Podcast 185: John Carter Cash

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This week, music and conversation with John Carter Cash. Cash is the son of country music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He was recently in the Faroe Islands, and that's where our good friend Heri Simonsen caught up with him.

Cash talks about music, the Faroe Islands, and what it was like to grow up with two of the most famous musicians of the 20th century. And yes, John will play a song before the show is over.

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Podcast 184: Sakaris Stora and Faroese Film

The Faroese film scene is still in its infancy, but it's growing up fast with the assistance of better, cheaper technology and the return of Faroese filmmakers like Sakaris Stora (pictured above).

Sakaris's short film "Summer Night" screened at the G! Festival last month, and it's also a selection in the HollyShorts festival in Los Angeles. On this week's podcast, we talk to Sakaris about coming home to the Faroe Islands after finishing film school, the challenges of making a movie in the Land of Maybe, and the emergence of a distinctively Faroese film style.

As always, you can listen to the show on our media player, on iTunes, on Stitcher Smart Radio, or on the No Agenda Live Stream.

You can also download the show directly here:
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And if you're in Los Angeles, you can see Summer Night tonight (August 22). It's screening at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Check out the HollyShorts website for details.

Podcast 183: Faroe Pride, One Year Later

This week, we talk to Eiler Fagraklett about what's happened since last year's historic Faroe Pride March. Fagraklett is the head of LGBT Foroyar and helped organize the march that drew 5,000 to the streets of Torshavn.

We'll talk about his memories from that hectic day, and the prospects of a marriage equality bill passing in the Law Thing.

Then we go to the beach ad test out gaydar.

As always, you can listen on our media player above, on iTunes, Stitcher Smart Radio, and the No Agenda live stream. Or you can download the show directly here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/faroepodcast/Podcast_183.mp3

Podcast 182: Foroyar 5.2

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This week, we learn about Foroyar 5.2, the innovative musical installation that is a marriage of music and geology. Most of the sounds in the piece were created by traveling to the five seismic stations in the Faroe Islands, banging on nearby bedrock with sledgehammers, then taking the seismic information created by that action and turning it into audible sound.

The room where the piece is performed contains five video screens, one on each wall and one on the ceiling. While the piece plays the screens display images of the sounds being created at the seismic stations. No written description or sound recording can really capture what it's  like to be in the room when this piece is being performed, but on this week's podcast we'll give it a try anyway.

We'll hear a little bit of the piece, then talk to Jens Thomsen. He's the founder of the avant-pop group ORKA and the person behind Foroyar 5.2.

And before any of that, we'll listen to what it was like to land at the Vagar airport during the perilously foggy days last July (hint: everything was ok).

As always, you can listen to the show on iTunes, on our media player at the top of this page, on Stitcher Smart Radio, or on the No Agenda Stream.

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