started playing in the late 1950s. He released his first single in 1967. And he was one of the inventors of the electric baglama, a Turkish stringed instrument, which is kind of like a lute. And he released albums throughout the 1970s, 80s and 1990s, and is a real musical maestro, a very good starting point for Anatolian rock. Well, we have a little bit of Turkish disco coming up a little bit later in the show
Islandman with Eros, and that's the live electro-acoustic trio from Istanbul. And their performances are a cross-cultural collection of shamanic rhythms, mellow electronic structures, dance beats and psychedelic guitar riffs, combining Turkish psychedelia and African roots with electric sounds. And I have seen them live. It was absolutely amazing. They brought out a lot of older Turkish musicians as well. And that came out last month on Rest in Space Records.
The British brother duo Sons of Sevilla, who now live in Seville, of course, with the song All the While. And I just love their music. And this is from their latest album, Street Light Moon, released on Ubiquiti earlier this year. Gosh, had such a psychedelic show.
The Rio de Janeiro Troubadour guitarist and songwriter Leo Midea, who's been writing since he can remember. He loves the music of Brazil, the flavors, the energy and the contrasts that are rendered throughout his songs. And his lyrics are an homage to Brazilian people and culture and to a musician's life on the road. We heard Sula América, a gorgeous Afro-Brazilian touch pop song, partly inspired by Brazilian street markets. And it's the result of Leo's return to the studio, having performed over 100 shows in 2024. And it also heralds the first song from a new Pathan album due for release on Agogo Records in spring next year.
Baris Manco & Kurtalan Ekspres. Baris Manco was a kingpin of Anatolian rock, which blends Turkish folk music with Western psychedelic and prog rock. And now I'm going to take a giant leap of faith and try to pronounce the album title and the song title. So if you're Turkish, please give me a little license and leeway here. We heard Ham Meyvayi Kopardilar Dalindan. I hope that's something close. From the classic 1979 LP Yeni Birgun. And I picked that up at Plak Barata in the Anatolian side, the Asian side of Istanbul this past weekend. And Baris Manco was a hugely respected musician, singer, composer, actor. He was also a television producer and show host. And he's still popular even 25 years after his passing.
This year over at Love Dancing, on our Love Dancing tent that we out here, I had Danny Skyrager from Psychemagic come and play a set. And I asked him to do something a little bit special, more like, you know, his Traces of Illusion compilation, which I absolutely love. I wanted something that was kind of folky, psychedelic and psychedelic soul. And he really delivered. I hope we have a recording because I really want to post it up his set. In any case, I had to hold myself back from jumping along onto the deck to look at every single song he was playing. But this is one that stood out. It's from a Los Angeles 1970s funk group called American Gypsy that also performed under other names, such as Blue Morning, Orpheus and Pasadena Ghetto Orchestra. But they ended up finding more success in the Netherlands. They released two albums, and this is from their 1974 debut album. It's American Gypsy with 10,000 Miles.
A little kiss from Brazil, a rework by Sao Paulo DJ and producer Ney Faustini of Ellis Regina's Aprendendo Jogar, newly entitled Vivendo E Aprendendo. And that came out last month on the Rio de Janeiro label Beijinho do Brasil. It's a vinyl-only label that does loads of lovely re-edits and reworks of classic Brazilian songs.
Sounds from all over the globe on today's Balearic Breakfast, Captain Planet and Tony Allen with Tony's House. Captain Planet is a world-traveling DJ and music producer who blends global roots, music styles of forward-thinking hip-hop, dancehall and electronic beats. And he's released four full-length albums featuring his trademark gumbo funk sound. And that came out on Bastard Jazz Recordings, I think last month. And he has loads of remixes, mixtapes and bootlegs as well.
The Osman Izmen Orkestrasi Diskomatik Katibim. And that's a traditional Turkish disco, if there's such a thing as traditional Turkish disco. I think there is, from 1978.
Something my friend, French producer and DJ Arnaud Mathieu sent over to me by the Torre brothers, Jean-Marc and Patrick Torre, producers from Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. And that's the song. We heard the song Gyptis, which is a tribute to Marseille and the Mediterranean. And that's coming out this week on the label Musique Voyage.
In Our Soul by DJ, producer and songwriter Megatronic with Fawziyya Heart on vocals. And I just love that one. And this is from Megatronic's sophomore outing on Razor & Tape, the extended concept EP called There's Truth in Gospel, all around the idea of a mother day gospel congregation reimagined through the lens of soulful, high energy club sounds. I think there's about six tracks on it. Really great. And it's coming out next week on Jay Cribb's label, Razor & Tape.
I'm going to leave you with one last track. And you know, we love Alex Kassian on the show. I've played many of his tunes and his rework of Manuel Gottsching's E2-E4 as a babe. This is a new one on the Planet Strange Love label, and you can find it on Bandcamp. It's Piano Man with Passion, Alex Kassian's Mandarin Dance Mix, and it's a take on Tangerine Dream's Love on a Real Train.
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