“a remarkable listen – full of joy as well as darkness – and a fascinating insight into a repressive world, human ingenuity and the power of music. “
- Hugh Levinson
We’ve just completed a documentary on the x-ray underground for the BBC radio series Between the Ears
It was broadcast on Sunday November 17th at 18.45 GMT and is available HERE - in the UK and many countries.
It is based around interviews we have made in Russia over the last few years. There is some truly wonderful oral history and personal testimony from people who made, played and paid for bone records.
It evokes the culture which gave birth to the bootlegging of forbidden music, who they were bought and sold at risk - and features the Russian band Mumiy Trol who came into the studio specially to record a song to x-ray.
It was produced ny Monica Whitlock and Paul Heartfield cut the x-ray record on our 1950s recording lathe.
Listen HERE
