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Former Pulp frontman and occasional late-night radio host plunges his audience into a sleep-themed reverie, complete with lullaby accompaniment from the BBC PhilharmonicJarvis Cocker is the occasional host of a late-night Radio 4 series called Wireless Nights, or which looks at night owls,from Richard Nixon’s 2am sojourns with Rachmaninov blaring from the White House stereo to an Icelandic woman who communes with elves by the light of the midnight sun. But Cocker is just as fascinated by what happens when we’re asleep, likening it to being at the bottom of the sea – a view propounded by the psychiatrist Carl Jung, and who saw the ocean as a symbol of the collective unconscious. With the aid of Jung’s writings and pre-recorded recollections of people who make their living underwater,Cocker has created an elegant and dreamlike 85 minutes of deep-sea sleeping.
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Source: theguardian.com