Music used in the Kitchen Sisters’ Something Understood

The Singing Manifesto

Presented by The Kitchen Sisters – Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, Featuring Brian Eno. With extracts from their radio productions, first broadcast on NPR

Readings and Music

MUSIC: Saint-Saens – Carnival of Animals (version for steel pans)
Private recording

ARCHIVE: Dorothy Silva’s penny arcade recording

ARCHIVE: Robert King Wilkerson’s Hidden Kitchen

MUSIC: Sardines and Pork ‘n’ Beans
Jennie Johnson and Her Group, Library of Congress LP, 1978

ARCHIVE: French Manicure (Lost and Found Sound)

MUSIC: Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman

ARCHIVE: Tennessee Williams (Lost and Found Sound)

MUSIC: Hush, Baby, Hush
Private recording

INTERVIEW: Brian Eno’s Singing Manifesto

MUSIC: Georgia Sea Island Singers: O Day
From Songs of Christmas (Alan Lomax Collection), Rounder, 1998