The Sun Lounge

The show is jam packed with amazing artists from all over the globe. From New Orleans to Italy, Canada to Spain, the Sun Lounge and its exotic climes will give you that feeling of taking you somewhere else. You just decide where....

Ok, so we all need some laughter therapy, and bloopers in recordings couldn't be funnier. The best bit? Leaving them in to make the final version - you'll hear it all, while you relax with some of the coolest, sunniest vibes on the planet. Cocktail Martino, Milky Lasers, Kevin Morby, Rick Braun, Giacomo Bondi, Matt Bianco, and Anoushka Shankar - with her half sister who is? Find out, this week on The Sun Lounge. 

With his music on 9 albums and across 400 compilations, the music of  lounge artist Christophe Goze inspires and captivates, and Adam speaks with him from Barcelona this week. Great festivals including the Paris Jazz Festival, and Croatia's Love International.  There's music from Celso Fonseca, Jazzystics, Mario Biondi, Bossa Nostra, Tahiti's Tieva Gerard, and lots more to take you somewhere else. 

New York's Noah Stewart on the show telling us about his life as an international opera singer. We learn about his travel tips, how he prepares his voice with all the jet lag, and more.  Brazil's Cris Delanno launches her new album Green Nation, we hear from Vanilla, Message To Bears, and Netherland's Janne Schra, and our festivals including Isle of Wight Festival, Iceland's Midnight Sun Festival, and more.  It's all there to take you somewhere else. 

Happy birthday Sun Lounge!  After 2 years on the air worldwide, Adam and Mark are truly grateful for your listenership.  To celebrate, it's the best Bossa, jazz, and lounge on the show, with Lisa Ekdahl, Federico Straga, Koop, Azymuth to name just a few, along with some great worldwide festivals. We also introduce our special Sun Lounge" Quiet Storm" with Silje Nergaard taking you to a beach backed by jungle, just before the storm arrives. Feel it - Mmmmmm.  All there, to take you somewhere else

The Sun Lounge Ep. 92 So after many years away from the BBC, it's as if Adam returns when we hear archive footage of his interviews with people at the UK's prestigious Henley Regatta. Hear from some of the characters on the riverbank! We hear about festivals in Norway, Dark Mofo at Mona in Tasmania, the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Finland, and more.   And with tracks from Nicola Conte, Matt Boanco, Lonnie Liston Smith and Chuck Loeb, let The Sun Lounge take you somewhere else.

It's an episode jam packed with events around the world including the Sanno Matsuri Festival in Japan, Nos Primavera Sound in Portugal and Bottlerock in Napa Valley, and the ever so 'la di da' Henley Regatta in the UK.  We've got some superb sunny tracks from the great exponents including Nicola Conte, Sophie Solomon and Richard Hawley, and a feature piece by the great Polish trumpeter and composer, Tomasz Stanko.   So pack the picnic, lay the blanket, and sit back and relax to The Sun Lounge.

Want music to lift you to the sun, make you think, relax, and relax with someone else too? This week we have music from Japan, Italy, UK, France, the US, Lebanon, and more with Goldfrapp, Fred Buccini, Henry Mancini, Karen Aoki and more.  Adam also looks at some sensational music festivals happening around the globe this week.  Listen to it in the air while you're getting there. #TheSunLounge

The Sun Lounge Ep. 89 - Bali - it's an amazing island, and just when you think you know it, well, you don't. Adam speaks with Camelina Vitale all about Bali - where to go, what to eat, and where to stay on this island for everyone. It's a great program.  There's world festivals in May, along with the beach tunes from Montefiori Cocktail, Walter Wanderley, Paul Brown, Norman Brown and Bossa Nostra all take you somewhere else.

Sunshine Pop all happened in the late 60s, but what is it? Adam tells you, and plays some with The Association and Osmar Milito. With some great music festivals to head to worldwide, along with music from Nouvelle Vague, Diana Krall, and Birds of Tokyo, again the Sun Lounge takes you somewhere else. 

Ever thought some countries are out of reach because they're too pricey?  In between a tonne of sultry exotic music, Adam looks at affordable travel destinations you thought were out of reach. He also checks out festivals worldwide including the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Jazz Festivals, Berlin's X Jazz Festival and Israel's Jacob's Ladder. With the likes of Karen Souza, Nicola Conte, and a calming track from Poppy Ackroyd, The Sun Lounge will take you somewhere else. 

The Sun Lounge pays homage to the late great Eva Cassidy - a star lost too soon. We also check out Sting and his classic "Fragile" in Spanish, Amy Winehouse's rare Bossa Nova recording, Japan's Keiko Matsui, Quebec's Chantal Chamberland, lots of festivals happening in April and May, and lots more in a perfect mix of sunshine to take you somewhere else. 

Carlos Lyra, one of the great founders of Bossa Nova has just released his new album Alem da Bossa, and it's a gem!  We'll hear some songs.  Also, Belfast? San Juan? You'll be amazed by the top 7 cities to get to in 2019, as rated by International Traveller Magazine.  Some great new emerging talent in sunny song land, world festivals, and a lot more to give you a taste of world music, travel, and the good life. The Sun Lounge takes you somewhere else. 

This week Adam touches on a bit of sun-drenched poetry, the top five events to get to across the world in April, and so much more.  There's Naoki Kenji, Saint Etienne, Twin Danger, Message To Bears, and Adam Dunning himself singing to the tune of sunshine.  It will take you somewhere else.

Puerto Rico's sun-washed mix of Spanish and American influences is a paradise-seeker's pleasure place. And the US's Travelista Teri tells us of the best things to do if you can get your pale body to the beaches of this Caribbean gem.  Backed to the soundtrack of The Little River Band, Ivan Lins, The Netherland's Joep Beving, and the guitar from George FitzGerald, The Sun Lounge WILL take you somewhere else.