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Gillett on BBC London 94.9 FM
10
August 02
Martin
Morales
Every
second Saturday of the month, Martin Morales presents Futuro Flamenco
at the Notting Hill Arts Club, featuring music with a Spanish flavour
and enrolling a second DJ and a live musician to help him make it through
the night.
Martin
was born in Peru but since the age of eleven has
lived in England, where has become established as one of our most adventurous
club DJs, a musical ambassador who is invited to play at events around
the world. His day job is as an A&R man at Outcaste Records, for whom
he has compiled the album Futuro Flamenco.
Tonight's
game of Radio Ping Pong included a couple of records that had a place
in Martin's own history, starting with a lovely acapella gospel song by
a South African group which he remembers as his first world music discovery
while still in his early teens, and including the startling Ultima Cancion
(Last Song) by the Peruvian singer Lucha Reyes. As Martin explained in
a touching introduction, since she died in her mid thirties in out 1974
Lucha has been remembered in Peru with the kind of reverence held elsewhere
for Otis Redding or Edith Piaf. A singer of the people, hard living and
drinking, Lucha looked a little like Mary Wells or Millie Small. Yet another
name to look out for, poorly represented on CD.
Before
he left, Martin gave me a t-shirt emblazoned with a pair of ping pong
bats above the slogan Ming Mong. Where is Ping Pong called Ming Mong?
The present seemed to be going in the wrong direction - we should by now
have been awarding commemorative t-shirts to our guests.
We
broadcast from 8 to 10 every Saturday Night on BBC London on 94.9 FM in
the London area and worldwide at www.bbc.co.uk/london
In the playlist below, the track marked with
'*' was chosen by Martin Morales
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