- Field Recording
- Soundtrack
- Spoken Word
- House
- Post-punk
- Laid-Back
- Playful
- Sincere
- Informative
Sounding the Beautiful Game is a sonic research project which investigates the many sounds associated with the game of Football, blending hour-long sound collages taking in everything from fan choirs and well known anthems, to recordings from the further reaches and lesser known corners of the football world.
The shows collage songs and music alongside field recordings, interviews, sound bites, documentary excerpts, poetry, sound walks and features with various experts and football lovers.
STBG aims to touch on the many facets and niches of the game, from the fervour of fan culture, to football’s huge political and societal impact amongst communities all across the globe, celebrating the inspiring positivity and diversity football can bring to the world while confronting some of the hugely problematic issues which are part of the sport.
Running each week for 5 weeks during the European Championship finals on Fridays 19:30-20:30 CEST
Listen at cashmereradio.com or in Berlin on FM 88.7 and in Potsdam on FM 90,7
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Playlist
Eric Cantona - “Make Beautiful Music”Children in Rio’s favelas talk of life and football
Joga Bonita - Sounds of Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Adriano, Robinho, Kaká e Ronaldo Fenômeno
Flamengo goals and commentary
Field Recording - Bruno Auzet - Tapirape Village at evening time - Children are playing football, small dog barking, night insects, A motorbike, a baby crying, steps on dust...
Mato Grosso, 2009
Gabriel Jesus speaks of favela life and football
Field Recording - Damiao Lopes - A soccer field in a park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marta speech - “Striving for equality, striving for respect, striving to make this world a better place, for everyone”
Rene Higuita and the scorpion kick
Canción de El Tino Aspirilla (La Selección)
Field Recording - Kyle S - roadside village with birds, people passing, motorcycles and distant soccer + distant table saw, more road traffic. and barking dogs
Saravena, Colombia 2016
Field Recording - Deportivo Cali - Colombia - Fans Chanting
Colombia Fans, reaction, playing music, singing - World Cup 2018
Colombia 1-2 Cameroon World Cup 1990 2nd Round - Rene Huigita gives the ball away Roger Miller Scores,
Cameron beat Brazil
Axel Mouna - Juventus - Cameroonian Makossa - 1981
MINUS! - Mano de Dios
Lionel Messi speaks before Copa America final 2021
Maradona - Documentary excerpt 1 - Childhood, beginnings, early story - 1996
Opus - Live is Life 1989 - Maradona training dance - Napoli, Stadio San Paolo
Maradona - Documentary excerpt 2 - Politics, explotation by the fascist regime - 1996
Field Recording - Acclivity - Boys playing football while traffic goes by. About 4 games were co-existing on the same paved flood-lit pitch at 10 pm near Taroudant city walls. At 35 secs a ball splashes in a puddle, A boy skids across to retrieve it. Taroudant, Souss-Massa, Morocco.
Morocco women’s football team qualifies for the World Cup
Hasna Doumi - The first woman to coach a men’s team in Morocco - “The only difficulty for me is how the society views me. Football is for men, they say, I had only the support of my relatives and my family because they know my experience in football and for me I do not pay attention to criticism from society. I have the support of my parents and that has helped me in my career,"
Moroccan Ultras - Anti Corruption Chants (Black army, Green boys, Winners, Hercules)
“In this country, we live in darkness, we ask for salvation, give us victory our Lord, they left us for Orphans, they’ll be accountable on judgment day. You squandered the country’s wealth, gave it to foreigners, suppressed a generation, you killed our passion and it’s you who started these provocations.”
“This life in Morocco is not ok, it’s the reason for migration, congratulations, the country is empty, no health or education, just bribery and corruption.”
Youcef Shems and Issam Khatir - Allez le Maroc
Morocco beat Spain on penalties - Qatar 2022
Bay-len-troi - thai song intended to make the opponent miss a penalty
Football Time - Pulang
Piyapong Pue-On - The Legend of Thai Football
Thai national football team chant - ‘We are Thailand’
Football Friendly China 1-5 Thailand - Commentary in Thai
Chinese Football - Interlude
sounds of England vs Belgium inside an empty wembley stadium 2021
Eric Cantona - Poetic Acceptance Speech UCL Awards 1995. “As flies to wanton boys, we’re are for the gods, they kill us for their sport”
Fizzing Funk - World Cup Anthem (1994 Orginal Demo Tape)