Speechification » Kitchen Sisters http://speechification.com Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Something Understood: The Singing Manifesto http://speechification.com/2009/01/13/something-understood-the-singing-manifesto/ http://speechification.com/2009/01/13/something-understood-the-singing-manifesto/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:09:57 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/?p=408 Glorious. 30 minutes of treasure from the Kitchen Sisters' archive of recordings - all about the revelatory power of singing. Here's the MP3, here's a list of the recordings used in the programme (which I've put up as a page here at Speechification because it will be replaced by next week's in a few days), here are some other things by the Kitchen Sisters we've featured here and, finally, the Lost and Found Sound pages from the NPR web site. Search for the Kitchen Sisters at NPR.org and you'll find hours of great radio to listen to.

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]]> http://speechification.com/2007/12/18/pan-american-blues-radio-stories-from-nashville/feed/ 1 Archive Hour: Acoustic Attic http://speechification.com/2007/12/16/archive-hour-acoustic-attic/ http://speechification.com/2007/12/16/archive-hour-acoustic-attic/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:21:22 +0000 Steve Bowbrick http://speechification.com/2007/12/16/archive-hour-acoustic-attic/ I'm putting this up quick because I reckon the five (five already!) Speechification contributors will be racing to do so. Since the rest of them probably have better things to do with their Saturday nights, I'm first! It's another Archive Hour (I love the Archive Hour).

This one celebrates found and accidental and informal and amateur recordings collected by American independent media celebrities the 'Kitchen Sisters', Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, for broadcast on their NPR radio show Lost and Found Sound.

If Russell's last selection was Speechification crack, then this one must be Speechification cocoa. It's full of breathtaking recordings from sources you won't believe: 9/11 voicemail messages, a Buster Keaton sing-along, Tennessee Williams mucking around with his friends, a man who actually heard the Gettysburg Address... Moving and joyful stuff. (MP3).

And another thing: why don't they just turn Saturday Live into a British Lost and Found Sound?

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