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Dusty demos and DIY dreams…

Settle in for a cosy one with Zakia and a selection of sweet homemade sounds, dusty demos and lo-fi gems. Plus, we hear from the New York-based pianist Eliana Glass.

DJ, broadcaster, writer and dreamer Zakia Sewell provides the soundtrack to your dreams - playing music to ease the mind, soothe the soul, and open portals to new dimensions…

Settle in for a cosy one with Zakia and a selection of sweet homemade sounds, dusty demos and lo-fi gems. Zakia’s guest this week is New York-based pianist and vocalist Eliana Glass, who invites listeners into her intimate soundworld in her latest album ‘E at Home’, a collection of demos written on her mum’s piano and recorded on a reel-to-reel with her brother. Eliana shares the backstory of her particularly special recording equipment, as well as a couple of songs that are very personal to her.

Elsewhere, Zakia takes inspiration from Eliana’s DIY ethos for the rest of the show, with a selection of sweet homemade sounds, dusty demos and lo-fi gems. We’ll hear the crooning of teenage brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson, recorded in their home studio in rural Washington state in the 70s, the hypnotic guitar playing of Niger’s Amaria Hamadalher recorded on a smartphone, and bedroom pop made by preteens on a sleepover in 2000. There’ll be new music from the likes of Emily A. Sprague, Duval Timothy and The Vernon Spring, as well as old favourites from Joan Baez, Blind Owl Wilson and Broadcast, AND we mark the birthday of one of the dreamiest musicians around - the one and only Enya.

We want to hear your dreams! Send in tales of your sleepy adventures to dreamtime@bbc.co.uk or Whatsapp us on 03700 100 600

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Music Played

  • Eliana Glass

    Good Friends Call Me E

    • E at Home.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Pete La Roca

    Bliss

    • Turkish Women at the Bath.
    • Douglas.

  • Donnie & Joe Emerson

    Baby

    • Dreamin' Wild.
    • Light In The Attic.

  • Amaria Hamadalher

    Tarhanine

    • Music from Saharan WhatsApp.
    • Sahel Sounds.

  • Alan Wilson

    On The Road Again

    • Blind Owl Wilson.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Matt Gold & Dustin Laurenzi

    End of the Horn

    • Devotional Fade.
    • We Jazz Records.

  • Duval Timothy & Carlos Nino

    Loopy

    • rain music.
    • Carrying Colour Records.

  • Broadcast

    Come Back to Me [Demo]

    • Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006.
    • Warp.

  • Dennis Genovese & Karen Mantero

    It's a New Day, Jodi

    • Up Down.
    • Smiling C.

  • Annette Peacock

    Solar Systems

    • The Perfect Release.
    • Aura.

  • Resavoir

    Alone With Guitar

    • Themes for Dreams.
    • l'univers.

  • Eliana Glass

    Dawn to May

    • E at Home.
    • Shelter Press.

  • Sibylle Baier

    Give me a smile

    • Colour Green.
    • Orange Twin.

  • Sibylle Baier

    Tonight

    • Colour Green.
    • Orange Twin.

  • Tom Waits

    Closing Time

    • Closing Time.
    • Asylum Records.

  • Tom Waits

    Martha

    • Closing Time.
    • Asylum Records.

  • Carla Bley

    What Will be Left Between Us and the Moon Tonight?

    • Tropic Appetites.
    • WATT Records.

  • The Vernon Spring

    Counted Strings (Sweet Bandit Rework) (feat. aden)

    • UnFamiliar Sun.
    • RVNG Intl..

  • Emily A. Sprague

    Double Moon

    • UnFamiliar Sun.
    • RVNG Intl..

  • X-Cetra

    Wasn't There

    • Summer 2000 [Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition].
    • Numero Group.

  • Pau Riba

    HELENA, DESENGANYA'T

    • Dioptria.
    • Concrentric.

  • Enya

    Orinoco Flow

    • Watermark.
    • Reprise Records.

  • Svitlana Nianio

    Kolo Lasu

    • Китиці / Kytytsi.
    • Koka Records.

  • Joan Baez

    Geordie

    • The First Ten Years.
    • Vanguard.

  • Lumtz

    Un Puñado de Ramas

    • Tesoros on We All Speak In Poems.

  • Stephen Star

    Tragic Figure

    • Newt.
    • Headlamp Music.

  • Kasper Bjørke Quartet

    PASSAGE II (listening to lullabies while holding hands)

    • Passages In Time.
    • Sensitive Records.

  • Ana Roxanne

    x

    • Poem 1.
    • Kranky.

  • Love Is Yes

    Ghost Three

    • Ghost and More Ghosts.
    • Kit Records.

  • øjeRum

    I

    • Selected Organ Works.

  • MMM

    Horneblende and Quartz

    • Lunistice Alignments.

  • Miles Davis & Michel Le Grand

    The Dream

    • Dingo.
    • Warner.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 May 2026 22:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music