Anyone hear this song?

November 13, 2018 5:45 PM

This is a long shot, but on CBC Radio One's C'est Formidable! show last Saturday night, there was a great song by a band from Cote d'Ivoire (90% sure it was Magic System). I missed hearing the title. Anyone else here happen to hear it? Alternately, is there a way to hear archived broadcasts? I saw nothing promising on the CBC site.

I contacted CBC the following day to ask, but get a form response back that due to the large volume of communication, it is impossible for CBC to lah lah lah.

posted by ricochet biscuit to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

There are playlists by date here, though I don't see C'est Formidable on Saturday, and I don't see Magic System on the Sunday broadcast list.

One other thing to try might be contacting the host directly via email or social media.
posted by sagc at 6:39 PM on November 13, 2018

As a longtime À Propos (RIP) listener, I usually catch this slot, but not last week. You'd think it would be possible to determine it through their on-air play logs, but alas no, it seems.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:41 PM on November 13, 2018

You'd think it would be possible to determine it through their on-air play logs, but alas no, it seems.

C'est Formidable! shows up in those logs on Sundays at 4 PM, but for some reason this most recent week's playlog (from November 11) is missing. Previous weeks' playlogs are there, and I suppose it's possible that it just hasn't been posted yet.
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:09 PM on November 13, 2018 [2 favorites]