The playlist: experimental – Maggie Nicols, Tētēma, David Sylvian and more

Forget Eurovision – here are experimental songs and performances, from Peter Ablinger’s tribute to Schoenberg to Jaap Blonk’s vocal distortions, to make you proud to be European Assuming you can remember who won this year’s actual Eurovision song contest – I’m not certain I can, as if it matters – this alternative list of Songs for Europe, songs to make you genuinely proud to be European, kicks off with the British entry. David Sylvian’s 2003 album Bleamish marked a fresh way of