Ampersand Mixtape 8: Pageturners

For this mixtape Charles Leonard has a stack of books as high as his stack of records – come and curl up with this unputdownable mix of songs about books and writers.

Title: Ampersand Mixtape 8: Pageturners

Host: Charles Leonard

Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva

Production: ReframeWith the support of: The French Institute of South Africa

Songs:

1. The Lulus Band – I can feel it
2. Marcel Khalife – Rita
3. DakhaBrakha – Vynnaya Ya
4. Chicco & Mzwakhe Mbuli – Papa Stop the War
5. The Roots – Table of Contents
6. Linton Kwezi Johnson – If I Waz a top-Notch Poet
7. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
8. Brigitte Fontaine – Comme Rimbaud
9. The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for The Devil
10. They Might Be Giants — The Communists Have the Music
11. Simon & Garfunkel – A Simple Desultory Philippic
12. Bob Dylan – You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
13. The Clash – Spanish Bombs
14. Van Morrison – Cleaning Windows
15. Beastie Boys – 3-Minute Rule
16. Kanye West – Hey Mama
17. A-House – More Endless Art 
18. Mary Gauthier – Last of the Hobo Kings
19. Prince – Ballad of Dorothy Parker
20. The Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want to Get Over You
21. Dexys Midnight Runners – Dance Stance
22. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – We Call Upon the Author
23. Ella Fitzgerald – You’re the Top
24. The Noisettes – Atticus
25. Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
26. Black Star – Thieves in the night
27. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
28. Thandi Ntuli – Sunset

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