John Dowland Early Music Broadcast (Hammemit related)

A regular supporter pointed us to a recent BBC Radio 3 “Early Music” episode which featured a series of songs penned by John Dowland (“Flow My Tears” was prominently featured in the recent Hammemit playlist podcast). Mark Padmore (tenor) and Elizabeth Kenny (lute) performed in Blythburgh Church, Suffolk at the end of June. Unquiet Thoughts: Melancholic Music of Elizabethan England. The BBC remove these programs after only a few days so if you are interested visit as soon as possible. Thanks: David.

Podcast: Hammemit - Reclaiming and Exposing Influences

The intention of this playlist is partly to enlighten listeners as to the influences that helped inform and shape Emit & Hammemit, but mainly to provide a more than agreeable listening experience for likeminded persons. All of the music below is widely available and not obscure in the least, but it still remains a largely undiscovered quantity to the majority of people for whom it would have the most benefit. I hope to help redistribute this music away from mere scholarly exercises and faux-elitist snobbery back to where it belongs and where it is sorely needed. I’d like to add that I generally refrain from using the term “early music”, as this unfairly and wrongly implies that the music is somehow more primitive and not as fully formed or developed as modern music. Note: We are making this podcast available on the same day Hammemit’s new full-length “Nature... Post Continued Here