The theme for this month is a bit of a departure from what I normally do. You see, the motto for the show has been (for a long while): “Beautiful, wordless music”. I’ve stuck to that as my guiding mantra, only breaking it by accident when a word or two was included in a 10 minute song.

But there are sometimes works of art by the same composers, musicians and bands which do contain words — not, usually, in the traditional sense of lyrics, but either as conversation around the song’s recording point, a few lyrics drawn out long like they were captured on the edge of an event horizon, or nonsense words used as instruments.

And they’re good. They’re still beautiful, and they still roughly fit what I’m doing here.

So, whenever I encounter these songs that are otherwise perfect but for being “slightly worded”, I set them aside, for that eventual show where they fit.

This is one of them.

This is “Slightly Worded (i)”. Enjoy.

• The Things I Tell You by Biosphere from the album Substrata.
• Still Secrets Remaining by Hammock from the album Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts (Outtakes) – .
• Angels and Men by Juno Reactor from the album Labyrinth.
• The Comforter by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke from the album Duality.
• Bolan Muppets by Glissandro 70 from the album Glissandro 70.
• Uma by Shalabi Effect from the album The Trial of St-Orange.
• show by mind of a squid from the album wish.
• Taurus 1 by Mike Oldfield from the album QE2.
• Clock (live version) by Instruments from the album Clock.

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