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With Sampha

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by British singer-songwriter Sampha, who has just released his debut LP, Progress.

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by Sampha, who has just released his debut LP 'Progress'.

Find out about how the piano his father bought when he was just three year old inspired him to write his first songs, and how he infuses his feelings about family, friends and life into his lyrics in 2017.

Do lyrics allow you to express something extra, when conversation runs dry? Is it easier to sing something than to speak it to a friend? Sampha takes us to the place he goes to when he writes, and it doesn't disappoint...

Expect tunes from his brilliant back catalogue, plus artists he has collaborated with in the past including, SBTRKT, Kanye West and Solange.

3 hours

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Music Played

  • Mercury Rev

    Goddess On A Hiway

    • Incredible.
  • Bonobo

    No Reason (feat. Nick Murphy)

    • Ninja Tune.
  • David Bowie

    Lazarus

    • RCA / Sony Music.
  • Agnes Obel

    Stretch Your Eyes

    • Play It Again Sam.
  • Max Richter

    In The Garden (6 Music Session, 15 FEB 2017)

  • Daniel Johnston

    True Love Will Find You In The End

  • The Decemberists

    Make You Better

    • What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse

    Like A Hurricane

    • REPRISE.
  • The Shins

    Name For You

    • Columbia Records.
  • The Pioneers

    Long Shot Kick De Bucket

    • Trojan.
  • Fran莽ois & the Atlas Mountains

    Grand D茅r猫glement

    • Solide Mirage.
    • Domino.
  • Neneh Cherry

    Buffalo Stance

    • Now 1988 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • Nick Hakim

    Bet She Looks Like You

    • ATO Records.
  • Curtis Mayfield

    Freddie's Dead

    • Sound Of The City: Chicago (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Laura Marling

    Wild Fire

    • Kobalt/More Alarming Records.
  • Ezra Furman

    Tell Em All To Go To Hell (6 Music Festival 2016)

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Can't Keep Checking My Phone

    • Jagjaguwar.
  • Lowly

    Prepare The Lake

    • Heba.
    • Bella Union.
  • Sunriser

    • Clark

      Peak Magnetic

      • Warp.
  • The Jam

    Start!

    • POLYGRAM TV.
  • Maceo & the Macks

    Cross The Tracks (We Better Go Back)

    • Universal.
  • The Flaming Lips

    We A Famly (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • Bella Union.
  • Frank Ocean

    Pink + White

    • XL Recordings.
  • Snoop Dogg

    Gin And Juice

    • INTERSCOPE.
  • Peter Doherty

    Kolly Kibber

    • BMG/Clouds Hill.
  • Aretha Franklin

    The House That Jack Built

    • Atlantic.
  • Tricky

    Parenthesis (6 Music Festival 2016)

  • Patti Smith

    Frederick

    • Arista.
  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Cold Little Heart

    • Polydor.
  • Sampha: Lyrical Journeys

    • Sampha

      No One Knows Me (Like The Piano)

      • Process.
      • Young Turks.
    • Sampha

      Too Much

      • Young Turks.
  • Santigold

    Disparate Youth

    • Atlantic.
  • Temples

    Strange Or Be Forgotten

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • Beth Orton

    1973

    • Anti Records.
  • Empire of the Sun

    Walking On A Dream

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.
  • Max茂mo Park

    Risk To Exist

    • Daylighting/Cooking Vinyl.
  • Aswad

    Kool Noh

    • Strange Fruit.
  • sir Was

    In The Midst

    • Digging A Tunnel.
    • City Slang.
  • Agallah Don Bishop & Duke Westlake

    What Would It Be

  • Eric B. & Rakim

    Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em

    • MCA Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Feb 2017 07:00