The Shed with Mark Coles
Each week, award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet—recorded in his shed at the bottom of the garden.
The Shed: A Whole New World of Music
Every Wednesday at 7 p.m. on WRS
East River Pipe's sound emerges from the underworldFriday, 13 January, 2012The Shed host Mark Coles will be in Klosters next weekend recording his weekly show live from the Altitude Festival. Today he’s telling us about an American one-man “band” called East River Pipe and his track Cold Ground from the album “We Live In Rented Rooms.”
Electrifying defiance in the music of Niger's BombinoThursday, 12 January, 2012Ahead of his appearance next Saturday at the Altitude Festival in Klosters, The Shed’s Mark Coles takes us to Niger with Bombino’s Iyat Idounia Ayasahen from the album “Agadez” on Cumbancha Discovery:
Introducing the heartfelt R&B of Cuban singer Danay SuarezWednesday, 11 January, 2012Mark Coles, host of The Shed, is back to introduce another band before his Jan. 21 appearance at the Altitude Festival in Klosters. Today he brings us the earnest sounds of singer and rapper Danay Suarez, whose R&B evokes the sound of contemporary Cuba in Yo Aprendi from the album “Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura: The Search Continues”:
Pop rock kiwis The Bats still growingTuesday, 10 January, 2012Mark Coles, host of The Shed talks to WRS’s Alex Helmick ahead of his Jan. 21 appearance at the Altitude Festival in Klosters, to explain his philosophy of world music—no indigenous beats or obscure experimental sounds, just the best tracks, rock’n’roll included, from around the world. Today he introduces The Bats from New Zealand, with a track called Simpletons from their album “Free All the Monsters” on Flying Nun Records:
Duran Duran fans in for 'nice surprise' at KlostersMonday, 9 January, 2012Ahead of his Saturday appearance at the Altitude Festival in Klosters January 21 and 22 where he’ll record The Shed live, Mark Coles is back with WRS’s Alex Hlemick all week to bring us neglected gems from the past year. Today he introduces us to Naina Lagai Ke from Indian singer Asha Bhosle and sitar player Shujaat Khan:
WRS Music Review 2011: Mark ColesTuesday, 27 December, 2011With so many albums released around the globe these days, it can’t be easy to filter through it all and pick just five songs that stand out as the year’s best, but WRS’s Alex Helmick has asked our resident music experts to do it anyway. Today, Mark Coles, host of the internationally syndicated music show The Shed: A Whole New World of Music, shares his top tracks from 2011: