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Max de Wardener and Oliver Coates

Verity Sharp presents music from Vijana Jazz, Gerry Diver's Speech Project and Halim el-Dabh. Plus a special session from composer Max de Wardener and cellist Oliver Coates.

Tonight's programme includes a track from Tanzania's '80s hit dance band Vijana Jazz, a movement from Gerry Diver's Speech Project featuring the voice of Shane MacGowan, one of the earliest pieces of electronic music written in the 1940s by Halim el-Dabh, and the Smith Quartet play the first dance from White Man Sleeps by Kevin Volans.

This month's Late Junction Session comes courtesy of composer Max de Wardener and cellist Oliver Coates. They collaborated at our Maida Vale studio and created 3 new works featuring modified instruments.

Presented by Verity Sharp.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Aldona Nowowiejska

    Frenec / Nowowiejska: Blow, the Wind

    • Sonnet.
    • Jaro 4305 2.
  • Max de Wardener

    Snowflakes

    • Where I Am Today.
    • Accidental AC11CD.
  • Nicolas Repac

    Repac: La Pegre

    • Swing Swing.
    • No Format Records NOF981.
  • Vijana Jazz Band

    Manety: Kamata Sukuma #2

    • The Koka Koka Sex Battalion.
    • Sterns Music STCD03053.
  • Bela Fleck / Tony Rice

    Double Play

    • Double Time.
    • Rounder CD0181.
  • Stelios Petrakis / Giorgis Xylouris / Periklis Papapetropoulos

    Petrakis: Lava

    • Si Je Salue Les Montagnes.
    • Accords Crois茅s AC131.
  • Martin Simpson

    Trad. arr. Simpson: The Lover's Ghost

    • The Bramble Briar.
    • Topic Records TSCD513.
  • Christine Cooper

    Trad. arr. Cooper: The Cruel Mother

    • These Dreams like Trees are Dark and Twisting.
    • Rose Tree Records RTR01.
  • Smith Quartet

    Volans: First Dance

    • Dance.
    • Signum Records LC1115723.
  • Gerry Diver

    Diver: Music for Tape Loop

    • Speech Project.
    • One Fine Day Records OFCD001.
  • Dirty 3

    White/Turner/Ellis: Sometimes I Forget You've Gone

    • Towards the Low Sun.
    • Bella Union BELLACD324P.
  • Bako Dagnon

    Trad: Wouya Larana

    • Sidiba.
    • Rounder 3220852.
  • Oliver Coates (cello), Max de Wardener, Mara Carlyle, Edmund Finnis, Aisha Orazbayeva (autoharps) Rowan Oliver (percussion)

    Max de Wardner: Cello and Autoharps

    • Late Junction Session.
    • 大象传媒 Recording.
  • Oliver Coates (cello), Max de Wardener, Mara Carlyle, Edmund Finnis, Aisha Orazbayeva, Verity Sharp (whirlies)

    Max de Wardner / Oliver Coates: Cello and Whirlies

    • Late Junction Session.
    • 大象传媒 Recording.
  • Oliver Coates (cello), Max de Wardener (electronics)

    Max de Wardner / Oliver Coates: Day 4

    • Late Junction Session.
    • 大象传媒 Recording.
  • Piotr Pucylo (fujara)

    Fujara Solo

    • Bar Warsaw: Classic And New Polish Flavours.
    • Nascente NSBARCD030.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Apr 2012 23:00

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