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Switzerland’s Mehmet Aslan presents his ongoing radio show, Music For Books.  Established as a talented producer and DJ, Aslan has forged a reputation for coming to music and culture from fresh and less-travelled paths, whether it’s crate-digging for rare Swiss new wave or sampling forgotten Turkish pop.

Music For Books is a show that combines the pleasure of reading with the curation of personal soundtracks. The show is an evolving examination of our passion for art across different mediums. Aslan will encourage his audience to think about literature in different ways, exploring the relationship between sound and imagination.

In this episode Mehmet creates a soundtrack for James Baldwin’s Stranger in the Village essay from 1951. He also recommends listeners to read Teju Cole’s essay, Black Body.