David Prest has been involved in broadcasting for many years. He is best known as a feature and documentary maker, and has won an extraordinary three Sony Gold awards for his work in the field. For Open Air, he puts his passion for world music to the fore. His philosophy is that "it's not always pretty, and some of the music might set your teeth, and your next door neighbour's teeth on edge, but somewhere there are gems to be found."
With David Prest every week is a journey, from Cuban swing to Finnish shouting and then maybe some thumb popping Malian tunes. "We just mix it up and see what happens", promises David.
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Travel Editor and Sony award winning radio presenter-producer David Prest returns to OpenAir fresh from exploring the rich variety of world folk music. In this episode he brings us some of his discoveries including Zar music (Denmark), The astounding eyes of Rita (Tunisia), Dengue Fever (Cambodia/LA) as well as flamenco from Estrella Morente and tunes from Mali with Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoriba.
The Ukrainians (the band, not the entire population of Ukraine) open this episode of Thick Ear, which also features music from Linda Thompson, Paulo Conte, Pauline Croze and Etran Finatawa.
(Due to reported problems with this episode we've re-uploaded it. Sorry for any inconvenience! - Next episode up later this week) David Prest bring his normal ecletic mix, including the next big thing to come out of China, Sa Ding Ding. Genius or joke...
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