Radio shows 2021-2023

Since January 2022, I'm part of the great Shady Pines Radio adventure, where I started with a show about classical music called Classical Curiosity Cabinet, on Wednesdays, 8-9am, Portland (OR) time. 

Shady Pines Radio is a local community radio, started in 2020 by Callie and Brian and their friends. The schedule now gathers close to 100 shows and as many personally engaged DJs sharing all sorts of music with enthusiasm.

I started with a show about classical music, the "Classical Curiosity Cabinet". This show is not meant for the specialists, but for the explorers. Each week I choose a random theme that allows me to put together (mostly) classical pieces, like you would gather on a shelf a glittery stone, the scull of a bird, and an old night train ticket to Rome. Every theme brings up symbols, stories, facts and memories, and with them musical pieces from diverse styles, times and places, some famous, some less. So I hope that I bring to the listeners some music they have never heard before, and maybe they will want to dig into more, after. I personally have learned and discovered so much since I started this show: not a single show was built only with music I knew before. We all have our comfort zones, don't we?

Then in December I started a second show, featuring French music, in the widest sense of French and of music. It's called "French Connexion", and the idea behind this show is this: every week, I send out one song into my network of French friends and family, and they send back other songs as a response. With these songs I build a playlist of "100% authentic French music" - the music French people actually listen to. It's a show that doesn't take itself too seriously, but hopefully brings to the American listeners music they have never heard.

You can listen to the Classical Curiosity Cabinet online on Wednesdays, 8-9am (PT) and to la French Connexion on Fridays, 8-9am (PT), on shadypinesradio.com. Or you can look up the shows' archive on MixCloud.