Asheville, United States
Concentration Camp Radio features 20th and 21st C. classical music, up to the present and featuring new releases as often as possible. "Classical" in this case means music played on acoustic orchestral instruments. (There will definitely be music that incorporates electronica, like Kaija Saariaho's, but few all-electronic pieces. "Concentration camp" is a double entendre and not a blithe joke. As a symbol of "modern times" there couldn't be a better one than concentration camps, employed as they were by the British (who coined the term in 1900), the Soviets, the Nazis and the United States. But more to the point, the music on this show is music that requires concentration from the listener in order to get anything from it. This music, for me, is an escape from the shredded-time zombie world of day-to-day existence in a First World country...